Sean Combs- The Reckoning - Season 1 Episode 01- Pain vs Love
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00:00:00Things are happening and it's like, I want to fight for my life.
00:00:17I want to fight for, you know, justice, not guilty.
00:00:20I don't want to have a life to be able to live.
00:00:23You know, it's really going to be hard for me to take more hits than I take it, God forbid,
00:00:28get in front of a jury and have a chance.
00:00:31And so I'm having this emergency call because something has to give.
00:00:35We need the core theme to be, you didn't do anything wrong.
00:00:39You know, you didn't do anything wrong on any front.
00:00:42And you've come to New York to face things head on.
00:00:46If anyone's ever paying any attention to what you've actually been doing,
00:00:49you've handled this with complete honor.
00:00:53I don't think it's working.
00:00:56I've listened.
00:00:58I've been a superb client, as you've said.
00:01:01I jumped on the plane. I'm coming to New York.
00:01:03But I'm just like, I'm just running around waiting for a shooter drop.
00:01:11We're losing sight of the big picture, man.
00:01:13It's the middle of September and there's still no indictment.
00:01:16You don't know. Then you have to have a spokesman.
00:01:20You have to have some sort of comms to constantly be pushing that mark.
00:01:24Because you may just be a person that just does, you just may watch CNN.
00:01:28You know what I'm saying?
00:01:29And there's like, there's 9 billion people in the world.
00:01:31And 7 billion of them is on Instagram and TikTok.
00:01:36And so you're at the wrong place looking to see what the people with the possible jurors are thinking.
00:01:43We have to find somebody that'll work with us, whether they're from this country or from another country.
00:01:48It could be somebody that has dealt in the dirtiest of dirtiest, dirty business of media and propaganda.
00:01:58I've seen the media portray me like I'm a gangster.
00:02:02I'm a, or at times I'm a cold individual.
00:02:07I'm just a shrewd businessman, which is just not the case.
00:02:12I'm a dreamer. I love closing my eyes and dreaming.
00:02:18I don't, I don't really deal with reality.
00:02:21You know, I think that you're a great guy, a great role model.
00:02:23Diddy P Papa, Papa, Papa Diddy Pop.
00:02:26I'm sorry. I don't know what you're calling yourself these days.
00:02:28American dream come true. Thank you, America.
00:02:31It's like we have a movie and you're speaking this language.
00:02:35And you know what I'm saying? We need subtitles.
00:02:37And we're not providing the audience with subtitles.
00:02:39And I invited you to this movie and you in this thing.
00:02:42You don't know what's going on.
00:02:43You just see, you just see the images, you know, quickly.
00:02:52Now it has a whole life of its own.
00:02:55The Department of Homeland Security conducting a raid at a house connected to Sean.
00:03:00Breaking news. Another woman is accusing Sean Diddy Holmes of sexual assault.
00:03:03Trafficking forced labor, kidnapping.
00:03:05The fourth lawsuit in the last movie.
00:03:07The fifth lawsuit. The seventh lawsuit.
00:03:09There are now more than a dozen civil people.
00:03:10The conduct that does indeed span two decades.
00:03:12I'm taking eight nuclear bombs, you know what I'm saying?
00:03:16Straight to the head.
00:03:18And I'm tired of going back and forth with y'all, with the lawyers.
00:03:21That's just not true.
00:03:22Okay, so, so, so, so, so, so, so.
00:03:25No, no, no, no, no, no. Let me tell you something.
00:03:28Let me say this.
00:03:29I'm not, I'm not, I'm not a referee.
00:03:32So I'm going to get off the phone right now.
00:03:33Listen to me.
00:03:34I'm going to get off the phone right now.
00:03:36And I am going to let you professionals look at the situation and come back to me with a solution.
00:03:42No matter what, no matter what nobody said.
00:03:45Let's, let's just here and there.
00:03:46Y'all are not working together the right way.
00:03:48We're losing.
00:03:49I'm not.
00:03:50I'm not.
00:03:51I am.
00:03:52I'm, I am.
00:03:53What's theер?
00:03:54Yeah.
00:03:55This course is my powiedział name.
00:03:56I'll get your-
00:04:12Let me go.
00:04:16Now, message and weres.
00:04:18Yeah, just get little cutaways of them, like looking from the, you know what I'm saying, that's what I'm saying.
00:04:48All of us got to go to the maker and we will be held accountable for the things we did and we didn't do.
00:05:02Sean Combs is an asshole, he is the motherfucker you're not going to like and you're not going
00:05:09to get the fuck along with if he doesn't get his way.
00:05:16He quickly became my hero.
00:05:23If y'all had a fucking chance to meet this guy, you would be like this niggas energy is
00:05:29everything.
00:05:30I got to get up and go.
00:05:31I got to get up and do it.
00:05:34What's next?
00:05:35What's next?
00:05:36I got to get it.
00:05:37I'm not going to stay fucking down.
00:05:39He was presenting this freedom that black people hadn't had.
00:05:45We hadn't experienced a black man being able to say, I don't want that.
00:05:52What are you talking about?
00:05:53He telling me like I'm on some bullshit.
00:05:54I ain't on no bullshit with you.
00:05:55So when I first met him, he quickly became the guy I wanted to be like.
00:05:59When you're a leader in that way, it's admirable until you get to the point where you want
00:06:06to control everyone around you.
00:06:08He got to that point.
00:06:09What y'all want to do?
00:06:10I want to be ballers, shot callers, brawlers.
00:06:11It's like Scarface, the movie.
00:06:12I want the world and everything that's in it.
00:06:13But you got everything.
00:06:14Hey yo, New York, we fucking did it.
00:06:15Harlem, we did it.
00:06:16We did it.
00:06:17We did it.
00:06:18It was a mantra that Sean had.
00:06:21Nobody's gonna be bigger than me.
00:06:22Sean is the 1% of the 1% of the 1%.
00:06:24We'll never see a Sean in my lifetime again, ever.
00:06:28It was like the more money he got, the more power he got, the more power he got, the
00:06:51more money he got.
00:06:53And he always felt like money can get him out of everything.
00:06:56I do feel it's important that we let the public know from the juror standpoint, just kind
00:07:03of how we reach the verdict.
00:07:08It's not everything that the media has put it out to be.
00:07:12You want to put stuff in my fanny pack?
00:07:15He's creating a narrative always.
00:07:18He is the best storyteller in hip hop.
00:07:25He thinks he's black Superman.
00:07:28I can do what I want.
00:07:30You can't go on for long in life doing the things that he was doing before something
00:07:35eventually happens.
00:07:38You can't continue to keep hurting people and nothing ever happens.
00:07:47It's just a matter of time.
00:07:48Is it good to be back in New York?
00:07:57It's always good to be back in New York.
00:07:59Once upon a time, not long ago, when people wore pajamas and lived life slow.
00:08:04Willows were stern and justice stood.
00:08:06And people were behaving like they ought to good.
00:08:09How you change the kids on it?
00:08:10Like, fuck.
00:08:11Then there's a little boy who was misled by another little boy and this is what he said.
00:08:18Me and you tonight, we're going to make some cash.
00:08:21Robbing old folks and making the dance.
00:08:26I was there from the very beginning with the invention of Sean Combs.
00:08:33I co-founded Bad Boy with Sean.
00:08:38I was dazzled by his ideas and his unique talent.
00:08:45But he was a very different Sean Combs back then.
00:08:49Sean was 19 when he dropped out of Howard University.
00:08:57He wanted to be in the flashy, swaggy music industry.
00:09:07He started off dancing, wanting to be in videos.
00:09:14Wanting to be a pop culture mover and shaker
00:09:18at a time where things were changing.
00:09:24Hip-hop was evolving.
00:09:26Like it or not, rap is here to stay.
00:09:28It has become part of mainstream commerce.
00:09:33It was just explosive.
00:09:35Run DMC, Chaos One, Public Enemy, Rock Henry.
00:09:41The late 80s, it was fantastic.
00:09:45There were a lot of independent labels that gave birth to hip-hop in the way that we know it today.
00:09:55What is this new music?
00:09:57Like Uptown Records.
00:10:09Heavy D was the biggest rapper signed to Uptown.
00:10:12Excuse me.
00:10:13We got Heavy D in the house with us today.
00:10:15Thanks for coming down.
00:10:16You could be with the hardest cats in the hood.
00:10:18You could rock Heavy D.
00:10:19You're with your grandmother in the car.
00:10:20You ain't got to reach for the radio and turn it off.
00:10:22We call him the official mayor of Money Earned at Mount Vernon.
00:10:27Money Earned at Mount Vernon!
00:10:29Money Earned at Mount Vernon!
00:10:30Vernon!
00:10:31Vernon!
00:10:32Vernon!
00:10:33Mount Vernon is in Westchester County.
00:10:35The first city outside of the Bronx.
00:10:40Heavy D put that area on the map.
00:10:44Heavy D and the boy!
00:10:46And his influence reached all the young people in the neighborhood, including the young Sean Combs, who was at Mount St. Michael High School, a Catholic, private school.
00:11:00He would knock on Heavy D's door every day to see if Heavy would take him to meet Andre Harrell.
00:11:11Andre was the champagne of rap.
00:11:16And he took the streets to Wall Street.
00:11:19The only entrance into hip hop at that point was Andre Harrell and Russell Simmons.
00:11:25Into the corporate hip hop world.
00:11:27Into the money.
00:11:28Sean had impressed Andre enough to give him an internship.
00:11:33And that was the beginning.
00:11:35I worked with Sean as an intern at Uptown.
00:11:41I'm a picture, I'm a blade out for you.
00:11:43When you throw the Uptown records, you throw the Heavy D and I'll be sure.
00:11:48I was the first number one artist on the Billboard charts on Uptown and the first platinum artist on the Uptown label.
00:12:03He was a GQ nigga.
00:12:05He was a GQ nigga, you know.
00:12:06He was a real penny loafers type.
00:12:08He was one of them fly light skinned niggas.
00:12:11And girls loved him.
00:12:13He's ours so large!
00:12:16Al was dating Kim.
00:12:19Kim Porter.
00:12:21Kim is at the receptionist desk at Uptown.
00:12:26You get out the elevator, first person you see is Kim.
00:12:29And it was a beautiful sight.
00:12:33Everybody said that, you know what I mean?
00:12:35But when Sean saw Kim, it was different.
00:12:40And now Sean's always at the receptionist desk begging Kim for something.
00:12:47A date, a kiss.
00:12:49He put it all on the table for Kim.
00:12:52It was weird, it was weird in the air because everyone knew this was Al's girl.
00:12:59Al is hot as fish grease right now.
00:13:01Hi, this is Al B. Shore.
00:13:03Here's my exclusive number.
00:13:05$2 for the first minute, 45 cents for each additional minute.
00:13:09And Sean was not really like the catch.
00:13:14He didn't drink alcohol.
00:13:16He forbade marijuana.
00:13:17He did not like drugs.
00:13:19He had the Gumby and he looked like a scholastic dweeb.
00:13:25But Sean was so determined.
00:13:27I bet you I could get Kim.
00:13:29And he was like, nah, no way.
00:13:31Your weight ain't even up enough yet.
00:13:34But when Sean wants something, he's gonna get it.
00:13:37It might be a couple of years from now.
00:13:40But sooner or later, he's gonna get it.
00:13:44Andre Harrell, Heavy D, Al B. Shore.
00:13:48They had all the money and all the power.
00:13:50And I was like, I don't know what they did, but that's what I want to do.
00:13:53I got to Uptown a few months after Sean did.
00:13:59And I saw him being built into cool.
00:14:04We had to go through the Uptown Flavor Camp.
00:14:10I learned a lot quickly.
00:14:12Being in front of Willie Burgers on the hunt 45th and 84.
00:14:15Being at the rooftop.
00:14:16Let's get it going, rooftop!
00:14:18The fashion, the walk, the talk, the attitude, the drive, the determination.
00:14:24I was ready to do whatever it took to win.
00:14:28The young Sean Combs during that time, he was so tenacious.
00:14:32You would ask him to turn Wednesday into Tuesday.
00:14:35He was set about doing it.
00:14:38First task we had given him was just go get a tape 10 blocks away.
00:14:43He came back in two minutes or something crazy.
00:14:45And I remember I was on the phone.
00:14:47I looked up when he came back.
00:14:48I was like, how'd you get there so fast?
00:14:50And he said, I ran there and back.
00:14:53Right then and there, I said, oh, okay.
00:14:56I said, yeah.
00:14:58I did have known then that that was never going to stop,
00:15:01to run there and run back.
00:15:03He ingratiated himself to Andre and made himself very valuable.
00:15:08Something that you don't want to do without.
00:15:11Like, who's going to get my clothes?
00:15:12Who's going to armor on my tire?
00:15:14This is so convenient.
00:15:16Then they lived together.
00:15:18I bought the first million dollar house.
00:15:21Funny, that weekend, just before I moved in,
00:15:24he had a mysterious fight with his mother.
00:15:26And he said, I can't go home.
00:15:28I got to stay here with you.
00:15:30Puck moved in before I did.
00:15:35Andre is taking him under like a son.
00:15:37Andre is the very first patriarch he connected with.
00:15:41Sean grew up with the illusion of what masculinity looks like.
00:15:46My first encounter with Sean, I remember it like yesterday.
00:15:51My family, we rented the first floor of Sean's house.
00:15:57I was my mom and dad's only child.
00:16:00So now Sean has somebody to brother up with.
00:16:03We experienced a lot of firsts together.
00:16:07I taught him how to ride a bike.
00:16:10It was the best thing in my life to let go of the bike and him start riding.
00:16:16We fit so well.
00:16:18Sean was another misfit, just like me.
00:16:21But the difference in my household, my dad taught me right from wrong.
00:16:26No, Sean, Sean didn't have that.
00:16:30Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce my mother, Janice Combs.
00:16:41What were the primary jobs that you did to support your family?
00:16:44I did so many jobs at one time.
00:16:46I worked at the United Cerebral Palsy.
00:16:49I worked at the Board of Ed in Westchester County.
00:16:53I drove the school bus.
00:16:55I worked in the baby's boutique shop.
00:16:58And he never knew this.
00:17:00I worked in the after hours spot too.
00:17:02I had to come clean.
00:17:05I needed to come clean.
00:17:06I needed to come clean.
00:17:08Okay.
00:17:09Okay.
00:17:10Now.
00:17:13Okay.
00:17:14I made more money because the men thought I was very glamorous and I used to pour liquor.
00:17:18And they'd give me big tips.
00:17:20In Sean's house, there was Janice and there was Sean.
00:17:25My father's name is Melvin Combs.
00:17:28I didn't get a chance to get to know him.
00:17:30I was too young.
00:17:31My father got his brains blown out like on Central Park West.
00:17:36I did the research.
00:17:38They said my mother had brought me to the funeral on a full length chinchilla.
00:17:46It was like a sigh of relief.
00:17:47You know what I'm saying?
00:17:48Because I finally knew that what I was feeling was true.
00:17:51You know what I'm saying?
00:17:52That I was a son of a hustler, a gangster.
00:17:55Melvin's presence was there.
00:17:57His money was there.
00:17:58And I understood that Melvin made a lot of things possible.
00:18:03But Sean's mom was his everything.
00:18:07If you look at some of the early pictures that Janice has of Sean, she was always making him into something.
00:18:17The hats, fur coats.
00:18:22I think she tried to overcompensate for the father being gone by making him into this dandy.
00:18:32Everything associated with Sean was Harlem.
00:18:36Whoever was flying Harlem, that's what he was as a child.
00:18:41Janet, she'd always be in Harlem.
00:18:44And there were times where she'd bring us.
00:18:47Here we are in this brand new Cadillac, because that's all Janet drove.
00:18:53She's making stops.
00:18:54Here and there.
00:18:55And you know, we knew the rule, the drill.
00:18:56Just sit there.
00:18:57I'll be right back.
00:18:58She ain't turn the car off.
00:18:59Nobody took the car.
00:19:00No.
00:19:01So you knew there was a different vibe going on with this family.
00:19:06In his household, the groove was a little different.
00:19:19A lot of Donna Summer playing.
00:19:21And then we had these movies we'd watch.
00:19:23He's got to be number one.
00:19:25This genre of films called black exploitation.
00:19:28Superdue.
00:19:29You had Superfly.
00:19:30Superfly.
00:19:31You had the man.
00:19:33When you got nothing, you want everything, you got a gift to be the Mac.
00:19:39Their parts were hustler parts.
00:19:44In Sean's household, you start to see all the stuff that you saw in the movies.
00:19:52Janice knew how to throw a party.
00:19:55And the party's packed.
00:19:57You got ladies that look like they're straight out of a Jet magazine.
00:20:01Some brothers up there.
00:20:03You know, if you want to call them pimps, you can.
00:20:05If you want to call them hustlers, you can.
00:20:07You got a member of the New York Knicks or two.
00:20:14There was a stage in her living room.
00:20:16Literally a stage.
00:20:18And that's where we used to have to go and dance.
00:20:21And everybody's calling you baby.
00:20:23And everybody's saying, do that dance.
00:20:32And all of this stuff he's taken in.
00:20:40So from the movie screen to the home screen, these are the makings of Sean Combs.
00:20:45Now mind you, as a child, Sean was goofy.
00:20:50Kids would pick on him a lot around the block.
00:20:55And he didn't know how to defend himself.
00:20:58Sean was a prince.
00:21:00And Janice, she didn't want no princess.
00:21:04She held back nothing.
00:21:06You've said I would be 12 years old.
00:21:08And sometimes I'd be out until 3, 4 in the morning.
00:21:11James, James, we don't have to get into that right now.
00:21:16Ma'am?
00:21:17Got a lot of beatings too.
00:21:20His beatings made me scared.
00:21:24Right?
00:21:26I got beatings now.
00:21:27But when he got his beatings, it wasn't no...
00:21:32It wasn't a choking thing.
00:21:35Nah.
00:21:38Damn, I hate thinking about that, man.
00:21:43My mother was, I guess, raising me for the real world.
00:21:46She was always told me if somebody hit me, make sure I hit them back harder.
00:21:50Make sure they never hit me again.
00:21:52Make sure I fucked them up.
00:21:53You know how you hear your mom's voice in your ear?
00:21:58Boy?
00:22:00You better...
00:22:02Boy?
00:22:04Sean started fighting.
00:22:06He started stepping up.
00:22:08But Sean don't fight like this.
00:22:11Sean's gonna bite you.
00:22:12He's gonna eat your ear off.
00:22:14He's gonna cut your neck open with his mouth.
00:22:18He's not losing.
00:22:23I know people are shaped by pain.
00:22:26As well as by love.
00:22:29And if it was more pain than love, watch out.
00:22:35There's gonna be pain that you're gonna give others.
00:22:38Cause you're responding to that pain that you just can't seem to cut out of you.
00:22:43I didn't know much about him.
00:22:58I know that he had a big ego.
00:23:00I met him around 89, 90.
00:23:06My job was to promote music videos.
00:23:09And Puffy, he was always doing the party promotion so he's always like handing out the flyers.
00:23:14At the time I was working on Andre Harrell.
00:23:17He wasn't paying me enough so I had to promote parties on the side.
00:23:20Which was all good.
00:23:21You know what I'm saying?
00:23:22Daddy's house.
00:23:24He was savvy enough to promote parties.
00:23:27They were the most successful parties at that time.
00:23:30But they were all about promoting himself.
00:23:33One of the brothers that put the party together.
00:23:35My man, Puff Daddy.
00:23:36Really it was no problem cause all my black brothers and sisters came together like my man Dougie Fresh.
00:23:41All the beautiful women out here, we came together just to have a good time.
00:23:44I went to a party for a good friend.
00:23:51It was getting very late.
00:23:53Puffy is like, oh, you know, I'm having an after party.
00:23:57At Andre Harrell's house.
00:24:01Andre Harrell wasn't there, he was out of town.
00:24:03People were tracking mud through the house and I remember at the end of the night, I was helping clean up the mud.
00:24:14Puffy is like very polite, you know, thanking me for helping him.
00:24:20And he asked me, oh wow, I just got this call, you know, someone, this girl backed out of this music video, you know, can you do it?
00:24:28And I was like, I don't do music videos.
00:24:31But this party was in New Jersey and I needed a ride back to Manhattan.
00:24:39So I went along.
00:24:44And I never forget, I had the same clothes on that I had from the night before.
00:24:49The music video was called Straight From The Soul by Finesse and Sinquist.
00:24:56The whole premise was for me to jump out the car and go with these girls and get away from the pimp guy.
00:25:03I'm the pimp guy.
00:25:04Nice clothes in a car doesn't make you a star.
00:25:07You can't talk positive and do the opposite.
00:25:09Cause then you're labeled as a fool, a hypocrite.
00:25:11You can't be righteous, throw a party to flip.
00:25:14Sniff and store, drink and drive and have your sister strip.
00:25:16You know what that looks like to your people?
00:25:18A big disgrace.
00:25:19Thying sisters don't wanna look you in your face.
00:25:21Wanting to be a pimp brother?
00:25:22Your heart ain't that cold.
00:25:24And this is straight from the soul.
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00:26:02I just want to say this.
00:26:19This thing was incredibly devastating to my family.
00:26:24My mother, she's a social worker.
00:26:27We don't have money.
00:26:28But the thing that we had was our pride.
00:26:41We carried ourselves well.
00:26:44We were pretty.
00:26:45We were intelligent.
00:26:47This is the basis of what I had, self-respect.
00:26:52My mother wrote a letter to Combs' parents.
00:27:00I just found this recently.
00:27:05Can I read it?
00:27:06Dear Mr. and Mrs. Combs, I'm writing you to inform you of something that your son did to my daughter.
00:27:22One weekend while visiting my daughter, I awoke to her screaming in the middle of the night.
00:27:30She told me that she was dreaming about Puffy.
00:27:34I asked her why she was screaming and who is this Puffy person that he would cause her to have nightmares.
00:27:45I was shocked and mortified to hear her story.
00:27:50She told me that several people have come to her to inform her that your son has made an obscene videotape of her.
00:27:59Without her knowledge, he videotaped him doing something sexual to her.
00:28:09Apparently, your son shows these tapes at parties on large screen televisions.
00:28:15I realize that this may be hard for you to believe, but if I hadn't heard this story from my daughter's own mouth
00:28:25and looked into her eyes, I would have scarcely believed that any individual
00:28:31would compromise another person's dignity in this manner.
00:28:36I approached a lot of people for help.
00:28:51I got things like, what do you want me to do about it?
00:28:56To, if I help you, I can't get into his parties.
00:29:00I got Puff Daddy from Puff Daddy's house.
00:29:05What's up?
00:29:06What's up?
00:29:06And we revolutionized the hip-hop club scene this year.
00:29:13Why would you want to do that?
00:29:16Drug and rape the girl, tape it, and then put it up on the screen?
00:29:23Here's my theory.
00:29:24Alpo Martinez, drug lord, famous Harlem street, tough guy, hung out at the rooftop.
00:29:37Once again, I'd like to welcome you to the rooftop.
00:29:39Alpo had a lot of girls, and he would tape girls that he was having sex with.
00:29:45And then on a Saturday night, he might bring his camera and put it on the wall.
00:29:50And everyone knows that so-and-so's girl.
00:29:53What Sean saw was, I want to be looked upon in that way, as someone that has that type
00:30:05of stature.
00:30:07All his life, he's been trying to honor a man.
00:30:11He believed it was a famous Harlem gangster.
00:30:15And that gave his father a mythic presence.
00:30:19People like Alpo, he looked at those guys with a certain amount of jealousy or envy, a certain
00:30:27amount of respect.
00:30:29And there's a certain amount of desire.
00:30:33That thing was in him from there.
00:30:35Did you ever confront Sean about him?
00:30:44I did.
00:30:46I avoided him for a very long time.
00:30:50I ran into him one day.
00:30:53He came to me.
00:30:55He got on his knees and swore he did not do this thing to me and denied it.
00:31:04And that is the very last time I talked to him.
00:31:11We fucking did it!
00:31:13Let's go!
00:31:14The key to the city!
00:31:15Yeah, yeah, yeah!
00:31:16When I think back in terms of his rise, it is the most helpless feeling.
00:31:23I was always nauseous when I saw his image.
00:31:30The one image in Times Square where he's holding his fist up.
00:31:38When I saw it, I vomited right there on the street.
00:31:44You are really raising your hand to victory and I'm living in trauma and defeat.
00:32:10Some new legal trouble for Sean Diddy Coe.
00:32:12Another new lawsuit.
00:32:14...of sexual assault, sex trafficking, and drugging underage girls.
00:32:17Federal prosecutors in New York have interviewed numerous women who allege Rome to...
00:32:21This is at least the 10th civil lawsuit filed against Sean Diddy Coe's alleged sex trafficking.
00:32:27Let's take the blood, man. What the fuck else y'all want?
00:32:31I don't know.
00:32:33It's a bunch of silly, bro.
00:32:34Just silly bullshit.
00:32:36Noise.
00:32:38No sense.
00:32:39Noise.
00:32:40But it's like the legal system is doing it now.
00:32:43Because, like, legally...
00:32:44We gotta...
00:32:45It's like...
00:32:46I gotta spend money to go and get rid of this bullshit.
00:32:49And get rid of this bullshit.
00:32:50Oh, yeah.
00:32:51Ain't got nothing left.
00:32:54Got nothing left going on.
00:32:57They ain't breaking me, though.
00:33:00How are you, boss?
00:33:01If you don't mind, one picture, please.
00:33:03I'm not good with the camera, so...
00:33:05I'm gonna try.
00:33:06Nice.
00:33:07Can we see the group photo?
00:33:08Yeah.
00:33:09Nice to meet you, boss.
00:33:10All right.
00:33:11Y'all can hop in.
00:33:12Yeah, as a group.
00:33:13As a group.
00:33:14There.
00:33:15All right.
00:33:16Sean was destined to be famous.
00:33:18Okay.
00:33:19One more.
00:33:20One more.
00:33:21Yeah.
00:33:22One more.
00:33:23One more.
00:33:24Yeah.
00:33:25One more.
00:33:26I was...
00:33:27I didn't see infamy coming.
00:33:28I swear I didn't see that coming.
00:33:34I'm 19.
00:33:35And I always like seeing people entertain.
00:33:38And I thought, you know, over the holidays,
00:33:40I just wanted to throw a celebrity basketball game in Harlem.
00:33:47I was at the game.
00:33:48I was on the floor.
00:33:49All of us was there.
00:33:50Every rapper in New York, right?
00:33:52Your MTV Raps came.
00:33:54I'm at City College in the heart of New York City
00:33:56for the Puff Daddy Heavy,
00:33:58the first all-time celebrity all-star classic.
00:34:02That was one of the biggest basketball games.
00:34:04If that would have turned out correctly,
00:34:06it would have went down in history.
00:34:12There were lines and lines around the campus to get in.
00:34:16There's no more room,
00:34:18but everyone still wants to come.
00:34:23We opened up the doors.
00:34:24Everybody starts flowing through.
00:34:26But then thousands more come.
00:34:28There was this thing in hip-hop called bum-rushing the door.
00:34:30People don't have a ticket when they hear something sold out.
00:34:32They say, fuck it, we got to still get in.
00:34:33We're going to bum-rush the door.
00:34:34When they got to the bottom of the stairs,
00:34:35the doors...
00:34:36didn't go out that way.
00:34:37They only came in.
00:34:38So people were stuck.
00:34:39They were just crushing people down at the bottom of the stairs.
00:34:42We on the court, warming up the play.
00:34:44And then Dougie first grabbed the mic and said,
00:34:45there's people that are dead.
00:34:46We're on the court, warming up the play.
00:34:48And then Dougie first grabbed the mic and said,
00:34:49there's people that are dead.
00:34:50We're on the court.
00:34:51We're on the court, warming up the play.
00:34:52And then Dougie first grabbed the mic and said,
00:34:53there's people that are dead.
00:34:57whether you be the most regular person here, we need to be.
00:35:02It is your one.
00:35:03We're on the court.
00:35:04We're on the court, warming up the play.
00:35:07And then Dougie first grabbed the mic and said,
00:35:08there's people that are dead.
00:35:16Whether you be a regular star or whether you be the most regular person here,
00:35:19you need to be.
00:35:21It is your one.
00:35:22It is your one.
00:35:23It is your mom.
00:35:24I have two.
00:35:25It is over.
00:35:33Sean overpromoted, overhyped, and that led to a crowd.
00:35:42It was just like, oh shit, how did this happen so quick?
00:35:46How would people want to explain it?
00:35:51We need a lot of help here.
00:35:53There's a lot of people hurt and aren't breathing.
00:35:56Not breathing?
00:35:57Yes, we, I mean, we have a emergency over here.
00:36:08We got a lot of people here dead in the gymnasium, please.
00:36:11They did?
00:36:15The death toll from last week's stampede at a New York charity basketball game has risen to nine.
00:36:21Never getting trampled.
00:36:22All for money.
00:36:23$12, man.
00:36:24What do you mean $12?
00:36:25It cost $12 for a ticket.
00:36:28One of the unanswered questions remains who's to blame for the stampede that killed nine people.
00:36:34Throughout the newspaper headlines, throughout the confusion, the finger-pointing, who was responsible, Sean Young, in real time, carried the weight of all of that.
00:36:51My dream for this evening was to bring a positive program to my people, to people of my age, and to people in my community.
00:37:01Whatever must be done, must be done to ensure that this never, ever, ever happens again.
00:37:07It was the biggest news ever.
00:37:10That's how he got super famous, was that game and those deaths.
00:37:16That's the beginning of Puff Daddy.
00:37:19That's really how I started to become famous, was through a tragedy.
00:37:26He was holed up in a hotel on the east side, him and his mother.
00:37:33He didn't know what was going to happen.
00:37:36And I saw Janice question, Sean.
00:37:41He's going into this music business thing.
00:37:44He just left school, and now this extreme tragedy has occurred.
00:37:49She's like, did he make the right decision?
00:37:53And I saw him put his hands on her,
00:37:58call her a bitch, and slapped her.
00:38:02He's not looking back.
00:38:06Sean Puff Daddy Combs and sponsors claim no responsibility in the tragic chain of events
00:38:18that claim nine lives and injured...
00:38:20The brass that afforded Uptown its distribution money wanted Sean out.
00:38:26I saw Andre fight and fight to keep Sean in, and he did.
00:38:33Andre Harrell, Puff Daddy, he's passed it on to, I guess, his son.
00:38:38Protégé.
00:38:38Protégé.
00:38:39Yes, yes.
00:38:40Puffy.
00:38:40Yes.
00:38:41Tell me a little bit about this man and why you like working with him.
00:38:44Because, you know, he's not intimidated by youth, you know what I'm saying?
00:38:47He knows the importance of leaving a legacy behind.
00:38:50We need more adults out there that's going to teach the young, such as myself.
00:38:53I took Andre Harrell out to lunch, and I said, can I get a chance to maybe do A&R?
00:39:01The A&R is Artists and Repertoire.
00:39:03That's the guy that works at the record company that puts the records together and works with
00:39:07the artists.
00:39:08I said, give me a chance.
00:39:09You know, you're making music for young people.
00:39:12I'm young, and, you know, who better to make the music than me?
00:39:15We had a group back in the day.
00:39:20They drove up to New York unannounced to meet Andre Harrell.
00:39:25When we make love, Jodeci.
00:39:28It's like a dream.
00:39:32They sing for Andre.
00:39:33Andre loves it.
00:39:34Immediately, that becomes Puff's first responsibility.
00:39:37Nigga, go make Jodeci.
00:39:39Puff's in the future of Jodeci.
00:39:41Hopefully to make rits, rits, rits.
00:39:44Andre put his trust with Sean as opposed to the artists.
00:39:50He told us, I don't care who the artist is, you're more important than them.
00:39:56The artists don't work without you.
00:39:59What would be the ideal musical setting for y'all?
00:40:01I guess we're falling in front of, like, millions of people, you know.
00:40:03You have to be able to control everything.
00:40:07I basically styled and come up with the images and designed most of the clothing for all of
00:40:11the artists.
00:40:12It was him that put Jodeci in the pants baggy, sagging at the bottom, the boots not lacing
00:40:19it up.
00:40:20He is able to sponge from the community and the culture and package it.
00:40:26And in the studio, he did the same thing.
00:40:32Sean wasn't a producer where he can tell you, you need a C here, a C note, or this is an F.
00:40:38But he did have a good ear for what could be a hit.
00:40:43Let me give you an example.
00:40:44At the rooftop in Harlem, the DJ Brucey B would mix acapellas from R&B songs with hard hip-hop
00:40:54beats.
00:40:58And it drove the kids crazy at the clubs.
00:41:02That's what Sean did with Jodeci on those remixes.
00:41:05It was very minimal.
00:41:08It was very hard beat and snare, no melody.
00:41:18Jodeci's record started climbing the charts.
00:41:23Sean turned that into the blueprint for his special brand of A&R.
00:41:28And then the next artist to benefit from that was Mary J. Blige.
00:41:33Mary's what's the 411 was out the box.
00:41:43The hat pulled out, the mysteriousness.
00:41:47It had a little bit of a darkness and moodiness to it as well.
00:41:51All of that was groundbreaking.
00:41:53Real love
00:41:54He launched a female artist in a male-dominated hip-hop barrel.
00:42:01What's up, Abraham?
00:42:03Who became an instant success.
00:42:06And that created hip-hop soul.
00:42:10Mary became the owner of that sound.
00:42:15Mary J. Blige
00:42:16Sean was making the hits happen and the visuals happen.
00:42:21In 1992, Sean is promoted to VP of A&R and Artists and Development.
00:42:28So, my name's Puff Daddy.
00:42:29Vice President of A&R and Artists and Development for Uptown Records.
00:42:34Which brought you the hits, uh.
00:42:35Jodeci, Mary J. Blige, Heavy Dean of Boys, Fall MC.
00:42:39And, you know, on and on and on.
00:42:41Puffy had Jodeci and Mary J. Blige.
00:42:44But Puffy's a big, huge EPMD fan.
00:42:46My background sing, my background sing for the crossover.
00:42:49He was at my crossover video shoot.
00:42:53And he asked me to do the Mary J. Blige intro for the 4-1 album.
00:42:58Your Mary Blige's shot.
00:43:00This is Alex Sherman, MC Graham Royal.
00:43:03I did that for him and then all of a sudden we became friends.
00:43:07I thought it was a general friendship.
00:43:10Until I see that this game is being played.
00:43:15You got an agenda.
00:43:18Misa.
00:43:20He was trying to court her after we broke up.
00:43:24Sean wants her because Eric was that dude.
00:43:28It was about, I got her, I won her over from him.
00:43:35He had to have the girl.
00:43:38And Sean has a way about, when he gets you, he got you.
00:43:43He got you.
00:43:45And now you become property.
00:43:46Me and Misa was just friends.
00:43:51But he wanted to make sure that there was no calling in me being friends with that girl.
00:43:59Sean's jealousy, it got to the point where he would put his hands on her.
00:44:05Right outside of Uptown Records.
00:44:08They're fighting in the street and he's beating her into the car well.
00:44:11Look, she's on the ground.
00:44:17And people are pulling him off of her and separating her.
00:44:22A year or two later, they're still together and Justin is born.
00:44:34When he invited me to be the godfather of his first son,
00:44:37I was able to push that in the back of my mind and say,
00:44:42that was a really bad moment, but he was weak.
00:44:46And it was a bad moment.
00:44:51Does that make me part of a Sean Combs cult?
00:44:55Maybe so.
00:44:57I may have been the first disciple, believer,
00:45:02and then overall protector against all odds.
00:45:13Everybody say,
00:45:14Up, up, down!
00:45:15Uh!
00:45:16Up, up, down!
00:45:17Yo, I want to personally invite one more brother on stage.
00:45:21Responsible for my brother.
00:45:22Joe to see.
00:45:23Mary J. Blige.
00:45:25Fuck daddy, come to the stage, baby.
00:45:26Fuck daddy.
00:45:27Fuck daddy.
00:45:28Fuck, uh, uh, uh.
00:45:30At that point, Sean is on top of the world.
00:45:35And his trajectory was only up.
00:45:40I was just a wonder kid.
00:45:42It was just something that they never saw before.
00:45:45To be young and to be puff daddy.
00:45:50It's just, it's just like,
00:45:53I felt like my dream, man, came true.
00:45:55Everybody now is looking for this kid.
00:46:02Because they all have artists that they have to get to the top of the chart.
00:46:06What does that do to a person?
00:46:09Do you think I'm still going to be, like,
00:46:13yes, ma'am, no, ma'am, thank you very much?
00:46:15He became too big for Uptown Records.
00:46:18I'm going to be so drunk and high by Wednesday at 8 o'clock.
00:46:20I'm not really going to give a fuck.
00:46:21But I give a fuck.
00:46:23It started to be some dissension between Andre and Puff.
00:46:28Andre was the king of the Uptown castle of the empire he created.
00:46:32And the intern was taking his place.
00:46:41I remember it like yesterday.
00:46:44Andre called me into his office.
00:46:47He tells me just like this.
00:46:50He says, dog, I just fired Puff.
00:46:52I said, word?
00:46:56It was a sad day.
00:47:00Andre was like a surrogate dad for Sean.
00:47:02Sean was really sick when Andre fired him.
00:47:09I'm talking about sick.
00:47:11Couldn't believe it.
00:47:14And then Sean called me.
00:47:17And he said, yo, I'm about to do my thing, dog.
00:47:20Puff was like, yo, I'm looking for some hardcore artist.
00:47:38He's ain't tired of doing the Mary shit, Joe to see shit.
00:47:42He want to do some hard shit, some street shit.
00:47:44Straight out of counseling.
00:47:45Crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube.
00:47:47From the gang called niggas with attitude.
00:47:50So I guess I gots the handle.
00:47:51Mind sympathy.
00:47:52The West Coast had the hits that we wanted.
00:47:57Go for sex shit and check shit.
00:47:59What you want, nigga?
00:48:01Sean signed Biggie in 1992.
00:48:06People didn't know.
00:48:07We had to produce Biggie's album for Uptown.
00:48:09He was an Uptown artist.
00:48:11So it's the Detroit is big then.
00:48:13Yeah, yeah.
00:48:13It's the Detroit.
00:48:14B-I-G.
00:48:14Business instead of game, right?
00:48:16I'm telling him I told you.
00:48:17But when Andre fired Puff, they fired him with a caveat.
00:48:22I'm letting you go, but I'm going to let you take Biggie with you.
00:48:28Andre decided to sell us the Biggie album.
00:48:32But now, we had to find a way to pay for it.
00:48:37We were living on borrowed time.
00:48:39We went about setting up the meetings.
00:48:43Then we met with Epic, Sony, Columbia.
00:48:47Then we met with Clive Davis at Ariston.
00:48:50Everybody knows him on a first-name basis.
00:48:53Clive runs a $100 million record company called Ariston.
00:48:59He has discovered Whitney Houston, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin,
00:49:04and a long list of other pop stars who thrive in the world, according to Clive.
00:49:11So we went to Clive, and we played a few tracks from Biggie's album.
00:49:16And I remember one of the first ones that we played was Gimme the Loop.
00:49:19Yes, love, love your fucking attitude, because the nigga play pussy, that's the nigga...
00:49:23And Clive's eyes went like this.
00:49:26I'm slamming niggas like Shaquille.
00:49:28Shit, it's real.
00:49:29And I said, well, you got the goods.
00:49:31And I bought into his vision.
00:49:34Gimme the loop, gimme the loop.
00:49:36Gimme the loop, gimme the loop.
00:49:38Gimme the loop, gimme the loop.
00:49:41Named it a bad boy.
00:49:42Because I wanted to go against the grain.
00:49:46I didn't want to just make records.
00:49:47I didn't want to just make money.
00:49:49I wanted to make history.
00:49:51One damn bad boy.
00:49:52Fire it up, bad boy.
00:49:53Representing.
00:49:54Puck daddy.
00:49:55I was at bad boy starting from the day that we put the LLC together, and Sean gave me 25% in stock.
00:50:09And his mother, Janice, had 75%.
00:50:13He did not put the company in his name to protect him from paying families at CCNY.
00:50:23And I saw from that moment on, Sean had shifted in his personality.
00:50:30I didn't see any more of the Mount St. Michael teen Sean.
00:50:37He had become more like the person I see today.
00:50:43We did a deal for approximately $10 million.
00:50:491.5 went as an advance into Sean's pocket.
00:50:54Another 1.5 is supposed to be our overhead.
00:50:58Sean said, that's yours.
00:51:00You can do whatever you want with it, but you better make sure my company's running.
00:51:05From day zero, I wrote everything down every day so I can keep track of everything I needed to do.
00:51:11I ran all the money, all the budgets for the company, as well as a lot for his personal life
00:51:17and all that came with it.
00:51:20I don't like the way you're treating me or me getting my second half.
00:51:23This shit is bullshit.
00:51:25Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, bust your ass and ask me...
00:51:28I think that he had this thing with strong men, and he had a thing with wanting to be one,
00:51:34but not positioned to be one street-wise, but positioned to be one industry-wise.
00:51:40And they call that a paper gangster.
00:51:43Shit over.
00:51:43I'm not paying, nor am I involved in any of that shit.
00:51:47And so, as he's paper gangstering, he's also trying to street gangster, too, at the same time.
00:51:55Savage! I'm a savage!
00:51:57He's not from the street.
00:51:59His mother did the very best to give him the best.
00:52:02What's next? Give me something else.
00:52:04What can't you do? I can do it.
00:52:05But now, he's been getting beefier and beefier with the power from the music.
00:52:11That's a good way to get your head filled up to think that you're just as gangster as they are now,
00:52:17without even having to pop your gun off yourself.
00:52:23Now, after all this time, me and Misa are still cool.
00:52:27We were just friends.
00:52:30But one time, she just happened to be in my driver's seat in my truck.
00:52:35And all of a sudden, I heard somebody go, and it's him.
00:52:41He's steaming.
00:52:43He swings on me.
00:52:46So, I'm laughing, because I'm like, he swung on me?
00:52:50You're putting yourself in jeopardy, knowing you can't whoop none of us.
00:52:55So, now, I'm like, let's go around the corner.
00:52:58Because I'm respectful enough.
00:53:02So, he actually gets in the car, and we drive around the corner.
00:53:05So, I'm about to give him the business.
00:53:08Shit could have got really ugly.
00:53:11And he just said, yo, sit down.
00:53:12I want you to hear something real quick.
00:53:14And that's when he played in the Biggie Smalls album.
00:53:17Yeah.
00:53:18This album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me I'll never amount to nothing.
00:53:22The Juicy single dropped somewhere in 94.
00:53:27It was all a dream.
00:53:28I used to read Word Up magazine.
00:53:30But Biggie's trajectory was not zero straight to the top.
00:53:35Biggie had a slow start.
00:53:36Very nervous at first.
00:53:38At the time, that West Coast thing is happening.
00:53:44So, we began to look at what they were doing, and Tupac was like a shining star.
00:53:49There's a song called I Get Around by Tupac.
00:53:52I get around.
00:53:53Still down with the underground.
00:53:55Round in the house.
00:53:56In a brown acre.
00:53:57I get around.
00:53:57That song, if you're, like, in a science lab, and you're looking at something with a microscope,
00:54:02and you're trying to figure out what it is and what it's made of, that's what we did with that song.
00:54:07I Get Around.
00:54:08Sean was just mesmerized by that particular song, the structure of it, the video and the visuals.
00:54:15It showed the culture.
00:54:18It's like, let me dissect this.
00:54:19Let me understand it.
00:54:21Let me do it my way.
00:54:24And the next single was Big Papa.
00:54:26And that dropped, and it took us over the edge with Biggie.
00:54:29I like that.
00:54:30Yeah.
00:54:31He was out of here from that moment on.
00:54:34I like it when you call me Big Papa.
00:54:36Throw your hands in the air if you's a true player.
00:54:40We had Ready to Die before it came out.
00:54:43Big had sent Tupac a demo, and we played that tape to death, man.
00:54:48We played that tape till it was destroyed.
00:54:51And then Pac got the phone call that Big was having an album release party.
00:54:56He said to us, man, we all go into that.
00:54:59He was very excited for him.
00:55:00The notorious Big album release party.
00:55:03It was so bad.
00:55:04We hit everybody here.
00:55:06I've never seen someone more excited for someone else's success as Pac was for Big's success.
00:55:14You ready, nigga?
00:55:15Yeah.
00:55:15You ready for that raw dog shit, nigga?
00:55:17I don't know what I'm gonna grab it.
00:55:18Okay.
00:55:19All right.
00:55:20Let me see how I'm gonna hit you with.
00:55:23He thought Big was dope.
00:55:25He wasn't doper than him as far as he was concerned.
00:55:28Tupacalypse, don't sleep.
00:55:30I keep a motherfucking Glock in my car.
00:55:32But he was the next thing smoking.
00:55:35I'm a high guy.
00:55:36From bed, stop putting the swelling on your eye.
00:55:38Your nose even.
00:55:39When I choke you, you stop breathing.
00:55:41When police come, I'm leaving.
00:55:43Peace and love.
00:55:44Here we go.
00:55:48Pac would take Big with him on tours and let him open up for him.
00:55:58Pac was developing thug life, this ideology of taking back our communities.
00:56:05Big was with that.
00:56:06He felt that he resonated with it.
00:56:08So they had a connection.
00:56:10Sean was insanely jealous of Biggie and Pac's friendship.
00:56:20You know, when I was around Big, I felt like he really loved me.
00:56:24I felt like if I left the room, he wasn't gonna say nothing bad or somebody said something bad about me, he would defend that.
00:56:31He was probably one of the only people I had really trusted, like, for a long time.
00:56:35He's going to a little right-hand room right now.
00:56:37Can you see it on again?
00:56:40There's a yearning for him to have that complete, total control.
00:56:46You're my artist.
00:56:47You're my best friend.
00:56:49You're writing this song for, like, 30 motherfucking days.
00:56:52I pay you.
00:56:53You work for me.
00:56:57I make hits with you.
00:57:01And who is this guy?
00:57:03Why do we need him in the picture?
00:57:08Guess who's gonna win?
00:57:10Tupac was a very likable person.
00:57:13All the women loved him.
00:57:16Being a rapper, being a movie star.
00:57:20For Sean, being a marketer, you're a manipulator.
00:57:24Please welcome Tupac Shaquille.
00:57:28And there's envy for people who have success, fame, with no manipulation.
00:57:36Puff is, to me, very threatened by Pop.
00:57:41When I reflect on how this all came into play, it's a trail.
00:57:52City College.
00:57:54Innocent lives got taken.
00:57:56Then it became the ability to get away with anything.
00:58:03And then you circle in the fact that he has legit money.
00:58:08Then you have the antagonist, Tupac Shakur.
00:58:11All those agreements created the chain of events that started in New York and ended in Vegas.
00:58:32I'm out of the room right now.
00:58:34I got a couple guys shot and a medical aid shot.
00:58:37We're at the board, hold it, honey.
00:58:41Do you know who was responsible for the killing of Tupac Shakur?
00:58:46No, I don't.
00:58:50I think that Sean now, in my mature mind, had a lot to do with the death of Tupac.
00:59:11I'm out of the building.
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