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.
00:03:49Now, Patrick,
00:03:56Yeah?
00:03:57No doubt.
00:03:58I'm not, I think it's gonna be.
00:03:59Let's go.
00:04:05Go, Go!
00:04:11Go, Go!
00:04:15shelves.
00:04:16Yeah, just get little cutaways of them, like looking from the, you know what I'm saying, that's fine too.
00:04:46All of us gotta go to the maker and we will be held accountable for the things we did and we didn't do.
00:05:01Sean Combs is an asshole. He is the motherfucker you're not gonna like and you're not gonna get the fuck along with if he doesn't get his way.
00:05:14He quickly became my hero.
00:05:21If y'all had a fucking chance to meet this guy, you would be like this niggas energy is everything. I gotta get up and go. I gotta get up and do it.
00:05:32What's next? What's next? I gotta get it. I'm not gonna stay fucking down.
00:05:38He was presenting this freedom that black people hadn't had. Like we hadn't experienced a black man being able to say, I don't want that.
00:05:48I don't want no problems with you. Come on. Hey yo, Doug, what are you talking about? You telling me like I'm on some bullshit? I ain't on no bullshit with you.
00:05:54So when I first met him he quickly became the guy I wanted to be like.
00:06:01When you're a leader in that way, it's admirable until you get to the point where you want to control everyone around you.
00:06:09He got to that point.
00:06:12What y'all wanna do? Wanna be ballers, shot callers, brawlers.
00:06:18It's like Scarface, the movie. I want the world and everything that's in it. But you got everything.
00:06:24Hey yo, New York, we fucking did it. Harlem, we did it, Montana, we did it.
00:06:31There was a mantra that Sean had. Nobody's gonna be bigger than me.
00:06:37Sean is the 1% of the 1% of the 1%. We'll never see a Sean in my lifetime again. Ever.
00:06:43It was like the more money he got, the more power he got, the more power he got, the more money he got.
00:06:52And 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's standpoint just kind of how we reached the verdict.
00:07:06It's not everything that the media has put it out to be.
00:07:12You wanna put stuff in my fanny pack, King?
00:07:15He's creating a narrative always.
00:07:21He is the best storyteller in hip-hop.
00:07:25He thinks he's black Superman. I can do what I want.
00:07:29You can't go on for long in life doing the things that he was doing before something eventually happens.
00:07:35You can't continue to keep hurting people and nothing ever happens.
00:07:42It's just a matter of time.
00:07:47Is it good to be back in New York?
00:07:56It's always good to be back in New York.
00:07:59Once upon a time, not long ago.
00:08:01When 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.
00:08:08How you chasing the kids on here?
00:08:10All right, bro.
00:08:12They lived a little boy who was misled by another little boy and this is what he said.
00:08:18Me and you tonight we're gonna make some cash.
00:08:21Robbing old folks and making the dance.
00:08:23I was there from the very beginning with the invention of Sean Combs.
00:08:32I co-founded Bad Boy with Sean.
00:08:37I was dazzled by his ideas and his unique talent.
00:08:44But he was a very different Sean Combs back then.
00:08:48Sean was 19 when he dropped out of Howard University.
00:08:56He wanted to be in the flashy, swaggy music industry.
00:09:01He started off dancing, wanting to be in videos.
00:09:09Wanting to be a pop culture mover and shaker.
00:09:17At a time where things were changing.
00:09:23Hip-hop was evolving.
00:09:25Like it or not, rap is here to stay.
00:09:28It has become part of mainstream commerce.
00:09:32It was just explosive.
00:09:34Run DMC, Chaos One, Public Enemy, Rod Campbell.
00:09:40The 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.
00:09:53What is this new music?
00:09:56Like Uptown Records.
00:10:06Heavy 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 Mount Vernon.
00:10:28Money Earned Mount Vernon.
00:10:30Vernon, Vernon, Vernon.
00:10:32Mount Vernon is in Westchester County.
00:10:36The first city outside of the Bronx.
00:10:39Heavy D put that area on the map.
00:10:43Heavy 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.
00:11:15And 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.
00:11:40I'm a picture, I'm a blade out for you.
00:11:43When you thought of Uptown Records, you thought of Heavy D and I'll be sure.
00:11:48I was the first number one artist.
00:11:57On the Billboard charts on the Billboard charts on Uptown.
00:12:00And the first platinum artist on the Uptown label.
00:12:04He was a GQ nigga.
00:12:05You know, he was a real penny loafers type.
00:12:09He was one of them fly light-skinned niggas.
00:12:11And girls loved him.
00:12:12It's ours, it's ours!
00:12:14Al was dating Kim.
00:12:19Kim Porter.
00:12:21Kim is at the receptionist desk at Uptown.
00:12:25You get out the elevator, first person you see is Kim.
00:12:30And it was a beautiful sight.
00:12:32Everybody 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.
00:12:46A date, a kiss, he put it all on the table for Kim.
00:12:53It was weird, it was weird in the air because everyone knew this was Al's girl.
00:12:58Al is hot as fish grease right now.
00:13:00Hi, this is Al B. Shore.
00:13:02Here's my exclusive number.
00:13:04$2 for the first minute, 45 cents for each additional minute.
00:13:08And Sean was not really like the catch.
00:13:13He didn't drink alcohol.
00:13:15He forbade marijuana.
00:13:16He did not like drugs.
00:13:18He 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.
00:13:28And 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 going to get it.
00:13:37It might be a couple of years from now.
00:13:40But sooner or later, he's going to 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, and I saw him being built into cool.
00:14:04We had to go through the Uptown flavor camp.
00:14:06I learned a lot quickly.
00:14:07Being in front of Willie Burgers on the hump 45th and A4, being at the rooftop.
00:14:16Let's get it going. Rooftop!
00:14:17The fashion, the walk, the talk, the attitude, the drive, the determination.
00:14:23I 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 would 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.
00:14:45I remember I was on the phone, and I looked up when he came back.
00:14:47I 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.
00:14:58I did have known then that that was never going to stop, to 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.
00:15:10Like, 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.
00:15:19I bought the first million dollar house.
00:15:21Funny, that weekend, just before I moved in, he 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.
00:15:42Sean grew up with the illusion of what masculinity looks like.
00:15:48My first encounter with Sean, I remember it like yesterday.
00:15:53My family, we rented the first floor of Sean's house.
00:15:58I 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.
00:16:09I taught him how to ride a bike.
00:16:12It 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.
00:16:25No, Sean, Sean didn't have that.
00:16:30Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce my mother, Janice Combs.
00:16:40What were the primary jobs that you did to support your family?
00:16:43I did so many jobs at one time.
00:16:46I worked at the United Civil Policy.
00:16:49I worked at the Board of Ed in Westchester County.
00:16:54I drive the school bus.
00:16:56I worked in a baby's boutique shop.
00:16:57And he never knew this.
00:17:00I worked in an after-hours spot too.
00:17:02I had to come clean.
00:17:05I needed to come clean.
00:17:08Okay, now.
00:17:12Okay.
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.
00:17:24What's wrong?
00:17:27My father's name is Melvin Combs.
00:17:29I didn't get a chance to get to know him.
00:17:30I was too young.
00:17:32My 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, you 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?
00:17:52I'm a slow gangster.
00:17:54Melvin's presence was there.
00:17:56His money was there.
00:17:58And I understood that Melvin made a lot of things possible.
00:18:04But Sean's mom was his everything.
00:18:06If you look at some of the early pictures that Janice has of Sean, she was always making him into something.
00:18:19The hats, fur coats.
00:18:21I think she tried to overcompensate for the father being gone by making him into this dandy.
00:18:33Everything associated with Sean was Harlem.
00:18:38Whoever 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.
00:18:50Here 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.
00:18:56Y'all sit there, I'll be right back.
00:18:57She ain't turn the car off.
00:18:58Nobody took the car.
00:18:59No.
00:19:00So you knew there was a different vibe going on with this family.
00:19:02In his household, the groove was a little different.
00:19:03A lot of Donna Summer playing.
00:19:05And then we had these movies we'd watch.
00:19:06He's got to be number one.
00:19:07This genre of films called black exploitation.
00:19:09Superdude.
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00:19:34The Mac.
00:19:35Xiaon said...
00:19:36When you've got nothing, you want everything.
00:19:37You've got a gift to be the Mac.
00:19:39Their parts were Hustler parts.
00:19:43In Shawn's household.
00:19:45You start to see all the stuff that you saw on the movies.
00:19:51Janice knew how the throw party.
00:19:53And the party's packed.
00:19:55You got ladies that look like they are straight out of the Jet magazine.
00:20:00magazine some brothers up there you know if you want to call them pimps you can if you want to
00:20:05call them hustlers you can you got a member of the new york knicks or two
00:20:11there was a stage in her living room literally a stage and that's where we used to have to go and
00:20:20dance and everybody's calling you baby and everybody's saying do that dance
00:20:30and all of this stuff he's taken in
00:20:34so 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 kids would pick on him a lot around the block
00:20:53and he didn't know how to defend himself sean was a prince and janice she didn't want no princess
00:21:03she held back nothing you've said i would be 12 years old and sometimes i'd be out until three
00:21:10four in the morning james james we don't have to get into that right
00:21:13ma'am got a lot of beatings too his beatings made me scared right i got beatings now
00:21:27but when he got his beatings it wasn't no it wasn't a joking thing no
00:21:35damn i hate thinking about that man
00:21:40my mother was i guess raising me for the real world she was always told me if somebody hit me
00:21:48make sure i hit them back harder make sure they never hit me again make sure i fucked them up
00:21:53you know how you hear your mom's voice in your ear boy you better boy
00:22:03sean started fighting he started stepping up but sean don't fight like this
00:22:10sean's gonna bite you he's gonna eat your ear off
00:22:14he's gonna cut your neck open with his mouth he's not losing
00:22:19i know people shaped by pain as well as by love and if it was more pain than love watch out
00:22:32there's going to be pain that you're going to give others
00:22:38because you're responding to that pain that you just can't seem to cut out of you
00:22:44i didn't know much about him i know that he had a big ego
00:23:00i met him around 89 90. my 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
00:23:15at the time i was working on andrew ralph but he wasn't paying me enough so i had to promote
00:23:19parties on the side which was all good right right daddy's house he was savvy enough to promote
00:23:26parties they were the most successful parties at that time but they were all about promoting
00:23:31himself one of the brothers that put the party together my man puffy daddy really it was no problem
00:23:38because all my black brothers and sisters came together like my man tell you friends all the
00:23:41beautiful women out here we came together just to have a good time i went to a party for a good friend
00:23:47it was getting very late puffy is like oh you know i'm having an after party
00:23:56at andre harrell's house
00:23:59andre 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
00:24:12i was helping clean up the mud puffy is like very polite you know and 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
00:24:26you know can you do it and i was like i don't do music videos but this party was in new jersey
00:24:35and i needed a ride back to manhattan so i went along
00:24:41and 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
00:25:03the pimp guy
00:25:04you know what i look like to your people
00:25:18you in your face
00:25:21your heart ain't that cold and this is straight from the soul
00:25:26was there ever a time that sean combs sexually assaulted you
00:25:37yes
00:25:41someone called me up and told me that um he said you know he has you know video
00:25:48and i was like what and that's when he um described it and explained it
00:25:55i just want to say this this thing was incredibly devastating to my family
00:26:02my mother she's a social worker we don't have money
00:26:09i i just want to say this this thing was incredibly devastating to my family
00:26:23my mother she's a social worker we don't have money
00:26:28the thing
00:26:31that we had
00:26:36was our pride
00:26:38we carried ourselves well
00:26:43we were pretty
00:26:45we were intelligent
00:26:46this is the basis
00:26:48of what
00:26:50i had
00:26:51self-respect
00:26:53my mother wrote a letter
00:26:56to combs
00:26:57parents
00:26:58i just found this
00:27:02recently
00:27:03can i read it
00:27:07dear mr and mrs combs
00:27:12i'm writing you
00:27:15to inform you
00:27:17of something
00:27:19that your son
00:27:20did to my daughter
00:27:22one weekend while visiting my daughter
00:27:26i awoke to her screaming in the middle of the night
00:27:29she told me that she was dreaming about puffy
00:27:34i asked her
00:27:37why she was screaming
00:27:39and who is this puffy person
00:27:41that he would cause her
00:27:43to have nightmares
00:27:44i was shocked and mortified to hear her story
00:27:48she told me that several people have come to her
00:27:53to inform her
00:27:55that your son has made an obscene videotape of her
00:27:59without her knowledge
00:28:02he videotaped him doing something sexual to her
00:28:06apparently
00:28:10your son
00:28:11shows these tapes
00:28:12at parties
00:28:13on large screen televisions
00:28:15i realize that this may be hard for you to believe
00:28:21but if i hadn't heard this story from my daughter's own mouth
00:28:25and looked into her eyes
00:28:27i would have scarcely believed that any individual
00:28:31would compromise another person's dignity
00:28:35in this manner
00:28:36i approached a lot of people for help
00:28:47i got things like
00:28:53what do you want me to do about it
00:28:55to
00:28:57if i help you
00:28:59i can't get into his parties
00:29:00why would you want to do that
00:29:14drug and rape the girl
00:29:17tape it
00:29:19and then put it up on the screen
00:29:22here's my theory
00:29:25alpo martinez
00:29:29drug lord
00:29:31famous
00:29:32harlem street
00:29:33tough guy
00:29:34hung out at the rooftop
00:29:36once again i'd like to welcome you to the rooftop
00:29:38alpo had a lot of girls
00:29:40and
00:29:41he would tape girls
00:29:43that he was having sex with
00:29:44and then on a saturday night
00:29:46he might
00:29:47bring his camera
00:29:48and put it on the wall
00:29:49and everyone knows
00:29:51that so and so's girl
00:29:53what sean saw was
00:30:00i want to be looked upon
00:30:01in that way
00:30:03as someone that has that type of stature
00:30:05all his life
00:30:08he's been trying to honor a man
00:30:10he believed it was
00:30:12a famous parliament gangster
00:30:13and
00:30:15that gave his father
00:30:17a mythic
00:30:18presence
00:30:19people like alpo
00:30:22he looked at those guys
00:30:24with a certain amount of jealousy
00:30:25or envy
00:30:26a certain amount of respect
00:30:28and there's a certain amount of desire
00:30:31that thing was in him from there
00:30:35did you ever
00:30:42confront sean about him
00:30:44i did
00:30:45i avoided him
00:30:48for a very long time
00:30:49i ran into him one day
00:30:52he came to me
00:30:55he got on his knees
00:30:57and swore he did not do this thing to me
00:31:01and denied it
00:31:04and that was the very last time i talked to him
00:31:12we fucking did it
00:31:15let's go
00:31:16the key to the city
00:31:17yeah yeah yeah
00:31:18when i think back in terms of his rise
00:31:21it is the most
00:31:25helpless
00:31:26feeling
00:31:27i was always nauseous
00:31:30when i saw his image
00:31:31the one image
00:31:35in times square
00:31:37where he's holding his fist up
00:31:39when i saw it
00:31:43i vomited
00:31:44right there on the street
00:31:46you are really raising your hand to victory
00:31:50and i'm living in trauma and defeat
00:31:52some illegal travel for sean diddy come
00:32:11another new lawsuit
00:32:13of sexual assault
00:32:14sex trafficking
00:32:15and drugging underage girls
00:32:17federal prosecutors in new york have interviewed numerous women who allege wrong doing this at least the tenth
00:32:22civil lawsuit filed against sean diddy combs alleged sex trafficking
00:32:26let's take the blood man what the fuck else y'all want
00:32:29i don't know
00:32:32there's a bunch of silly bullshit
00:32:34just silly bullshit noise
00:32:36noise
00:32:37noise
00:32:39noise
00:32:40but it's like the legal system is doing it now
00:32:42because like legally
00:32:43we gotta
00:32:44it's like i gotta spend money to go and get rid of this bullshit
00:32:49oh yeah
00:32:51oh yeah
00:32:52i ain't got nothing left
00:32:53i ain't got nothing left
00:32:54i ain't got nothing left coming on
00:32:56they ain't breaking me no
00:33:00how are you boss
00:33:01if you don't mind
00:33:02one picture please
00:33:03i'm not good with the camera so
00:33:06i'm gonna try
00:33:07as a group as a group
00:33:18sean was destined to be famous
00:33:23one more
00:33:24one more
00:33:26i didn't see infamy coming
00:33:28i swear i didn't see that coming
00:33:3219 and always like seeing people entertain and I thought you know over the holidays just wanted
00:33:41to throw celebrity basketball game in Harlem that was at the game I was on the floor all of us was
00:33:50there every rapper in New York right your MTV raps came I'm at City College in the heart of New York
00:33:56City for the pump daddy heavy the first all-time celebrity all-star classic that was one of the
00:34:03biggest basketball games if that would have turned out correctly or it went down in history
00:34:11they were lines and lines around the campus to get in there's no more room but everyone still wants to
00:34:20come we open up the doors everybody starts flowing through but then thousands more come
00:34:40there was a thing in hip-hop called boom rushing the door people don't have a ticket when they
00:34:45get something sold out they say fuck it we gotta still get in we're gonna bump rush the door when
00:34:51they got to the bottom of the stairs the doors didn't go out that way they only came in so people
00:34:57were stuck they were just crushing people down at the bottom of the stairs we on the court warming up
00:35:06the play and then Dougie first grabbed the mic and said there's people that are dead
00:35:15so I'm over promoted overhyped and that led to a crowd it's just like oh shit how did this happen so
00:35:45quick how would how would people want to explain it
00:35:49we need a lot of help here there's a lot of people hurt and aren't breathing
00:35:55not breathing yes we I mean we have a emergency over here
00:36:00we got a lot of people here dead in the gymnasium please
00:36:11they're dead
00:36:12the death toll from last week's stampede at a New York charity basketball game has risen to nine
00:36:20never getting trampled all for money $12 man what do you mean $12 cost $12 for a ticket
00:36:27one 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's responsible
00:36:44Sean Young in real time carried the weight of all of that my dream for this evening was to bring a
00:36:56positive program to my people to people of my age and to people in my community whatever must be done must be done to ensure that this never ever ever happens again it was the biggest news ever that's how he got super famous was that game and those deaths that's the beginning of puff daddy that's really how I started to become famous
00:37:24it's still a tragedy
00:37:26he was holed up in a hotel on the east side him and his mother he didn't know what was going to happen
00:37:36and I saw Janice question Sean he's going into this music business thing he just left school and now this extreme tragedy has occurred she's like did he make the right decision
00:37:51and I saw him put his hands on her call her a bitch and slapped her he's not looking back
00:38:04Sean puff daddy combs and sponsors claim no responsibility in the tragic chain of events that claim nine lives and injured
00:38:19the brass that afforded uptown its distribution money wanted Sean out
00:38:26I saw Andre fight and fight to keep Sean in
00:38:32and he did
00:38:33Andre and Ralph puff daddy he's passing on to I guess his son
00:38:37protégé
00:38:38protégé
00:38:39yes
00:38:40puppy
00:38:41yes
00:38:42tell 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 he knows the importance of leaving the legacy behind
00:38:49because we need more adults out there that's going to teach the young such as myself
00:38:54I took Andre Harrell out to lunch and I said can I get a chance to maybe do A&R
00:39:00the A&R is artists and repertoire that's the guy that works with the record company that puts the records together and works with the artists
00:39:07I said give me a chance you know you're making music for young people I'm young and you know who better to make the music than me
00:39:14we had a group back in the day they drove up to New York unannounced to meet Andre Harrell
00:39:24when we make love
00:39:27Jodeci
00:39:28it's like a dream
00:39:31they sing for Andre Andre loves it immediately that becomes Puff's first responsibility
00:39:36nigga go make Jodeci
00:39:38what's in the future of Jodeci
00:39:40hopefully to make hits, hits, hits
00:39:44Andre put his trust with Sean as opposed to the artist
00:39:48he told us
00:39:51I don't care who the artist is
00:39:53you're more important than them
00:39:55the artists don't work without you
00:39:57what would be the ideal musical setting for y'all?
00:40:00I guess we're falling in front of like millions of people
00:40:02you know
00:40:03you have to be able to control everything
00:40:05I basically style and come up with the images and design most of the clothing for all of the artists
00:40:11it was him that put Jodeci in the pants baggy sagging at the bottom
00:40:17the boots not lacing it up
00:40:20he is able to sponge from the community and the culture
00:40:24and package it
00:40:27and in the studio he did the same thing
00:40:31Sean wasn't a producer where he can tell you
00:40:33you 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
00:40:42let me give you an example
00:40:43let's get it going rooftop
00:40:46at the rooftop in Harlem
00:40:47the DJ Brucey B would mix acapellas from R&B songs with hard hip-hop beats
00:40:58and it drove the kids crazy at the clubs
00:41:01that's what Sean did with Jodeci on those remixes
00:41:04it was very minimal
00:41:07it was very hard beat and snare
00:41:09no melody
00:41:11come and talk to me
00:41:13come and talk to me
00:41:15baby, I really wanna meet you
00:41:17Jodeci's record started climbing the charts
00:41:20here we go, here we go Jodeci yo
00:41:23Sean turned that into the blueprint
00:41:25with his special brand of A&R
00:41:27and then the next artist to benefit from that was Mary J. Blige
00:41:32Mary's what's the 411 was out the box
00:41:40the hat pulled out, the mysteriousness
00:41:46it had a little bit of a darkness and moodiness to it as well
00:41:49all of that was ground breaking
00:41:53real love
00:41:55he launched a female artist
00:41:57in a male dominated hip-hop barrel
00:42:00what's up?
00:42:02who became an instant success
00:42:05and that created hip-hop soul
00:42:08Mary became the owner of that sound
00:42:11Sean was making the hits happen and the visuals happen
00:42:21in 1992
00:42:23Sean is promoted to VP of A&R and Artists and Development
00:42:27so my name is Puff Daddy
00:42:29Vice President of A&R and Artists and Development
00:42:32for Uptown Records
00:42:34which brought you the hits
00:42:35Jodeci, Mary J. Blige, Heavy Dean of Boys, Fall MC
00:42:38and you know on and on and on
00:42:39Puffy had Jodeci and Mary J. Blige
00:42:43but 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
00:42:52and he asked me to do the Mary J. Blige intro for the 411 album
00:42:57your Mary Blige dropped to Alex Sherman, MC Graham Royal
00:43:02I did that for him and then all of a sudden we became friends
00:43:04and we became friends
00:43:07I thought it was a general friendship
00:43:10until I see that this game is being played
00:43:14you got an agenda
00:43:16Misa
00:43:19he was trying to court her after we broke up
00:43:23Sean wants her because Eric was that dude
00:43:27it was about I got her, I won her over from him
00:43:33he had to have the girl
00:43:36and Sean has a way about when he gets you, he got you
00:43:42he got you
00:43:44and now you become property
00:43:46me and Misa were just friends
00:43:49but he wanted to make sure
00:43:52that there was no calling and me being friends with that girl
00:43:57Sean's jealousy, it got to the point where he would put his hands on her
00:44:03right outside of Uptown Records
00:44:07they're fighting in the street and he's beating her into the car well
00:44:10she's on the ground
00:44:13and people are pulling him off of her and separating her
00:44:19a year or two later, they're still together and Justin is born
00:44:25and Justin is born
00:44:33when 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
00:44:41and say that was a really bad moment
00:44:44but he was weak
00:44:46and it was a bad moment
00:44:49does that make me part of a Sean Combs cult?
00:44:53maybe so
00:44:56I may have been the first disciple, believer
00:45:02and then overall protector against all odds
00:45:12everybody say up, up, down
00:45:15up, up, down
00:45:17I want to personally invite one more brother on stage
00:45:20responsible for my
00:45:21Joe to see
00:45:22Mary J. Blige
00:45:23Puff Daddy
00:45:24Puff Daddy, come to the stage baby
00:45:25Puff Daddy
00:45:27Puff Daddy
00:45:29Puff Daddy
00:45:31At that point, Sean is on top of the world
00:45:35and his trajectory was only up
00:45:37I was just a wonder kid, it was just something that they never saw before
00:45:44to be young and
00:45:47to be Puff Daddy
00:45:49it's just, it's just like
00:45:52I felt like my dream had came true
00:45:54everybody now is looking for this kid
00:46:00because they all have artists that they have to get to the top of the chart
00:46:05what does that do to a person?
00:46:09do you think I'm still gonna be
00:46:11like, yes ma'am, no ma'am, thank you very much?
00:46:14he became too big for Uptown Records
00:46:16I'm gonna be so drunk on high by Wednesday at 8 o'clock
00:46:19I'm not really gonna give a fuck
00:46:21but I give a fuck
00:46:23there started to be some dissension between Andre and Puff
00:46:27Andre was the king of the Uptown castle of the empire he created
00:46:34and the intern was taking his place
00:46:40I remember it like yesterday
00:46:43Andre called me into his office
00:46:46he tells me just like this
00:46:49he says, dog, I just fired Puff
00:46:51I said, word?
00:46:55it was a sad day
00:46:57Andre was like a surrogate dad for Sean
00:47:04Sean was really sick when Andre fired him
00:47:08I'm talking about sick
00:47:10couldn't believe it
00:47:13and then Sean called me
00:47:14and he said, yo
00:47:17I'm about to do my thing, dog
00:47:19Puff was like, yo, I'm looking for some, um, hardcore artist
00:47:23he's ain't tired of doing the Mary shit
00:47:27Jonas he shit, he wanna do some hard shit, some street shit
00:47:28straight out of counseling
00:47:29crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube
00:47:31from the gang called niggas with attitude
00:47:33so I guess I gots the handle mindset
00:47:37the West Coast had the hits that we wanted
00:47:41the West Coast had the hits that we wanted
00:48:00Sean signed Biggie in 1992
00:48:03people didn't know
00:48:06we had to produce Biggie's album for Uptown
00:48:09he was an Uptown artist
00:48:10so it's the notorious Big then
00:48:12yeah, yeah, B-I-G
00:48:14business instead of game, right?
00:48:15tell him I told you
00:48:17but when Andre fired Puff
00:48:19he fired him with a caveat
00:48:21I'm letting you go
00:48:23but I'ma let you take Biggie with you
00:48:27Andre decided to sell us the Biggie album
00:48:29but now, we had to find a way to pay for it
00:48:35we were living on borrowed time
00:48:39we went about setting up the meetings
00:48:42we met with Epic, Sony, Columbia
00:48:46then we met with Clive Davis at Ariston
00:48:49everybody knows him on a first name basis
00:48:52Clive runs a hundred million dollar record company called Ariston
00:48:56he has discovered Whitney Houston
00:49:01Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin
00:49:03and a long list of other pop stars
00:49:06who thrive in the world according to Clive
00:49:09so we went to Clive and we played a few tracks
00:49:14from Biggie's album
00:49:16and I remember one of the first ones that we played was
00:49:18Gimme the Loop
00:49:20and Clive's eyes went like this
00:49:25I'm slamming niggas like Shaquille
00:49:28shit is real
00:49:29and I said, well, you got the goods
00:49:31and I bought into his vision
00:49:33Gimme the Loop, Gimme the Loop
00:49:35Gimme the Loop, Gimme the Loop
00:49:37Gimme the Loop, Gimme the Loop
00:49:39Gimme the Loop, Gimme the Loop
00:49:41I named it a bad boy
00:49:43cause I wanted to go against the grain
00:49:45I didn't want to just make records
00:49:47I didn't want to just make money
00:49:49I wanted to make history
00:49:51I was at Bad Boys starting from the day that we put the LLC together
00:50:05and Sean gave me 25% in stock
00:50:07and his mother Janice had 75%
00:50:12He did not put the company in his name to protect him from paying families at CCNY
00:50:21and I saw from that moment on, Sean had shifted in his personality
00:50:28I didn't see any more of the Mount St. Michael teen Sean
00:50:34He had become more like the person I see today
00:50:41We did a deal for approximately $10 million
00:50:471.5 went as an advance into Sean's pocket
00:50:53Another 1.5 is supposed to be our overhead
00:50:57Sean said, that's yours
00:50:59You can do whatever you want with it
00:51:00but you better make sure my company's running
00:51:03From day zero, I wrote everything down every day
00:51:08so I could keep track of everything I needed to do
00:51:11I ran all the money, all the budgets for the company
00:51:15as well as a lot for his personal life
00:51:17and all that came with it
00:51:19I don't like the way you're treating me
00:51:21or me getting my second half
00:51:23This shit is bullshit
00:51:25Yo, yo, yo, yo, bust your ass and ask me
00:51:27I think that he had this thing with strong men
00:51:31and he had a thing with wanting to be one
00:51:33but not positioned to be one street wise
00:51:37but positioned to be one industry wise
00:51:40and they call that a paper gangster
00:51:42Shit over, I'm not paying, nor am I involved in any of that shit
00:51:46And so as he's paper gangstering
00:51:49he's also trying to street gangster too at the same time
00:51:54Savage! 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
00:52:01What's next? Give me something else
00:52:03What can't you do? I can do it!
00:52:04I can do it!
00:52:05But now, he's been getting beefier and beefier with the power from the music
00:52:10That's a good way to get your head filled up to think that you're just as gangster as they are now
00:52:16without even having to pop your gun off yourself
00:52:23Now after all this time, me and Misa are still cool
00:52:26We were just friends
00:52:29But one time, she just happened to be in my driver's seat in my truck
00:52:34And all of a sudden, I heard somebody go
00:52:37And it's him
00:52:41He's steaming
00:52:43He swings on me
00:52:45So I'm laughing because I'm like
00:52:48He swung on me?
00:52:50You putting yourself in jeopardy
00:52:52Knowing you can't whoop none of us
00:52:54So now, I'm like, let's go around the corner
00:52:58Because I'm respectful enough
00:53:01So he actually gets in the car
00:53:03And we drive around the corner
00:53:05So I'm about to give him the business
00:53:07Shit could have got really ugly
00:53:10And he just said, yo, sit down, I want you to hear something real quick
00:53:13And that's when he played in the Biggie Smalls album
00:53:16Yeah, this album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me I never amount to nothing
00:53:22The Juicy single dropped somewhere in 94
00:53:25It 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
00:53:34Biggie had a slow start
00:53:36Very nervous at first
00:53:40At the time, that West Coast thing is happening
00:53:42So we began to look at what they were doing
00:53:46And Tupac was like a shining star
00:53:49There's a song called I Get Around by Tupac
00:53:51I get around
00:53:53Stay around with the underground
00:53:55I get around
00:53:56That 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
00:54:05That's what we did with that song, I Get Around
00:54:08Sean was just mesmerized by that particular song
00:54:12The structure of it, the video and the visuals
00:54:14It showed the culture
00:54:17It's like, let me dissect this
00:54:19Let me understand it
00:54:20Let me do it my way
00:54:24And the next single was Big Poppa
00:54:26And that dropped and it took us over the edge with Biggie
00:54:29I liked it, yeah
00:54:31He was out of here from that moment on
00:54:33I like it when you call me Big Poppa
00:54:36Throw your hands in the air
00:54:38If you the true player
00:54:40We had Ready To Die before it came out
00:54:43Big had sent Tupac a demo
00:54:46And we played that tape to death, man
00:54:48We played that tape till it was destroyed
00:54:50And then Pop got the phone call that Big was having an album release party
00:54:55He said to us, man, we all go into that
00:54:58He was very excited for him
00:55:00The Notorious Big album release party
00:55:02It was so bad
00:55:03We hear everybody hear
00:55:05I've never seen someone more excited for someone else's success
00:55:10As Pop was for Big's success
00:55:13You ready, nigga?
00:55:14Yeah
00:55:15You ready for that raw dog shit, nigga?
00:55:17I don't know how to grab it
00:55:19Okay, alright
00:55:21Let 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
00:55:28Apocalypse don't sleep
00:55:29I 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
00:55:48Pop would take Big with him on tours
00:55:50And let him open up for him
00:55:51Pop was developing thug life
00:55:52This ideology of taking back our communities
00:55:54Big was with that, he felt it, he resonated with it
00:55:56So they had a connection
00:55:58Sean was insanely jealous of Biggie and Pac's friendship
00:56:00You know, when I was around Big, I felt like he really loved me
00:56:02I 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
00:56:05He was probably one of the only people I had really trusted, like for a long time
00:56:08And I 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
00:56:11He was probably one of the only people I had really trusted, like for a long time
00:56:12With going to the right and the right, I feel like if I left the room, he was gonna say nothing bad or somebody said something bad about me, he would defend that
00:56:17You know, when I at 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
00:56:29He was probably one of the only people I had really trusted, like for a long time
00:56:31He is going to the right-hand room right now
00:56:32Who is going to the right-hand room right now?
00:56:34Can I turn the da tingle on again?
00:56:36I'm still trying to take a deep- 애�keys on here
00:56:38there's a yearning for him to have that complete total control you're my artist you're my best
00:56:47friend you're writing this song for like 30 motherfucking days i pay you you work for me
00:56:54i make hits with you
00:56:58i needed money on my own so i started playing but who is this guy
00:57:03why do we need him in the picture
00:57:07guess who gonna win tupac was a very likable person all the women loved him being a rapper
00:57:17being a movie star for sean being a marketer you're a manipulator please welcome tupac
00:57:26and there's envy for people who have success fame with no manipulation
00:57:34puff is to me very threatened by pop
00:57:41when i reflect on how this all came into play
00:57:46it's a trail
00:57:48city college
00:57:53innocent lives got taken
00:57:56then it became the ability to get away with anything
00:58:01and then you circle in the fact that he has legit money
00:58:06then you have the antagonist tupac shakur
00:58:11all those ingredients created the chain of events that started in new york and ended in
00:58:27the way
00:58:37do you know who was responsible for the killing of tupac shakur no i don't
00:58:46i think that sean now in my mature mind had a lot to do
00:58:56with the death of tupac
00:59:05and 팬
00:59:06and
00:59:07and
00:59:10and
00:59:12and
00:59:15and
00:59:16and
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