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.
00:03:49Like, some lady.
00:03:50Okay, some lady.
00:03:51Okay, cool.
00:03:52Follow me and facial advice.
00:03:53And just
00:04:10Yeah, just get little cutaways of them, like, looking from the, you know what I'm saying?
00:04:36That's what I'm saying.
00:04:40All of us got to go to the maker, and we will be held accountable for the things we did
00:04:59and we didn't do.
00:05:02Sean Combs is an asshole.
00:05:06He is the motherfucker you're not going to like and you're not going to get the fuck
00:05:10along with if he doesn't get his way.
00:05:12Don't ever disrespect nobody down with me, motherfucker.
00:05:16He quickly became my hero.
00:05:17If y'all had a fucking chance to meet this guy, you would be like, this nigga's energy
00:05:29is everything.
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.
00:05:36I'm not going to stay fucking down.
00:05:38He was presenting this freedom that black people hadn't had.
00:05:45Like, we hadn't experienced a black man being able to say, I don't want that.
00:05:49I don't want no problems with your claw.
00:05:51Hey, yo, Doug, what are you talking about?
00:05:52He telling me, like, I'm on some bullshit?
00:05:54I ain't on no bullshit with you.
00:05:55And so when I first met him, he quickly became the guy I wanted to be like.
00:06:03When you're a leader in that way, it's admirable until you get to the point where you want to
00:06:08control everyone around you.
00:06:11He got to that point.
00:06:14What y'all want to do?
00:06:16Want to be ballers, shot callers, brawlers.
00:06:19It's like Scarface, the movie.
00:06:21I want the world and everything that's in it.
00:06:23But you got everything.
00:06:27Hey, yo, New York, we fucking did it.
00:06:29Harlem, we did it.
00:06:31Montana, we did it.
00:06:32It was a mantra that Sean had.
00:06:36Nobody's going to be bigger than me.
00:06:38Sean is the 1% of the 1% of the 1%.
00:06:40We'll never see a Sean in my lifetime again, ever.
00:06:46It was like the more money he got, the more power he got, the more power he got, the more
00:06:51money he got.
00:06:53And he always felt like money can get him out of everything.
00:06:57I do feel it's important that we let the public know from the juror's standpoint, just
00:07:03kind of 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, King?
00:07:16He's creating a narrative always.
00:07:22He 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 eventually
00:07:35happens.
00:07:36You can't continue to keep hurting people and nothing ever happens.
00:07:43It'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.
00:08:00Once upon a time, not long ago, when people wore pajamas and lived life slow, willows were
00:08:05stern and justice stood.
00:08:07And people were behaving like they ought to good.
00:08:09How you chasing the kids on it?
00:08:11Like, fuck.
00:08:14Then there's a little boy who was misled by another little boy, and this is what he said.
00:08:19Me and you, man, we're going to make some cash, robbing old folks and making the dance.
00:08:27I was there from the very beginning with the invention of Sean Combs.
00:08:32I 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.
00:08:50Yo, pop, man.
00:08:51I'm going to take care of you.
00:08:53Sean was 19 when he dropped out of Howard University.
00:08:57He wanted to be in the flashy, swaggy music industry.
00:09:02He started off dancing, wanting to be in videos.
00:09:14Wanting to be a pop culture mover and shaker at a time where things were changing.
00:09:24Hip-hop was evolving.
00:09:26Like it or not, rap is here to stay.
00:09:29It has become part of mainstream commerce.
00:09:31It was just explosive.
00:09:36Run DMC, Chaos 1, Public Enemy, Rock Henry.
00:09:41The late 80s.
00:09:44It was fantastic.
00:09:47There 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?
00:10:01Like Uptown Records.
00:10:05Heavy D was the biggest rapper signed to Uptown.
00:10:13Excuse me.
00:10:14We 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.
00:10:29Money Earned at Mount Vernon.
00:10:30Vernon, Vernon, Vernon.
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.
00:10:43Heavy D and the boy.
00:10:45And his influence reached all the young people in the neighborhood, including the young Sean
00:10:52Combs, who was at Mount St. Michael High School, a Catholic, private school.
00:11:01He would knock on Heavy D's door every day to see if Heavy would take him to meet Andre Harrell.
00:11:08Andre was the champagne of rap, and 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, into the money.
00:11:28Sean had impressed Andre enough to give him an internship, and that was the beginning.
00:11:38I worked with Sean as an intern at Uptown.
00:11:42I'm a picture, I'm a blade out for you.
00:11:44When you thought of Uptown records, you thought of Heavy D, and I'll be sure.
00:11:55I was the first number one artist on the Billboard charts on Uptown,
00:12:00and the first platinum artist on the Uptown label.
00:12:03He was a GQ nigga, you know, he was a real penny loafers type.
00:12:10He was one of them fly, light-skinned niggas, and girls loved him.
00:12:18Al was dating Kim.
00:12:21Kim Porter.
00:12:23Kim is at the receptionist desk at Uptown.
00:12:26You get out the elevator, first person you see is Kim.
00:12:31And 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.
00:12:41And now Sean's always at the receptionist desk, begging Kim for something.
00:12:47A date, a kiss, he put it all on the table for Kim.
00:12:51It 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.
00:13:05Two dollars 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, I bet you I could get Kim.
00:13:29And he was like, nah, no way.
00:13:32Your weight ain't even up enough yet.
00:13:34But when Sean wants something, he's gonna get it.
00:13:38It might be a couple of years from now, but sooner or later, he's gonna get it.
00:13:43Andre Harrell, Heavy D, Al B. Shore, they 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.
00:13:56I 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.
00:14:07I learned a lot quickly.
00:14:13Being in front of Willie Burgers on the hump 45th and A4, being at the rooftop.
00:14:18The fashion, the walk, the talk, the attitude, the drive, the determination.
00:14:25I 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. He was set about doing it.
00:14:39First task we had given him was just go get a tape 10 blocks away.
00:14:44He came back in two minutes or something crazy.
00:14:46And I remember I was on the phone, I looked up when he came back.
00:14:48I was like, how'd you get there so fast?
00:14:51And he said, I ran there and back.
00:14:54Right then and there, I said, oh, okay.
00:14:56Yeah. I should have known then that that was never going to stop, to run there and run back.
00:15:04He ingratiated himself to Andre and made himself very valuable.
00:15:09Something that you don't want to do without. Like, who's going to get my clothes?
00:15:13Who's going to armor on my tire? This is so convenient. Then they lived together.
00:15:18I bought the first million dollar house. Funny, that weekend, just before I moved in,
00:15:24he had a mysterious fight with his mother. And he said, I can't go home. I got to stay here with you.
00:15:30Puck moved in before I did.
00:15:35Andre is taking him under like a son. Andre is the very first patriarch he connected with.
00:15:42Sean grew up with the illusion of what masculinity looks like.
00:15:48Sean grew up with his mother.
00:15:49My first encounter with Sean, I remember it like yesterday.
00:15:54My family, we rented the first floor of Sean's house.
00:15:59I was my mom and dad's only child. So now Sean has somebody to brother up with.
00:16:05We experienced a lot of firsts together.
00:16:10I told him how to ride a bike. It was the best thing in my life,
00:16:14to let go of the bike and him start riding.
00:16:16We fit so well. Sean was another misfit, just like me.
00:16:22But the difference in my household, my dad taught me right from wrong.
00:16:28No, Sean, Sean didn't have that.
00:16:30Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce my mother, Janice Combs.
00:16:34What were the primary jobs that you did to support your family?
00:16:44I did so many jobs at one time. I worked at the United Civil Policy.
00:16:49I worked at the Board of Ed in Westchester County. I drived a school bus.
00:16:56I worked in a baby's boutique shop. And he never knew this. I worked in an after hours spot too.
00:17:02I made more money because the men thought I was very glamorous and I used to pour liquor.
00:17:18And they give me big tips.
00:17:21In Sean's house, there was Janice and there was Sean.
00:17:24My father's name is Melvin Combs. I didn't get a chance to get to know him. I was too young.
00:17:31My father got his brains blown out like on Central Park West. I 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, you know what I'm saying?
00:17:51That I was the son of a hustler, a gangster.
00:17:55Melvin's presence was there. His money was there.
00:17:59And I understood that Melvin made a lot of things possible.
00:18:05But Sean's mom was his everything.
00:18:08If you look at some of the early pictures that Janice has of Sean, she was always making him into something.
00:18:20The hats, fur coats.
00:18:22I think she tried to overcompensate for the father being gone by making him into this dandy.
00:18:34Everything associated with Sean was Harlem.
00:18:39Whoever was flying Harlem, that's what he was as a child.
00:18:43Janice, she'd always be in Harlem. And there were times where she'd bring us.
00:18:47Here we are in this brand new Cadillac, because that's all Janice drove.
00:18:56She's making stops here and there. And you know, we knew the rule, the drill.
00:19:00Y'all sit there, I'll be right back. She ain't turning the car off. Nobody took the car.
00:19:07Nah.
00:19:07So you knew there was a different vibe going on with this family.
00:19:12In his household, the groove was a little different.
00:19:18A lot of Donna Summer playing.
00:19:19And 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.
00:19:28Superdude.
00:19:29You had Superfly.
00:19:30Superfly.
00:19:32You had the Mac.
00:19:33When you got nothing, you want everything. You gotta get to be the Mac.
00:19:39Their parts were hustler parts.
00:19:42In 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. You 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.
00:20:10Or 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.
00:20:22And everybody's calling you baby.
00:20:24And everybody's saying do that dance.
00:20:32And all of this stuff he's taken in.
00:20:36So from the movie screen to the home screen, these are the makings of Sean Combs.
00:20:48Now mind you, as a child, Sean was goofy.
00:20:51Kids 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.
00:21:03She held back nothing.
00:21:06You've said I would be 12 years old.
00:21:09And 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?
00:21:16I got a lot of beatings, too.
00:21:20His beatings made me scared.
00:21:24Right?
00:21:24I got beatings now.
00:21:29But when he got his beatings, it wasn't no.
00:21:33It wasn't a choking thing.
00:21:35No.
00:21:38Damn, I hate thinking about that, man.
00:21:44My mother was, I guess, raising me for the real world.
00:21:47She 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.
00:21:55You know how you hear your mom's voice in your ear?
00:21:59Boy?
00:22:00You better...
00:22:02Boy?
00:22:05Sean started fighting.
00:22:06He started stepping up.
00:22:09But Sean don't fight like this.
00:22:11Sean's gonna bite you.
00:22:13He's gonna eat your ear off.
00:22:14He's gonna cut your neck open with his mouth.
00:22:18He's not losing.
00:22:22I know people are shaped by pain as 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
00:22:37cause you're responding to that pain that you just can't see the cut out of you.
00:22:44I didn't know much about him.
00:22:58I know that he had a big ego.
00:23:03I met him around 89, 90.
00:23:07My 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.
00:23:16At the time I was working with Andre Harrell.
00:23:17But he wasn't paying me enough so I had to promote parties on the side, which was all good.
00:23:21Right, right.
00:23:22You know what I'm saying?
00:23:23Daddy'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.
00:23:32I 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.
00:23:59Andre Harrell wasn't there.
00:24:03He was out of town.
00:24:08People were tracking mud through the house.
00:24:10And I remember at the end of the night, I was helping clean up the mud.
00:24:16Puffy is like very polite, you know, and thanking me for helping him.
00:24:21And he asked me, oh, wow, I just got this call.
00:24:23You know, someone, this girl backed out of this music video.
00:24:26You know, can you do it?
00:24:28And I was like, I don't do music videos.
00:24:33But this party was in New Jersey.
00:24:35And I needed a ride back to Manhattan.
00:24:39So I went along.
00:24:41And I never forget, I had the same clothes on that I had from the night before.
00:24:50The 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.
00:25:04Nice 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.
00:25:12You can't be racist, throw a party to flip.
00:25:14Sniff a sword, drink and drive and have your sister strip.
00:25:16You know what that looks like to your people?
00:25:18A bacon scrape.
00:25:19Dying sisters don't want to look you in your face.
00:25:21Wanting to be a pimp brother?
00:25:22Was there ever a time that Sean Combs sexually assaulted you?
00:25:40Yes.
00:25:44Someone called me up and told me that, um, he said, you know, he has, you know, video.
00:25:50And I was like, what?
00:25:51And that's when he, um, described it and explained it.
00:26:16I just want to say this.
00:26:18This thing was incredibly devastating to my family.
00:26:24My mother, she's a social worker.
00:26:27We don't have money.
00:26:28The thing that we had was our pride.
00:26:38We carried ourselves well.
00:26:44We were pretty.
00:26:45We were intelligent.
00:26:47This is the basis of what I had.
00:26:51Self-respect.
00:26:53My 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.
00:27:29She 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.
00:27:44I 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.
00:28:18I realize that this may be hard for you to believe, but if I hadn't heard this story from my daughter's own mouth and looked into her eyes,
00:28:27I would have scarcely believed that any individual would compromise another person's dignity in this manner.
00:28:45I approached a lot of people for help.
00:28:51I got things like, what do you want me to do about it?
00:28:55I want to do it to, if I help you, I can't get into his parties.
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.
00:29:22Here's my theory.
00:29:28Alpo Martinez, drug lord, famous Harlem street, tough guy, hung out at the rooftop.
00:29:39Alpo had a lot of girls, and he would tape girls that he was having sex with.
00:29:44And then on a Saturday night, he might bring his camera and put it on the wall.
00:29:49What Sean saw was, I want to be looked upon in that way, as someone that has that type of stature.
00:30:05All his life, he's been trying to honor a man, he believed it was a famous Harlem gangster.
00:30:15And that gave his father a mythic presence.
00:30:21People like Alpo, he looked at those guys with a certain amount of jealousy or envy,
00:30:26a certain amount of respect, and 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.
00:30:54He got on his knees and swore he did not do this thing to me.
00:31:03And denied it.
00:31:10And that is the very last time I talked to him.
00:31:14We fucking did it. Let's go.
00:31:16The key to the city. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:31:18When I think back in terms of his rise,
00:31:21it is the most helpless feeling.
00:31:29I was always nauseous when I saw his image.
00:31:34The one image in Times Square where he's holding his fist up.
00:31:42When I saw it, I vomited right there on the street.
00:31:46You are really raising your hand to victory, and I'm living in trauma and defeat.
00:31:59It's a new legal trouble for Sean Diddy Combs.
00:32:11Another new lawsuit.
00:32:13...of sexual assault, sex trafficking, and drugging underage girls.
00:32:17Federal prosecutors in New York have interviewed numerous women who allege wrong to...
00:32:21...at least the 10th civil lawsuit filed against Sean Diddy Combs' alleged sex trafficking.
00:32:26Let's take the blood, man. What the fuck else y'all want?
00:32:30I don't know.
00:32:33There's a bunch of silly bullshit.
00:32:34Just silly bullshit.
00:32:36Noise.
00:32:38Those things.
00:32:39Noise.
00:32:41But it's like the legal system is doing it now.
00:32:43Because, like, legally...
00:32:44We gotta...
00:32:45It's like, I gotta spend money to go and get rid of this bullshit.
00:32:50Oh, yeah.
00:32:53Ain't got nothing left.
00:32:55Got nothing left coming on.
00:32:59They ain't breaking me, no.
00:33:01How are you, boss?
00:33:02If you don't mind, you want a picture, please?
00:33:05I'm not good with the camera, so I'm gonna try.
00:33:15As a group, as a group.
00:33:16Sean was destined to be famous.
00:33:23Okay.
00:33:23One more, one more.
00:33:24Yeah.
00:33:25One more, one more.
00:33:25I was confused about that.
00:33:27I didn't see him for me coming.
00:33:29I swear I didn't see that coming.
00:33:34I'm 19, and I always like seeing people entertained.
00:33:38And I thought, you know, over the holidays, I 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 for the Puff Daddy Heavy D 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, it would have went down in history.
00:34:07There were lines and lines around the campus to get in.
00:34:17There's no more room, but everyone still wants to come.
00:34:20We open up the doors, everybody starts flowing through, but then thousands more come.
00:34:40There was this thing in hip-hop called bum-rushing the door.
00:34:44People don't have a ticket.
00:34:44When they hear something sold out, they say,
00:34:46fuck it, we got to still get in, we're going to bum-rush the door.
00:34:50When they got to the bottom of the stairs, the doors didn't go out that way.
00:34:55They only came in, so people were stuck.
00:34:59They were just crushing people down at the bottom of the stairs.
00:35:04We were on the court, warming up the play, and then Dougie first grabbed the mic and said,
00:35:09there's people that are dead.
00:35:20If you want to be the most regular person in here, you need to be.
00:35:26And it's over.
00:35:33Shawn over-promoted, over-hyped, and that led to a crowd.
00:35:40It was just like, oh, shit, how did this happen so quick?
00:35:46How would people want to explain it?
00:35:52We need a lot of help here.
00:35:53There's a lot of people hurt and aren't breathing.
00:35:55Not breathing?
00:35:57Yes, we, I mean, we have a f***ing emergency over here.
00:36:08We got a lot of people here dead in the gymnasium, please.
00:36:15The death toll from last week's stampede at a New York charity basketball game has risen to nine.
00:36:20Never's getting trampled.
00:36:22All for money.
00:36:23$12, man.
00:36:24What do you mean $12?
00:36:25Cost $12 for a ticket.
00:36:28One of the unanswered questions remains who's to blame for the stampede that killed nine people.
00:36:36Throughout the newspaper headlines, throughout the confusion, the finger pointing, who was responsible,
00:36:44Sean Young, in real time, carried the weight of all of that.
00:36:53My dream for this evening was to bring a positive program to my people, to people of my age, and to
00:36:59people in my community. Whatever must be done, must be done to ensure that this never, ever, ever happens
00:37:06again. It was the biggest news ever. That's how he got super famous.
00:37:14Was that game and those deaths.
00:37:17That's the beginning of Puff Daddy.
00:37:21That's really how I started to become famous.
00:37:24Was through a tragedy.
00:37:29He 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.
00:37:37And I saw Janice question Sean.
00:37:40He's going into this music business thing.
00:37:44He just left school.
00:37:45And now this extreme tragedy has occurred.
00:37:49She's like, did he make the right decision?
00:37:51And I saw him put his hands on her.
00:37:58Call her a bitch and slapped her.
00:38:00He's not looking back.
00:38:13Sean Puff Daddy Combs and sponsors claim no responsibility in the tragic chain of events
00:38:18that claim nine lives and injured.
00:38:19The brass that afforded Uptown its distribution money wanted Sean out.
00:38:27I saw Andre fight and fight to keep Sean in.
00:38:33And he did.
00:38:33Andre Harrell, Puff Daddy, he's passing on to, I guess, his son.
00:38:38Protégé.
00:38:38Protégé.
00:38:39Yes, yes.
00:38:39Puffy.
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.
00:38:46You know what I'm saying?
00:38:47He 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.
00:38:53I took Andre Harrell out to lunch.
00:38:57And 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
00:39:06and works with the 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?
00:39:18We 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.
00:39:29It's like a dream.
00:39:31They sing for Andre.
00:39:33Andre loves it.
00:39:34Immediately that becomes Puff's first responsibility.
00:39:37And they could 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 artists.
00:39:51He 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.
00:40:06I basically style and come up with the images and design most of the clothing for all of the artists.
00:40:12It was him that put Jodeci in the pants baggy, sagging at the bottom, the boots not lacing it up.
00:40:21He is able to sponge from the community and the culture and package it.
00:40:25And in the studio, he did the same thing.
00:40:30Sean wasn't a producer where he can tell you, you need a C here, a C note, or this is an F.
00:40:39But he did have a good ear for what could be a hit.
00:40:43Let me give you an example.
00:40:44Let's get it going.
00:40:45Rooftop!
00:40:46At the rooftop in Harlem, the 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.
00:41:02That's what Sean did with Jodeci on those remixes.
00:41:06It was very minimal.
00:41:08It was very hard beat and snare, no melody.
00:41:11Jodeci'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.
00:41:32Mary's what's the 411 was out the box.
00:41:43The hat pulled out, the mysteriousness.
00:41:46It had a little bit of a darkness and moodiness to it as well.
00:41:52All of that was groundbreaking.
00:41:55He launched a female artist in a male-dominated hip-hop era.
00:42:00Who became an instant success.
00:42:06And that created hip-hop soul.
00:42:10Mary became the owner of that sound.
00:42:18Sean was making the hits happen and the visuals happen.
00:42:21In 1992, Sean is promoted to VP of A&R and Artisan Development.
00:42:27So, my name's Puff Daddy, Vice President of A&R and Artisan Development for Uptown Records,
00:42:34which brought you the hits of Jodeci, 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, but Puffy's a big, huge EPMD fan.
00:42:46My background sing, my background sing for the crossover.
00:42:50He was at my crossover video shoot.
00:42:53And he asked me to do the Mary J. Blige intro for the 411 album.
00:43:03I did that for him and then all of a sudden we became friends.
00:43:05I thought it was a general friendship until I see that this game is being played.
00:43:15You got an agenda.
00:43:18Misa, he 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 and 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, they're fighting in the street and he's beating her into the car well.
00:44:13She'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,
00:44:39I was able to push that in the back of my mind and say that was a really bad moment but he was weak.
00:44:46And it was a bad moment.
00:44:50Does that make me part of a Sean Combs cult?
00:44:55Maybe so.
00:44:56I may have been the first disciple, believer, and then overall protector against all odds.
00:45:08Everybody say, up, up, down.
00:45:15Uh, up, up, down.
00:45:17Yo, I want to personally invite one more brother on stage.
00:45:21Responsible for my...
00:45:22Joe the seat.
00:45:23Mary J. Blige.
00:45:25Fuck daddy.
00:45:25Come 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.
00:45:41I was just a wonder kid.
00:45:42It was just something that they never saw before.
00:45:44To be young and to be puff daddy.
00:45:50It's just, it's just like, I 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 gonna be like, yes ma'am, no ma'am, thank you very much?
00:46:16He became too big for Uptown Records.
00:46:18I'm gonna be so drunk and high by Wednesday at eight o'clock.
00:46:20I'm not really gonna 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.
00:46:35And the intern was taking his place.
00:46:41I remember it like yesterday.
00:46:42Andre 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.
00:46:59Andre was like a surrogate dad for Sean.
00:47:05Sean was really sick when Andre fired him.
00:47:09I'm talking about sick.
00:47:11Couldn't believe it.
00:47:12And then Sean called me.
00:47:16And he said, yo.
00:47:18I'm about to do my thing, dog.
00:47:20I'm a part of the mode.
00:47:31Puff was like, yo, I'm looking for some hardcore artists.
00:47:38He's ain't tired of doing the Mary shit
00:47:41Jonas he shit
00:47:42He want to do some hard shit
00:47:43Some street shit
00:47:44Straight out of town
00:47:45Crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube
00:47:47From the gang called
00:47:48Niggas with Attitude
00:47:49So I guess I gots the handle
00:47:51Mind
00:47:51The West Coast had the hits
00:47:53That we wanted
00:47:55Sean signed Biggie in 1992
00:48:05People 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
00:48:13B-I-G
00:48:14Business instead of game
00:48:15Right?
00:48:16Tell 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
00:48:22But I'm gonna let you take Biggie with you
00:48:25Andre decided to sell us the Biggie album
00:48:30But now
00:48:33We 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
00:48:42Then we met with Epic, Sony, Columbia
00:48:46Then we met with Clive Davis at Ariston
00:48:50Everybody knows him on a first name basis
00:48:53Clive runs a hundred million dollar record company called Ariston
00:48:56He has discovered Whitney Houston
00:49:01Carly Simon
00:49:03Aretha Franklin
00:49:04And a long list of other pop stars who thrive in the world
00:49:07According to Clive
00:49:09So we went to Clive
00:49:13And we played a few tracks from Biggie's album
00:49:15And I remember one of the first ones that we played was Gimme the Loop
00:49:19Yes, love
00:49:20Love your fucking attitude
00:49:21Because the nigga play pussy
00:49:23That's the nigga
00:49:23And Clive's eyes went like this
00:49:26I'm slamming niggas like Shaquille
00:49:28Shit is real
00:49:29And I said, well
00:49:30You got the goods
00:49:31And I bought into his vision
00:49:33Gimme the loop
00:49:34Gimme the loop
00:49:35Gimme the loop
00:49:37Gimme the loop
00:49:39Gimme the loop
00:49:40I named it Bad Boy
00:49:42Cause 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 Boy starting from the day that we put the LLC together
00:50:05And Sean gave me 25% in stock
00:50:08And his mother Janice had 75%
00:50:13He did not put the company in his name to protect him from paying families at CCNY
00:50:21And I saw from that moment on, Sean had shifted in his personality
00:50:29I didn't see any more of the Mount St. Michael teen Sean
00:50:35He had become more like the person I see today
00:50:42We 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
00:51:01But you better make sure my company's running
00:51:03From day zero
00:51:06I wrote everything down every day
00:51:08So I can keep track of everything I needed to do
00:51:11I ran all the money
00:51:13All the budgets
00:51:14For 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
00:51:22Or me getting my second half
00:51:23This shit is bullshit
00:51:24Yo, yo, yo, yo
00:51:26Bust your ass
00:51:26And ask me
00:51:28I think that he had this thing with strong men
00:51:32And he had a thing with wanting to be one
00:51:34But not positioned to be one street wise
00:51:38But positioned to be one industry wise
00:51:40And they call that a paper gangster
00:51:42Shit over
00:51:43I'm not paying
00:51:44Nor am I involved in any of that shit
00:51:47And so as he's paper gangstering
00:51:49He's also trying to street gangster
00:51:52Too at the same time
00:51:54Savage! I'm a savage!
00:51:57He's not from the street
00:51:58His mother did the very best to give him the best
00:52:01What's next?
00:52:02Give me something else
00:52:03What can't you do?
00:52:05I can do it
00:52:06But now
00:52:07He's been getting beefier and beefier
00:52:09With the power from the music
00:52:10That's a good way
00:52:12To get your head filled up
00:52:14To think that you're just as gangster
00:52:15As they are now
00:52:16Without even having to
00:52:18Pop your gun off
00:52:19Yourself
00:52:20Now after all this time
00:52:25Me and Misa is still cool
00:52:26We were just friends
00:52:29But one time
00:52:31She just happened to be
00:52:32In my driver's seat in my truck
00:52:34And all of a sudden
00:52:36I heard somebody go
00:52:37And it's him
00:52:39He's steaming
00:52:42He swings on me
00:52:45So I'm laughing
00:52:47Because 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
00:52:57Let'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
00:53:11Yo, sit down
00:53:12I want you to hear something real quick
00:53:13And that's when he played
00:53:14In the Biggie Smalls album
00:53:16Yeah
00:53:18This album is dedicated
00:53:20To all the teachers
00:53:21That told me I'll never amount to nothing
00:53:22The juicy single
00:53:24Dropped somewhere in 94
00:53:26It was all a dream
00:53:28I used to read Word Up magazine
00:53:30But Biggie's trajectory
00:53:31Was not zero
00:53:33Straight to the top
00:53:34Biggie had a slow start
00:53:36Very nervous at first
00:53:38At the time
00:53:41That West Coast thing is happening
00:53:43So 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
00:53:50I Get Around by 2-5
00:53:52I Get Around
00:53:52Still down with the underground
00:53:54Round and round
00:53:55I get around
00:53:57That song
00:53:58If you're like in a science lab
00:54:00And you're looking at something
00:54:01With a microscope
00:54:02And you're trying to figure out
00:54:03What it is
00:54:04And what it's made of
00:54:05That's what we did with that song
00:54:07I Get Around
00:54:07Sean was just mesmerized
00:54:11By that particular song
00:54:12The structure of it
00:54:14The video and the visuals
00:54:15It showed the culture.
00:54:17It's like, let me dissect this.
00:54:19Let me understand it. Let 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.
00:54:31He was out of here from that moment on.
00:54:40We had Ready to Die before it came out.
00:54:43Bigg had sent to Pac a demo.
00:54:46And 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 Bigg was having an album release party.
00:54:56He said to us, man, we all go into that.
00:54:58He was very excited for him.
00:55:00Notorious Bigg album release party.
00:55:02It was so bad. We hear everybody hear.
00:55:05I've never seen someone more excited for someone else's success
00:55:10as Pac was for Bigg'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.
00:55:18Okay.
00:55:19All right.
00:55:20Let me see how I'm gonna hit you with.
00:55:23He thought Bigg was dope.
00:55:25He wasn't doper than him as far as he was concerned.
00:55:28Tupacalypse don't sleep.
00:55:29I keep a motherfucking Glock in my car.
00:55:32But he was the next thing smoking.
00:55:34I'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.
00:55:45esp cover.
00:55:48I want the challenge to the Cup.
00:55:49Pac would take Bigg with him on tours
00:55:51and let him open up for him.
00:55:56Pac was developing thug life,
00:56:02this ideology of taking back our communities.
00:56:05Bigg was with that.
00:56:07He felt that he resonated with it.
00:56:09So they had a connection.
00:56:12Sean 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 going to say nothing bad
00:56:27or 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 the right-hand room right now.
00:56:37There's a yearning for him to have that complete, total control.
00:56:46You're my artist, you're my best friend.
00:56:49You're writing this song for, like, 30 motherfucking days.
00:56:52I pay you, you work for me.
00:56:57I make hits with you.
00:57:01And who is this guy?
00:57:06Why do we need him in the picture?
00:57:08Guess who's going to win?
00:57:10Tupac was a very likable person.
00:57:13All the women loved him.
00:57:15Being a rapper, being a movie star.
00:57:21For Sean, being a marketer, you're a manipulator.
00:57:25Please welcome Tupac Shakur.
00:57:28And there's envy for people who have success, fame, with no manipulation.
00:57:34Tupac is, to me, very threatened by Pop.
00:57:44When I reflect on how this all came into play, it's a trail.
00:57:48To the college.
00:57:53Innocent lives got taken.
00:57:58Then it became the ability to get away with anything.
00:58:01And then you're circling 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.
00:58:28Do you know who was responsible for the killing of Tupac Shakur?
00:58:45No, I don't.
00:58:50I think that Sean now, in my mature mind, had a lot to do with the death of Tupac.
00:58:58No, I don't know.
00:59:04But yes, I don't believe it's true.
00:59:06I think it's true.
00:59:12No, I don't.
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