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.
00:03:49Oh.
00:03:51I'm not, I'm not a doctor.
00:03:53I'm not an officer.
00:03:54But, Alexander, weren't, I'm not a teacher at this room.
00:03:56Oh?
00:03:57Yeah.
00:03:58So, I do, I'm not a doctor.
00:04:00I know it, right.
00:04:02I know.
00:04:03This information isциable-
00:04:05I haven't provided anything.
00:04:07Oh.
00:04:08But, you know complete in my langue.
00:04:10Oh no.
00:04:14Oh!
00:04:15Yeah, just get little cutaways of them, like, looking from the, you know what I'm saying?
00:04:36That's what I'm saying.
00:04:45All 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.
00:05:12If 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.
00:05:37I'm not going to stay fucking down.
00:05:39He 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 clawing.
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.
00:05:55So 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
00:06:08to control everyone around you.
00:06:11He got to that point.
00:06:14What y'all want to do?
00:06:15Want 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.
00:06:24But you got everything.
00:06:26Hey, yo, New York, we fucking did it!
00:06:29Harlem, we did it, Montana, we did it!
00:06:32There was a mantra that Sean had.
00:06:35Nobody's going to be bigger than me.
00:06:38Sean is the 1% of the 1% of the 1%.
00:06:41We'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.
00:06:58I do feel it's important that we let the public know from the jurist standpoint, just
00:07:03kind of how we reached the verdict.
00:07:09It'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, I can do what I want.
00:07:31You can't go on for long in life doing the things that he was doing before something
00:07:35eventually happens.
00:07:39You can't continue to keep hurting people and nothing ever happens.
00:07:48It's a matter of time.
00:07:49Is it good to be back in New York?
00:07:50It's always good to be back in New York.
00:07:51It's always good to be back in New York.
00:07:52Once upon a time, not long ago.
00:07:53When people wore pajamas and lived life slow.
00:07:54Willows were stern and justice stood.
00:07:55And people were behaving like they ought to good.
00:08:09I was there from the very beginning with the invention of Sean Combs.
00:08:34I co-founded Bad Boy with Sean.
00:08:39I was dazzled by his ideas and his unique talent.
00:08:46But he was a very different Sean Combs back then.
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.
00:09:21Hip-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, Rock Henry.
00:09:40Rock Henry.
00:09:41The late 80s.
00:09:43It was fantastic.
00:09:46There were a lot of independent labels that gave birth to hip-hop in the way that we know
00:09:52it today.
00:09:53What is this new music?
00:09:57Like Uptown Records.
00:10:10Heavy 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.
00:10:23We call him the official mayor of Money Earned at Mount Vernon.
00:10:28Money Earned at Mount Vernon!
00:10:30Vernon!
00:10:31Vernon!
00:10:32Vernon!
00:10:33Mount Vernon is in Westchester County.
00:10:37The first city outside of the Bronx.
00:10:40Heavy D put that area on the map.
00:10:44Heavy D and the boy!
00:10:46And his influence reached all the young people in the neighborhood, including the young Sean
00:10:53Combs, 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
00:11:08Harrell.
00:11:09Andre was the champagne of rap, and he took the streets to Wall Street.
00:11:20The only entrance into hip hop at that point was Andre Harrell and Russell Simmons.
00:11:26Into the corporate hip hop world, into the money.
00:11:30Sean 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.
00:11:41I'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.
00:11:49I was the first number one artist on the Billboard charts on Uptown, and the first platinum artist
00:12:02on the Uptown label.
00:12:04He was a GQ nigga, you know.
00:12:06He was a real penny loafers type.
00:12:08He was one of them fly light skinned niggas.
00:12:12And girls loved him.
00:12:13Al 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.
00:12:33Everybody said that, you know what I mean?
00:12:35But when Sean saw Kim, it was different.
00:12:40And now Sean's always at the receptionist desk begging Kim for something.
00:12:46A 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.
00:13:01Hi, this is Al B. Shore.
00:13:03Here's my exclusive number.
00:13:05$2 for the first minute, 45 cents for each additional minute.
00:13:09And Sean was not really, like, the catch.
00:13:14He didn't drink alcohol.
00:13:16He forbade marijuana.
00:13:17He did not like drugs.
00:13:19He had the Gumby, and he looked like a scholastic dweeb.
00:13:25But Sean was so determined.
00:13:28I 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.
00:13:41But sooner or later, he's gonna get it.
00:13:45Andre Harrell, Heavy D, Al B. Shore, they had all the money and all the power.
00:13:51And 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.
00:14:11I learned a lot quickly.
00:14:13Being in front of Willie Burgers on the hump 45th and 84, being at the rooftop.
00:14:17Let's get it going! Rooftop!
00:14:19The fashion.
00:14:20The walk.
00:14:21The talk.
00:14:22The attitude.
00:14:23The drive.
00:14:24The 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.
00:14:36He would set about doing it.
00:14:38The first task we had given him was just go get a tape ten blocks away.
00:14:43He came back in two minutes or something crazy.
00:14:46And I remember I was on the phone, and 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.
00:14:53Right there and there, I said, oh, okay.
00:14:57I should have known then that that was never gonna stop, to run there and run back.
00:15:03He ingratiated himself to Andre and made himself very valuable.
00:15:09Something that you don't want to do without.
00:15:11Like, who's gonna get my clothes?
00:15:13Who's gonna armor on my tire?
00:15:15This is so convenient.
00:15:16Then they lived together.
00:15:18I bought the first million dollar house.
00:15:22Funny, that weekend, just before I moved in, he had a mysterious fight with his mother.
00:15:27And he said, I can't go home.
00:15:29I gotta stay here with you.
00:15:30Puck moved in before I did.
00:15:32Andre 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.
00:15:49My first encounter with Sean, I remember it like yesterday.
00:15:54My family, we rented the first floor of Sean's house.
00:15:58I was my mom and dad's only child.
00:16:01So now Sean has somebody to brother up with.
00:16:05We experienced a lot of firsts together.
00:16:10I 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.
00:16:17We fit so well.
00:16:19Sean was another misfit, just like me.
00:16:21But the difference in my household, my dad taught me right from wrong.
00:16:26No, Sean, Sean didn't have that.
00:16:31Ladies 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.
00:16:46I worked at the United Civil Policy.
00:16:49I worked at the Board of Ed in Westchester County.
00:16:54I drove the school bus.
00:16:56I worked in a baby's boutique shop.
00:16:59And he never knew this.
00:17:00I worked in an after-hour spot, too.
00:17:04I had to come clean.
00:17:06I needed to come clean.
00:17:09Okay.
00:17:10I made more money because the men thought I was very glamorous and I used to pour liquor.
00:17:19And they'd give me big tips.
00:17:21In Sean's house, there was Janice and there was Sean.
00:17:26My father's name is Melvin Combs.
00:17:29I didn't get a chance to get to know him. I was too young.
00:17:32My father, his brain's going out like on Central Park West.
00:17:36I did the research.
00:17:37They 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?
00:17:52That I was the son of a hustler or a gangster.
00:17:55Melvin's presence was there.
00:17:57His money was there.
00:17:59And I understood that Melvin made a lot of things possible.
00:18:03But Sean's mom was his everything.
00:18:07If you look at some of the early pictures that Janice has of Sean, she was always making him into something.
00:18:17The hats, fur coats, I think she tried to overcompensate for the father being gone by making him into this dandy.
00:18:32Everything associated with Sean was Harlem.
00:18:36Whoever was flying Harlem, that's what he was as a child.
00:18:41Janet, she'd always be in Harlem.
00:18:45And there were times where she'd bring us.
00:18:50Here we are in this brand new Cadillac, because that's all Janet drove.
00:18:55She's making stops.
00:18:57Here and there.
00:18:58You know, we knew the rule, the drill.
00:19:00Just sit there, I'll be right back.
00:19:01She ain't turn the car off.
00:19:03Nobody took the car.
00:19:05No.
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.
00:19:17A lot of Donna Summer playing.
00:19:20And then we had these movies we'd watch.
00:19:22He's got to be number one.
00:19:25This genre of films called black exploitation.
00:19:28Superdue.
00:19:29You had Superfly.
00:19:30Superfly.
00:19:32You 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.
00:19:44In Sean's household, you start to see all the stuff that you saw in the movies.
00:19:52Janice knew how to throw a party.
00:19:55And the parties were packed.
00:19:57You got the ladies that look like they're straight out of a Jet magazine.
00:20:02Some brothers up there.
00:20:03You know, if you want to call them pimps, you can.
00:20:05If you want to call them hustlers, you can.
00:20:08You got a member of the New York Knicks or two.
00:20:14There was a stage in her living room.
00:20:17Literally a stage.
00:20:19And 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.
00:20:34So from the movie screen to the home screen, these are the makings of Sean Combs.
00:20:46Now 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.
00:21:04She held back nothing.
00:21:05You've said I would be 12 years old.
00:21:08And sometimes I'd be out until 3, 4 in the morning.
00:21:11James, James, we don't have to get into that right now.
00:21:16Ma'am?
00:21:17He got a lot of beatings too.
00:21:18His beatings made me scared.
00:21:24Right?
00:21:26I got beatings now.
00:21:29But when he got his beatings, it wasn't no...
00:21:33It wasn't a joking thing.
00:21:35No.
00:21:37Damn, 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.
00:21:51Make sure they never hit me again.
00:21:53Make sure I fucked them up.
00:21:55You know how you hear your mom's voice in your ear?
00:21:59Boy?
00:22:01You better...
00:22:03Boy?
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.
00:22:15He's gonna cut your neck open with his mouth.
00:22:18He's not losing.
00:22:23I know people are shaped by pain, as well as by love.
00:22:29And if it was more pain than love, watch out.
00:22:32There's gonna be pain that you're gonna give others.
00:22:38Cause you're responding to that pain that you just can't see the cut out of you.
00:22:43I didn't know much about him.
00:22:45I know that he had a big ego.
00:22:47I met him around 89, 90.
00:22:49My job was to promote music videos.
00:22:50And Puffy, he was always doing the party promotion, so he's always like handing out the flyers.
00:22:54At the time I was working on Andre Harrell.
00:22:56He wasn't paying me enough, so I had to promote parties on the side, which was all good.
00:22:59You know what I'm saying?
00:23:00Daddy's house.
00:23:01He was savvy enough to promote parties.
00:23:02They were the most successful parties at the end of the day.
00:23:03I know that he had a big ego.
00:23:04I know that he had a big ego.
00:23:05I met him around 89, 90.
00:23:07My job was to promote music videos.
00:23:10And 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 Andre Harrell, but he wasn't paying me enough, so I had to promote parties on the side, which was all good.
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, but they were all about promoting himself.
00:23:33One of the brothers that put the party together, my man, Puff Daddy.
00:23:37Really, it was no problem, because all my black brothers and sisters came together like my man Dougie Fresh.
00:23:41All the beautiful women out here, we came together just to have a good time.
00:23:44I went to a party for a good friend.
00:23:51It was getting very late.
00:23:53Puffy is like, oh, you know, I'm having an after party at Andre Harrell's house.
00:24:02Andre Harrell wasn't there.
00:24:03He was out of town.
00:24:08People were tracking mud through the house, and I remember at the end of the night, I was helping clean up the mud.
00:24:13Puffy is like very polite, you know, and thanking me for helping him, and he asked me, oh, wow, I just got this call, you know, someone, this girl backed out of this music video, you know, can you do it?
00:24:27And I was like, I don't do music videos.
00:24:30But this party was in New Jersey.
00:24:33And I needed a ride back to Manhattan, so I went along.
00:24:36And 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.
00:24:57The 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.
00:25:11You can't be right to just throw a party to flip.
00:25:14Sniff and store, drink and drive and hide your sister's strip.
00:25:16You know what that looks like to your people?
00:25:18A vacant scrape.
00:25:19Dying sisters don't want to look you in your face.
00:25:21Wanting to be a pimp brother?
00:25:22Your heart ain't that cold.
00:25:24And this is straight from the soul.
00:25:26Soul.
00:25:27Soul.
00:25:28Soul.
00:25:29Soul.
00:25:30Soul.
00:25:31Soul.
00:25:32Soul.
00:25:33Soul.
00:25:34Was there ever a time that Sean Combs sexually assaulted you?
00:25:37Yes.
00:25:44Someone called me up and told me that, um, he said, you know, he has, you know, video.
00:25:49And I was like, what?
00:25:52And that's when he, um, described it and explained it.
00:26:17I just want to say this.
00:26:19This thing was incredibly devastating to my family.
00:26:25My mother.
00:26:26She's a social worker.
00:26:28We don't have money.
00:26:30The thing that we had was our pride.
00:26:42We 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.
00:26:54My 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.
00:27:24One 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.
00:27:32She 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.
00:28:06Apparently, your son shows these tapes at parties on large screen televisions.
00:28:15I realize that this may be hard for you to believe, but if I hadn't heard this story from my daughter's own mouth and looked into her eyes,
00:28:28I would have scarcely believed that any individual would compromise another person's dignity in this manner.
00:28:36I approached a lot of people for help.
00:28:51I got things like, what do you want me to do about it?
00:28:56To, if I help you, I can't get into his parties.
00:29:00I got Puff Daddy from Puff Daddy's house.
00:29:05What's up?
00:29:06What's up?
00:29:07And who revolutionized the hip-hop club scene this year.
00:29:13Why would you want to do that?
00:29:16Drug and rape the girl, tape it, and then put it up on the screen?
00:29:24Here's my theory.
00:29:25Alpo Martinez, drug lord, famous Harlem street, tough guy, hung out at the rooftop.
00:29:37Once again, I'd like to welcome you to the rooftop.
00:29:39Alpo had a lot of girls.
00:29:41And he would tape girls that he was having sex with.
00:29:45And then on a Saturday night, he might bring his camera and put it on the wall.
00:29:49And everyone knows that's so-and-so's girl.
00:29:58What 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.
00:30:11He believed it was a famous Harlem gangster.
00:30:14And that gave his father a mythic presence.
00:30:20People like Alpo, he looked at those guys with a certain amount of jealousy or envy.
00:30:26A certain amount of respect.
00:30:27A certain amount of respect.
00:30:29And there's a certain amount of desire.
00:30:33That thing was in him from there.
00:30:41Did you ever confront Sean about him?
00:30:45I did.
00:30:46I avoided him for a very long time.
00:30:50I ran into him one day.
00:30:53He came to me.
00:30:55He got on his knees.
00:30:58And 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.
00:31:12When I think back in terms of his rise, it 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.
00:31:48You are really raising your hand to victory and I'm living in trauma and defeat.
00:31:52Some illegal trouble for Sean Diddy comes.
00:31:53Another new lawsuit.
00:31:54Sexual assault, sex trafficking and drugging underage girls.
00:31:55Federal prosecutors in New York have interviewed numerous women who allege wrongdoing.
00:31:56This is at least the 10th civil lawsuit filed against Sean Diddy Combs' legend.
00:31:57This is at least the 10th civil lawsuit filed against Sean Diddy Combs' legend.
00:31:58Sex trafficking.
00:31:59Sex trafficking.
00:32:00Sex trafficking.
00:32:01Sex trafficking.
00:32:02And drugging underage girls.
00:32:03Federal prosecutors in New York have interviewed numerous women who allege wrongdoing.
00:32:05This is at least the 10th civil lawsuit filed against Sean Diddy Combs' legend.
00:32:06Sex trafficking.
00:32:07This is at least the 10th civil lawsuit filed against Sean Diddy Combs' alleged sex trafficking.
00:32:13Just take the blood, man. What the fuck does y'all want?
00:32:15Sex trafficking and drugging underage girls.
00:32:17Federal prosecutors in New York have interviewed numerous women who allege wrong doing...
00:32:21This is 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 are you doing?
00:32:32Just a bunch of silly bullshit.
00:32:34Just silly bullshit. Noise.
00:32:37No sense. No sense.
00:32:41But it's like the legal system is doing it now.
00:32:43Because, like, legally, we gotta...
00:32:45It's like, I gotta spend money to go and get rid of this bullshit.
00:32:51Oh, yeah. I ain't got nothing left.
00:32:55I ain't got nothing left going on.
00:32:59They ain't breaking me, though.
00:33:01How are you, boss? If you don't mind, one picture, please?
00:33:05I'm not good with the camera, so I'm gonna reply.
00:33:07Nice to meet you, boss.
00:33:14All right. As a group, as a group.
00:33:18Sean was destined to be famous.
00:33:22Okay.
00:33:24One more, one more.
00:33:25Yeah.
00:33:27I didn't see him for me coming.
00:33:29I swear I didn't see that coming.
00:33:3019 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 I was at the game I was on the floor all of us
00:33:50was there every rapper in New York right your MTV raps came I'm at City College in the heart of New
00:33:56York City for the Puff Daddy heavy the first all-time celebrity all-star classic that was
00:34:02one of the biggest basketball games that would have turned out correctly when it went down in history
00:34:11they were lines and lines around campus to get in there's no more room but everyone still wants to
00:34:20come we open up the doors everybody saw us 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
00:35:06they got to play and then Dougie first grabbed the mic and said there's people that are dead
00:35:10oh
00:35:33Shawn over promoted
00:35:35overhyped and that led to
00:35:39to a crowd it's just like oh shit how did this happen so quick how would how
00:35:47would people want to explain it
00:36:09the death toll from last week's stampede at a new york charity basketball game has risen to nine
00:36:20it was getting trampled all for money twelve dollars man what do you mean twelve dollars
00:36:25cost twelve dollars for a ticket one of the unanswered questions remains who's to blame
00:36:31for the stampede that killed nine people
00:36:34throughout the newspaper headlines throughout the confusion the finger pointing who's responsible
00:36:45sean 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 was that game and those deaths
00:37:17that's the beginning of puff daddy that's really how i started to become famous was through a tragedy
00:37:26he was holed up in a hotel on the east side him and his mother he didn't know what was going to happen
00:37:37and i saw janice question sean he's going into this music business thing he just left school and now this
00:37:46extreme tragedy has occurred she'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
00:38:03he's not looking back
00:38:13sean puff daddy combs and sponsors claim no responsibility in the tragic chain of events
00:38:18they claim nine lives and injured the brass that afforded uptown its distribution money wanted sean
00:38:25out i saw andre fight and fight to keep sean in and he did andre arel puff daddy he's passing on to
00:38:36i guess his son protégé protégé yes yes puppy yes tell me a little bit about this man and why you like
00:38:43working with him because you know he's not intimidated by youth you know what i'm saying
00:38:47he knows the importance of leaving the legacy behind because we need more adults out there that's going to
00:38:52teach the young such as myself i took andre harrell out to lunch and i said can i get a chance to
00:38:59maybe do a and r the a and r is artists and repertoire that's the guy that works at the record
00:39:04company that puts the records together and works with the artist i said give me a chance you know you
00:39:10you're making music for young people i'm young and you know who better to make the music than me
00:39:18we had a group back in the day they drove up to new york unannounced to meet andre harrell when we
00:39:26make love jodeci it's like a dream they sing for andre andre loves it immediately that becomes puff's
00:39:35first responsibility and they could go make jodeci andre put his trust with sean as opposed to the
00:39:48artist he told us i don't care who the artist is you're more important than them the artists don't
00:39:57work without you what would be the ideal musical setting for y'all i guess we're falling in front
00:40:02like millions of people you know you have to be able to control everything i basically style and
00:40:09come up with the images and design most of the clothing for all of the artists it was him that
00:40:13put jodeci in the pants baggy sagging at the bottom the boots not lacing it up he is able to sponge
00:40:22from the community and the culture and package it
00:40:25it and in the studio he did the same thing sean wasn't a producer where he can tell you
00:40:34you need a c here a c note or this is an f but he did have a good ear for what could be a hit
00:40:43let me give you an example let's get it going rooftop at the rooftop in harlem the dj brucey b would
00:40:49mix acapellas from r b songs with hard hip-hop beats
00:40:58and it drove the kids crazy at the clubs that's what sean did with jodeci on those remixes
00:41:06it was very minimal it 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 and r
00:41:28and then the next artist to benefit from that was mary j blige
00:41:32mary's what's the 4-1-1 was out the box
00:41:43the hat pulled out the mysteriousness it had a little bit of a darkness and moodiness to it as well
00:41:52all of that was groundbreaking
00:41:53he launched a female artist in a male-dominated hip-hop barrel
00:42:03who became an instant success and that created hip-hop soul mary became the owner of that sound
00:42:16so i was making the hits happen and the visuals happened in 1992 sean is promoted to vp of a and
00:42:25r and arts and development so my name is puff daddy vice president of a and r and arts development for
00:42:33uptown records which brought you to his jodeci mary j blige everything the boys fall mc and you know on
00:42:40and on and on puffy had jodeci and mary j blige but puffy's a big huge epmd fan
00:42:50he was at my crossover video shoot and he asked me to do the mary j blige intro for the 4-1 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 you got an agenda
00:43:18misa he was trying to court her after we broke up sean wants her because eric was that dude
00:43:28it was about i got her i won her over from him he had to have the girl
00:43:38and sean has a way about when he gets you he got you he got you and now you become property
00:43:49me and misa was just friends but he wanted to make sure that there was no
00:43:55calling and me being friends with that girl sean's jealousy it got to the point where he put his hands
00:44:03on her right outside of uptown records they're fighting in the street and he's beating her into
00:44:10the car well she's on the ground
00:44:14and 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
00:44:27when 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 and
00:44:46it was a bad moment does that make me part of a sean combs cult maybe so i may have been the first
00:44:59disciple believer
00:45:04and then overall protector against all odds
00:45:08i want to personally invite one more brother on stage
00:45:21responsible for my joe the seat mary j blige
00:45:24puff daddy come to the stage baby
00:45:31at that point sean is on top of the world and his trajectory was only up
00:45:41i was just a wonder kid it was just some something that they never saw before
00:45:44to be young and to be puff daddy it's just it's just like i felt like my dream man came true
00:45:59everybody 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
00:46:07do you think i'm still gonna be like yes ma'am no ma'am thank you very much he became too big for
00:46:17uptown records i'm gonna be so drunk on high by wednesday eight o'clock i'm not really gonna
00:46:21give a fuck but i give a fuck it started to be some dissension between andre and puff
00:46:28andre was the king of the uptown castle of the empire he created
00:46:32and the intern was taking his place
00:46:41i remember it like yesterday andre called me into his office
00:46:47he tells me just like this he says dog i just fired puff i said word
00:46:56it was a sad day
00:46:58andre was like a surrogate dad for sean
00:47:05sean was really sick when andre fired him i'm talking about sick i couldn't believe it
00:47:14and then sean called me and he said yo i'm about to do my thing dog
00:47:28it was like yo i'm looking for some um hardcore artist
00:47:39he's ain't tired of doing the mary's jonas he said he want to do some hard
00:47:42shit some street
00:47:49so i guess i got the handle mine the west coast had the hits that we wanted
00:48:01so on signed biggie in 1992 people didn't know we had to produce biggie's album for uptown
00:48:09he was an uptown artist so it's the two years big then yeah yeah b-i-g business instead of game
00:48:15right i'll tell him i told you but when andre fired puff they fired him with a caveat
00:48:21i'm letting you go but i'm gonna let you take biggie with you
00:48:25andre decided to sell us the biggie album but now we had to find a way to pay for it
00:48:38we were living on borrowed time i went about setting up the meetings
00:48:44and we met with epic sony columbia then we met with clive davis at ariston
00:48:50everybody knows him on a first name basis clive runs a hundred million dollar record company called
00:48:56ariston
00:48:59he has discovered whitney houston carly simon aretha franklin and a long list of other pop
00:49:05stars who thrive in the world according to clive
00:49:09so we went to clive and we played a few tracks from the pig's album and i remember one of the
00:49:17first ones that we played was give me the loop yes love love your fucking attitude because the
00:49:22nigger play pussy that's the nigger and clive's eyes went like this i'm slamming niggas like
00:49:27shaquille shit it's real and i said wow you got the goods and i bought into his vision
00:49:33give me the loop give me the loop i named it bad boy because i wanted to go against the grain
00:49:46i didn't want to just make records i don't want to just make money i wanted to make history
00:49:51i was at bad boy starting from the day that we put the llc together and sean gave me 25 percent
00:50:07in stock and his mother janice had 75 percent he did not put the company in
00:50:16his name to protect him from paying families at ccny and i saw from that moment on sean had shifted
00:50:28in his personality i didn't see any more of the mount saint michael teen sean
00:50:37he had become more like the person i see today
00:50:42we did a deal for approximately 10 million dollars 1.5 went as an advance into sean's pocket
00:50:54another 1.5 is supposed to be our overhead sean said that's yours you can do whatever you want with
00:51:01it but you better make sure my company's running
00:51:05from day zero i wrote everything down every day so i can keep track of everything i needed to do
00:51:12i ran all the money all the budgets for the company as well as a lot for his personal life
00:51:17and all that came with it i don't like the way you're treating me on me getting my second half
00:51:23this is bullshit yo yo yo yo bust your ass and i think that he had this thing with strongmen and he
00:51:32had a thing with wanting to be one but not positioned to be one street wise but positioned to be one
00:51:39industry wise and they call that a paper gangster i'm not paying nor am i involved in any of that
00:51:47shit and so as he's paper gangstering he's also trying to street gangster too at the same time
00:51:54he's not on the street his mother did the very best to give him the best what's next give me
00:52:03something else what can't you do i can do it but now he's been getting beefier and beefier with the
00:52:09power from the music that's a good way to get your head filled up to think that you're just as gangster
00:52:15as they are now without even having to pop your gun off yourself
00:52:23now after all this time me and misa is still cool we were just friends
00:52:28but one time she just happened to be in my driver's seat in my truck
00:52:35and all of a sudden i heard somebody go and it's him
00:52:41he's steaming he swings on me so i'm laughing because i'm like he swung on me you putting yourself
00:52:51in jeopardy knowing you can't work none of us so now i'm like yo let's go around the corner because
00:52:58i could because because because i'm respectful enough so he actually gets in the car and we
00:53:04drive around the corner so i'm about to give him the business
00:53:08could have got really ugly and he just said yo see now 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'll never amount to nothing
00:53:23the juicy single dropped somewhere in 94. it was all a dream i used to read word up magazine
00:53:30but biggie's trajectory was not zero straight to the top biggie had a slow start very nervous at first
00:53:38at the time that west coast thing is happening so we began to look at what they were doing
00:53:47and tupac was like a shining star there's a song called i get around by tupac
00:53:57that song if you're like in a science lab and you're looking at something with a microscope and
00:54:02you're trying to figure out what it is and what it's made of that's what we did with that song i get
00:54:07around sean was just mesmerized by that particular song the structure of it the video and the visuals
00:54:15it showed the culture it's like let me dissect this let me understand it let me do it my way
00:54:24and the next single was big papa and that dropped and it took us over the edge with biggie
00:54:29i like that yeah he was out of here from that moment on
00:54:40we had ready to die before it came out big has sent tupac a demo and we played that tape to death
00:54:48man we played that tape till it was destroyed and then pop got the phone call that big was having an
00:54:54album release party he said to us man we all go into that he was very excited for the notorious big
00:55:01album release party it was so bad we hit everybody here i've never seen someone more excited for
00:55:08someone else's success as pop was for big success you ready yeah you ready for that raw dog
00:55:16shit okay all right let me see how i'm gonna hit you with he thought big was dope he wasn't doping in
00:55:26him as far as he was concerned to apocalypse don't sleep i keep a motherfucking glock in my car but he
00:55:32was the next thing smoking i'm a high guy from bed stop putting the swelling on your eye your nose even
00:55:39when i choke you you stop breathing but police come i'm leaving peace and love here we go
00:55:45pop would take big with him on tours and let him open up for him
00:55:59pop was developing thug life this ideology of taking back our communities
00:56:05big was with that he felt that he resonated with it so they had a connection
00:56:10sean was insanely jealous of biggie and pox friendship
00:56:20you know when i was around big i felt like he really loved me
00:56:24like i felt like if i left the room he wasn't gonna say nothing bad or somebody said something
00:56:28bad about me he would defend that he's probably one of the only people i had really trusted like for a
00:56:34long time there's a yearning for him to have that complete total control you're my artist you're my
00:56:47best friend you're writing this song for like 30 motherfucking days i pay you you work for me
00:56:54i make hits with you i needed money on my own so i started playing and who is this guy
00:57:06why do we need him in the picture guess who gonna win tupac was a very likable person
00:57:13all the women loved him being a rapper being a movie star
00:57:19for sean being a marketer you're a manipulator please welcome tupac shakur and there's envy for
00:57:29people who have success fame with no manipulation
00:57:36puff is to me very threatened by pop
00:57:40when i reflect on how this all came into play it's a trail
00:57:52city college innocent lives got taken then it became the ability to get away with anything
00:58:03then you circle in the fact that he has legit money
00:58:06then you have the antagonist tupac shakur
00:58:18all those agreements created the chain of events
00:58:23that started in new york and ended in babies
00:58:28do 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 with the death of tupac
00:59:07the death of tupac shakur no i don't know that's not how it was
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