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00:00:00Things are happening, and it's like, I want to fight for my life.
00:00:12I want to fight for, you know, justice, not guilty.
00:00:15I want to have a life to be able to live.
00:00:18You know, it's really going to be hard for me to take more hits
00:00:21than I take it, God forbid, get in front of a jury and have a chance.
00:00:27And so I'm having this emergency call because something has to give.
00:00:31We need the core theme to be, you didn't do anything wrong.
00:00:35You know, you didn't do anything wrong on any front.
00:00:37And you've come to New York to face things head on.
00:00:41If anyone's ever paying any attention to what you've actually been doing,
00:00:45you've handled this with complete honor.
00:00:49I don't think it's working. I've listened.
00:00:53I've been a superb client, as you said.
00:00:56I jumped on a plane. I'm coming to New York.
00:00:58But I'm just, like, I'm just running around waiting for a shooter drop.
00:01:05We're losing sight of the big picture, man.
00:01:08It's the middle of September, and there's still no indictment.
00:01:11That's...
00:01:12No, bro, then you have to have a spokesman.
00:01:15You have to have some sort of comms to constantly be pushing that mark.
00:01:19Because you may just be a person that just does...
00:01:21You just may watch CNN. You know what I'm saying?
00:01:24And there's, like, there's 9 billion people in the world.
00:01:26And 7 billion of them is on Instagram and TikTok.
00:01:31And so you at the wrong place looking to see what the people with the possible jurors are thinking.
00:01:37We have to find somebody that'll work with us, whether they're from this country or from another country.
00:01:43It could be somebody that has dealt in the dirtiest of dirtiest, dirty business of media and propaganda.
00:01:52I've seen the media portray me like I'm a gangster, or at times I'm a cold individual, or I'm just a shrewd businessman, which is just not the case.
00:02:11I'm a dreamer. I love closing my eyes and dreaming. I don't really deal with reality.
00:02:16You know, I think that you're a great guy, a great role model.
00:02:18Diddy P. Papa. Papa Diddy Pop.
00:02:21I'm sorry, I don't know what you're calling yourself these days.
00:02:23The American dream come true. Thank you, America.
00:02:27It's like we have a movie and you're speaking this language and, you know what I'm saying, we need subtitles.
00:02:32And we're not providing the audience for subtitles.
00:02:34And I invited you to this movie and you and this thing, you don't know what's going on.
00:02:38You just see, you just see the images, you know, quickly.
00:02:43Now, it has a whole life of its own.
00:02:44The Department of Homeland Security conducting a raid at a house connected to Sean.
00:02:55Breaking news, another woman is accusing Sean Diddy Holmes of sexual assault.
00:02:58Trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping.
00:03:00The fourth lawsuit in the last five weeks.
00:03:02The fifth lawsuit.
00:03:03The seventh lawsuit.
00:03:04There are now more than a dozen civil cases.
00:03:05Conduct that does indeed span two decades.
00:03:07I'm taking eight nuclear bombs, you know what I'm saying, straight to the head.
00:03:12And I'm tired of, I'm tired of going back and forth with y'all with the lawyers.
00:03:16That's, that's, that's just not true.
00:03:17Okay, so, so, so, so, so, so, so.
00:03:19Let me, let me.
00:03:20No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:03:21Let me, let me tell you something.
00:03:22Let me, let me, let me say this.
00:03:23I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not a referee.
00:03:26So I'm going to get off the phone right now.
00:03:28Listen to me.
00:03:29I'm going to get off the phone right now.
00:03:31And I am going to let you professionals look at the situation and come back to me with a solution.
00:03:37No matter what, no matter what nobody said.
00:03:40Let's, let's just, here and there, y'all are not working together the right way.
00:03:43We're losing.
00:04:10No matter what.
00:04:11We're losing.
00:04:12Yeah, just get little cutaways of them, like, looking from them, you know what I'm saying?
00:04:15Yeah, just get little cutaways of them, like, looking from the, you know what I'm saying?
00:04:31That'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 and we didn't do.
00:04:57Sean Combs is an asshole.
00:05:01He is the motherfucker you're not going to like, and you're not going to get the fuck along with if he doesn't get his way.
00:05:07If I ever miss this guy, nobody's down with me, motherfucker.
00:05:11He quickly became my hero.
00:05:12If y'all had a fucking chance to meet this guy, you would be like, this nigga's energy is everything.
00:05:25I got to get up and go.
00:05:26I got to get up and do it.
00:05:29What's next?
00:05:30What's next?
00:05:31I got to get it.
00:05:32I'm not going to stay fucking down.
00:05:34He was presenting this freedom that black people hadn't had.
00:05:40Like, we hadn't experienced a black man being able to say, I don't want that.
00:05:44I don't want no problems.
00:05:45What you calling?
00:05:46Hey, yo, dog, what are you talking about?
00:05:47You telling me, like, I'm on some bullshit?
00:05:49I ain't on no bullshit with you.
00:05:51So when I first met him, he quickly became the guy I wanted to be like.
00:05:55When you're a leader in that way, it's admirable until you get to the point where you want to control everyone around you.
00:06:06He got to that point.
00:06:08What y'all want to do?
00:06:11Want to be ballers, shot callers, brawlers.
00:06:14It's like Scarface, the movie.
00:06:16I want the world and everything that's in it.
00:06:19But you got everything.
00:06:22Hey, yo, New York, we fucking did it.
00:06:25Harlem, we did it.
00:06:26Montana, we did it.
00:06:27It was a mantra that Sean had.
00:06:31Nobody's going to be bigger than me.
00:06:33Sean is the 1% of the 1% of the 1%.
00:06:35We'll never see a Sean in my lifetime again, ever.
00:06:41It was like the more money he got, the more power he got, the more power he got, the more money he got.
00:06:48And he always felt like money can get him out of everything.
00:06:52I do feel it's important that we let the public know from the juror's standpoint just kind of how we reach the verdict.
00:07:01It's not everything that the media has put it out to be.
00:07:08You want to put stuff in my fanny pack, King?
00:07:11He's creating a narrative always.
00:07:17He is the best storyteller in hip-hop.
00:07:20He thinks he's black Superman.
00:07:23I can do what I want.
00:07:25You can't go on for long in life doing the things that he was doing before something eventually happens.
00:07:34You can't continue to keep hurting people and nothing ever happens.
00:07:38It's just a matter of time.
00:07:49Is it good to be back in New York?
00:07:52It's always good to be back in New York.
00:07:55Once upon a time, not long ago,
00:07:57when people wore pajamas and lived life slow,
00:08:00where laws were stern and justice stood,
00:08:02and people were behaving like they ought to good.
00:08:04How you change the kids on here?
00:08:06I was there from the very beginning
00:08:24with the invention of Sean Combs.
00:08:29I co-founded Bad Boy with Sean.
00:08:32I was dazzled by his ideas and his unique talent.
00:08:40But he was a very different Sean Combs back then.
00:08:44Yo, fuck, man.
00:08:46I'm gonna take care of this.
00:08:48Sean was 19 when he dropped out of Howard University.
00:08:52He wanted to be in the flashy, swaggy music industry.
00:08:56He started off dancing, wanting to be in videos.
00:09:09Wanting to be a pop culture mover and shaker
00:09:13at a time where things were changing.
00:09:16Hip-hop was evolving.
00:09:21Like it or not, rap is here to stay.
00:09:24It has become part of mainstream commerce.
00:09:26it was just explosive run dmc chaos one public enemy rock him
00:09:35the late 80s it was fantastic there were a lot of independent labels
00:09:44they gave birth to hip-hop in the way that we know it today what is this new music
00:09:52like uptown records hold up yourself and check this tempo remember these
00:10:01heavy d was the biggest rapper signed to uptown excuse me we got heavy d in the house with us
00:10:10thanks for coming down you can be with the hardest cats in the hood you can rock heavy d you with
00:10:14your grandmother in the car you ain't got to reach for the radio and turn it off we call him the
00:10:19official mayor of money earning malvernon
00:10:22malvernon is in westchester county the first city outside of the bronx heavy d put that area on the
00:10:38map and his influence reached all the young people in the neighborhood including the young sean combs
00:10:48who was at mount st michael high school a catholic private school he would knock on heavy d's door
00:10:58every day to see if heavy would take him to meet andre harrell
00:11:03andre was the champagne of rap and he took the streets to wall street the only entrance into hip-hop
00:11:17at that point was andre harrell and russell simmons into the corporate hip-hop world into the money
00:11:23sean had impressed andre enough to give him an internship and that was the beginning
00:11:30i worked with sean as an intern at uptown i'm a picture i'm blade out for you
00:11:38when you thought of uptown records you thought of heavy d and i'll be sure
00:11:44i was the first number one artist on the billboard charts on uptown and the first platinum artist
00:11:57on the uptown label he was a gq nigga you know he was a real penny loafers type
00:12:03he was one of them fly light-skinned niggas and girls loved him
00:12:08al was dating kim kim porter kim is at the receptionist desk at uptown
00:12:20you get out the elevator first person you see is kim
00:12:23and it was a beautiful sight everybody said that you know what i mean but when sean saw kim
00:12:32it was different and now sean's always at the receptionist desk begging kim for something
00:12:42a date a kiss he put it all on the table for kim
00:12:47it was weird it was weird in the air because everyone knew this was al's girl
00:12:53al is hot as fish grease right now hi this is al be sure here's my exclusive number two dollars for
00:13:01the first minute 45 cents for each additional minute and sean was not really like the catch
00:13:06he didn't drink alcohol he forbade marijuana he did not like drugs he had the gumby and he looked
00:13:16like a scholastic dweeb but sean was so determined i bet you i could get kim and he was like nah
00:13:25no way you ain't your weight ain't even up enough yet but when sean wants something he's gonna get it
00:13:32it might be a couple of years from now but sooner or later he's gonna get it
00:13:38andre harrell heavy d i'll be sure they had all the money and all the power and i was like
00:13:46i don't know what they did but that's what i want to do
00:13:48i got to uptown a few months after sean did and i saw him being built into cool
00:13:58we had to go through the uptown flavor camp
00:14:02i learned a lot quickly being in front of willie burgers on the hunt 45th and a4 being at the
00:14:11rooftop the fashion the walk the talk the attitude the drive the determination i was ready to do
00:14:21whatever it took to win the young sean combs during that time he was so tenacious you would ask him to
00:14:29turn wednesday into tuesday he was set about doing it first task we had given him to just go get a tape
00:14:3710 blocks away he came back in two minutes or something crazy and i remember i was on the phone
00:14:42i looked up when he came back i was like how'd you get there so fast and he said i ran there and back
00:14:48right then and there i said oh okay yeah i didn't know then that that was never going to stop to run
00:14:57there and run back he ingratiated himself to andre and made himself very valuable something that you
00:15:05don't want to do without like who's going to get my clothes who's going to armor on my tire this is so
00:15:10convenient then they lived together i bought the first million dollar house funny that that weekend
00:15:18just before i moved in he had a mysterious fight with his mother and he said i can't go home i gotta
00:15:24stay here with you pup moved in before i did andre is taking him under like a son andre is the very
00:15:34first patriarch he connected with sean grew up with the illusion of what masculinity looks like
00:15:44my first encounter with sean i remember it like yesterday
00:15:49my family we rented the first floor of sean's house i was my mom and dad's only child so now sean has
00:15:57somebody to brother up with we experienced a lot of firsts together i taught him how to ride a bike
00:16:07it was the best thing in my life to let go of the bike and him start riding we fit so well sean was
00:16:14another misfit just like me but the difference in my household my dad taught me right from wrong
00:16:21no sean sean didn't have that ladies and gentlemen i would like to introduce my mother janice combs
00:16:36what were the primary jobs that you did to support your family i did so many jobs at one time i
00:16:42worked at the united civil palsy i worked at uh the board of ed in westchester county i
00:16:49drive the school bus i worked in a baby's boutique shop and he never knew this i worked in the after
00:16:56hour spot too i have to come clean i needed to come clean okay now
00:17:08okay i made more money because the men thought i was very glamorous and i used to pour liquor
00:17:13and they give me big tips in sean's house there was janice and there was sean
00:17:21my father's name is melvin combs i didn't get a chance to get to know him i was too young
00:17:27my father got his brains blown out like on central park west i did the research they said my mother had
00:17:35brought me to the funeral had brought me to the funeral of full-length chinchilla
00:17:41it was like a sigh of relief you know what i'm saying i finally knew that what i was feeling was
00:17:45true you know what i'm saying that i was a son of a hustler a gangster melvin's presence was there
00:17:52his money was there and i understood that melvin made a lot of things possible
00:17:58but sean's mom was his everything if you look at some of the early pictures that janice
00:18:08has of sean she was always making him into something the hats fur coats i think she tried to
00:18:20overcompensate for the father being gone by making him into this dandy everything associated with sean
00:18:31was harlem
00:18:34whoever was flying home that's what he was as a child
00:18:38janice she'd always be in harlem and there were times where she'd bring us
00:18:42here we are in this brand new cadillac because that's all janet drove
00:18:51she's making stops here and there you know we knew the rule the drill just sit there i'll be right
00:18:56back she ain't turn the car off nobody took the car
00:19:02no so you knew there was a different vibe going on with this family
00:19:05in his household the groove was a little different a lot of donna summer playing
00:19:16and then we had these movies we'd watch he's got to be number one this genre of films called black
00:19:22exploitation super dude you had super fly super fly you had the mac when you got nothing you want
00:19:30everything you got to get to be the mac their parts were hustler parts
00:19:39in sean's household you start to see all the stuff that you saw on the movies
00:19:47janice knew how to throw a party and the party's packed you got ladies that look like they're straight
00:19:55out of a jet magazine some brothers up there you know if you want to call them pimps you can if
00:20:00you want to call them hustlers you can you got a member of the new york knicks or two
00:20:09there was a stage in her living room literally a stage and that's where we used to have to go and
00:20:15dance when everybody's calling you baby and everybody's saying do that dance
00:20:21and all of this stuff he's taken in
00:20:35so from the movie screen to the home screen these are the makings of sean combs
00:20:40now mind you as a child sean was goofy kids would pick on him a lot around the block
00:20:50and he didn't know how to defend himself sean was a prince and janice she didn't want no princess
00:20:59she held back nothing you've said i would be 12 years old and sometimes i'd be out until
00:21:05three four in the morning james james we don't have to get into that right
00:21:11ma'am got a lot of beatings too
00:21:15his beatings made me scared right i got beatings now
00:21:24but when he got his beatings it wasn't no
00:21:26it wasn't a joking thing no
00:21:33damn i hate thinking about that man
00:21:39my mother was i guess raising me for the real world she was always told me if somebody hit me
00:21:43make sure i hit them back harder make sure they never hit me again you make sure i fucked them up
00:21:48you know how you hear your mom's voice in your ear boy you better boy sean started fighting he started
00:22:01stepping up but sean don't fight like this sean's gonna bite you he's gonna eat your ear off
00:22:09he's gonna cut your neck open with his mouth he's not losing
00:22:18i know people are shaped by pain as well as by love and if it was more pain than love watch out
00:22:30there's going to be pain that you're going to give others
00:22:32because you're responding to that pain that you just can't seem to cut out of you
00:22:51i didn't know much about him i know that he had a big eagle
00:22:55i met him around 89 90. my job was to promote music videos and puffy he was always doing the
00:23:06party promotion so he's always like handing out the flyers at the time i was working on arjo
00:23:12herrell but he wasn't paying me enough so i had to promote parties on the side which was all good
00:23:16right daddy's house he was savvy enough to promote parties they were the most successful parties at that
00:23:24time but they were all about promoting himself one of the brothers that put the party together my man
00:23:31puffy daddy really it was no problem because all my black brothers and sisters came together like my
00:23:35man tell you friends all the beautiful women out here we came together just to have a good time
00:23:39i went to a party for a good friend
00:23:46it was getting very late puffy is like oh you know i'm having an after party
00:23:51at andre harrell's house andre 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
00:24:07i was helping clean up the mud puffy is like very polite you know and thanking me for helping him
00:24:16and he asked me oh wow i just got this call you know someone this girl backed out of this music video
00:24:21you know can you do it and i was like i don't do music videos but this party was in new jersey
00:24:30and i needed a ride back to manhattan so i went along
00:24:36and i never figured i had the same clothes on that i had from the night before the music video
00:24:47was called straight from the soul by finesse and sinquist the whole premise was for me to jump out
00:24:56the car and go with these girls and get away from the pimp guy
00:24:59nice clothes in a car doesn't make you a star you can't talk positive and do the opposite
00:25:04because then you're labeled as a friend of a hypocrite you can't be righteous
00:25:08so a party is flipped sniffing snorting you can drive and hide your sister strip
00:25:11you know what that looks like to your people a big discreet dying sisters don't want to look
00:25:15you in your face wanting to be a pimp brother your heart ain't that cold and it's just straight from the
00:25:20cold was there ever a time that sean combs sexually assaulted you
00:25:35yes
00:25:39someone called me up and told me that um he said you know he has you know video and i was like what
00:25:46it and that's when he um ex described it and explained it
00:26:00i i just want to say this this thing was incredibly devastating to my family
00:26:19my mother she's a social worker we don't have money the thing
00:26:26that we had was our pride
00:26:37we carried ourselves well we were pretty we were intelligent this is the basis of what i had self
00:26:47respect my mother wrote a letter to com's parents
00:26:53i just found this recently
00:27:00can i read it
00:27:05dear mr and mrs combs
00:27:09i'm writing you to inform you of something that your son did to my daughter
00:27:17one weekend while visiting my daughter i woke to her screaming in the middle of the night
00:27:25she told me that she was dreaming about puffy
00:27:31i asked her
00:27:33why she was screaming and who is this puffy person that he would cause her to have nightmares
00:27:39i was shocked and mortified to hear her story she told me that several people have come to her
00:27:48to inform her that your son has made an obscene videotape of her
00:27:55without her knowledge he videotaped him doing something sexual to her
00:28:01apparently your son shows these tapes at parties on large screen televisions
00:28:13i realize that this may be hard for you to believe but if i hadn't heard this story from my daughter's own
00:28:19mouth and looked into her eyes i would have scarcely believed that any individual
00:28:25who would compromise another person's dignity in this manner
00:28:40i approached a lot of people for help
00:28:46i got things like what do you want me to do about it to
00:28:51if i help you i can't get into his parties
00:28:59from puff daddy's house what's up what's up revolutionized the hip-hop club scene this year
00:29:08why would you want to do that drug and rape the girl tape it and then put it up on the screen
00:29:17here's my theory
00:29:23alpo martinez
00:29:24drug lord famous harlem street tough guy hung out at the rooftop
00:29:34alpo had a lot of girls and he would take girls that he was having sex with and then on a saturday
00:29:41night he might bring his camera and put it on the wall and everyone knows that so-and-so's girl
00:29:53what sean saw was i want to be looked upon in that way as someone that has that type of stature
00:30:00all his life he's been trying to honor a man he believed it was a famous parliament gangster
00:30:10and that gave his father a mythic presence people like alpo he looked at those guys with a certain
00:30:19amount of jealousy or envy a certain amount of respect and there's a certain amount of desire
00:30:26that thing was in him from there
00:30:36did you ever confront sean about him i did i avoided him for a very long time i ran into him one day
00:30:47he came to me he got on his knees and swore he did not do this thing to me
00:30:58and denied it
00:30:59and that is the very last time i talked to him we did it let's go the key to the city yeah yeah
00:31:13yeah when i think back in terms of his rise
00:31:18it is the most helpless feeling i was always nauseous when i saw his image
00:31:29the one image in times square where he's holding his fist up
00:31:37when i saw it i vomited right there on the street
00:31:43you are really raising your hand at victory and i'm living in trauma and defeat
00:31:59it's a new legal trouble for sean diddy combs another new lawsuit of sexual assault sex trafficking
00:32:10and drugging underage federal prosecutors in new york have interviewed numerous women who
00:32:15who are the drugs at least at least the 10th civil lawsuit filed against sean diddy combs
00:32:21let's take the blood uh what the else
00:32:23i want
00:32:25i don't know
00:32:26i want to watch this just silly bullshit noise
00:32:32there's no sense no but it's like the legal system is doing it now because like legally we
00:32:39got it it's like i gotta i gotta spend money to go and get rid of this bullshit oh yeah
00:32:48ain't got nothing left
00:32:50got nothing left going on
00:32:52they ain't breaking me no
00:32:56how are you boss if you don't mind one picture please
00:33:00i'm not good with the camera so i'm gonna try
00:33:02you
00:33:05can you see the photo yeah
00:33:09y'all can hop in yeah as a group as a group
00:33:13sean was destined to be famous okay
00:33:22i didn't see him for me coming i swear i didn't see that coming
00:33:25i'm 19 and i always like seeing people entertained and i thought you know over the holidays i just
00:33:36wanted to throw a celebrity basketball game in harlem
00:33:42i was at the game i was on the floor all of us was there every rapper in new york right
00:33:47your mtv raps came i'm at city college in the heart of new york city for the puff daddy heavy
00:33:53the first all-time celebrity all-star classic that was one of the biggest basketball games if that
00:34:00would have turned out correctly or it went down in history
00:34:07there were lines and lines around campus to get in there's no more room but everyone still wants to come
00:34:18we open up the doors everybody saw us flowing through
00:34:20but then thousands more come
00:34:36there was a thing in hip hop called bum rushing the door
00:34:39people don't have a ticket when they hear something sold out they say
00:34:41fuck it we got to still get in we're gonna bum rush the door
00:34:43when they got to the bottom of the stairs the doors didn't go out that way they only came in
00:34:51so people were stuck they were just crushing people down at the bottom of the stairs
00:34:59we're on the court warming up the play and then dougie first grabbed the mic and said there's people that
00:35:04are dead
00:35:15if you want to be the most regular person in here
00:35:18you need to leave
00:35:19Sean over-promoted, over-hyped, and that led to a crowd.
00:35:37It was just like, oh shit, how did this happen so quick?
00:35:41How would people want to explain it?
00:35:46We need a lot of help here.
00:35:48There's a lot of people hurt and aren't breathing.
00:35:51Not breathing?
00:35:52Yes, we, I mean, we have a emergency over here.
00:36:03We got a lot of people here dead in the gymnasium, please.
00:36:06They did?
00:36:10The death toll from last week's stampede at a New York charity basketball game has risen to nine.
00:36:15They're just getting trampled.
00:36:17All for money.
00:36:18$12, man.
00:36:19What do you mean $12?
00:36:21Cost $12 for a ticket.
00:36:23One of the unanswered questions remains who's to blame for the stampede that killed nine people.
00:36:29Throughout the newspaper headlines, throughout the confusion, the finger-pointing, who was responsible, Sean Young, in real time, carried the weight of all of that.
00:36:46My dream for this evening was to bring a positive program to my people, to people of my age, and to people in my community.
00:36:56Whatever must be done, must be done to ensure that this never, ever, ever happens again.
00:37:02It was the biggest news ever.
00:37:05That's how he got super famous, was that game and those deaths.
00:37:12That's the beginning of Puff Daddy.
00:37:16That's really how I started to become famous, was through a tragedy.
00:37:21He was holed up in a hotel on the east side, him and his mother.
00:37:28He didn't know what was going to happen.
00:37:32And I saw Janice question Sean.
00:37:36He's going into this music business thing.
00:37:39He just left school.
00:37:40And now this extreme tragedy has occurred.
00:37:44She's like, did he make the right decision?
00:37:46And I saw him put his hands on her.
00:37:53Caught her a bitch and slapped her.
00:37:58He's not looking back.
00:38:08Sean Puff Daddy Combs and sponsors claim no responsibility in the tragic chain of events that claim nine lives and injured.
00:38:15The brass that afforded Uptown its distribution money wanted Sean out.
00:38:20I saw Andre fight and fight to keep Sean in.
00:38:28And he did.
00:38:29Andre and Rell, Puff Daddy, he's passing on to, I guess, his son.
00:38:33Protégé.
00:38:33Protégé.
00:38:34Yes, yes.
00:38:35Puffy.
00:38:35Yes.
00:38:36Tell me a little bit about this man and why you like working with him.
00:38:39Because, you know, he's not intimidated by youth, you know what I'm saying?
00:38:42He knows the importance of leaving the legacy behind.
00:38:45Because we need more adults out there that's going to teach the young, such as myself.
00:38:48I took Andre Harrell out to lunch and I said, can I get a chance to maybe do A&R?
00:38:56The A&R is artists and repertoire.
00:38:58That's the guy that works at the record company that puts the records together and works with the artists.
00:39:03I said, give me a chance.
00:39:05You know, you're making music for young people.
00:39:07I'm young and, you know, who better to make the music than me?
00:39:10We had a group back in the day.
00:39:15They drove up to New York unannounced to meet Andre Harrell.
00:39:20When we make love.
00:39:23Jodeci.
00:39:24It's like a dream.
00:39:27They sing for Andre.
00:39:28Andre loves it.
00:39:29Immediately that becomes Puff's first responsibility.
00:39:32Nigga, go make Jodeci.
00:39:34Puff and the future of Jodeci.
00:39:35Hopefully to make hits, hits, hits.
00:39:39Andre put his trust with Sean as opposed to the artists.
00:39:45He told us, I don't care who the artist is, you're more important than them.
00:39:51The artists don't work without you.
00:39:54What would be the ideal musical setting for y'all?
00:39:56I guess we're falling in front of like millions of people.
00:39:58You have to be able to control everything.
00:40:02I basically styled and come up with the images and designed most of the clothing for all of the artists.
00:40:08It was him that put Jodeci in the pants baggy, sagging at the bottom, the boots not lacing it up.
00:40:16He is able to sponge from the community and the culture and package it.
00:40:23And in the studio, he did the same thing.
00:40:25Sean, wasn't a producer where he can tell you, you need a C here, a C note, or this is an F.
00:40:33But he did have a good ear for what could be a hit.
00:40:38Let me give you an example.
00:40:39Let's get it going.
00:40:40Rooftop!
00:40:41At the rooftop in Harlem, the DJ Brucie B would mix acapellas from R&B songs with hard hip-hop beats.
00:40:50Rooftop for me!
00:40:52And it drove the kids crazy at the clubs.
00:40:57That's what Sean did with Jodeci on those remixes.
00:41:01It was very minimal.
00:41:03It was very hard beat and snare.
00:41:05No melody.
00:41:06Come and talk to me.
00:41:09I really wanna meet you.
00:41:12Jodeci's record started climbing the charts.
00:41:18Sean turned that into the blueprint for his special brand of A&R.
00:41:23And then the next artist to benefit from that was Mary J. Blige.
00:41:27Mary's what's the 4-1-1 was out the box.
00:41:38The hat pulled out, the mysteriousness.
00:41:41It had a little bit of a darkness and moodiness to it as well.
00:41:46All of that was groundbreaking.
00:41:48Real love
00:41:49He launched a female artist in a male-dominated hip-hop era.
00:41:56What's up, the power?
00:41:58He became an instant success.
00:42:01And that created hip-hop soul.
00:42:05Mary became the owner of that sound.
00:42:08This is who the power is Mary J. Blige.
00:42:12Sean was making the hits happen and the visuals happen.
00:42:17In 1992, Sean is promoted to VP of A&R and Artists and Development.
00:42:23So my name's Puff Daddy,
00:42:24Vice President of A&R and Artists and Development for Uptown Records,
00:42:29which brought you the hits of Jodeci, Mary J. Blige,
00:42:32Heavy D and the boys for all MC,
00:42:34and you know, on and on and on.
00:42:36Puffy had Jodeci and Mary J. Blige,
00:42:39but Puffy's a big, huge EPMD fan.
00:42:41My background sing, my background sing for the crossover.
00:42:45He was at my crossover video shoot,
00:42:48and he asked me to do the Mary J. Blige intro for the 401 album.
00:42:53Your name, Blige, stop.
00:42:55This is Eric Sherman, MC Graham Royal.
00:42:58I did that for him, and then all of a sudden we became friends.
00:43:02I thought it was a general friendship
00:43:05until I see that this game is being played.
00:43:09You got an agenda.
00:43:13Mesa.
00:43:15He was trying to court her after we broke up.
00:43:19Sean wants her because Eric was that dude.
00:43:23It was about, I got her, I won her over from him.
00:43:30He had to have the girl.
00:43:33And Sean has a way about,
00:43:35when he gets you, he got you.
00:43:38He got you.
00:43:40And now you become property.
00:43:41Me and Mesa was just friends,
00:43:46but he wanted to make sure
00:43:48that there was no calling
00:43:51and me being friends with that girl.
00:43:54Sean's jealousy,
00:43:56it got to the point where he would put his hands on her.
00:43:58Right outside of Uptown Records,
00:44:03they're fighting in the street,
00:44:04and he's beating her into the car well.
00:44:08She's on the ground.
00:44:12And people are pulling him off of her
00:44:14and separating her.
00:44:15A year or two later,
00:44:19they're still together,
00:44:20and Justin is born.
00:44:29When he invited me to be
00:44:30the godfather of his first son,
00:44:33I was able to push that in the back of my mind
00:44:36and say,
00:44:38that was a really bad moment,
00:44:40but he was weak,
00:44:41and
00:44:42it was a bad moment.
00:44:45Does that make me part
00:44:47of a Sean Combs cult?
00:44:50Maybe so.
00:44:52I may have been
00:44:53the first disciple,
00:44:56believer,
00:44:57and then overall protector
00:45:01against all odds.
00:45:07Everybody say,
00:45:09Up, Up, Down!
00:45:10Up, Up, Down!
00:45:12I want to personally invite
00:45:14one more bruv on stage.
00:45:16Responsible.
00:45:17Joe to seat.
00:45:18Mary J. Blige.
00:45:19Puff Daddy.
00:45:20Puff Daddy, come to the stage, baby!
00:45:21Puff Daddy.
00:45:22Puff Daddy.
00:45:23Puff Daddy.
00:45:24Uh, uh, uh, uh.
00:45:25You get up, uh, uh.
00:45:26At that point,
00:45:28Sean is on top of the world,
00:45:30and his trajectory was only up.
00:45:33I was just a wonder kid.
00:45:37It was just something
00:45:38that they never saw before.
00:45:41To be young and
00:45:42to be Puff Daddy,
00:45:45it's just,
00:45:46it's just like,
00:45:48I felt like my dream,
00:45:50man, came true.
00:45:54Everybody now
00:45:55is looking for this kid
00:45:56because they all have artists
00:45:58that they have to get
00:45:59to the top of the chart.
00:46:01What does that do
00:46:02to a person?
00:46:04Do you think
00:46:05I'm still gonna be
00:46:07like,
00:46:08yes, ma'am,
00:46:09no, ma'am,
00:46:09thank you very much?
00:46:11He became too big
00:46:12for Uptown Records.
00:46:13I'm gonna be so drunk
00:46:14gonna hide by Wednesday
00:46:14at 8 o'clock.
00:46:15I'm not really gonna
00:46:16give a fuck.
00:46:16But I give a fuck.
00:46:18There started to be
00:46:19some dissension
00:46:19between Andre and Puff.
00:46:23Andre was the king
00:46:24of the Uptown Castle
00:46:26of the empire he created.
00:46:29And the intern
00:46:31was taking his place.
00:46:36I remember it
00:46:37like yesterday.
00:46:39Andre called me
00:46:40into his office.
00:46:42He tells me
00:46:43just like this.
00:46:45He says,
00:46:45dog,
00:46:46I just fired Puff.
00:46:47I said,
00:46:48word?
00:46:51It was a sad day.
00:46:55Andre was like
00:46:55a surrogate dad
00:46:56for Sean.
00:47:00Sean was really sick
00:47:02when Andre fired him.
00:47:04I'm talking about sick.
00:47:06Couldn't believe it.
00:47:09And then Sean called me
00:47:11and he said,
00:47:12yo,
00:47:13I'm about to do
00:47:14my thing,
00:47:15dog.
00:47:29Puff was like,
00:47:30yo,
00:47:30I'm looking for some,
00:47:31um,
00:47:32hardcore artist.
00:47:34He's ain't tired
00:47:35of doing the Mary shit,
00:47:36Joe to see shit.
00:47:37He want to do some hard shit,
00:47:38some street shit.
00:47:39Straight out of county,
00:47:40crazy motherfucker
00:47:41named Ice Cube.
00:47:42From the gang
00:47:43called niggas
00:47:43with attitude.
00:47:45So I guess
00:47:45I got the handle
00:47:46mine since I did.
00:47:47The West Coast
00:47:48had the hits
00:47:48that we wanted.
00:47:52Go for sex shit,
00:47:54and check shit,
00:47:55what you want,
00:47:55nigga?
00:47:56Sean signed
00:47:58Biggie
00:47:59in 1992.
00:48:01People didn't know
00:48:02we had to produce
00:48:02Biggie's album
00:48:03for Uptown.
00:48:04He was an Uptown artist.
00:48:06So it's the Detroit
00:48:07that's big then.
00:48:08Yeah, yeah.
00:48:09B-I-G,
00:48:09business instead of game,
00:48:10right?
00:48:11I'm telling my children.
00:48:13But when Andre fired Puff,
00:48:15they fired him
00:48:15with a caveat.
00:48:17I'm letting you go,
00:48:18but I'm gonna let you
00:48:19take Biggie with you.
00:48:23Andre decided to sell us
00:48:24the Biggie album,
00:48:26but now,
00:48:28we had to find a way
00:48:30to pay for it.
00:48:30We were living
00:48:33on borrowed time.
00:48:35I went about
00:48:36setting up the meetings.
00:48:38Then we met with
00:48:39Epic,
00:48:40Sony,
00:48:41Columbia,
00:48:42and we met with
00:48:43Clive Davis
00:48:44at Ariston.
00:48:45Everybody knows him
00:48:46on a first-name basis.
00:48:48Clive runs
00:48:49a $100 million record company
00:48:50called Ariston.
00:48:52He's my life
00:48:53He has discovered
00:48:55Whitney Houston,
00:48:57Carly Simon,
00:48:58Aretha Franklin,
00:48:59and a long list
00:49:00of other pop stars
00:49:01who thrive in the world
00:49:02according to Clive.
00:49:06So we went to Clive
00:49:08and we played a few tracks
00:49:09from Biggie's album.
00:49:11And I remember
00:49:11one of the first ones
00:49:12that we played
00:49:13was Gimme the Loop.
00:49:14Yes, love,
00:49:15love your fucking attitude
00:49:16because the nigga
00:49:17play pussy,
00:49:18that's the nigga
00:49:18And Clive's eyes
00:49:20went like this.
00:49:21I'm slamming niggas
00:49:22like Shaquille,
00:49:23shit is real.
00:49:24And I said,
00:49:25wow,
00:49:25you got the goods.
00:49:27And I bought
00:49:27into his vision.
00:49:28Gimme the loop,
00:49:29gimme the loop.
00:49:31Gimme the loop,
00:49:32gimme the loop.
00:49:34Gimme the loop,
00:49:34gimme the loop.
00:49:36I named it a bad boy
00:49:37because I wanted
00:49:39to go against the grain.
00:49:41I didn't want
00:49:42to just make records.
00:49:42I didn't want
00:49:43to just make money.
00:49:44I wanted to make history.
00:49:47Burn it up,
00:49:48bad boy,
00:49:48my pussy.
00:49:49Fuck daddy.
00:49:50I was at bad boy
00:49:56starting from the day
00:49:58that we put
00:49:59the LLC together
00:50:00and Sean gave me
00:50:0125% in stock
00:50:03and his mother,
00:50:05Janice,
00:50:06had 75%.
00:50:08He did not put
00:50:10the company
00:50:11in his name
00:50:12to protect him
00:50:14from paying families
00:50:15at CCNY.
00:50:16and I saw
00:50:19from that moment
00:50:20on,
00:50:21Sean had shifted
00:50:22in his personality.
00:50:25I didn't see
00:50:26any more
00:50:27of the Mount St. Michael
00:50:29teen Sean.
00:50:32He had become
00:50:34more like
00:50:35the person
00:50:36I see today.
00:50:37We did a deal
00:50:40for approximately
00:50:41$10 million.
00:50:441.5
00:50:45went as an advance
00:50:47into Sean's pocket.
00:50:49Another 1.5
00:50:51is supposed
00:50:51to be our overhead.
00:50:53Sean said,
00:50:53that's yours.
00:50:55You can do
00:50:55whatever you want
00:50:56with it,
00:50:56but you better
00:50:57make sure
00:50:57my company's running.
00:51:00From day zero,
00:51:01I wrote everything
00:51:02down every day
00:51:03so I can keep track
00:51:05of everything
00:51:05I needed to do.
00:51:07I ran all the money,
00:51:08all the budgets
00:51:09for the company
00:51:10as well as a lot
00:51:11for his personal life
00:51:12and all
00:51:13that came with it.
00:51:15I don't like
00:51:16the way you're treating me
00:51:17or me getting
00:51:18my second half.
00:51:19This shit is bullshit.
00:51:20Yo, yo, yo, yo,
00:51:21bust your ass
00:51:21and ask me...
00:51:23I think that he had
00:51:24this thing
00:51:25with strong men
00:51:27and he had a thing
00:51:28with wanting to be one
00:51:29but not positioned
00:51:30to be one
00:51:31street-wise
00:51:33but positioned
00:51:34to be one
00:51:34industry-wise
00:51:35and they call that
00:51:36a paper gangster.
00:51:38Shit over.
00:51:38I'm not paying
00:51:39nor am I
00:51:40involved in
00:51:41any of that shit.
00:51:42And so,
00:51:43as he's paper
00:51:44gangstering,
00:51:45he's also
00:51:46trying to street
00:51:47gangster
00:51:47too at the same time.
00:51:50Savage!
00:51:51I'm a savage!
00:51:52He's not from the street.
00:51:54His mother did
00:51:54the very best
00:51:55to give him the best.
00:51:57What's next?
00:51:57Give me something else.
00:51:59What can't you do?
00:52:00I can do it.
00:52:01But now,
00:52:02he's been getting
00:52:03beefier and beefier
00:52:04with the power
00:52:04from the music.
00:52:06That's a good way
00:52:07to get your head
00:52:08filled up
00:52:09to think that
00:52:09you're just as gangster
00:52:10as they are now
00:52:11without even having
00:52:13to pop your gun
00:52:14off yourself.
00:52:18Now,
00:52:19after all this time,
00:52:20me and Misa
00:52:21are still cool.
00:52:22We were just friends.
00:52:25But one time,
00:52:26she just happened
00:52:27to be in my driver's
00:52:28seat of my truck.
00:52:29And all of a sudden,
00:52:31I heard somebody go
00:52:32and it's him.
00:52:36He's steaming.
00:52:38He swings on me.
00:52:41So I'm laughing
00:52:42because I'm like,
00:52:44he swung on me?
00:52:45You're putting yourself
00:52:46in jeopardy
00:52:47knowing you can't
00:52:48whoop none of us.
00:52:50So now,
00:52:51I'm like,
00:52:52let's go around the corner
00:52:53because I'm respectful
00:52:55enough.
00:52:57So he actually
00:52:58gets in the car
00:52:58and we drive
00:53:00around the corner.
00:53:01So I'm about to
00:53:01give him the business.
00:53:03Shit could have
00:53:04got really ugly.
00:53:06And he just said,
00:53:07yo, see now,
00:53:07I want you to hear
00:53:07something real quick.
00:53:09And that's when
00:53:09he played me
00:53:09the Biggie Smalls album.
00:53:12Yeah,
00:53:13this album is dedicated
00:53:15to all the teachers
00:53:16that told me
00:53:16I never amount to nothing.
00:53:18The Juicy single
00:53:19dropped somewhere
00:53:20in 94.
00:53:21It was all a dream.
00:53:23I used to read
00:53:24Word Up magazine.
00:53:25But Biggie's trajectory
00:53:27was not zero
00:53:28straight to the top.
00:53:30Biggie had a slow start.
00:53:32Very nervous at first.
00:53:35At the time,
00:53:36that West Coast thing
00:53:37is happening.
00:53:39So we began to look
00:53:40at what they were doing
00:53:41and Tupac was like
00:53:43a shining star.
00:53:44There's a song called
00:53:45I Get Around
00:53:46by Tupac.
00:53:47I get around
00:53:47Still therein'
00:53:49with the underground
00:53:49Round and round
00:53:50I get around
00:53:52That song,
00:53:53if you're like
00:53:54in a science lab
00:53:55and you're looking
00:53:55at something
00:53:56with a microscope
00:53:57and you're trying
00:53:58to figure out
00:53:58what it is
00:53:59and what it's made of,
00:54:00that's what we did
00:54:01with that song
00:54:02I Get Around.
00:54:03Sean was just
00:54:05mesmerized
00:54:06by that particular song,
00:54:07the structure of it,
00:54:09the video and the visuals.
00:54:10It showed the culture.
00:54:13It's like,
00:54:13let me dissect this.
00:54:14Let me understand
00:54:15let me do it my way.
00:54:19And the next single
00:54:20was Big Papa
00:54:21and that dropped
00:54:22and it took us
00:54:23over the edge
00:54:24with Biggie.
00:54:24I liked it.
00:54:26He was out of here
00:54:27from that moment on.
00:54:29I like it when you call me
00:54:30Big Papa.
00:54:31Throw your hands in the air
00:54:33if you's a true player.
00:54:35We had Ready to Die
00:54:37before it came out.
00:54:39Big had sent Tupac a demo
00:54:41and we played that tape
00:54:43to death, man.
00:54:43We played that tape
00:54:44till it was destroyed.
00:54:46And then Pac got
00:54:47the phone call
00:54:48that Big was having
00:54:49an album release party.
00:54:51He said to us,
00:54:52man, we all go into that.
00:54:54He was very excited for him.
00:54:55The notorious Big
00:54:56album release party.
00:54:58It was so fat.
00:54:59We hear everybody hear.
00:55:00I've never seen someone
00:55:02more excited for someone
00:55:04else's success
00:55:05as Pac was
00:55:07for Big's success.
00:55:09You ready, nigga?
00:55:10Yeah.
00:55:10You ready for that raw dog shit, nigga?
00:55:12I don't know how to grab it.
00:55:14Okay.
00:55:14All right.
00:55:15Let me see how
00:55:16I'm gonna hit you with.
00:55:18He thought Big was dope.
00:55:20He wasn't doper than him
00:55:22as far as he was concerned.
00:55:23Tupacalypse don't sleep.
00:55:25I keep a motherfucking
00:55:26Glock in my car.
00:55:27But he was the next
00:55:28thing smoking.
00:55:30I'm a high guy
00:55:31from Bed-Stuy
00:55:32putting the swelling
00:55:33on your eye.
00:55:33Your nose even
00:55:34when I choke you
00:55:35you stop breathing
00:55:36when police come
00:55:37I'm leaving.
00:55:38Peace and love.
00:55:39Here we go.
00:55:40Yeah.
00:55:43Pac would take
00:55:44Big with him on tours
00:55:45and let him open up for him.
00:55:47Pac was developing
00:55:55thug life.
00:55:56This ideology
00:55:57of taking back
00:55:58our communities.
00:56:00Big was with that.
00:56:01He felt it.
00:56:02He resonated with it.
00:56:04So they had a connection.
00:56:07Sean was insanely jealous
00:56:10of Biggie and Pac's friendship.
00:56:15You know, when I was around Big
00:56:16I felt like he really loved me.
00:56:19Like I felt like
00:56:19if I left the room
00:56:21he wasn't gonna say
00:56:22nothing bad
00:56:22or somebody said
00:56:23something bad about me
00:56:24he would defend that.
00:56:27He was probably
00:56:27one of the only people
00:56:28I had really trusted
00:56:29like for a long time.
00:56:31You're going to
00:56:31a little writing room
00:56:32right now.
00:56:35There's a yearning
00:56:36for him to have
00:56:37that complete
00:56:38total control.
00:56:41You're my artist.
00:56:42You're my best friend.
00:56:44You're writing this song
00:56:44for like 30
00:56:45motherfucking days.
00:56:46Extra clips in my pocket
00:56:48I pay you
00:56:48you work for me
00:56:49I make hits with you
00:56:53I needed money
00:56:54on my own
00:56:55so I started playing
00:56:56And who is this guy?
00:57:01Why do we need him
00:57:02in the picture?
00:57:03Guess who gonna win?
00:57:05Tupac was a very
00:57:06likable person.
00:57:08All the women loved him.
00:57:11Being a rapper
00:57:12being a movie star
00:57:14for Sean
00:57:16being a marketer
00:57:18you're a manipulator.
00:57:20Please welcome
00:57:21Tupac Shakur.
00:57:23And there's envy
00:57:24for people
00:57:25who have success
00:57:26fame
00:57:27with no manipulation.
00:57:29Puff is to me
00:57:33very threatened
00:57:35by pop.
00:57:39When I reflect on
00:57:40how this all came
00:57:41into play
00:57:42it's a trail.
00:57:47City College
00:57:48innocent lives
00:57:50got taken.
00:57:51Then it became
00:57:54the ability
00:57:54to get away
00:57:55with anything.
00:57:58Then you circle
00:57:59in the fact
00:57:59that he has
00:58:00legit money.
00:58:03Then you have
00:58:04the antagonist
00:58:04Tupac Shakur.
00:58:13All those
00:58:14agreements
00:58:15created
00:58:16the chain
00:58:16of events
00:58:17that
00:58:18started
00:58:19in New York
00:58:20and ended
00:58:22in Vegas.
00:58:27I'm number one
00:58:28right now.
00:58:29I got
00:58:30the couple guys
00:58:30shot
00:58:31and his medical
00:58:32ASAP.
00:58:33I have to go
00:58:33over there,
00:58:34honey.
00:58:34Do you know
00:58:37who was
00:58:37responsible
00:58:38for the
00:58:38killing
00:58:38of
00:58:39Tupac Shakur?
00:58:41No,
00:58:41I don't.
00:58:45I think
00:58:46that Sean
00:58:47now
00:58:47in my
00:58:48mature
00:58:49mind
00:58:49had a
00:58:50lot to
00:58:51do
00:58:51with
00:58:52the
00:58:52death
00:58:52of
00:58:53Tupac.
00:59:04and
00:59:06of
00:59:18the
00:59:20or
00:59:21too
00:59:22go
00:59:23into
00:59:23have
00:59:23-
00:59:24Więc
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