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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.
00:04:10Now Patrick.
00:04:20Now Patrick.
00:04:27Damn it.
00:04:28Yeah, just get little cutaways of them, like, looking from the, you know what I'm saying?
00:04:31That's what you mean.
00:04:49All of us got to go to the maker, and we will be held accountable for the things we did
00:04:54and we didn't do.
00:04:55Sean 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
00:05:05along with if he doesn't get his way.
00:05:07Whenever this is like nobody's down with me, motherfucker.
00:05:11He quickly became my hero.
00:05:12Whatever I want to put you dead, whatever I want to have to get you.
00:05:18If y'all had a fucking chance to meet this guy, you would be like, this nigga's energy
00:05:24is 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.
00:05:31I'm not going to stay fucking down.
00:05:35He 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, Doug, 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
00:06:03control everyone around you.
00:06:06He got to that point.
00:06:09What y'all want to do?
00:06:11Want to be ballers?
00:06:12Shot callers?
00:06:13Brawlers?
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.
00:06:20Hey, yo, New York, we fucking did it!
00:06:25Harlem, we did it, Montana, 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.
00:06:39Ever.
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.
00:06:47And 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 reached the verdict.
00:07:03It's not everything that the media has put it out to be.
00:07:08You want to put stuff in my fanny bag, King?
00:07:11He's creating a narrative always.
00:07:13He is the best storyteller in hip-hop.
00:07:21He 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.
00:07:31You can't continue to keep hurting people and nothing ever happens.
00:07:42It's just a matter of time.
00:07:43Once upon a time, not long ago, when people wore pajamas and lived life slow.
00:08:00Willows were stern and justice stood.
00:08:02And people were behaving like they ought to good.
00:08:04I was there from the very beginning with the invention of Sean Combs.
00:08:27I co-founded Bad Boy with Sean.
00:08:33I was dazzled by his ideas and his unique talent.
00:08:40But he was a very different Sean Combs back then.
00:08:45Sean was 19 when he dropped out of Howard University.
00:08:52He wanted to be in the flashy, swaggy music industry.
00:08:57It seems to me you can be my life.
00:09:01He started off dancing, wanting to be in videos.
00:09:06I'm not mad at you.
00:09:09Wanting to be a pop culture mover and shaker at 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.
00:09:28It was just explosive.
00:09:31Run DMC.
00:09:32Chaos One.
00:09:33Public Enemy.
00:09:35Rock Him.
00:09:37The late 80s.
00:09:39It was fantastic.
00:09:41There were a lot of independent labels that gave birth to hip-hop in the way that we know
00:09:48it today.
00:09:50What is this new music?
00:09:56Like Uptown Records.
00:10:02Heavy D was the biggest rapper signed to Uptown.
00:10:08Excuse me.
00:10:09We got Heavy D in the house with us today.
00:10:11Thanks for coming down.
00:10:12You could be with the hardest cats in the hood.
00:10:13You could rock Heavy D.
00:10:14You're with your grandmother in the car.
00:10:15You ain't got to reach for the radio and turn it off.
00:10:18We called him the official mayor of Money Earned in Mount Vernon.
00:10:23Money Earned in Mount Vernon.
00:10:25Vernon.
00:10:28Mount Vernon is in Westchester County.
00:10:32The first city outside of the Bronx.
00:10:34Heavy D put that area on the map.
00:10:39Heavy D and the boy.
00:10:41And his influence reached all the young people in the neighborhood, including the young Sean
00:10:48Combs, who was at Mount St. Michael High School, a Catholic private school.
00:10:55He would knock on Heavy D's door every day to see if Heavy would take him to meet Andre
00:11:03Harrell.
00:11:06Andre was the champagne of rap.
00:11:11And he took the streets to Wall Street.
00:11:14The only entrance into hip-hop at that point was Andre Harrell and Russell Simmons.
00:11:21Into the corporate hip-hop world.
00:11:23Into the money.
00:11:25Sean had impressed Andre enough to give him an internship.
00:11:29And that was the beginning.
00:11:30I worked with Sean as an intern at Uptown.
00:11:37I'm going to picture, I'm going to lay it out for you.
00:11:39When you thought of Uptown records, you thought of Heavy D, and I'll be sure.
00:11:43I was the first number one artist on the Billboard charts on Uptown, and the first platinum artist
00:11:57on the Uptown label.
00:12:00He was a GQ nigga, you know.
00:12:01He was a real Penny Loafers type.
00:12:05He was one of them fly, light-skinned niggas.
00:12:07And girls loved him.
00:12:08He's ours, so nice!
00:12:10Al was dating Kim.
00:12:15Kim Porter.
00:12:18Kim is at the receptionist desk at Uptown.
00:12:21You get out the elevator, first person you see is Kim.
00:12:26And it was a beautiful sight.
00:12:28Everybody said that, you know what I mean?
00:12:30But when Sean saw Kim,
00:12:33it was different.
00:12:36And now Sean's always at the receptionist desk,
00:12:39begging Kim for something.
00:12:42A date, a kiss.
00:12:44He put it all on the table for Kim.
00:12:48It was weird.
00:12:49It was weird in the air,
00:12:50because everyone knew this was Al's girl.
00:12:54Al is hot as fish grease right now.
00:12:56Hi, this is Al B. Shore.
00:12:58Here's my exclusive number.
00:13:00Two dollars for the first minute,
00:13:0145 cents for each additional minute.
00:13:03And Sean was not really, like, the catch.
00:13:09He didn't drink alcohol.
00:13:11He forbade marijuana.
00:13:12He did not like drugs.
00:13:14He had the Gumby,
00:13:15and he looked like a scholastic dweeb.
00:13:19But Sean was so determined.
00:13:23Yo, I bet y'all could get Kim.
00:13:24And he was like, nah, no way.
00:13:27Your weight ain't even up enough yet.
00:13:29But when Sean wants something,
00:13:31he's gonna get it.
00:13:33It might be a couple of years from now,
00:13:35but sooner or later,
00:13:37he's gonna get it.
00:13:40Andre Harrell,
00:13:41Heavy D,
00:13:43Al B. Shore,
00:13:44they had all the money and all the power,
00:13:46and I was like,
00:13:46I don't know what they did,
00:13:47but that's what I want to do.
00:13:51I got to Uptown a few months after Sean did,
00:13:55and I saw him being built into cool.
00:13:59We had to go through the Uptown flavor camp.
00:14:05I learned a lot quickly.
00:14:08Being in front of Willie Burgers on the hunt 45th and A4,
00:14:11being at the rooftop.
00:14:12Let's get it going.
00:14:12Rooftop!
00:14:13The fashion,
00:14:14the walk,
00:14:15the talk,
00:14:16the attitude,
00:14:18the drive,
00:14:18the determination.
00:14:20I was ready to do whatever it took to win.
00:14:23The young Sean Combs during that time,
00:14:26he was so tenacious.
00:14:27You would ask him to turn Wednesday into Tuesday.
00:14:31He would set about doing it.
00:14:32The first task we had given him was just go get a tape ten blocks away.
00:14:39He came back in two minutes to something crazy.
00:14:41I remember I was on the phone,
00:14:42I looked up when he came back,
00:14:43I was like,
00:14:44how'd you get there so fast?
00:14:46And he said,
00:14:46I ran there and back.
00:14:49Right there and there,
00:14:50I said,
00:14:50oh,
00:14:51okay.
00:14:51I should have known then that that was never going to stop,
00:14:57to run there and run back.
00:14:59He ingratiated himself to Andre and made himself very valuable.
00:15:04Something that you don't want to do without.
00:15:07Like,
00:15:07who's going to get my clothes?
00:15:08Who's going to armor on my tire?
00:15:10This is so convenient.
00:15:12Then they lived together.
00:15:15I bought the first million dollar house.
00:15:17Funny,
00:15:17that weekend,
00:15:18just before I moved in,
00:15:19he had a mysterious fight with his mother.
00:15:22And he said,
00:15:22I can't go home.
00:15:24I got to stay here with you.
00:15:25Puff moved in before I did.
00:15:30Andre is taking him under like a son.
00:15:33Andre is the very first patriarch he connected with.
00:15:37Sean grew up with the illusion of what masculinity looks like.
00:15:44My first encounter with Sean,
00:15:45I remember it like yesterday.
00:15:49My family,
00:15:50we rented the first floor of Sean's house.
00:15:54I was my mom and dad's only child.
00:15:55So now Sean has somebody to brother up with.
00:15:59We experienced a lot of firsts together.
00:16:05I 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.
00:16:12We fit so well.
00:16:14Sean was another misfit,
00:16:15just like me.
00:16:16But the difference in my household,
00:16:20my dad taught me right from wrong.
00:16:23No,
00:16:24Sean,
00:16:24Sean didn't have that.
00:16:26Ladies and gentlemen,
00:16:27I would like to introduce my mother,
00:16:28Janice Combs.
00:16:29What were the primary jobs that you did to support your family?
00:16:39I did so many jobs at one time.
00:16:42I worked at the United Civil Policy.
00:16:45I worked at the Board of Ed in Westchester County.
00:16:49I drove the school bus.
00:16:51I worked in a baby's boutique shop.
00:16:54And he never knew this.
00:16:55I worked in an after-hours spot, too.
00:16:59I had to come clean.
00:17:01I needed to come clean.
00:17:04Okay, now.
00:17:08Okay.
00:17:09I made more money because the men thought I was very glamorous,
00:17:12and I used to pour liquor.
00:17:13And they'd give me big tips.
00:17:14In Sean's house,
00:17:17there was Janice,
00:17:19and there was Sean.
00:17:21My father's name is Melvin Combs.
00:17:24I didn't get a chance to get to know him.
00:17:25I was too young.
00:17:27My father,
00:17:27his brain's blown out,
00:17:29like, on Central Park West.
00:17:31I did the research.
00:17:33They said,
00:17:34my mother had brought me to the
00:17:36funeral on a full-length chinchilla.
00:17:38It was like a sigh of relief,
00:17:42you know what I'm saying?
00:17:43Because I finally knew that what I was feeling was true,
00:17:46you know what I'm saying?
00:17:46That I was a son of a hustler or a gangster.
00:17:50Melvin's presence was there.
00:17:52His money was there.
00:17:53And I understood that Melvin
00:17:56made a lot of things possible.
00:18:00But Sean's mom was his everything.
00:18:02If you look at some of the early pictures
00:18:06that Janice has of Sean,
00:18:09she was always making him into something.
00:18:14The hats, fur coats.
00:18:18I think she tried to overcompensate
00:18:21for the father being gone
00:18:23by making him into this dandy.
00:18:29Everything associated with Sean was Harlem.
00:18:32Whoever was flying Harlem,
00:18:35that's what he was as a child.
00:18:38Janice, she'd always be in Harlem.
00:18:41And there were times where she'd bring us.
00:18:46Here we are in this brand new Cadillac,
00:18:48because that's all Janice drove.
00:18:51She's making stops.
00:18:53Here and there.
00:18:54You know, we knew the rule, the drill.
00:18:55Just sit there, I'll be right back.
00:18:57She ain't turn the car off.
00:18:59Nobody took the car.
00:19:02No.
00:19:03So you knew there was a different vibe
00:19:04going on with this family.
00:19:07In his household,
00:19:09the groove was a little different.
00:19:13A lot of Donna Summer playing.
00:19:16And then we had these movies we'd watch.
00:19:18He's got to be number one.
00:19:20This genre of films called Black Exploitation.
00:19:23Superdude.
00:19:24You had Superfly.
00:19:26Superfly.
00:19:27You had the Mac.
00:19:28When you got nothing,
00:19:30you want everything,
00:19:31you got to get to be the Mac.
00:19:34Their parts were hustler parts.
00:19:37In Sean's household,
00:19:41you start to see all the stuff
00:19:43that you saw in the movies.
00:19:47Janice knew how to throw a party.
00:19:50And the party's packed.
00:19:52You got ladies that look like
00:19:54they're straight out of a Jet magazine.
00:19:56Some brothers up there.
00:19:58You know, if you want to call them pimps,
00:20:00you can.
00:20:00If you want to call them hustlers,
00:20:01you can.
00:20:02You got a member of the New York Knicks
00:20:04or two.
00:20:09There was a stage in her living room.
00:20:11Literally a stage.
00:20:13And that's where we used to have to go and dance.
00:20:17And everybody's calling you baby.
00:20:19And everybody's saying,
00:20:20do that dance.
00:20:27And all of this stuff he's taken in.
00:20:32So from the movie screen
00:20:36to the home screen,
00:20:38these are the makings of Sean Combs.
00:20:43Now mind you,
00:20:44as a child,
00:20:44Sean was goofy.
00:20:46Kids would pick on him a lot
00:20:48around the block.
00:20:50And he didn't know
00:20:51how to defend himself.
00:20:53Sean was a prince.
00:20:55And Janice,
00:20:57she didn't want no princess.
00:20:59She held back nothing.
00:21:00You've said,
00:21:02I would be 12 years old.
00:21:04And sometimes I'd be out
00:21:05until 3, 4 in the morning.
00:21:06James, James,
00:21:07we don't have to get into that right now.
00:21:11Ma'am?
00:21:12Got a lot of beatings too.
00:21:15His beatings made me scared.
00:21:19Right?
00:21:21I got beatings now.
00:21:24But when he got his beatings,
00:21:26it wasn't no.
00:21:28It wasn't a joking thing.
00:21:30Nah.
00:21:33Damn,
00:21:34I hate thinking about that, man.
00:21:39My mother was, I guess,
00:21:40raising me for the real world.
00:21:42She was always told me
00:21:43if somebody hit me,
00:21:44make sure I hit them back harder.
00:21:45Make sure they never hit me again.
00:21:47Make sure I fucked them up.
00:21:48You know how you hear
00:21:51your mom's voice
00:21:52in your ear.
00:21:54Boy?
00:21:55You better.
00:21:57Boy?
00:22:00Sean started fighting.
00:22:01He started stepping up.
00:22:04But Sean don't fight like this.
00:22:06Sean's gonna bite you.
00:22:08He's gonna eat your ear off.
00:22:09He's gonna cut your neck open
00:22:11with his mouth.
00:22:13He's not losing.
00:22:18I know people
00:22:19are shaped by pain
00:22:21as well as by love.
00:22:24And if it was more pain
00:22:25than love,
00:22:27watch out.
00:22:30There's gonna be pain
00:22:31that you're gonna give others
00:22:33because you're responding
00:22:35to that pain
00:22:36that you just can't see
00:22:37and cut out of you.
00:22:41I didn't know much about him.
00:22:53I know that he had
00:22:54a big ego.
00:22:58I met him
00:22:59around 89, 90.
00:23:01My job was to promote
00:23:03music videos.
00:23:05And Puffy,
00:23:06he was always doing
00:23:06the party promotions
00:23:07so he's always like
00:23:08handing out the flyers.
00:23:10At the time,
00:23:11I was working
00:23:12with Andre Harrell.
00:23:13He wasn't paying me enough
00:23:14so I had to promote
00:23:15parties on the side,
00:23:16which was all good.
00:23:18Daddy's house.
00:23:19He was savvy enough
00:23:20to promote parties.
00:23:22They were the most
00:23:22successful parties
00:23:23at that time.
00:23:25But they were all
00:23:26about promoting himself.
00:23:28One of the brothers
00:23:28that put the party together
00:23:30is my man,
00:23:31Puff Daddy.
00:23:32Really, it was no problem
00:23:33because all my black
00:23:33brothers and sisters
00:23:34came together
00:23:35like my man
00:23:35took you fresh.
00:23:36All the beautiful women
00:23:37out here,
00:23:37we came together
00:23:38just to have a good time.
00:23:39I went to a party
00:23:41for a good friend.
00:23:46It was getting very late.
00:23:48Puffy is like,
00:23:49oh, you know,
00:23:50I'm having an after party
00:23:51at Andre Harrell's house.
00:23:57Andre Harrell wasn't there.
00:23:58He was out of town.
00:23:58People were tracking mud
00:24:05through the house
00:24:06and I remember
00:24:06at the end of the night,
00:24:07I was helping
00:24:08clean up the mud.
00:24:11Puffy is like,
00:24:12very polite,
00:24:13you know,
00:24:13and thanking me
00:24:14for helping him.
00:24:16And he asked me,
00:24:17oh, wow,
00:24:18I just got this call,
00:24:19you know,
00:24:19someone,
00:24:19this girl backed out
00:24:20of this music video,
00:24:22you know,
00:24:22can you do it?
00:24:23And I was like,
00:24:25I don't do music videos.
00:24:28But this party
00:24:29was in New Jersey
00:24:30and I needed a ride
00:24:32back to Manhattan.
00:24:34So I went along.
00:24:39And I never forget,
00:24:40I had the same clothes on
00:24:42that I had
00:24:43from the night before.
00:24:45The music video
00:24:46was called
00:24:47Straight from the Soul
00:24:49by Finesse
00:24:51and Sinquist.
00:24:53The whole premise
00:24:54was for me
00:24:55to jump out the car
00:24:56and go with these girls
00:24:57and get away
00:24:58from the pimp guy.
00:25:00Nice clothes in a car
00:25:01doesn't make you a star.
00:25:02You can't talk positive
00:25:03and do the opposite
00:25:04cause then you're
00:25:05labeled as a crime
00:25:06or a hypocrite.
00:25:07You can't be righteous
00:25:08so a party just flipped.
00:25:09Sniff and snore,
00:25:10drink and drive
00:25:10and hide your sister strip.
00:25:11You know what I look like
00:25:12to your people?
00:25:13A bacon scrape.
00:25:14Dying sisters
00:25:15don't want to look
00:25:15you in your face.
00:25:16Wanting to be a pimp,
00:25:17brother,
00:25:18your heart ain't that cold.
00:25:19And it's a safe
00:25:20from the soul.
00:25:28Was there ever
00:25:29a time that Sean Combs
00:25:31sexually assaulted you?
00:25:35Yes.
00:25:39Someone called me up
00:25:40and told me that,
00:25:41um,
00:25:41he said,
00:25:42you know,
00:25:42he has,
00:25:43you know,
00:25:43video.
00:25:45And I was like,
00:25:46what?
00:25:47And that's when he,
00:25:48um,
00:25:50ex-
00:25:50described it
00:25:51and explained it.
00:25:52I just want to say this.
00:26:14This thing was incredibly
00:26:16devastating to my family.
00:26:18my mother.
00:26:21She's a social worker.
00:26:22We don't have money.
00:26:25The thing
00:26:27that we had
00:26:31was our pride.
00:26:36We carried ourselves well.
00:26:39We were pretty.
00:26:40We were intelligent.
00:26:41this is the basis
00:26:43of what I had.
00:26:46Self-respect.
00:26:49My mother wrote a letter
00:26:51to Combs' parents.
00:26:55I just found this
00:26:57recently.
00:27:00Can I read it?
00:27:01Dear Mr. and Mrs. Combs,
00:27:08I'm writing you
00:27:10to inform you
00:27:12of something
00:27:14that your son
00:27:15did to my daughter.
00:27:18One weekend
00:27:19while visiting my daughter,
00:27:21I awoke to her
00:27:22screaming in the middle
00:27:23of the night.
00:27:24she told me
00:27:26that she was
00:27:27dreaming
00:27:28about Puffy.
00:27:30I asked her
00:27:32why she was
00:27:34screaming
00:27:34and who is this
00:27:35Puffy person
00:27:36that he would
00:27:37cause her
00:27:38to have nightmares.
00:27:39I was shocked
00:27:41and mortified
00:27:42to hear her story.
00:27:43she told me
00:27:46that several people
00:27:47have come to her
00:27:48to inform her
00:27:50that your son
00:27:51has made
00:27:52an obscene
00:27:52videotape
00:27:53of her.
00:27:55Without her knowledge,
00:27:57he videotaped
00:27:59him doing
00:28:00something sexual
00:28:01to her.
00:28:04Apparently,
00:28:05your son
00:28:06shows these tapes
00:28:08at parties
00:28:08on large screen
00:28:10televisions.
00:28:11I realize
00:28:14that this
00:28:15may be hard
00:28:15for you to believe,
00:28:17but if I hadn't
00:28:18heard this story
00:28:18from my daughter's
00:28:19own mouth
00:28:20and looked
00:28:21into her eyes,
00:28:22I would have
00:28:23scarcely believed
00:28:24that any individual
00:28:26would compromise
00:28:28another person's
00:28:30dignity
00:28:30in this manner.
00:28:31I approached
00:28:41a lot of people
00:28:42for help.
00:28:46I got things
00:28:47like,
00:28:49what do you want
00:28:49me to do
00:28:50about it
00:28:51to,
00:28:53if I help you,
00:28:54I can't get
00:28:54into his parties.
00:28:55I got Puff Daddy
00:28:59from Puff Daddy's
00:29:00house.
00:29:00What's up?
00:29:01What's up?
00:29:01And we revolutionized
00:29:03the hip-hop club scene
00:29:04this year.
00:29:08Why would you
00:29:08want to do that?
00:29:11Drug and
00:29:11rape the girl,
00:29:13tape it,
00:29:15and then
00:29:15put it up
00:29:16on the screen?
00:29:19Here's my theory.
00:29:20Alpo Martinez,
00:29:25drug lord,
00:29:26famous,
00:29:27Harlem,
00:29:28street,
00:29:29tough guy,
00:29:30hung out
00:29:30at the rooftop.
00:29:34Alpo had
00:29:35a lot of girls,
00:29:36and he would
00:29:37tape girls
00:29:38that he was
00:29:39having sex with,
00:29:40and then
00:29:40on a Saturday
00:29:41night,
00:29:42he might
00:29:42bring his camera
00:29:43and put it
00:29:44on the wall.
00:29:45And everyone
00:29:46knows that
00:29:46so-and-so's
00:29:47girl.
00:29:50What Sean saw
00:29:54was,
00:29:55I want to be
00:29:55looked upon
00:29:56in that way
00:29:58as someone
00:29:58that has
00:29:59that type
00:30:00of stature.
00:30:02All his life,
00:30:03he's been trying
00:30:04to honor a man
00:30:05he believed
00:30:06it was
00:30:07a famous
00:30:08Harlem gangster,
00:30:09and that
00:30:11gave his father
00:30:12a mythic
00:30:13presence.
00:30:16People like
00:30:17Alpo,
00:30:18he looked
00:30:18at those guys
00:30:19with a certain
00:30:20amount of
00:30:20jealousy
00:30:20or envy,
00:30:22a certain
00:30:22amount of
00:30:23respect,
00:30:23and there's
00:30:24a certain
00:30:25amount of
00:30:26desire,
00:30:27that thing
00:30:28was in him
00:30:29from there.
00:30:36Did you ever
00:30:37confront Sean
00:30:38about him?
00:30:39I did.
00:30:41I avoided
00:30:42him for a
00:30:43very long
00:30:44time.
00:30:45I ran
00:30:46into him
00:30:46one day.
00:30:47he came
00:30:49to me,
00:30:50he got
00:30:52on his
00:30:52knees,
00:30:53and swore
00:30:54he did not
00:30:55do this
00:30:55thing to
00:30:56me,
00:30:57and denied
00:30:59it.
00:31:05And that
00:31:06was the
00:31:06very last
00:31:06time I
00:31:06talked to
00:31:07him.
00:31:07when I
00:31:14think back
00:31:14in terms
00:31:15of his
00:31:15rise,
00:31:16it is
00:31:19the most
00:31:20helpless
00:31:21feeling.
00:31:24I was
00:31:24always
00:31:25nauseous
00:31:25when I
00:31:26saw his
00:31:26image.
00:31:29The one
00:31:30image in
00:31:31Times Square
00:31:32where he's
00:31:33holding his
00:31:34fist up.
00:31:37When I
00:31:37saw it,
00:31:39I vomited
00:31:39right there
00:31:40on the
00:31:41street.
00:31:43You are
00:31:44really raising
00:31:44your hand
00:31:45to victory,
00:31:45and I'm
00:31:46living in
00:31:46trauma and
00:31:47defeat.
00:31:47new
00:32:05legal
00:32:05trouble
00:32:05for
00:32:06Sean
00:32:06Diddy.
00:32:06Another
00:32:07new
00:32:07lawsuit.
00:32:12Federal
00:32:12prosecutors
00:32:13in New
00:32:13York have
00:32:14interviewed
00:32:14numerous
00:32:15women who
00:32:15allege
00:32:16wrong
00:32:16to
00:32:16at least
00:32:17the
00:32:17tenth
00:32:17civil
00:32:18lawsuit
00:32:18filed
00:32:19against
00:32:19Sean
00:32:19Diddy
00:32:20Combs
00:32:20alleged
00:32:20sextract
00:32:21to
00:32:21take
00:32:22the
00:32:22blood.
00:32:23What the
00:32:23fuck
00:32:23else
00:32:24are
00:32:24on?
00:32:28Just
00:32:29silly
00:32:30bullshit
00:32:31noise.
00:32:34But it's
00:32:36like the
00:32:37legal system
00:32:37is doing
00:32:38it now.
00:32:38Because
00:32:38like
00:32:38legally
00:32:39it's
00:32:40like
00:32:41I got
00:32:42to spend
00:32:42money
00:32:43to go
00:32:43and get
00:32:44rid of
00:32:44this
00:32:44bullshit.
00:32:46Oh yeah
00:32:47ain't got
00:32:48nothing
00:32:49left.
00:32:50Got
00:32:51nothing
00:32:51left
00:32:51going
00:32:52on.
00:32:54They ain't
00:32:55breaking me
00:32:55though.
00:32:56How are you
00:32:57boss?
00:32:57If you don't
00:32:58mind,
00:32:58want a picture
00:32:58please?
00:33:00I'm not good
00:33:01with the
00:33:01camera so
00:33:01I'm gonna
00:33:02try.
00:33:06Yeah.
00:33:07hop in
00:33:10as a group
00:33:11as a group.
00:33:13Sean was
00:33:14destined
00:33:14to be
00:33:16famous.
00:33:17Okay.
00:33:19One more,
00:33:19one more.
00:33:20Yeah.
00:33:20One more,
00:33:20something about that.
00:33:22I didn't see
00:33:23him for me coming.
00:33:24I swear I didn't
00:33:25see that coming.
00:33:25I'm 19 and I always
00:33:31like seeing people
00:33:32entertained and I
00:33:34thought, you know,
00:33:35over the holidays I just
00:33:36wanted to throw a
00:33:37celebrity basketball
00:33:37game in Harlem.
00:33:42I was at the game,
00:33:43I was on the floor.
00:33:44All of us was there,
00:33:45every rapper in New
00:33:46York, right?
00:33:48Your MTV Raps
00:33:49came.
00:33:49I'm at City College in
00:33:50the heart of New York
00:33:51City for the Pump
00:33:52Daddy Heavy D first
00:33:54all-time celebrity
00:33:55All-Star Classic.
00:33:57That was one of the
00:33:58biggest basketball
00:33:59games.
00:33:59If that would have
00:34:00turned out correctly
00:34:01it would have went
00:34:02down in history.
00:34:07There were lines
00:34:08and lines around
00:34:09the campus to get in.
00:34:11There's no more room,
00:34:13but everyone still
00:34:14wants to come.
00:34:18We opened up the
00:34:19doors, everybody
00:34:19saw us flowing
00:34:20through.
00:34:21But then thousands
00:34:22more come.
00:34:35There was a thing
00:34:36in hip hop called
00:34:37bum-rushing the door.
00:34:39People don't have a
00:34:39ticket when they hear
00:34:40something sold out.
00:34:41They say, fuck it,
00:34:42we got to still get in,
00:34:42we're going to bum-rush
00:34:43the door.
00:34:45When they got to the
00:34:46bottom of the stairs,
00:34:47the doors didn't go out
00:34:49that way, they only came
00:34:50in.
00:34:51So people were stuck.
00:34:54And they were just
00:34:54crushing people down
00:34:55at the bottom of the
00:34:56stairs.
00:34:59We on the court,
00:35:01warming up the play,
00:35:02and then Dougie first
00:35:03grabbed the mic and
00:35:04said, there's people
00:35:04that are dead.
00:35:05Sean over-promoted, over-hyped,
00:35:19and that led to a crash.
00:35:23Sean over-promoted, over-hyped,
00:35:34and that led to a crowd.
00:35:37It was just like, oh shit,
00:35:39how did this happen so quick?
00:35:41How would people want to
00:35:43explain it?
00:35:44We need a lot of help here.
00:35:48There's a lot of people
00:35:49hurt and aren't breathing.
00:35:51Not breathing?
00:35:52Yes.
00:35:52We, I mean, we have a
00:35:53emergency over here.
00:36:03We got a lot of people here
00:36:05dead in the gymnasium,
00:36:06please.
00:36:06They did?
00:36:07The death toll from last
00:36:11week's stampede at a New
00:36:12York charity basketball game
00:36:14has risen to nine.
00:36:16They was 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
00:36:24questions remains who's to
00:36:26blame for the stampede that
00:36:28killed nine people.
00:36:31Throughout the newspaper
00:36:33headlines, throughout the
00:36:35confusion, the finger-pointing
00:36:37who was responsible, Sean
00:36:40Young, in real time, carried
00:36:44the weight of all of that.
00:36:47My dream for this evening was
00:36:50to bring a positive program to
00:36:52my people, to people of my age,
00:36:54and to people in my community.
00:36:56Whatever must be done, must be
00:36:58done to ensure that this never,
00:37:00ever, ever happens again.
00:37:03That was the biggest news ever.
00:37:05That's how he got super famous
00:37:07was that game and those deaths.
00:37:12That's the beginning of Puff Daddy.
00:37:16That's really how I started to
00:37:18become famous, was through a
00:37:20tragedy.
00:37:24He was holed up in a hotel on the
00:37:26east side, him and his mother.
00:37:28He didn't know what was going to
00:37:30happen, and I saw Janice question
00:37:34Sean.
00:37:36He's going into this music business
00:37:38thing.
00:37:39He just left school, and now this
00:37:41extreme tragedy has occurred.
00:37:44She's like, did he make the right
00:37:45decision?
00:37:48And I saw him put his hands on her,
00:37:51call her a bitch, and slapped her.
00:37:55He's not looking back.
00:38:07Sean Puff Daddy Combs and sponsors
00:38:10claim no responsibility in the
00:38:12tragic chain of events that claim
00:38:13nine lives and injured.
00:38:15The brass that afforded Uptown its
00:38:18distribution money wanted Sean out.
00:38:22I saw Andre fight and fight to keep
00:38:26Sean in, and he did.
00:38:29Andre Arrell, Puff Daddy, he's
00:38:30passing 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
00:38:37and why you like working with him.
00:38:39Because, you know, he's not
00:38:40intimidated by youth, you know what
00:38:42I'm saying?
00:38:42He knows the importance of leaving
00:38:43the legacy behind.
00:38:45Because we need more adults out
00:38:46there that's going to teach the
00:38:47young, such as myself.
00:38:50I took Andre Arrell out to lunch,
00:38:52and I said, can I get a chance to
00:38:54maybe do A&R?
00:38:56The A&R is artists and repertoire.
00:38:58That's the guy that works at the
00:38:59record company that puts the records
00:39:00together and works with the artists.
00:39:03I said, give me a chance.
00:39:05You know, you're making music for
00:39:06young people.
00:39:07I'm young, and, you know, who better
00:39:09to make the music than me?
00:39:12We had a group back in the day.
00:39:15They drove up to New York
00:39:17unannounced 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
00:39:31first responsibility.
00:39:32Nigga, go make Jodeci.
00:39:34What's in the future of Jodeci?
00:39:36Hopefully to make hits, hits, hits.
00:39:39Andre put his trust with Sean
00:39:42as opposed to the artists.
00:39:46He told us, I don't care who the
00:39:48artist is, you're more important
00:39:50than them.
00:39:51The artists don't work without you.
00:39:54What would be the ideal musical
00:39:55setting for y'all?
00:39:56I guess I'm falling in front of, like,
00:39:57millions of people, you know.
00:39:58You have to be able to control
00:40:00everything.
00:40:02I basically style and come up with
00:40:04the images and design most of the
00:40:06clothing for all of the artists.
00:40:07It was him that put Jodeci in the
00:40:10pants baggy, sagging at the bottom,
00:40:13the boots not lacing it up.
00:40:15He is able to sponge from the community
00:40:18and the culture and package it.
00:40:21And in the studio, he did the same
00:40:25thing.
00:40:27Sean wasn't a producer where he can
00:40:29tell you, you need a C here, a C
00:40:31note, or this is an F.
00:40:34But he did have a good ear for what
00:40:36could 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
00:40:43Brucey B would mix acapellas from
00:40:46R&B songs with hard hip-hop beats.
00:40:50And it drove the kids crazy at the
00:40:55clubs.
00:40:57That's what Sean did with Jodeci on
00:41:00those remixes.
00:41:01It was very minimal.
00:41:03It was very hard beat and snare.
00:41:05No melody.
00:41:13Jodeci's record started climbing the
00:41:15charts.
00:41:15Sean turned that into the blueprint
00:41:20for his special brand of A&R.
00:41:23And then the next artist to benefit
00:41:25from that was Mary J.
00:41:27Blythe.
00:41:32Mary's what's the 411 was out the
00:41:35box.
00:41:35The hat pulled out, the mysteriousness.
00:41:41It had a little bit of a darkness and
00:41:43moodiness to it as well.
00:41:46All of that was groundbreaking.
00:41:50He launched a female artist in a male-dominated
00:41:54hip-hop era, who became an instant success, and that
00:42:02created hip-hop soul.
00:42:05Mary became the owner of that sound.
00:42:13Sean was making the hits happen and the
00:42:15visuals happened in 1992.
00:42:18Sean is promoted to VP of A&R and Artists and
00:42:21Development.
00:42:23So my name's Puff Daddy, vice president of A&R and
00:42:26Arts Development for Uptown Records, which
00:42:29brought you the hits of Jodeci, Mary J.
00:42:31Blige, Heavy D and the boys for all MC, and you
00:42:35know, on and on and on.
00:42:36Puffy had Jodeci and Mary J. Blige, but Puffy's a big,
00:42:40huge EPMD fan.
00:42:45He was at my crossover video shoot, and he asked me to
00:42:50do the Mary J. Blige intro for the 411 album.
00:42:58I did that for him, and then all of a sudden we became
00:43:00friends.
00:43:03I thought it was a general friendship.
00:43:05until I see that this game is being played.
00:43:10You got an agenda.
00:43:13Misa, he was trying to court her after we broke up.
00:43:19Sean wants her because Eric was that dude.
00:43:25It was about, I got her, I won her over from him.
00:43:30He had to have the girl.
00:43:31And Sean has a way about, when he gets you, he got you.
00:43:37He got you, and now you become property.
00:43:41Me and Misa were just friends, but he wanted to make sure that there was no calling in me being friends with that girl.
00:43:51Sean's jealousy.
00:43:53Sean's jealousy, it got to the point where he put his hands on her.
00:43:57Right outside of Uptown Records, they're fighting in the street, and he's beating her into the car well.
00:44:04And he's beating her into the car well.
00:44:08She's on the ground.
00:44:09And people are pulling him off of her and separating her a year or two later, they're still together, and Justin is born.
00:44:22When he invited me to be the godfather of his first son, I was able to push that in the back of my mind and say, that was a really bad moment, but he was weak, and it was a bad moment.
00:44:44Does that make me part of a Sean Combs cult?
00:44:50Maybe so.
00:44:52I may have been the first disciple, believer, and then overall protector against all odds.
00:45:03At that point, Sean is on top of the world.
00:45:31His trajectory was only up.
00:45:33I was just a wonder kid.
00:45:37It was just something that they never saw before.
00:45:40To be young and to be Puff Daddy, it's just like, I felt like my dream had came true.
00:45:54Everybody now is looking for this kid, because they all have artists that they have to get to the top of the chart.
00:46:01What does that do to a person?
00:46:02Do you think I'm still going to be like, yes, ma'am, no, ma'am, thank you very much?
00:46:11He became too big for Uptown Records.
00:46:13I'm going to be so drunk and high by Wednesday at 8 o'clock.
00:46:15I'm not really going to give a fuck.
00:46:16But I give a fuck.
00:46:17There started to be some dissension between Andre and Puff.
00:46:23Andre was the king of the Uptown Castle of the Empire he created.
00:46:27And the intern was taking his place.
00:46:33Andre called me into his office.
00:46:41He tells me just like this.
00:46:45He says, dog, I just fired Puff.
00:46:47I said, word?
00:46:48It was a sad day.
00:46:55Andre was like a surrogate dad for Sean.
00:47:00Sean was really sick when Andre fired him.
00:47:04I'm talking about sick.
00:47:06Couldn't believe it.
00:47:07And then Sean called me.
00:47:12And he said, yo, I'm about to do my thing, dog.
00:47:29Puff was like, yo, I'm looking for some hardcore artist.
00:47:33He said, he tired of doing the Mary shit, Jodeci shit.
00:47:37He want to do some hard shit, some street shit.
00:47:39Straight out of college.
00:47:40Crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube.
00:47:42From the gang called niggas with attitude.
00:47:45So I guess I got the handle mine.
00:47:47The West Coast had the hits that we wanted.
00:47:52You're going for sex shit and sex shit.
00:47:55What you want, nigga?
00:47:56Sean signed Biggie in 1992.
00:48:01People didn't know.
00:48:02We had to produce Biggie's album for Uptown.
00:48:04He was an Uptown artist.
00:48:06So it's the Detroit is big then.
00:48:08Yeah, yeah.
00:48:09B-I-G.
00:48:09Business instead of game, right?
00:48:11I'm telling my children.
00:48:13But when Andre fired Puff, he fired him with a caveat.
00:48:17I'm letting you go, but I'm going to let you take Biggie with you.
00:48:23Andre decided to sell us the Biggie album.
00:48:25But now, we had to find a way to pay for it.
00:48:32We were living on borrowed time.
00:48:35I went about setting up the meetings.
00:48:38Then we met with Epic, Sony, Columbia.
00:48:42Then we met with Clive Davis at Ariston.
00:48:45Everybody knows him on a first-name basis.
00:48:48Clive runs a $100 million record company called Ariston.
00:48:51He has discovered Whitney Houston, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin, and a long list of other pop stars who thrive in the world, according to Clive.
00:49:04So we went to Clive, and we played a few tracks from Biggie's album.
00:49:11And I remember one of the first ones that we played was Gimme the Loop.
00:49:14Yes, love, love your fucking attitude.
00:49:16Because the nigga play pussy, that's the nigga.
00:49:18And Clive's eyes went like this.
00:49:21I'm slamming niggas like Shaquille.
00:49:23Shit, it's real.
00:49:24And I said, wow, you got the goods.
00:49:27And I bought into his vision.
00:49:28Gimme the loop, gimme the loop.
00:49:30I'm a jester.
00:49:31Gimme the loop, gimme the loop.
00:49:33I'm a jester.
00:49:33Gimme the loop, gimme the loop.
00:49:36I named it Bad Boy because I wanted to go against the grain.
00:49:41I didn't want to just make records.
00:49:42I didn't want to just make money.
00:49:44I wanted to make history.
00:49:47Fire it up, Bad Boy.
00:49:48Fuck daddy.
00:49:55I was at Bad Boy starting from the day that we put the LLC together.
00:50:00And Sean gave me 25% in stock.
00:50:04And his mother, Janice, had 75%.
00:50:08He did not put the company in his name to protect him from paying families at CCNY.
00:50:16And I saw from that moment on, Sean had shifted in his personality.
00:50:24I didn't see any more of the Mount St. Michael teen, Sean.
00:50:32He had become more like the person I see today.
00:50:37We did a deal for approximately $10 million.
00:50:44$1.5 went as an advance into Sean's pocket.
00:50:49Another $1.5 is supposed to be our overhead.
00:50:53Sean said, that's yours.
00:50:55You can do whatever you want with it.
00:50:56But you better make sure my company's running.
00:50:58From day zero, I wrote everything down every day so I could keep track of everything I needed to do.
00:51:07I ran all the money, all the budgets for the company, as well as a lot for his personal life and all that came with it.
00:51:14I don't like the way you're treating me or me getting my second half.
00:51:19This shit is bullshit.
00:51:19Yo, yo, yo, yo, bust your ass and ask me...
00:51:23I think that he had this thing with strong men.
00:51:27And he had a thing with wanting to be one, but not positioned to be one street-wise, but positioned to be one industry-wise.
00:51:36And they call that a paper gangster.
00:51:38Shit over.
00:51:38I'm not paying, nor am I involved in any of that shit.
00:51:42And so, as he's paper gangstering, he's also trying to street gangster, too, at the same time.
00:51:50Savage! I'm a savage!
00:51:52He's not from the street.
00:51:54His mother did the very best to give him the best.
00:51:57What's next? Give me something else.
00:51:59What can't you do? I can do it.
00:52:01But now, he's been getting beefier and beefier with the power from the music.
00:52:06That's a good way to get your head filled up to think that you're just as gangster as they are now.
00:52:12Without even having to pop your gun off yourself.
00:52:18Now, after all this time, me and Misa is still cool.
00:52:22We were just friends.
00:52:25But one time, she just happened to be in my driver's seat in my truck.
00:52:29And all of a sudden, I heard somebody go, and it's him.
00:52:36He's steaming.
00:52:38He swings on me.
00:52:41So I'm laughing, because I'm like, he swung on me?
00:52:45You're putting yourself in jeopardy, knowing you can't work with none of us.
00:52:49So now, I'm like, yo, let's go around the corner.
00:52:53Because I'm respectful enough.
00:52:57So he actually gets in the car, and we drive around the corner.
00:53:01So I'm about to give him the business.
00:53:03Shit could have got really ugly.
00:53:06And he just said, yo, see now, I want you to hear something real quick.
00:53:09And that's when he played me the Biggie Smalls album.
00:53:11Yeah, this album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me I'll never amount to nothing.
00:53:18The juicy single dropped somewhere in 94.
00:53:22It was all a dream.
00:53:23I used to read Word Up magazine.
00:53:25But Biggie's trajectory was not zero straight to the top.
00:53:30Biggie had a slow start, very nervous at first.
00:53:35At the time, that West Coast thing is happening.
00:53:38And so we began to look at what they were doing, and Tupac was like a shining star.
00:53:44There's a song called I Get Around by Tupac.
00:53:47I get around.
00:53:48Stay with me with the underground.
00:53:50Round and round.
00:53:50I get around.
00:53:52That song, if you're like in a science lab, and you're looking at something with a microscope,
00:53:57and you're trying to figure out what it is and what it's made of,
00:54:00that's what we did with that song, I Get Around.
00:54:02Sean was just mesmerized by that particular song, the structure of it, the video and the visuals.
00:54:10It showed the culture.
00:54:13It's like, let me dissect this.
00:54:14Let me understand it.
00:54:16Let me do it my way.
00:54:17And the next single was Big Papa, and that dropped, and it took us over the edge with Biggie.
00:54:24I liked it.
00:54:26Yeah.
00:54:26He was out of here from that moment on.
00:54:29I like it when you call me Big Papa.
00:54:31Throw your hands in the air if you's a true player.
00:54:35We had Ready to Die before it came out.
00:54:39Big had sent Tupac a demo, and we played that tape to death, man.
00:54:43We played that tape to it, it was destroyed, and then Pac got the phone call that Big was having an album release party.
00:54:51He said to us, man, we all go into that.
00:54:54He was very excited for him.
00:54:55The notorious Big album release party, it was so bad.
00:54:59We hear everybody hear.
00:55:01I've never seen someone more excited for someone else's success as Pac was for Big's success.
00:55:09You ready, nigga?
00:55:10Yeah.
00:55:10You ready for that raw dog shit, nigga?
00:55:12I want you on the other ground, baby.
00:55:14Okay.
00:55:14All right.
00:55:16Let me see how I'm going to hit you with.
00:55:18He thought Big was dope.
00:55:20He wasn't doper than him as far as he was concerned.
00:55:23Tupacalypse, don't sleep.
00:55:25I keep a motherfucking Glock in my car.
00:55:27But he was the next thing smoking.
00:55:30I'm a high guy from Bed-Stuy, putting the swelling on your eye.
00:55:33Your nose even, when I choke you, you stop breathing.
00:55:36When police come, I'm leaving.
00:55:38Peace and love.
00:55:39We got it.
00:55:40Pac would take Big with him on chores and let him open up for him.
00:55:53Pac was developing thug life, this ideology of taking back our communities.
00:56:00Big was with that.
00:56:01He felt it.
00:56:02He resonated with it.
00:56:03So they had a connection.
00:56:07Sean was insanely jealous of Biggie and Pac's friendship.
00:56:15You know, when I was around Big, I felt like he really loved me.
00:56:18I felt like if I left the room, he wasn't going to say nothing bad or somebody said something
00:56:24bad about me, he would defend that.
00:56:27He was probably one of the only people I had really trusted, like, for a long time.
00:56:31You're going to a little writing room right now.
00:56:32You're going to a little writing room right now.
00:56:35There's a yearning for him to have that complete, total control.
00:56:40You're my artist.
00:56:42You're my best friend.
00:56:44You're writing this song for like 30 motherfucking days.
00:56:47I pay you.
00:56:48You work for me.
00:56:52I make hits with you.
00:56:56And who is this guy?
00:57:01Why do we need him in the picture?
00:57:03Guess who's going to win?
00:57:05Tupac was a very likable person.
00:57:08All the women loved him.
00:57:11Being a rapper, being a movie star.
00:57:16For Sean, being a marketer, you're a manipulator.
00:57:20Please welcome Tupac Shakur.
00:57:23And there's envy for people who have success, fame, with no manipulation.
00:57:29Tupac is, to me, very threatened by Pop.
00:57:39When I reflect on how this all came into play, it's a trail.
00:57:47City College.
00:57:49Innocent lives got taken.
00:57:53Then it became the ability to get away with anything.
00:57:56And then you circle in the fact that he has legit money.
00:58:03Then you have the antagonist, Tupac Shakur.
00:58:13All those agreements created the chain of events that started in New York and ended in Vegas.
00:58:23Do you know who was responsible for the killing of Tupac Shakur?
00:58:41No, I don't.
00:58:42I think that Sean now, in my mature mind, had a lot to do with the death of Tupac.
00:58:53Do you know who was responsible for the killing of Tupac Shakur?
00:59:10No, I can't...
00:59:11...but anybody who was mistaken…
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