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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.
00:04:10Let me, let's, here.
00:04:26Darn it, uh.
00:04:29Yeah, just get little cutaway of them like looking from the- you know what I'm saying? That's what's neat.
00:04:33all of us got to go to the maker and we will be held accountable for the things we did and we
00:04:54didn't do Sean Combs is an asshole he is the motherfucker you're not gonna like and you're
00:05:04not gonna get the fuck along with if he doesn't get his way he quickly became my hero if y'all had a
00:05:20fucking chance to meet this guy yes you would be like this niggas energy is everything I gotta get
00:05:26up and go I gotta get up and do it what's next what's next I gotta get it I'm not gonna stay
00:05:32fucking down he was presenting this freedom that black people hadn't had like we had an
00:05:41experience the black man being able to say I don't want that I don't want no problems what you calling
00:05:46hey yo dog what are you talking about you telling me like I'm on some bullshit I ain't on no bullshit
00:05:50with you so 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 he got to that point what y'all wanna do wanna be ballers
00:06:12shot callers brawlers it's like Scarface the movie I want the world and everything that's in it
00:06:18but you got everything hey yo New York we fucking did it Harlem we did it Montana we did it
00:06:27it was a mantra that Sean had nobody's gonna be bigger than me Sean is the one percent of the one
00:06:34percent of the one percent we'll never see a Sean in my lifetime again ever
00:06:39it 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 I do feel it's important that we let the
00:06:55public know from the juror standpoint just kind of how we um reached the verdict
00:07:01it's not everything that the media has put it out to be you want to put stuff in my fanny pack
00:07:09he's creating a narrative always
00:07:13he is the best storyteller in hip-hop he thinks he's black superman I can do what I want
00:07:24you can't go on for long in life doing the things that he was doing before something eventually
00:07:30happens
00:07:31you can't continue to keep hurting people and nothing ever happens
00:07:38it's just a matter of time
00:07:44once upon a time not long ago when people wore pajamas and live life slow willows were stern and
00:08:01justice stood and people were behaving like they ought to good how you change the kid go ahead
00:08:06the little boy who was misled by another little boy and this is what he said
00:08:13me and you time we're gonna make some cash robbing old folks and making the dance
00:08:19i was there from the very beginning with the invention of sean combs i co-founded bad boy with sean
00:08:33i was dazzled by his ideas and his unique talent but he was a very different sean combs back then
00:08:44sean was 19 when he dropped out of howard university he wanted to be in the flashy swaggy music industry
00:09:02he started off dancing wanting to be in videos
00:09:05wanting to be a pop culture mover and shaker at a time where things were changing
00:09:19hip-hop was evolving like it or not rap is here to stay it has become part of mainstream commerce
00:09:28it was just explosive run dmc chaos one public enemy
00:09:35rock him the late 80s it was fantastic there were a lot of independent labels
00:09:45they gave birth to hip-hop in the way that we know it today
00:09:50what is this new music
00:09:56like uptown records
00:09:57heavy d was the biggest rapper signed to uptown
00:10:08excuse me we got heavy d in the house with us today thanks for coming down
00:10:11you could be with the hardest cats in the hood you could rock heavy d you with your grandmother in
00:10:15the car you ain't got to reach for the radio and turn it off we call him the official mayor of money
00:10:21here in the mount vernon
00:10:28now vernon is in westchester county the first city outside of the bronx
00:10:35heavy d put that area on the map
00:10:38heavy d and the boy and his influence reached all the young people in the neighborhood
00:10:46including the young sean combs who was at mount st michael high school a catholic private school
00:10:55school he would knock on heavy d's door every day to see if heavy would take him to meet andre harrell
00:11:06andre 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
00:11:24sean had impressed andre enough to give him an internship and that was the beginning
00:11:33i worked with sean as an intern at uptown i'm a picture i'm blade out for you
00:11:39when you thought of uptown records you thought of heavy d and i'll be sure
00:11:47i 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
00:12:05he 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 you get out the
00:12:22elevator first person you see is kim
00:12:26and 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 a date
00:12:43a kiss he put it all on the table for kim
00:12:49it was weird it was weird in the air because everyone knew this was al's girl
00:12:54al is hot as fish grease right now hi this is al be sure here's my exclusive number two dollars for the
00:13:01first minute 45 cents for each additional minute and sean was not really like the catch
00:13:09he didn't drink alcohol he forbade marijuana he did not like drugs he had the gumby and he looked like
00:13:17a scholastic dweeb but sean was still determined i bet you i could get kim and he was like nah
00:13:25no way your weight your weight ain't even up enough yet but when sean wants something he's gonna get it
00:13:33it might be a couple of years from now but sooner or later he's gonna get it
00:13:40andrelle heavy d i'll be sure they had all the money and all the power and i was like i don't know what
00:13:47they did but that's what i want to do i got to uptown a few months after sean did and i saw him being
00:13:57built into cool we had to go through the uptown flavor camp
00:14:02i learned a lot quickly being in front of willie burgers on 145th and a4 being at the rooftop
00:14:13the fashion the walk the talk the attitude the drive the determination i was ready to do whatever
00:14:21it took to win the young sean combs during that time he was so tenacious you would ask him to turn
00:14:29wednesday 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 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
00:14:49right then and there i said oh okay yeah i didn't know then that that was never gonna stop to run there
00:14:57and run back he ingratiated himself to andre and made himself very valuable something that you don't
00:15:05want 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 uh mysterious fight with his mother and he said i can't go home
00:15:24i gotta stay here with you pup moved in before i did andre is taking him under like a son andre is the
00:15:34very first 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
00:15:47my 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
00:16:05i taught him how to ride a bike it was the best thing in my life to let go of the bike and him start
00:16:10riding we fit so well sean was another misfit just like me but the difference in my household my dad
00:16:20taught me right from wrong no sean sean didn't have that ladies and gentlemen i would like to introduce
00:16:28my mother janice combs what were the primary jobs that you did to support your family i did so many jobs
00:16:41at one time i worked at the united several palsy i worked at uh the board of ed in westchester county
00:16:49i drive the school bus i worked in the baby's boutique shop and he never knew this i worked in the after
00:16:56our spot too i had to come quick i needed to come quick okay now okay i made more money because the
00:17:10men thought i was very glamorous and i used to pour liquor and they give me big tips in sean's house
00:17:18there was janice and there was sean my father's name is melvin combs
00:17:23i didn't get a chance to get to know him i was too young my father got his brains blown out like
00:17:29on central park west i did the research they said my mother had brought me to the
00:17:37funeral of full-length chinchilla
00:17:41it was like a sigh of relief you know what i'm saying because i finally knew that what i was feeling
00:17:45was true you know what i'm saying that i was a son of a hustler a gangster
00:17:48melvin's presence was there his money was there and i understood that melvin made a lot of things
00:17:58possible but sean's mom was his everything if you look at some of the early pictures that janice
00:18:07has of sean she was always making him into something the hats fur coats i think she tried to overcompensate
00:18:22for the father being gone by making him into this dandy everything associated with sean was harlem
00:18:31whoever was flying home that's what he was as a child janet she'd always be in harlem and there were
00:18:41times where she'd bring us
00:18:46here we are in this brand new cadillac because that's all janet drove
00:18:51she's making stops here and there and 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 no so you knew there was a different vibe going on
00:19:05with this family in 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 it'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 gotta 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
00:19:45janice janice knew how to throw a party and the party's packed you got the ladies that look like
00:19:54this straight out of a jet magazine some brothers up there you know if you want to call them pimps you
00:20:00can if you want to call them hustlers you can you got a member of the new york knicks or two
00:20:05there 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
00:20:43now mind you as a child sean was goofy kids would pick on him a lot around the block
00:20:48and 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 i got a lot of beatings too
00:21:13his beatings made me scared right i got beatings now
00:21:24but when he got his beatings it wasn't no it wasn't a joking thing no
00:21:33damn i hate thinking about that man
00:21:35my 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
00:21:50you 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 he's
00:22:10gonna 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
00:22:27there's going to be pain that you're going to give others because you're responding to that pain
00:22:36that you just can't seem to cut out of you
00:22:41i didn't know much about him i know that he had a big eagle
00:22:58i met him around 89 90. my job was to promote music videos
00:23:04and puffy he was always doing the party promotion so he's always like handing out the flyers
00:23:11at the time i was working on andrew ral but he wasn't paying me enough so i had to promote
00:23:15parties on the side which was all good right daddy's house he was savvy enough to promote parties
00:23:22they were the most successful parties at that time but they were all about promoting himself
00:23:28one of the brothers that put the party together my man puff daddy really it was no problem because
00:23:33all my black brothers and sisters came together like my man tell you fresh all the beautiful women
00:23:37out here we came together just to have a good time i 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
00:24:21music video you 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
00:24:39and i never forget i had the same clothes on that i had from the night before the music video was called
00:24:48straight from the soul by finesse and sinquis the whole premise was for me to jump out the car and
00:24:56go with these girls and get away from the pimp guy nice clothes in a car doesn't make you a star you
00:25:02can't talk positive and do the opposite cause then you're like a hypocrite you can't be righteous
00:25:08throw a party to flip sniff and snort drink and drive and hide your sister strip you know what that looks
00:25:12right to your people a big discreet nine sisters don't wanna look you in your face
00:25:16wanting to be a pimp brother your heart ain't that cold and it's just straight from the soul
00:25:28was there ever a time that sean combs sexually assaulted you
00:25:32yes
00:25:39someone called me up and told me that um he said you know he has you know video
00:25:45and i was like what and that's when he um described it and explained it
00:26:02i i just want to say this this thing was incredibly devastating to my family
00:26:20my 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
00:27:26she told me that she was dreaming about puffy i asked her why she was screaming and who is this puffy
00:27:36person that he would cause her to have nightmares i was shocked and mortified to hear her story
00:27:43she told me that several people have come to her to 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
00:28:17but if i hadn't heard this story from my daughter's own mouth and looked into her eyes
00:28:22i would have scarcely believed that any individual would compromise another person's dignity in this manner
00:28:40i approached a lot of people for help
00:28:42i got things like what do you want me to do about it to if 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
00:29:05why would you want to do that drug and rape the girl tape it and then put it up on the screen
00:29:19here's my theory
00:29:23alpo martinez drug lord famous harlem street tough guy hung out at the rooftop
00:29:31once again i'd like to welcome you and yours in the rooftop alpo would have a lot of girls
00:29:36and he would tape girls that he was having sex with and then on a saturday night he might
00:29:43bring his camera and put it on the wall and everyone knows that's 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
00:30:01that's so-and-so's girl who's been able to do it all his life he's been trying to honor a man
00:30:06he believed it was a famous parliament gangster and that gave his father a mythic
00:30:14presence people like alpo he looked at those guys with a certain amount of jealousy or envy
00:30:22a certain amount of respect and there's a certain amount of desire that thing was in him from there
00:30:31i 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 yeah
00:31:13when 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
00:31:41you are really raising your hand at victory and i'm living in trauma and defeat
00:31:55it's a new legal trouble for sean diddy combs another new lawsuit of sexual assault sex trafficking
00:32:10and drugging underage girls federal prosecutors in new york have interviewed numerous women who
00:32:15who are led drone dudes this is at least the 10th civil lawsuit filed against sean diddy combs
00:32:20let's take the blood man what the fuck else you want
00:32:26i don't know
00:32:26there's a bunch of just silly bullshit noise there's no sense no but it's like the legal system is doing
00:32:38it now because like legally we got it it's like i gotta i gotta spend money to go and get rid of this
00:32:44bullshit oh yeah i ain't got nothing left i got nothing left going on
00:32:54they ain't breaking me no how 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
00:33:02i'm not good with the camera so i'm not good with the camera so i'm not good with the camera
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 the
00:33:53first 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 people don't have a ticket when they
00:34:40hear something sold out they say it we gotta 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
00:35:04there's people that are dead
00:35:13whether you need a bigger star or whether you meet the most regular person in here you need to leave
00:35:21and it's over
00:35:22so i'm over promoted overhyped
00:35:33and that led to a crowd
00:35:35so it's just like oh it just happened so quick how would how would people want to explain it
00:35:47we need a lot of help here there's a lot of people hurt and aren't breathing
00:35:50the death toll from last week's stampede at a new york charity basketball game has risen to nine
00:36:15that was getting trampled all for money four dollars man what do you mean twelve dollars cost
00:36:21twelve dollars for a ticket one of the unanswered questions remains who's to blame for the stampede
00:36:28that killed nine people throughout the newspaper headlines throughout the confusion the finger pointing
00:36:37who was responsible sean young in real time carried the weight of all of that
00:36:48my dream for this evening was to bring a positive program to my people
00:36:53to people of my age and to people in my community whatever must be done must be done to ensure
00:36:59that this never ever ever happens again it was the biggest news ever
00:37:04that's how he got super famous was that game and those deaths that's the beginning of puff daddy
00:37:16that's really how i started to become famous still a tragedy
00:37:24he was holed up in a hotel on the east side him and his mother he didn't know what was going to happen
00:37:31and i saw janice question sean he's going into this music business thing he just left school and now this
00:37:41extreme tragedy has occurred she's like did he make the right decision and i saw him put his hands on her
00:37:53call her a bitch and slapped her
00:37:55she's not looking back
00:38:07she's not looking back
00:38:08sean puff daddy combs and sponsors claim no responsibility in the tragic chain of events
00:38:13they claim nine lives and injured the brass that afforded uptown its distribution money wanted sean out
00:38:20i saw andre fight and fight to keep sean in and he did andre arel pup daddy he's passing on to i
00:38:31guess his son protege protege yes yes puppy yes tell me a little bit about this man and why you
00:38:38like working with him because you know he's not intimidated by youth you know i'm saying he knows
00:38:42the importance of leaving the legacy behind because we need more adults out there that's
00:38:46gonna teach the young such as myself i took andre harrell out to lunch and i said can i get a
00:38:53chance to maybe do a and r the a and r is artists and repertoire that's the guy that works at the
00:38:59record company that puts the records together and works with the artists i said give me a chance
00:39:04you know you're making music for young people i'm young and you know who better to make the music
00:39:10than me we had a group back in the day they drove up to new york unannounced to meet andre harrell
00:39:19when we make love jodeci it's like a dream they sing for andre andre loves it immediately that
00:39:30becomes puff's first responsibility and they could go make jodeci what's in the future of jodeci
00:39:35hopefully to make hits hits hits andre put his trust with sean as opposed to the artists
00:39:44he told us i don't care who the artist is you're more important than them the artists don't work
00:39:53without you what would be the ideal musical setting for y'all i guess before in front like millions
00:39:58of people you know you have to be able to control everything i basically style and come up with the
00:40:04images and design most of the clothing for all of the artists it was him that put jodeci in the pants
00:40:11baggy sagging at the bottom the boots not lacing it up he is able to sponge from the community and the
00:40:19culture and package it and in the studio he did the same thing sean wasn't a producer where he can
00:40:29tell you you need a c here a c note or this is an f but he did have a good ear for what could be a hit
00:40:37let me give you an example let's get it going rooftop at the rooftop in harlem the dj brucey b would
00:40:44mix acapellas from r b songs with hard hip-hop beats
00:40:50and it drove the kids crazy at the clubs
00:40:56that's what sean did with jodeci on those remixes
00:41:00it was very minimal it was very hard beat and snare no melody
00:41:06jodeci's record started climbing the charts
00:41:15sean turned that into the blueprint for his special brand of a&r and then the next artist
00:41:25the benefit from that was mary j blige
00:41:27mary's what's the 411 was out the box
00:41:35the hat pulled out the mysteriousness it had a little bit of a darkness and moodiness to it as well
00:41:45all of that was groundbreaking
00:41:48he launched a female artist in a male-dominated hip-hop era
00:41:55who became an instant success
00:42:00and that created hip-hop soul
00:42:04mary became the owner of that sound
00:42:07sean was making the hits happen and the visuals happen
00:42:16in 1992 sean is promoted to vp of a&r and artisan development
00:42:22so my name is puff daddy vice president of a&r and artisan development for uptown records
00:42:29which brought you the hits of jodeci mary j blige heavy dina boys falling sea
00:42:34and you know on and on and on puffy had jodeci and mary j blige
00:42:38but puffy's a big huge epmd fan
00:42:41my background sing my background sing for the cross over
00:42:44he was at my cross over video shoot
00:42:47and he asked me to do the mary j blige intro for the 401 album
00:42:52your mary blige shop to eric sermon mc glam royal
00:42:57i did that for him and then all of a sudden we became friends
00:43:01i thought it was a general friendship
00:43:05until i see that this game is being played
00:43:09you got an agenda
00:43:11misa
00:43:13he was trying to court her after we broke up
00:43:18sean wants her because eric was that dude
00:43:23it was about i got her i won her over from him
00:43:28he 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
00:43:39and now you become property
00:43:41me and misa was just friends
00:43:46but he wanted to make sure
00:43:48that there was no calling and me being friends with that girl
00:43:53sean's jealousy
00:43:56it got to the point where he put his hands on her
00:43:58right outside of uptown records
00:44:02they're fighting in the street
00:44:04and he's beating her into the car well
00:44:06she's on the ground
00:44:09and people are pulling him off of her and separating her
00:44:15a 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
00:44:32i was able to push that in the back of my mind
00:44:36and say that was a really bad moment
00:44:40but he was weak
00:44:41and it was a bad moment
00:44:44does that make me part of a sean combs cult
00:44:49maybe so
00:44:51i may have been the first disciple
00:44:55believer
00:44:57and then overall protector against all odds
00:45:03i want to personally invite one more brother on stage
00:45:16responsible for my
00:45:17joe to see
00:45:18mary j blige
00:45:19fuck daddy
00:45:20come to the stage baby
00:45:21at that point sean 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 that they never saw before
00:45:39to be young and
00:45:42to be puff daddy
00:45:44it's just it's just like
00:45:47i felt like my dream had came true
00:45:50everybody now is looking for this kid
00:45:56because they all have artists
00:45:58that they have to get to the top of the chart
00:46:00what does that do to a person
00:46:02do you think i'm still gonna be
00:46:07like yes ma'am no ma'am thank you very much
00:46:10he became too big for uptown records
00:46:13i'm gonna be so drunk and high by wednesday at 8 o'clock
00:46:15i'm not really gonna give a fuck
00:46:16but i give a fuck
00:46:17it started to be some dissension between
00:46:20andre and puff
00:46:21andre was the king
00:46:24of the uptown castle of the empire he created
00:46:27and the intern
00:46:31was taking his place
00:46:33i remember it like yesterday
00:46:38andre called me into his office
00:46:41he tells me just like this
00:46:44he says dog i just fired puff
00:46:46i said word
00:46:48it was a sad day
00:46:53andre was like a surrogate dad
00:46:56for sean
00:46:57sean was really sick
00:47:02when andre fired him
00:47:03i'm talking about sick
00:47:05couldn't believe it
00:47:07and then sean called me
00:47:11and he said yo
00:47:12i'm about to do my thing dog
00:47:15and i'm gonna do something like that
00:47:24and that's where you took your fall out
00:47:27Puff was like, yo, I'm looking for some hardcore artist.
00:47:34He's ain't 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, crazy 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?
00:47:55So I signed Biggie in 1992.
00:48:01People didn't know we had to produce Biggie's album for Uptown.
00:48:04He was an Uptown artist.
00:48:06So it's the Detroiters Big then?
00:48:08Yeah, yeah.
00:48:09B-I-G, business instead of game, right?
00:48:11Tell them I told you.
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.
00:48:20Andre decided to sell us the Biggie album.
00:48:25But now, we had to find a way to pay for it.
00:48:30We were living on borrowed time.
00:48:35We 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.
00:48:52He has discovered Whitney Houston, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin, and a long list of other pop stars who thrive in the world, according to Clive.
00:49:06So 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, because 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. Shit, it's real.
00:49:24And I said, well, you got the goods.
00:49:27And I bought into his vision.
00:49:29Gimme the loop, gimme the loop.
00:49:31Gimme the loop, gimme the loop.
00:49:34Gimme the loop, gimme the loop.
00:49:36I named it a bad boy.
00:49:38Because 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.
00:49:46I was at Bad Boys starting from the day that we put the LLC together, and 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.
00:50:18And I saw from that moment on, Sean had shifted in his personality.
00:50:25I didn't see any more of the Mount St. Michael teen Sean.
00:50:30He had become more like the person I see today.
00:50:39We 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.
00:50:54You can do whatever you want with it, but you better make sure my company's running.
00:51:00From day zero, I wrote everything down every day so I can 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 think that he had this thing with strong men, and 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.
00:51:37And so, as he's paper gangstering, he's also trying to street gangster, too, at the same time.
00:51:52He's not from the street.
00:51:54His mother did the very best to give him the best.
00:51:57But now, he's been getting beefier and beefier with the power from the music.
00:52:05That's a good way to get your head filled up to think that you're just as gangster as they are now, without 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.
00:52:30And all of a sudden, I heard somebody go, and it's him.
00:52:35He'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 none of us.
00:52:49So, now, I'm like, yo, let's go around the corner, because 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.
00:53:32Very nervous at first.
00:53:33At the time, that West Coast thing is happening.
00:53:39So, 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 around with the underground.
00:53:50Round in the house.
00:53:50And around me, cause I 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.
00:54:03You know, Sean was just mesmerized by that particular song.
00:54:07The 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.
00:54:19And the next single was Big Papa.
00:54:21And that dropped, and it took us over the edge with Biggie.
00:54:24I liked it.
00:54:26He was out of here from that moment on.
00:54:29I love 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 till it was destroyed.
00:54:46And 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.
00:54:53He was very excited for him.
00:54:55The notorious Big album release party.
00:54:58It was so bad.
00:54:59We hear everybody hear.
00:55:00I've never seen someone more excited for someone else's success as Pac was for Big's success.
00:55:08You 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, all right.
00:55:16Let me see how I'm going to hit you with it.
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.
00:55:35When I choke you, you stop breathing.
00:55:36When police come, I'm leaving.
00:55:38Peace and love.
00:55:39Here we go.
00:55:40Yeah.
00:55:40Yeah.
00:55:41Pac would take Big with him on chores and let him open up for him.
00:55:52Pac 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.
00:56:05Sean 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.
00:56:19I felt like if I left the room, he wasn't going to say nothing bad or somebody said something bad about me, he would defend that.
00:56:26He was probably one of the only people I had really trusted, like, for a long time.
00:56:30There's a yearning for him to have that complete, total control.
00:56:41You'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.
00:56:53I needed money on my own, so I started playing.
00:56:57And who is this guy?
00:57:01Why do we need him in the picture?
00:57:04Guess 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.
00:57:15For 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.
00:57:32Puff 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.
00:57:51Then it became the ability to get away with anything.
00:57:58And then you circle in the fact that he has legit money.
00:58:03Then you have the antagonist, Tupac Shakur.
00:58:06All 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.
00:58:53No, I don't know.
00:58:54No, I don't know.
00:58:55No, I don't know.
00:59:02I feel like he had built by being an older man.
00:59:04Because it was evil in the ending.
00:59:08It was the only thing that was a проект.
00:59:11I had an ugly friend.
00:59:17I actually had laid on him.
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