Sean Combs- The Reckoning - Season 1 Episode 01- Pain vs Love
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00:00:00Things are happening, and it's like, I want to fight for my life.
00:00:12I 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.
00:04:10Hey.
00:04:12Nah.
00:04:13Patrick.
00:04:14I'm going to make this doubt.
00:04:15Put yourself, put yourself, put yourself up.
00:04:16Put yourself, put yourself up.
00:04:26Damn it guy.
00:04:28Can you just get little cutaways of them, like looking from the, you know what I'm saying?
00:04:34all 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 nigga's 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 lived life slow
00:07:59willows were stern and justice stood and people were behaving like they ought to good
00:08:04how you change the kid go ahead
00:08:06the little boy who was misled by another little boy and this is what he said
00:08:14me 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
00:08:27I co-founded bad boy with Sean I was dazzled by his ideas and his unique talent but he was
00:08:41a 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
00:08:56he 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
00:09:16hip-hop was evolving
00:09:21like it or not rap is here to stay it has become part of mainstream commerce
00:09:26it was just explosive
00:09:30run dmc chaos one public enemy rock him
00:09:35the late 80s
00:09:38it was fantastic
00:09:41there were a lot of independent labels
00:09:44they gave birth to hip-hop in the way that we know it today
00:09:48what is this new music
00:09:52like uptown records
00:09:58heavy d was the biggest rapper signed to uptown
00:10:08excuse me
00:10:08we 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 the car you ain't got to reach for the radio and turn it off
00:10:17we call him we call him the official mayor of money earner
00:10:21money earner malvern
00:10:28malvern is in westchester county the first city outside of the bronx heavy d put that area on the map
00:10:38heavy d and his influence reached all the young people in the neighborhood including the young sean combs 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 harrell
00:11:03andre was the champagne of rap
00:11:10and he took the streets to wall street
00:11:14the only entrance into hip-hop at that point was andre harrell and russell simmons
00:11:20into the corporate hip-hop world into the money
00:11:23sean had impressed andre enough to give him an internship
00:11:28and that was the beginning
00:11:30i worked with sean as an intern at uptown
00:11:36i'm a picture i'm blade out for you
00:11:38when you throw the uptown records you throw the heavy d
00:11:42and i'll be sure
00:11:44i was the first number one
00:11:53artist on the billboard charts on uptown and the first platinum artist on the uptown
00:11:58lake
00:12:00he was a gq nigga you know he was a real penny loafers type
00:12:03he was one of them fly light-skinned niggas and girls loved him
00:12:08al was dating kim
00:12:15kim porter
00:12:17kim is at the receptionist desk at uptown
00:12:21you get out the elevator first person you see is kim
00:12:24and it was a beautiful sight
00:12:29everybody said that you know what i mean
00:12:31but when sean saw kim
00:12:33it was different
00:12:37and now sean's always at the receptionist desk
00:12:39begging kim for something
00:12:41a date
00:12:42a kiss
00:12:44he put it all on the table for kim
00:12:46it was weird it was weird in the air because everyone knew this was al's girl
00:12:52al is hot as fish grease right now
00:12:56hi this is al b shore here's my exclusive number two dollars for the first minute 45 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 he did not like drugs
00:13:13he had the gumby and he looked like a scholastic dweeb
00:13:19but sean was so determined
00:13:21yo i bet you i could get kim
00:13:23and he was like nah
00:13:25no way
00:13:26your weight ain't even up enough yet
00:13:28but when sean wants something he's gonna get it
00:13:32it might be a couple of years from now
00:13:34but sooner or later
00:13:36he's gonna get it
00:13:38andrelle
00:13:40heavy d
00:13:41i'll be sure
00:13:43they had all the money and all the power and i was like
00:13:45i don't know what they did but that's what i want to do
00:13:48i got to uptown a few months after sean did
00:13:54and i saw him being built into cool
00:13:58we had to go through the uptown flavor camp
00:14:05i learned a lot quickly
00:14:07being in front of willie burgers on the hunt 45th and 84
00:14:10being at the rooftop
00:14:11let's get it going rooftop
00:14:12the fashion
00:14:13the walk
00:14:14the talk
00:14:15the attitude
00:14:16the drive
00:14:17the determination
00:14:18i was ready to do whatever it took to win
00:14:22the young sean combs during that time he was so tenacious
00:14:26you would ask him to turn wednesday into tuesday he would set about doing it
00:14:31first task we had given him was just go get a tape ten blocks away
00:14:37he came back in two minutes or something crazy
00:14:40i remember i was on the phone i looked up when he came back i was like
00:14:43how'd you get there so fast and he said i ran there and back
00:14:47right there and there i said oh okay
00:14:50yeah i didn't know then that that was never going to stop to run there and run back
00:14:56he ingratiated himself to andre and made himself very valuable something that you don't want to do without like who's going to get my clothes who's going to armor on my tire this is so convenient then they live together
00:15:11then they live together
00:15:14i bought the first million dollar house funny that that weekend just before i moved in
00:15:18he had a mysterious fight with his mother and he said i can't go home i gotta stay here with you
00:15:24pup moved in before i did
00:15:26andre is taking him under like a son andre is the very first patriarch he connected with
00:15:34sean grew up with the illusion of what masculinity looks like
00:15:41my first encounter with sean i remember it like yesterday
00:15:46my family we rented the first floor of sean's house
00:15:52i was my mom and dad's only child so now sean has somebody to brother up with
00:15:58we experienced a lot of firsts together
00:16:02i taught him how to ride a bike
00:16:06it was the best thing in my life to let go of the bike and him start riding
00:16:10we fit so well
00:16:12sean was another misfit just like me
00:16:15but the difference in my household
00:16:18my dad taught me right from wrong
00:16:20no sean sean didn't have that
00:16:24ladies and gentlemen i would like to introduce my mother janice combs
00:16:28what were the primary jobs that you did to support your family
00:16:38i did so many jobs at one time i worked at the united several palsy i worked at the board of ed in west jester county i drive the school bus i worked in the baby's boutique shop and he never knew this i worked in the after hours spot too
00:16:56i had to come clean
00:17:00i needed to come clean
00:17:02okay
00:17:08i made more money because the men thought i was very glamorous and i used to pour liquor
00:17:12and they gave me big tips
00:17:14in sean's house
00:17:16there was janice
00:17:18and there was sean
00:17:20my father's name is melvin combs
00:17:22i didn't get a chance to get to know him i was too young
00:17:26my father got his brains blown out like on central park west
00:17:30i did the research
00:17:32they said my mother had brought me to the funeral of full-length chinchilla
00:17:38it was like a sigh of relief you know what i'm saying
00:17:42because i finally knew that what i was feeling was true you know what i'm saying
00:17:46that i was a son of a hustler a gangster
00:17:48melvin's presence was there his money was there
00:17:52and i understood that melvin made a lot of things possible
00:17:58but sean's mom was his everything
00:18:02if you look at some of the early pictures that janice has of sean she was always making him into something
00:18:12the hats
00:18:14the hats
00:18:16fur coats
00:18:18i think she tried to overcompensate for the father being gone by making him into this dandy
00:18:28everything associated with sean was harlem
00:18:32whoever was flying harlem that's what he was as a child
00:18:38janice she'd always be in harlem
00:18:40and there were times where she'd bring us
00:18:46here we are in this brand new cadillac because that's all janet drove
00:18:50she's making stops
00:18:52here and there and you know we knew the rule the drill just sit there i'll be right back
00:18:56she ain't turn the car off
00:18:58nobody took the car
00:19:00no
00:19:02so you knew there was a different vibe going on with this family
00:19:06in his household
00:19:08the groove was a little different
00:19:12a lot of donna summer playing
00:19:14and then we had these movies we'd watch
00:19:18this got to be number one
00:19:20this genre of films called black exploitation
00:19:22super dude
00:19:24you had super fly
00:19:26you had the mac
00:19:28when you got nothing
00:19:30you want everything
00:19:32you gotta get to be the mac
00:19:34their parts
00:19:36their parts were hustler parts
00:19:38in sean's household
00:19:40you start to see all the stuff that you saw in the movies
00:19:46janice knew how to throw a party
00:19:48and the party's packed
00:19:50you got the ladies that look like they're straight out of a jet magazine
00:19:54some brothers up there
00:19:56you know if you want to call them pimps you can if you want to call them hustlers you can
00:20:00you got a member of the new york knicks or two
00:20:04there was a stage in her living room
00:20:06literally a stage
00:20:08and that's where we used to have to go and dance
00:20:12and everybody's calling you baby
00:20:14and everybody's saying do that dance
00:20:26and all of this stuff he's taken in
00:20:34so from the movie screen
00:20:36to the home screen
00:20:38these are the makings of sean combs
00:20:42now mind you as a child sean was goofy
00:20:46kids would pick on him a lot around the block
00:20:48and he didn't know how to defend himself
00:20:52sean was a prince
00:20:54and janice
00:20:56she didn't want no princess
00:20:58she held back nothing
00:21:00you've said i would be 12 years old
00:21:02and sometimes i'd be out until 3 4 in the morning
00:21:06james james we don't have to get into that right now
00:21:10ma'am
00:21:12got a lot of beatings too
00:21:14his beatings made me scared
00:21:18right
00:21:20i got beatings now
00:21:22but when he got his beatings it wasn't no
00:21:26it wasn't a choking thing
00:21:28nah
00:21:30damn i hate thinking about that man
00:21:34my mother was i guess raising me for the real world
00:21:40she was always told me if somebody hit me make sure i hit them back harder
00:21:44make sure they never hit me again
00:21:46make sure i fucked them up
00:21:48you know how you hear your mom's voice in your ear
00:21:52boy
00:21:54you better
00:21:56boy
00:21:58sean started fighting
00:22:00he started stepping up
00:22:02but sean don't fight like this
00:22:04sean's gonna bite you
00:22:06he's gonna eat your ear off
00:22:08he's gonna cut your neck open
00:22:10with his mouth
00:22:12he's not losing
00:22:14i know people shaped by pain
00:22:20as well as by love
00:22:22and if it was more pain than love
00:22:26watch out
00:22:28there's gonna be pain that you're gonna give others
00:22:32cause you're responding to that pain that you just can't seem to cut out of you
00:22:50i didn't know much about him
00:22:52i know that he had
00:22:54a big eagle
00:22:56i met him
00:22:58around 89
00:23:00my job was to promote music videos
00:23:03and puffy
00:23:05he was always doing the party promotions
00:23:06so he's always like
00:23:07handing out the flyers
00:23:09at the time i was working on arjo harrell
00:23:11he wasn't paying me enough
00:23:13so i had to promote parties on the side
00:23:14which was all good
00:23:15right
00:23:16daddy's house
00:23:18he was savvy enough to promote parties
00:23:20they were the most successful parties at that time
00:23:23but they were all about promoting himself
00:23:26one of the brothers that put the party together
00:23:28my man
00:23:30puff daddy
00:23:31really it was no problem
00:23:32cause all my black brothers and sisters came together
00:23:34like my man tell you fresh
00:23:35all the beautiful women out here
00:23:36we came together just to have a good time
00:23:38i went to a party for a good friend
00:23:41it was getting very late
00:23:46puffy is like oh you know i'm having an after party
00:23:49at andre harrell's house
00:23:52andre harrell wasn't there he was out of town
00:23:56people were tracking mud through the house
00:24:00and i remember at the end of the night
00:24:02i was helping clean up the mud
00:24:04puffy's like very polite you know and thanking me for helping him and he asked me oh wow i just got this call you know someone this girl backed out of this music video you know can you do it and i was like i don't do music videos but this party was in new jersey and i needed a ride back to manhattan
00:24:19so i went along
00:24:36and i never forget i had the same clothes on that i had from the night before the music video was called straight from the soul by finesse and sinquist the whole premise was for me to jump out the car and go with these girls and get away from the pimp guy
00:24:58nice clothes in a car doesn't make you a star you can't talk positive and do the opposite cause then you're labeled as a fool a hypocrite you can't be righteous throw a party to flip sniff and snort drink and drive and hide your sister strip you know what that looks like to your people a vacant script dying sisters don't wanna look you in your face wanting to be a pimp brother your heart ain't that cold and it's just straight from the soul soul
00:25:21was there ever a time that sean combs sexually assaulted you
00:25:32yes
00:25:36someone called me up and told me that um he said you know he has you know video
00:25:44and i was like what
00:25:46and that's when he um
00:25:49i i just want to say this
00:26:13this thing
00:26:15was incredibly devastating to my family
00:26:18my mother
00:26:20she's a social worker
00:26:22we don't have money
00:26:23the thing
00:26:27that we had
00:26:31was our pride
00:26:34we carried ourselves well
00:26:38we were pretty
00:26:40we were intelligent
00:26:41this is the basis
00:26:43of what
00:26:45i had
00:26:46self-respect
00:26:47my mother wrote a letter to combs parents
00:26:53i just found this recently
00:26:58can i read it
00:27:02dear mr and mrs combs
00:27:07i'm writing you
00:27:14of something that your son did to my daughter
00:27:17one weekend while visiting my daughter i awoke to her screaming in the middle of the night
00:27:24she told me that she was dreaming about puffy
00:27:29i asked her
00:27:32i asked her why she was screaming and who is this puffy person that he would cause her to have nightmares
00:27:39i was shocked and mortified to hear her story
00:27:43she told me that she told me that several people have come to her to inform her that your son has made an obscene videotape of her
00:27:54without her knowledge he videotaped him doing something sexual to her
00:28:01apparently
00:28:05apparently
00:28:05your son
00:28:06son shows these tapes at parties
00:28:08on large screen televisions
00:28:11i realized that this may be hard for you to believe
00:28:16but 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
00:28:26would compromise another person's dignity in this manner
00:28:31i approached a lot of people for help
00:28:43i got things like
00:28:48what do you want me to do about it
00:28:51to
00:28:52if i help you i can't get into his parties
00:28:55why would you want to do that
00:29:09drug and rape the girl
00:29:12tape it
00:29:14and then put it up on the screen
00:29:17here's my theory
00:29:20alpo martinez
00:29:24drug lord
00:29:26famous harlem street
00:29:29tough guy
00:29:29hung out at the rooftop
00:29:31once again i'd like to welcome you and yours in the rooftop
00:29:33alpo had a lot of girls
00:29:35and he would tape girls that he was having sex with
00:29:40and then on a saturday night
00:29:42he might bring his camera and put it on the wall
00:29:45and everyone knows that's so-and-so's girl
00:29:48what sean saw was i want to be looked upon in that way as someone that has that type of stature
00:30:00all his life he's been trying to honor a man he believed it was a famous parliament gangster
00:30:08and that gave his father a mythic presence
00:30:14people like alpo
00:30:17he looked at those guys with a certain amount of jealousy or envy
00:30:21a certain amount of respect
00:30:23and there's a certain amount of desire
00:30:26that thing was in him from there
00:30:28that thing was in him from there
00:30:33did you ever confront sean about him
00:30:39i did
00:30:41i avoided him for a very long time
00:30:44i ran into him one day
00:30:46he came to me
00:30:49he got on his knees
00:30:52and swore he did not do this thing to me
00:30:55and denied it
00:30:58and that was the very last time i talked to him
00:31:05and that was the very last time i talked to him
00:31:09we did it let's go
00:31:11the key to the city
00:31:13when i think back in terms of his rise
00:31:18it is the most helpless feeling
00:31:23i was always nauseous when i saw his image
00:31:27the one image in times square where he's holding his fist up
00:31:34when 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
00:31:47it's new legal trouble for sean diddy co
00:31:54another new lawsuit
00:32:08sexual assault
00:32:09sex trafficking
00:32:10and drugging underage girls
00:32:12federal prosecutors in new york have interviewed numerous women who allege
00:32:15this is at least the tenth civil lawsuit filed against sean diddy cohn's alleged sex trafficking
00:32:21let's take the blood man what the fuck else y'all want
00:32:25i don't know
00:32:27there's a bunch of silly bullshit
00:32:28just silly bullshit noise
00:32:31all those things
00:32:33noise
00:32:35but it's like the legal system is doing it now
00:32:37because like legally
00:32:38we got it
00:32:40it's like i gotta spend money to go and get rid of this bullshit
00:32:45oh yeah
00:32:47i ain't got nothing left
00:32:49i got nothing left going on
00:32:52they ain't breaking me though
00:32:55how are you boss if you don't mind one picture please
00:32:59i'm not good with the camera so
00:33:01i'm gonna try
00:33:10as a group as a group
00:33:13sean was destined to be famous
00:33:22i didn't see infamy coming
00:33:23i swear i didn't see that coming
00:33:29i'm 19
00:33:30and i always like seeing people entertained
00:33:32and i thought you know
00:33:34over the holidays
00:33:35i just wanted to throw a celebrity basketball game in harlem
00:33:42i was at the game i was on the floor
00:33:44all of us was there
00:33:45every rapper in new york right
00:33:46your mtv raps came
00:33:48i'm at city college in the heart of new york city
00:33:51for the puff daddy heavy the first
00:33:53all-time celebrity all-star classic
00:33:56that was one of the biggest
00:33:58basketball games
00:33:59if that would have turned out correctly
00:34:00when it went down in history
00:34:06there were lines and lines around the campus to get in
00:34:11there's no more room
00:34:13but everyone still wants to come
00:34:17we open up the doors
00:34:18everybody saw us flowing through
00:34:21but then thousands more come
00:34:23there was a thing in hip hop called bum rushing the door
00:34:38people don't have a ticket when they hear something sold out
00:34:40they say fuck it we gotta still get in we gonna bum rush the door
00:34:44when they got to the bottom of the stairs
00:34:46the doors
00:34:48didn't go out that way
00:34:49they only came in
00:34:51so people were stuck
00:34:53they were just crushing people down at the bottom of the stairs
00:34:56we were on the court
00:35:00warming up the play
00:35:01and then dougie first grabbed the mic
00:35:03and said there's people that are dead
00:35:04there's people that are dead
00:35:08who want to be the most regular person here
00:35:10you need to leave
00:35:15it is over
00:35:26Sean over-promoted, over-hyped, and that led to a crowd.
00:35:37It was just like, oh, shit, how did this happen so quick?
00:35:41How would people want to explain it?
00:35:46We need a lot of help here.
00:35:48There's a lot of people hurt and aren't breathing.
00:35:51Not breathing?
00:35:52Yes.
00:35:52I mean, we have a fucking emergency over here.
00:35:56The death toll from last week's stampede at a New York charity basketball game has risen to nine.
00:36:16Never's getting trampled.
00:36:17Awful money.
00:36:18$12, man.
00:36:19What do you mean $12?
00:36:20It costs $12 for a ticket.
00:36:22One of the unanswered questions remains who's to blame for the stampede that killed nine people.
00:36:31Throughout the newspaper headlines, throughout the confusion, the finger-pointing, who was responsible, Sean Young, in real time, carried the weight of all of that.
00:36:46My dream for this evening was to bring a positive program to my people, to people of my age, and to people in my community.
00:36:56Whatever must be done, must be done to ensure that this never, ever, ever happens again.
00:37:02It was the biggest news ever.
00:37:05That's how he got super famous, was that game and those deaths.
00:37:12That's the beginning of Puff Daddy.
00:37:16That's really how I started to become famous, was through a tragedy.
00:37:21He was holed up in a hotel on the east side, him and his mother.
00:37:28He didn't know what was going to happen.
00:37:32And I saw Janice question Sean.
00:37:36He's going into this music business thing.
00:37:39He just left school.
00:37:40And now this extreme tragedy has occurred.
00:37:44She's like, did he make the right decision?
00:37:46And I saw him put his hands on her.
00:37:53Call her a bitch and slapped her.
00:37:57He's not looking back.
00:38:08Sean Puff Daddy Combs and sponsors claim no responsibility in the tragic chain of events that claim nine lives and injured.
00:38:15The brass that afforded Uptown, its distribution money, wanted Sean out.
00:38:22I saw Andre fight and fight to keep Sean in.
00:38:28And he did.
00:38:29Andre Arrell, Puff Daddy.
00:38:30He's passing on to, I guess, his son.
00:38:33Protégé.
00:38:33Protégé.
00:38:34Yes, yes.
00:38:35Puffy.
00:38:35Yes.
00:38:36Tell me a little bit about this man and why you like working with him.
00:38:39Because, you know, he's not intimidated by youth, you know what I'm saying?
00:38:42He knows the importance of leaving the legacy behind.
00:38:45He said, we need more adults out there that's going to teach the young, such as myself.
00:38:50I took Andre Arrell out to lunch.
00:38:52And I said, can I get a chance to maybe do A&R?
00:38:56The A&R is artists and repertoire.
00:38:58That's the guy that works at the record company that puts the records together and works with the artists.
00:39:03I said, give me a chance.
00:39:05You know, you're making music for young people.
00:39:07I'm young and, you know, who better to make the music than me?
00:39:10We had a group back in the day.
00:39:15They drove up to New York unannounced to meet Andre Harrell.
00:39:20When we make love.
00:39:23Jodeci.
00:39:24It's like a dream.
00:39:27They sing for Andre.
00:39:28Andre loves it.
00:39:29Immediately that becomes Puff's first responsibility.
00:39:32Nigga, go make Jodeci.
00:39:34Puff and the future of Jodeci.
00:39:35Hopefully to make hits, hits, hits.
00:39:39Andre put his trust with Sean as opposed to the artists.
00:39:45He told us, I don't care who the artist is, you're more important than them.
00:39:51The artists don't work without you.
00:39:54What would be the ideal musical setting for y'all?
00:39:56I guess we're falling in front of like millions of people.
00:39:58You have to be able to control everything.
00:40:01I basically style and come up with the images and design most of the clothing for all of the artists.
00:40:07It was him that put Jodeci in the pants baggy, sagging at the bottom, the boots not lacing it up.
00:40:15He is able to sponge from the community and the culture and package it.
00:40:21And in the studio, he did the same thing.
00:40:27Sean wasn't a producer where he can tell you, you need a C here, a C note, or this is an F.
00:40:34But he did have a good ear for what could be a hit.
00:40:38Let me give you an example.
00:40:39Let's get it going.
00:40:40Rooftop!
00:40:40At the rooftop in Harlem, the DJ Brucie B would mix acapellas from R&B songs with hard hip-hop beats.
00:40:50And it drove the kids crazy at the clubs.
00:40:57That's what Sean did with Jodeci on those remixes.
00:41:01It was very minimal.
00:41:03It was very hard beat and snare, no melody.
00:41:06Come and talk to me, baby.
00:41:07Come and talk to me, my baby.
00:41:10I really want to meet you.
00:41:13Jodeci's record started climbing the charts.
00:41:16Here we go.
00:41:17Go Jodeci, go.
00:41:18Sean turned that into the blueprint for his special brand of A&R.
00:41:23And then the next artist to benefit from that was Mary J. Blige.
00:41:28Hey, Mary's pop, pick up the phone, nigga.
00:41:30Hey, Mary, it's pop.
00:41:32Mary's what's the 411 was out the box.
00:41:35In the morning, you got to do this video shoot.
00:41:39The hat pulled out, the mysteriousness.
00:41:41It had a little bit of a darkness and moodiness to it as well.
00:41:46All of that was groundbreaking.
00:41:48Real love.
00:41:50He launched a female artist in a male-dominated hip-hop era.
00:41:56What's up, I'm gonna love.
00:41:58He became an instant success.
00:42:00And that created hip-hop soul.
00:42:05Mary became the owner of that sound.
00:42:08This is who you, Mary J. Blige.
00:42:13Sean was making the hits happen and the visuals happen.
00:42:16In 1992, Sean is promoted to VP of A&R and Artists and Development.
00:42:23So, my name's Puff Daddy, vice president of A&R and Artists and Development for Uptown Records.
00:42:29Which brought you the hits of Jodeci, Mary J. Blige, Heavy D and the boys for all MC.
00:42:34And, you know, on and on and on.
00:42:36Puff Daddy had Jodeci and Mary J. Blige.
00:42:39But Puff Daddy's a big, huge EPMD fan.
00:42:41My background sing, my background sing for the crossover.
00:42:45He was at my crossover video shoot.
00:42:48And he asked me to do the Mary J. Blige intro for the 401 album.
00:42:53Your name, Blige, stop.
00:42:55This is Eric Sermon, MC Graham Royal.
00:42:58I did that for him and then all of a sudden we became friends.
00:43:00I thought it was a general friendship until 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.
00:43:24It was about, I got her, I won her over from him.
00:43:28He had to have the girl.
00:43:33And Sean has a way about when he gets you, he got you.
00:43:38He got you.
00:43:40And now you become property.
00:43:44Me and Misa was just friends.
00:43:46But he wanted to make sure that there was no calling in me being friends with that girl.
00:43:53Sean's jealousy, it got to the point where he would put his hands on her.
00:44:00Right outside of Uptown Records, they're fighting in the street and 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.
00:44:17A 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.
00:44:40But 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.
00:45:45It's just like, I felt like my dream had came true.
00:45:54Everybody now is looking for this kid.
00:45:56Because they all have artists that they have to get to the top of the chart.
00:46:01What does that do to a person?
00:46:03Do you think I'm still going to be like, yes ma'am, no ma'am, thank you very much?
00:46:10He 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.
00:46:17It started to be like, yes ma'am, no ma'am, no ma'am, no ma'am, no ma'am.
00:46:25I'm going to be like, no ma'am, no ma'am, no ma'am, no ma'am.
00:46:32I'm going to be like, no ma'am, no ma'am, no ma'am, no ma'am, no ma'am, no ma'am, no ma'am.
00:46:37Like yesterday, Andre called me into his office.
00:46:42He 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.
00:47:09And then Sean called me.
00:47:12And he said, yo, I'm about to do my thing, dog.
00:47:18Puff was like, yo, I'm looking for some, um, hardcore artist.
00:47:34He's ain't tired of doing the Mary shit, Joe to see shit.
00:47:37He want to do some hard shit, some street shit.
00:47:39Straight out of California, 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.
00:47:52Go for sex shit and tech shit.
00:47:55What you want, nigga?
00:47:56Sean 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 Detroit that's big, then?
00:48:08Yeah, yeah.
00:48:09B-I-G.
00:48:09Business instead of game, right?
00:48:11Tell him I told you.
00:48:12But when Andre fired Puff, they fired him with a caveat.
00:48:17I'm letting you go, but I'm gonna let you take Biggie with you.
00:48:23Andre decided to sell us the Biggie album.
00:48:27But now, we had to find a way to pay for it.
00:48:30We 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
00:49:00pop 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.
00:49:15Love your fucking attitude.
00:49:16Because the nigga play pussy.
00:49:18That'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, well, you got the goods.
00:49:27And I bought into his vision.
00:49:29Gimme the loop.
00:49:29Gimme the loop.
00:49:30I'm a bad boy.
00:49:31Gimme the loop.
00:49:32Gimme the loop.
00:49:33Gimme the loop.
00:49:34Gimme 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 Boy 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.
00:51:15I 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!
00:51:51I'm a savage!
00:51:51He's not from the street.
00:51:54His mother did the very best to give him the best.
00:51:57What's next?
00:51:57Give me something else.
00:51:59What can't you do?
00:52:00I can do it!
00:52:01But now, 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,
00:52:11without even having to pop your gun off yourself.
00:52:15Now, 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.
00:52:34He's steaming.
00:52:38He swings on me.
00:52:40So I'm laughing, and I'm like, you swung on me?
00:52:45Hey, you'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.
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.
00:53:12Yeah, this album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me I never amount to nothing.
00:53:17The 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.
00:53:39So 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.
00:53:47That 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, that's what we did with that song.
00:54:02I Get Around.
00:54:03Sean was just mesmerized by that particular song.
00:54:07The structure of it, the video and the visuals, it 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.
00:54:21And that dropped, and it took us over the edge with Biggie.
00:54:25He was out of here from that moment on.
00:54:28We had Ready to Die before it came out.
00:54:39Bigg had sent Tupac a demo, and we played that tape to death, man.
00:54:43We played that tape till it was destroyed.
00:54:45And then Pac got the phone call that Bigg 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 Bigg 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 Bigg's success.
00:55:09You ready, nigga?
00:55:10Yeah.
00:55:10You ready for that raw dog shit, nigga?
00:55:12I don't know how to grab it.
00:55:14Okay.
00:55:14All right.
00:55:15Let me see how I'm going to hit you with.
00:55:18He thought Bigg 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 the high guy.
00:55:31From Bed, stop 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.
00:55:43Pac would take Bigg with him on chores and let him open up for him.
00:55:54Pac was developing thug life.
00:55:55This ideology of taking back our communities.
00:55:59Bigg was with that.
00:56:01He felt it.
00:56:02He resonated with it.
00:56:04So they had a connection.
00:56:07Sean was insanely jealous of Bigg and Pac's friendship.
00:56:13You know, when I was around Bigg, 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
00:56:24bad 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.
00:56:46Extra clips in my pocket.
00:56:48I pay you.
00:56:48You work for me.
00:56:50I make hits with you.
00:56:54I needed money on my own, so I started playing.
00:56:57And who is this guy?
00:56:58I need money for the roots.
00:57:00I'm giving hearts to my soul.
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, for 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 Shakur 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're circling 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.
00:58:26Do 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.
00:58:53The name of Tupac.
00:58:54To be continued...
00:58:55To be continued...
00:58:56To be continued...
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