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.
00:04:10Yeah.
00:04:11Just getting little cutaways.
00:04:13And I'm not looking for the, you know what I'm saying?
00:04:14That's what you mean.
00:04:15Yeah, just get little cutaways of them, like, looking from the, you know what I'm saying?
00:04:31That's what I'm saying.
00:04:45All of us got to go to the maker, and we will be held accountable for the things we did and we didn't do.
00:04:57Sean Combs is an asshole.
00:05:01He is the motherfucker you're not going to like, and you're not going to get the fuck along with if he doesn't get his way.
00:05:07If I ever miss this guy, nobody's down with me, motherfucker.
00:05:11He quickly became my hero.
00:05:12If y'all had a fucking chance to meet this guy, you would be like, this nigga's energy is everything.
00:05:25I got to get up and go.
00:05:26I got to get up and do it.
00:05:29What's next?
00:05:30What's next?
00:05:31I got to get it.
00:05:32I'm not going to stay fucking down.
00:05:34He was presenting this freedom that black people hadn't had.
00:05:40Like, we hadn't experienced a black man being able to say, I don't want that.
00:05:44I don't want no problems.
00:05:45What you calling?
00:05:46Hey, yo, dog, what are you talking about?
00:05:47You telling me, like, I'm on some bullshit?
00:05:49I ain't on no bullshit with you.
00:05:51So when I first met him, he quickly became the guy I wanted to be like.
00:05:55When you're a leader in that way, it's admirable until you get to the point where you want to control everyone around you.
00:06:06He got to that point.
00:06:08What y'all want to do?
00:06:11Want to be ballers, shot callers, brawlers.
00:06:14It's like Scarface, the movie.
00:06:16I want the world and everything that's in it.
00:06:19But you got everything.
00:06:22Hey, yo, New York, we fucking did it.
00:06:25Harlem, we did it.
00:06:26Montana, we did it.
00:06:27It was a mantra that Sean had.
00:06:31Nobody's going to be bigger than me.
00:06:33Sean is the 1% of the 1% of the 1%.
00:06:35We'll never see a Sean in my lifetime again, ever.
00:06:41It was like the more money he got, the more power he got, the more power he got, the more money he got.
00:06:48And he always felt like money can get him out of everything.
00:06:52I do feel it's important that we let the public know from the juror's standpoint just kind of how we reach the verdict.
00:07:01It's not everything that the media has put it out to be.
00:07:08You want to put stuff in my fanny pack, King?
00:07:11He's creating a narrative always.
00:07:17He is the best storyteller in hip-hop.
00:07:20He thinks he's black Superman.
00:07:23I can do what I want.
00:07:25You can't go on for long in life doing the things that he was doing before something eventually happens.
00:07:34You can't continue to keep hurting people and nothing ever happens.
00:07:38It's just a matter of time.
00:07:49Is it good to be back in New York?
00:07:52It's always good to be back in New York.
00:07:55Once upon a time, not long ago,
00:07:57when people wore pajamas and lived life slow,
00:08:00where laws were stern and justice stood,
00:08:02and people were behaving like they ought to good.
00:08:04How you change the kids on here?
00:08:06I was there from the very beginning
00:08:24with the invention of Sean Combs.
00:08:29I co-founded Bad Boy with Sean.
00:08:32I was dazzled by his ideas and his unique talent.
00:08:40But he was a very different Sean Combs back then.
00:08:44Yo, fuck, man.
00:08:46I'm gonna take care of this.
00:08:48Sean was 19 when he dropped out of Howard University.
00:08:52He wanted to be in the flashy, swaggy music industry.
00:08:56He started off dancing, wanting to be in videos.
00:09:09Wanting to be a pop culture mover and shaker
00:09:13at a time where things were changing.
00:09:16Hip-hop was evolving.
00:09:21Like it or not, rap is here to stay.
00:09:24It's become part of mainstream commerce.
00:09:26It was just explosive.
00:09:31Run DMC, Chaos One, Public Enemy, Rock Him.
00:09:36The late 80s, it was fantastic.
00:09:42There were a lot of independent labels that gave birth to hip-hop in the way that we know it today.
00:09:49What is this new music?
00:09:52Like 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. Thanks for coming down.
00:10:12You can be with the hardest cats in the hood. You can rock Heavy D.
00:10:14You with your grandmother in the car. You ain't got to reach for the radio and turn it off.
00:10:18We call him the official mayor of Money Earned in Mount Vernon.
00:10:22Money Earned in Mount Vernon. Vernon. Vernon.
00:10:28Mount Vernon is in Westchester County.
00:10:32The first city outside of the Bronx.
00:10:36Heavy D put that area on the map.
00:10:39Heavy D and the boy.
00:10:40And 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.
00:11:06Andre 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.
00:11:21Into the corporate hip-hop world.
00:11:23Into the money.
00:11:25Sean had impressed Andre enough to give him an internship.
00:11:28And that was the beginning.
00:11:33I worked with Sean as an intern at Uptown.
00:11:37I'm a picture.
00:11:37I'm a blade out for you.
00:11:39When you thought of Uptown records, you thought of Heavy D.
00:11:42And I'll be sure.
00:11:43I was the first number one artist on the Billboard charts on Uptown.
00:11:55And the first platinum artist on 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.
00:12:16Kim 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.
00:13:20But Sean was still determined.
00:13:23I bet you I could get Kim.
00:13:24And he was like,
00:13:25nah, 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.
00:13:48I 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 hump 45th and A4,
00:14:11being at the rooftop.
00:14:12Let's get it going.
00:14:12Rooftop!
00:14:13The fashion,
00:14:15the walk,
00:14:15the talk,
00:14:16the attitude,
00:14:17the 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.
00:14:34First task we had given him
00:14:35was just go get a tape 10 blocks away.
00:14:39He came back in two minutes to something crazy.
00:14:41I remember I was on the phone,
00:14:42and I 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 then and there,
00:14:50I said,
00:14:50oh,
00:14:51okay.
00:14:53Yeah.
00:14:54I did have known then
00:14:55that that was never going to stop,
00:14:57to run there and run back.
00:14:59He ingratiated himself to Andre
00:15:01and 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?
00:15:09This is so convenient.
00:15:11Then 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
00:15:39of what masculinity looks like.
00:15:43My 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.
00:15:56So now Sean has somebody to brother up with.
00:16:00We experienced a lot of firsts together.
00:16:03I taught him how to ride a bike.
00:16:07It was the best thing in my life
00:16:09to let go of the bike
00:16:10and him start riding.
00:16:12We fit so well.
00:16:14Sean was another misfit,
00:16:15just like me.
00:16:17But 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
00:16:37to 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
00:16:48in 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.
00:16:57I had to come clean.
00:17:01I needed to come clean.
00:17:04Okay, now.
00:17:08Okay.
00:17:09I made more money
00:17:10because the men thought
00:17:11I was very glamorous
00:17:12and I used to pour liquor.
00:17:13And they'd give me big tips.
00:17:16In Sean's house,
00:17:18there 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
00:17:25to get to know him.
00:17:25I was too young.
00:17:27My father was out.
00:17:28His brain was 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
00:17:35to the funeral
00:17:37on a full-length chinchilla.
00:17:41It was like a sigh of relief,
00:17:42you know what I'm saying?
00:17:43Because I finally knew
00:17:44that what I was feeling was true.
00:17:46You know what I'm saying?
00:17:46That I was a son of a hustler,
00:17:48a gangster.
00:17:48Melvin's presence was there.
00:17:52Melvin's presence was there.
00:17:52His money was there.
00:17:53And I understood
00:17:54that Melvin
00:17:56made a lot of things possible.
00:17:59But Sean's mom
00:18:01was his everything.
00:18:03If you look at
00:18:05some of the early pictures
00:18:06that Janice has of Sean,
00:18:09she was always
00:18:10making him into something.
00:18:12the hats,
00:18:16fur coats.
00:18:18I think she tried
00:18:19to overcompensate
00:18:21for the father being gone
00:18:23by making him
00:18:25into this dandy.
00:18:27Everything associated
00:18:30with Sean was Harlem.
00:18:34Whoever was flying Harlem,
00:18:35that's what he was
00:18:36as a child.
00:18:39Janice,
00:18:39she'd always be in Harlem.
00:18:41And there were times
00:18:41where she'd bring us.
00:18:46Here we are
00:18:47in this brand new Cadillac
00:18:48because that's all
00:18:49Janice drove.
00:18:51She's making stops
00:18:52here and there.
00:18:54You know,
00:18:54we knew the rule,
00:18:55the drill,
00:18:55just sit there,
00:18:56I'll be right back.
00:18:57She ain't turned
00:18:57the car off.
00:18:59Nobody took the car.
00:19:02No.
00:19:03So you knew
00:19:03there was a different
00:19:04vibe going on
00:19:05with this family.
00:19:07In his household,
00:19:09the groove
00:19:10was a little different.
00:19:13A lot of Donna Summer
00:19:14playing.
00:19:16And then we had
00:19:16these movies we'd watch.
00:19:18It's got to be
00:19:19number one.
00:19:20This genre of films
00:19:21called black exploitation.
00:19:23Superdue.
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 gotta get
00:19:31to be the Mac.
00:19:34Their parts
00:19:35were hustler parts.
00:19:39In Sean's household,
00:19:41you start to see
00:19:42all the stuff
00:19:43that you saw
00:19:44in the movies.
00:19:47Janice knew
00:19:48how to throw a party.
00:19:49And the party's packed.
00:19:52You got ladies
00:19:53that look like
00:19:54they're straight out
00:19:55of a Jet magazine.
00:19:56Some brothers up there.
00:19:58You know,
00:19:58if you want to call
00:19:59them pimps,
00:20:00you can.
00:20:00If you want to call
00:20:01them hustlers,
00:20:01you can.
00:20:02You got a member
00:20:03of the New York Knicks
00:20:04or two.
00:20:06There was a stage
00:20:10in her living room.
00:20:11Literally a stage.
00:20:13And that's where
00:20:14we used to have
00:20:15to go and dance.
00:20:17And everybody's
00:20:18calling you baby
00:20:19and everybody's
00:20:20saying,
00:20:20do that dance.
00:20:21And all of this stuff
00:20:28he's taken in.
00:20:35So from the movie screen
00:20:36to the home screen,
00:20:38these are the makings
00:20:39of Sean Combs.
00:20:43Now mind you,
00:20:44as a child,
00:20:44Sean was goofy.
00:20:46Kids would pick on him
00:20:47a lot around 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
00:20:57no princess.
00:20:59She held back nothing.
00:21:01You've said
00:21:02I would be 12 years old
00:21:03and sometimes
00:21:04I'd be out
00:21:05until 3, 4 in the morning.
00:21:07James, James,
00:21:07we don't have to
00:21:07get into that right now.
00:21:11Ma'am?
00:21:12Got a lot of
00:21:13beatings too.
00:21:15His beatings
00:21:16made me scared.
00:21:19Right?
00:21:21I got beatings now.
00:21:24But when he got
00:21:25his beatings,
00:21:26it wasn't no...
00:21:27It wasn't a choking thing.
00:21:30Nah.
00:21:33Damn,
00:21:34I hate thinking
00:21:34about that, man.
00:21:35My mother was,
00:21:40I guess,
00:21:40raising me
00:21:40for the real world.
00:21:42She was always
00:21:42told me
00:21:43if somebody hit me,
00:21:44make sure I hit them
00:21:44back harder.
00:21:45Make sure they never
00:21:46hit me again.
00:21:47Make sure I fucked them up.
00:21:49You 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.
00:22:02But Sean don't fight
00:22:05like this.
00:22:06Sean's gonna bite you.
00:22:08He's gonna eat
00:22:08your ear off.
00:22:10He's gonna cut
00:22:10your neck open
00:22:11with his mouth.
00:22:13He's not losing.
00:22:14I know people
00:22:19are shaped by pain
00:22:21as well as by love.
00:22:24And if it was more
00:22:25pain than love,
00:22:27watch out.
00:22:30There's gonna be pain
00:22:31that you're gonna
00:22:32give others
00:22:33because you're
00:22:35responding to that pain
00:22:36that you just can't
00:22:37seem to cut out
00:22:38of you.
00:22:39I didn't know
00:22:52much 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
00:23:03promote music 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.
00:23:11At the time,
00:23:11I was working
00:23:12with Andre Harrell.
00:23:13He wasn't paying me
00:23:14enough so I had
00:23:14to promote parties
00:23:15on the side,
00:23:16which was all good.
00:23:17You know what I'm saying?
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
00:23:27himself.
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
00:23:35with all the beautiful
00:23:37women out 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.
00:23:56Andre 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,
00:24:24I don't do music videos
00:24:26but this party
00:24:29was in New Jersey
00:24:30and I needed a ride
00:24:32back to Manhattan
00:24:33so I went along
00:24:36and 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 and St. Quist.
00:24:51The 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 friend
00:25:06You're a hypocrite
00:25:07You can't be righteous
00:25:08So a party just flip
00:25:09Sniff and snort
00:25:10Drink and drive
00:25:10And hide your sister strip
00:25:11You know what that
00:25:12looks like to your people
00:25:13A vacant script
00:25:14Dying sisters
00:25:15Don't want to look
00:25:15You in your face
00:25:16Wanting to be a pimp, brother
00:25:17Your heart ain't that cold
00:25:19And it's just
00:25:20Straight from the soul
00:25:21Was there ever
00:25:29a time that
00:25:30Sean Combs
00:25:31sexually assaulted you?
00:25:35Yes
00:25:36Someone called me up
00:25:40and told me that
00:25:41he said
00:25:42you know
00:25:42he has
00:25:43video
00:25:43And I was like
00:25:46what?
00:25:46And that's when he
00:25:48described it
00:25:51and explained it
00:25:52I just want to say this
00:26:13This thing
00:26:15was incredibly
00:26:16devastating 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
00:26:38well
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
00:26:48My mother wrote a letter
00:26:51to Combs' parents
00:26:53I just found this
00:26:57I just found this
00:26:57recently
00:26:58Can I read it?
00:27:05Dear Mr. and Mrs. Combs
00:27:07I'm writing you
00:27:10to inform you
00:27:12of something
00:27:14that your son
00:27:15did to my daughter
00:27:17One 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
00:27:29I asked her
00:27:32why she was
00:27:34screaming
00:27:34and who is
00:27:35this Puffy 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
00:27:54Without her knowledge
00:27:57he videotaped
00:27:59him doing
00:28:00something sexual
00:28:01to her
00:28:01Apparently
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 may be
00:28:15hard for you
00:28:16to believe
00:28:16but 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 believe
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
00:28:43I got things
00:28:47like
00:28:48what do you want
00:28:49me to do
00:28:50about it
00:28:51to
00:28:52if I help you
00:28:54I can't get
00:28:54into his parties
00:28:55Puff 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
00:29:05Why would you
00:29:08want to do that
00:29:09drug and
00:29:12rape the girl
00:29:12tape it
00:29:14and then
00:29:15put it up
00:29:16on the screen
00:29:17Here's my theory
00:29:20Alpo Martinez
00:29:24drug lord
00:29:26famous
00:29:27Harlem
00:29:28street
00:29:29tough guy
00:29:29hung out
00:29:30at the rooftop
00:29:31Once again I'd like to
00:29:32welcome you and yours
00:29:33in the rooftop
00:29:34Alpo had a lot
00:29:35of girls
00:29:35and he would
00:29:37tape girls
00:29:38that he was
00:29:39having sex with
00:29:40and then on a
00:29:41Saturday night
00:29:42he might
00:29:42bring his camera
00:29:43and put it on the wall
00:29:45and everyone knows
00:29:46that's so and so's
00:29:47girl
00:29:48What Sean saw was
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 of stature
00:30:00all his life
00:30:03he's been trying
00:30:04to honor a man
00:30:05he believed
00:30:06he was a famous
00:30:08Harlem gangster
00:30:08and that gave
00:30:11his father
00:30:12a mythic
00:30:13presence
00:30:14people like
00:30:17Alpo
00:30:17he looked at
00:30:19those guys
00:30:19with a certain
00:30:20amount of jealousy
00:30:20or envy
00:30:21a certain amount
00:30:22of respect
00:30:23and there's a
00:30:25certain amount
00:30:25of desire
00:30:26that thing
00:30:28was in him
00:30:29from there
00:30:30Did you ever
00:30:37confront Sean
00:30:38about him?
00:30:39I did
00:30:40I avoided him
00:30:43for a very long
00:30:44time
00:30:44I ran into him
00:30:46one day
00:30:47he came to me
00:30:50he got on
00:30:52his knees
00:30:53and swore
00:30:54he did not
00:30:55do this thing
00:30:56to me
00:30:56and denied it
00:30:59and that is
00:31:06the very last
00:31:06time I talked
00:31:07to him
00:31:07we fucking
00:31:09did it
00:31:10let's go
00:31:11the key to the city
00:31:12yeah yeah yeah
00:31:13when I think back
00:31:14in terms of his
00:31:15rise
00:31:16it is the most
00:31:20helpless
00:31:21feeling
00:31:22I was always
00:31:25nauseous
00:31:25when I saw
00:31:26his image
00:31:26the one
00:31:30image
00:31:30in Times Square
00:31:32where he's
00:31:33holding his
00:31:34fist up
00:31:34when I saw it
00:31:38I vomited
00:31:39right there
00:31:40on the street
00:31:41you are really
00:31:44raising your hand
00:31:45at victory
00:31:45and I'm living
00:31:46in trauma
00:31:47and defeat
00:31:47it's new legal
00:32:05travel for Sean
00:32:06Diddy
00:32:06another new
00:32:07lawsuit
00:32:08of sexual assault
00:32:09sex trafficking
00:32:10and drugging
00:32:11underage girls
00:32:12federal prosecutors
00:32:13in New York
00:32:13have interviewed
00:32:14numerous women
00:32:15who allege
00:32:16Rome
00:32:16this is at least
00:32:17the 10th civil
00:32:18lawsuit filed
00:32:19against Sean
00:32:19Diddy Combs
00:32:20alleged sex trafficking
00:32:21let's take the blood
00:32:23man
00:32:23what the fuck
00:32:23else
00:32:24I want
00:32:24I don't know
00:32:26it's a bunch
00:32:28of silly
00:32:29just silly
00:32:30bullshit
00:32:31noise
00:32:32noise
00:32:33noise
00:32:34but it's like
00:32:36the legal system
00:32:37is doing it now
00:32:38because like
00:32:38legally
00:32:39we gotta
00:32:40it's like
00:32:41I gotta spend
00:32:42money to go
00:32:43and get rid
00:32:44of this bullshit
00:32:45oh yeah
00:32:47ain't got
00:32:48nothing left
00:32:49got nothing
00:32:51left
00:32:51going on
00:32:52they ain't
00:32:55breaking me
00:32:55though
00:32:55how are you
00:32:57boss
00:32:57if you don't
00:32:58mind
00:32:58one picture
00:32:58please
00:32:59I'm not good
00:33:01with the camera
00:33:01so
00:33:01I'm gonna try
00:33:03yeah
00:33:07as a group
00:33:11as a group
00:33:11Sean was
00:33:14destined
00:33:14to be
00:33:16famous
00:33:17I didn't see
00:33:23infamy coming
00:33:23I swear
00:33:24I didn't see
00:33:25that coming
00:33:25I'm 19
00:33:30and I always like
00:33:32seeing people
00:33:32entertained
00:33:33and I thought
00:33:34you know
00:33:34over the holidays
00:33:36I just wanted to
00:33:36throw a celebrity
00:33:37basketball game
00:33:38in Harlem
00:33:39I was at the game
00:33:43I was on the floor
00:33:43all of us
00:33:45was there
00:33:45every rapper
00:33:46in New York
00:33:46right
00:33:47your MTV
00:33:48raps came
00:33:49I'm at City College
00:33:50I'm at City College
00:33:50in the heart
00:33:51of New York City
00:33:52for the Puff Daddy
00:33:53heavy the first
00:33:54all-time celebrity
00:33:55all-star classic
00:33:56that was one of the biggest
00:33:58basketball games
00:33:59if that would've turned out
00:34:00correctly
00:34:01it would've went down
00:34:02in history
00:34:02there were lines
00:34:08and lines
00:34:08around
00:34:09campus to get in
00:34:10there's no more room
00:34:13but everyone still
00:34:14wants to come
00:34:15we opened up the doors
00:34:19everybody saw us
00:34:20flowing through
00:34:21but then
00:34:22thousands more
00:34:23come
00:34:23there was this thing
00:34:36in hip hop
00:34:37called
00:34:37bum rushing the door
00:34:38people don't have a ticket
00:34:40when they hear
00:34:40something sold out
00:34:41they say
00:34:41fuck it
00:34:42we gotta still get in
00:34:42we gonna bum rush the door
00:34:43when they got to the
00:34:46bottom of the stairs
00:34:47the doors
00:34:47didn't go out that way
00:34:50they only came in
00:34:51so people were stuck
00:34:52and they was crushing
00:34:55people down at the
00:34:56bottom of the stairs
00:34:57we on the court
00:35:00warming up to play
00:35:01and then Dougie
00:35:03first grabbed the mic
00:35:03and said
00:35:04there's people that
00:35:04are dead
00:35:05the most regular person
00:35:17in here
00:35:18you need to leave
00:35:19and it's over
00:35:22Sean over promoted
00:35:30over hyped
00:35:31and that led to
00:35:34a crowd
00:35:35it was just like
00:35:38oh shit
00:35:39it just happened
00:35:39so quick
00:35:40how would
00:35:42how would people
00:35:43want to explain it
00:35:44we need a lot of help
00:35:48here
00:35:48there's a lot of people
00:35:49hurt and aren't breathing
00:35:50not breathing
00:35:52yes
00:35:52we have a
00:35:53emergency over here
00:35:55the death toll
00:36:11from last week's
00:36:11stampede at a
00:36:12New York charity
00:36:13basketball game
00:36:14has risen to nine
00:36:15they were getting
00:36:16trampled
00:36:17all for money
00:36:18$12 man
00:36:19what do you mean
00:36:20$12
00:36:20cost $12 for a ticket
00:36:22one of the unanswered
00:36:24questions remains
00:36:25who's to blame
00:36:26for the stampede
00:36:28that killed
00:36:28nine people
00:36:29throughout the
00:36:32newspaper headlines
00:36:33throughout the
00:36:35confusion
00:36:36the finger pointing
00:36:37who was responsible
00:36:39Sean Young
00:36:41in real time
00:36:43carried the weight
00:36:44of all of that
00:36:46my dream for this
00:36:49evening
00:36:49was to bring a
00:36:51positive program
00:36:51to my people
00:36:52to people of my age
00:36:54and to people in my
00:36:55community
00:36:55whatever must be done
00:36:57must be done
00:36:59to ensure
00:36:59that this never
00:37:00ever ever
00:37:01happens again
00:37:02it was the biggest
00:37:03news ever
00:37:04that's how he got
00:37:06super famous
00:37:07was that game
00:37:10and those deaths
00:37:11that's the beginning
00:37:13of Puff Daddy
00:37:14that's really how
00:37:17I started to
00:37:18become famous
00:37:19was through a
00:37:20tragedy
00:37:21he was holed up
00:37:25in a hotel
00:37:25on the east side
00:37:26him and his mother
00:37:27he didn't know
00:37:29what was going
00:37:30to happen
00:37:31and I saw
00:37:33Janice question
00:37:34Sean
00:37:35he's going into
00:37:37this music business
00:37:38thing
00:37:39he just left school
00:37:40and now this
00:37:41extreme tragedy
00:37:43has occurred
00:37:44she's like
00:37:45did he make
00:37:45the right decision
00:37:46and I saw him
00:37:49put his hands
00:37:49on her
00:37:50call her a bitch
00:37:54and slapped her
00:37:55he's not looking back
00:37:58he's not looking back
00:37:59Sean Puff Daddy Combs
00:38:09and sponsors
00:38:10claim no responsibility
00:38:11in the tragic chain
00:38:12of events
00:38:13that claim nine lives
00:38:14and injured
00:38:15the brass
00:38:15that afforded
00:38:17Uptown
00:38:17its distribution money
00:38:19wanted Sean out
00:38:20I saw Andre
00:38:23fight
00:38:24and fight
00:38:25to keep
00:38:26Sean in
00:38:27and he did
00:38:28Andre
00:38:29Puff Daddy
00:38:30he's passing on to
00:38:31I guess his son
00:38:32protégé
00:38:34yes
00:38:34tell me a little bit
00:38:37about this man
00:38:37and why you like
00:38:38working with him
00:38:39because you know
00:38:40he's not intimidated
00:38:41by youth
00:38:41you know what I'm saying
00:38:42he knows the importance
00:38:43of leaving the legacy
00:38:44behind
00:38:44because we need
00:38:45more adults out there
00:38:46that's going to
00:38:47teach the young
00:38:47such as myself
00:38:48I took Andre Harrell
00:38:51out to lunch
00:38:52and I said
00:38:53can I get a chance
00:38:53to maybe do A&R
00:38:55the A&R
00:38:56is artists and repertoire
00:38:57that's the guy
00:38:58that works at the
00:38:59record company
00:39:00that puts the records
00:39:00together
00:39:01and works with the artists
00:39:02I said
00:39:04give me a chance
00:39:04you know
00:39:05you're making music
00:39:06for young people
00:39:07I'm young
00:39:08and you know
00:39:09who better to make
00:39:10the music than me
00:39:10we had a group
00:39:14back in the day
00:39:15they drove up
00:39:16to New York
00:39:17unannounced
00:39:18to meet Andre Harrell
00:39:19when we make love
00:39:22Jodeci
00:39:23it's like a dream
00:39:26they sing for Andre
00:39:28Andre loves it
00:39:29immediately that becomes
00:39:30Puff's first responsibility
00:39:31nigga go make Jodeci
00:39:33what's in the future
00:39:35of Jodeci
00:39:35hopefully to make
00:39:37hits
00:39:37hits
00:39:38hits
00:39:39Andre put his
00:39:41trust with Sean
00:39:42as opposed to the artist
00:39:44he told us
00:39:47I don't care
00:39:48who the artist is
00:39:49you're more important
00:39:50than them
00:39:51the artists don't
00:39:52work without you
00:39:53what would be the ideal
00:39:55musical setting for y'all
00:39:56I guess before
00:39:57in front of like
00:39:57millions of people
00:39:58you know
00:39:58you have to be able
00:39:59to control
00:40:00everything
00:40:01I basically style
00:40:03and come up
00:40:04with the images
00:40:05and design
00:40:05most of the clothing
00:40:06for all of the artists
00:40:07it was him
00:40:08that put Jodeci
00:40:09in the pants
00:40:11baggy
00:40:11sagging at the bottom
00:40:13the boots
00:40:14not lacing it up
00:40:15he is able to sponge
00:40:17from the community
00:40:18and the culture
00:40:19and package it
00:40:21and in the studio
00:40:24he did the same thing
00:40:26Sean
00:40:27wasn't a producer
00:40:28where he can tell you
00:40:29you need a C
00:40:30here
00:40:31a C note
00:40:32or
00:40:32this is an F
00:40:33but he did have
00:40:35a good ear
00:40:36for what could be a hit
00:40:37let me give you
00:40:39an example
00:40:39let's get it going
00:40:40rooftop
00:40:40at the rooftop
00:40:41in Harlem
00:40:42the DJ
00:40:43Brucey B
00:40:44would mix
00:40:45acapellas
00:40:46from R&B songs
00:40:47with hard
00:40:49hip hop beats
00:40:50and it drove
00:40:54the kids crazy
00:40:55at the clubs
00:40:56that's what
00:40:58Sean did
00:40:58with Jodeci
00:40:59on those remixes
00:41:00it was very minimal
00:41:03it was very hard
00:41:04beat
00:41:04and snare
00:41:05no melody
00:41:06Jodeci's record
00:41:14started climbing
00:41:15the charts
00:41:15Sean turned that
00:41:19into the blueprint
00:41:20for his special
00:41:21brand of A&R
00:41:23and then the next
00:41:24artist to benefit
00:41:25from that
00:41:26was Mary J. Blige
00:41:27Mary's what's the 411
00:41:34was out the box
00:41:35the hat pulled out
00:41:40the mysteriousness
00:41:41it had a little bit
00:41:42of a darkness
00:41:43and moodiness
00:41:44to it as well
00:41:45all of that
00:41:47was groundbreaking
00:41:48he launched a female artist
00:41:53in a male dominated
00:41:54hip hop era
00:41:55who became an instant success
00:42:00and that created
00:42:03hip hop soul
00:42:04Mary became the owner
00:42:06of that sound
00:42:07Sean was making
00:42:14the hits happen
00:42:14and the visuals
00:42:15happened
00:42:16in 1992
00:42:18Sean is promoted
00:42:19to VP of A&R
00:42:21and Artisan Development
00:42:22so my name is
00:42:23Puff Daddy
00:42:24Vice President
00:42:25of A&R and Arts Development
00:42:27for Uptown Records
00:42:29which brought you
00:42:30the hits
00:42:30Jodeci
00:42:31Mary J. Blige
00:42:32Heavy D and the boys
00:42:33for all MC
00:42:33and you know
00:42:35on and on and on
00:42:36Puffey had Jodeci
00:42:37and Mary J. Blige
00:42:38but Puffey's a big
00:42:40huge EPMD fan
00:42:41my background sing
00:42:42my background sing
00:42:43for the crossover
00:42:44he was at my
00:42:46crossover video shoot
00:42:47and he asked me
00:42:50to do the Mary J. Blige
00:42:51intro for the 411 album
00:42:52your name Blige
00:42:54this is Eric Sermon
00:42:56MC Graham Royal
00:42:57I did that for him
00:42:59and then all of a sudden
00:43:00we became friends
00:43:01I thought it was
00:43:04a general friendship
00:43:05until I see
00:43:07that this game
00:43:08is being played
00:43:09you got an agenda
00:43:11Misa
00:43:13he was trying to
00:43:16court her
00:43:17after we broke up
00:43:18Sean wants her
00:43:20because Eric
00:43:22was that dude
00:43:23it was about
00:43:25I got her
00:43:26I won her over
00:43:27from him
00:43:28he had to have
00:43:31the girl
00:43:31and Sean has a way
00:43:34about
00:43:35when he gets you
00:43:36he got you
00:43:37he got you
00:43:39and now you
00:43:40become property
00:43:41me and Misa
00:43:44were just friends
00:43:46but he wanted
00:43:47to make sure
00:43:48that there was
00:43:50no calling
00:43:51and me being
00:43:52friends with that girl
00:43:53Sean's jealousy
00:43:56it got to the point
00:43:57where he put his
00:43:58hands on her
00:43:58right outside of
00:44:01Uptown Records
00:44:02they're fighting
00:44:03in the street
00:44:04and he's beating
00:44:05her into the car
00:44:06well
00:44:06she's on the ground
00:44:09and people are
00:44:13pulling him off of her
00:44:14and separating her
00:44:15a year or two
00:44:18later
00:44:19they're still together
00:44:20and Justin is born
00:44:22when he invited me
00:44:30to be the godfather
00:44:31of his first son
00:44:32I was able to push that
00:44:35in the back of my mind
00:44:36and say
00:44:37that was a really
00:44:39bad moment
00:44:40but he was weak
00:44:41and
00:44:42it was a bad moment
00:44:44does that make me
00:44:47part of a
00:44:47Sean Combs cult
00:44:49maybe so
00:44:51I may have been
00:44:53the first
00:44:54disciple
00:44:55believer
00:44:57and then
00:44:59overall protector
00:45:01against all odds
00:45:03at that point
00:45:27Sean is on top
00:45:28of the world
00:45:30and his trajectory
00:45:31was only up
00:45:33I was just a wonder kid
00:45:37it was just something
00:45:37something that they
00:45:38never saw before
00:45:39to be young
00:45:42and
00:45:42to be Puff Daddy
00:45:44it's just
00:45:46it's just like
00:45:47I felt like
00:45:49my dream
00:45:50had came true
00:45:50everybody now
00:45:55is looking for this kid
00:45:56because they all
00:45:57have artists
00:45:58that they have to get
00:45:59to the top of the chart
00:46:00what does that do
00:46:02to a person
00:46:02do you think
00:46:05I'm still gonna be
00:46:07like
00:46:08yes ma'am
00:46:09no ma'am
00:46:09thank you very much
00:46:10he became too big
00:46:12for Uptown Records
00:46:13I'm gonna be so drunk
00:46:14and high
00:46:14by Wednesday
00:46:14at 8 o'clock
00:46:15I'm not really
00:46:16gonna give a fuck
00:46:16but I give a fuck
00:46:17there started to be
00:46:19some dissension
00:46:19between
00:46:20Andre and Puff
00:46:21Andre was the king
00:46:24of the Uptown castle
00:46:26of the empire
00:46:27he created
00:46:27and the intern
00:46:31was taking his place
00:46:33I remember it
00:46:37like yesterday
00:46:38Andre called me
00:46:40into his office
00:46:41he tells me
00:46:43just like this
00:46:44he says
00:46:45dog I just
00:46:46fired Puff
00:46:46I said word
00:46:48it was a sad day
00:46:53Andre was like
00:46:55a surrogate dad
00:46:56for Sean
00:46:57Sean was really
00:47:01sick
00:47:02when Andre fired him
00:47:03I'm talking about
00:47:05sick
00:47:05couldn't believe it
00:47:07and then Sean
00:47:10called me
00:47:11and he said
00:47:12yo
00:47:12I'm about to do
00:47:14my thing dog
00:47:15Puff was like
00:47:30yo
00:47:30I'm looking for
00:47:31some hardcore
00:47:32artists
00:47:33he's ain't tired
00:47:35of doing the
00:47:35Mary shit
00:47:36Joe to see shit
00:47:37he wanna do some
00:47:37hard shit
00:47:38some street shit
00:47:39straight out of
00:47:39couch
00:47:40crazy motherfucker
00:47:41named Ice Cube
00:47:42from the gang
00:47:43called niggas
00:47:43with attitude
00:47:44so I guess
00:47:45I got the handle
00:47:46mine
00:47:46the West Coast
00:47:48had the hits
00:47:48that we wanted
00:47:50Sean signed
00:47:58Biggie
00:47:59in 1992
00:48:00people didn't know
00:48:02we had to produce
00:48:02Biggie's album
00:48:03for Uptown
00:48:04he was an Uptown
00:48:05artist
00:48:06so it's the
00:48:0720th big then
00:48:08yeah yeah
00:48:08B.I.G
00:48:09business instead of
00:48:10game
00:48:10right
00:48:11I'm telling my
00:48:11children
00:48:12but when Andre
00:48:13fired Puff
00:48:14they fired him
00:48:15with a caveat
00:48:16I'm letting you go
00:48:17but I'm gonna let
00:48:19you take Biggie
00:48:20with you
00:48:20Andre decided to
00:48:24sell us
00:48:24the Biggie album
00:48:25but now
00:48:28we had to find
00:48:29a way to pay for it
00:48:31we were living
00:48:33on borrowed time
00:48:34I went about
00:48:36setting up
00:48:37the meetings
00:48:37then we met
00:48:39with Epic
00:48:40Sony
00:48:41Columbia
00:48:41and we met
00:48:43with Clive Davis
00:48:44at Ariston
00:48:45everybody knows him
00:48:46on a first name basis
00:48:48Clive runs
00:48:49a hundred million dollar
00:48:50record company
00:48:50called Ariston
00:48:52he has discovered
00:48:55Whitney Houston
00:48:56Carly Simon
00:48:58Aretha Franklin
00:48:59and a long list
00:49:00of other pop stars
00:49:01who thrive in the world
00:49:02according to Clive
00:49:04so we went to Clive
00:49:08and we played
00:49:08a few tracks
00:49:09from Biggie's album
00:49:10and I remember
00:49:11one of the first ones
00:49:12that we played
00:49:13was Gimme the Loop
00:49:14yes love
00:49:15love your fucking attitude
00:49:16because the nigga
00:49:17play pussy
00:49:18that's the nigga
00:49:18and Clive's eyes
00:49:20went like this
00:49:21I'm slamming niggas
00:49:22like Shaquille
00:49:23shit it's real
00:49:24and I said
00:49:25well
00:49:25you got the goods
00:49:26and I bought
00:49:27into his vision
00:49:28Gimme the Loop
00:49:29Gimme the Loop
00:49:30I named it Bad Boy
00:49:37because I wanted
00:49:39to go against the grain
00:49:40I didn't want
00:49:42to just make records
00:49:42I didn't want
00:49:43to just make money
00:49:44I wanted to make history
00:49:46I was at Bad Boy
00:49:56starting from the day
00:49:58that we put the LLC
00:49:59together
00:50:00and Sean gave me
00:50:0125% in stock
00:50:03and his mother Janice
00:50:05had 75%
00:50:07he did not put
00:50:10the company
00:50:11in his name
00:50:12to protect him
00:50:14from paying families
00:50:15at CCNY
00:50:16and I saw
00:50:19from that moment on
00:50:21Sean had shifted
00:50:22in his personality
00:50:24I didn't see
00:50:26any more
00:50:27of the Mount St. Michael
00:50:29teen Sean
00:50:30he had become
00:50:34more like
00:50:35the person
00:50:36I see today
00:50:37we did a deal
00:50:40for approximately
00:50:4110 million dollars
00:50:421.5
00:50:45went as an advance
00:50:47into Sean's pocket
00:50:48another 1.5
00:50:51is supposed to be
00:50:51our overhead
00:50:52Sean said
00:50:53that's yours
00:50:54you can do
00:50:55whatever you want
00:50:56with it
00:50:56but you better
00:50:57make sure
00:50:57my company's running
00:50:58from day zero
00:51:01I wrote everything
00:51:02down every day
00:51:03so I can keep track
00:51:05of everything
00:51:05I needed to do
00:51:06I ran all the money
00:51:08all the budgets
00:51:09for the company
00:51:10as well as
00:51:11a lot for his
00:51:11personal life
00:51:12and all
00:51:13that came with it
00:51:14I don't like
00:51:16I don't like the way
00:51:16you're treating me
00:51:17or me getting
00:51:18my second half
00:51:18this shit is bullshit
00:51:19yo yo yo yo
00:51:20bust your ass
00:51:21and ask me
00:51:23I think that he had
00:51:24this thing
00:51:25with strong men
00:51:27and he had a thing
00:51:28with wanting to be one
00:51:29but not positioned
00:51:30to be one
00:51:31street wise
00:51:33but positioned
00:51:34to be one
00:51:34industry wise
00:51:35and they call that
00:51:36a paper gangster
00:51:37shit over
00:51:38I'm not paying
00:51:39nor am I involved
00:51:41in any of that shit
00:51:42and so as he's
00:51:43paper gangstering
00:51:44he's also
00:51:45trying to street
00:51:47gangster too
00:51:48at the same time
00:51:49savage
00:51:50I'm a savage
00:51:51he's not from the street
00:51:53his mother did
00:51:54the very best
00:51:55to give him the best
00:51:56what's next
00:51:57give me something else
00:51:58what can't you do
00:52:00I can do it
00:52:01but now
00:52:02he's been getting
00:52:03beefier and beefier
00:52:04with the power
00:52:04from the music
00:52:05that's a good way
00:52:07to get your head
00:52:08filled up
00:52:09to think that
00:52:09you're just as gangster
00:52:10as they are now
00:52:11without even having
00:52:13to pop your gun
00:52:14off yourself
00:52:15now after all
00:52:19this time
00:52:20me and Misa
00:52:21is still cool
00:52:21we were just
00:52:23friends
00:52:24but one time
00:52:26she just happened
00:52:27to be in my driver's
00:52:28seat in my truck
00:52:29and all of a sudden
00:52:31I heard somebody
00:52:32go
00:52:32and it's him
00:52:34he's steaming
00:52:37he swings on me
00:52:40so I'm laughing
00:52:42because I'm like
00:52:43you swung on me
00:52:45you're putting yourself
00:52:46in jeopardy
00:52:47knowing you can't
00:52:48work none of us
00:52:49so now I'm like
00:52:52let's go around the corner
00:52:53because I'm respectful
00:52:55enough
00:52:56so he actually
00:52:58gets in the car
00:52:58and we drive
00:53:00around the corner
00:53:00so I'm about to
00:53:01give him the business
00:53:02shit could have got
00:53:04really ugly
00:53:05and he just said
00:53:06yo see now
00:53:07I want you to hear
00:53:07something real quick
00:53:08and that's when he
00:53:09played in the Biggie
00:53:10Smalls album
00:53:11yeah
00:53:13this album is
00:53:14dedicated
00:53:15to all the teachers
00:53:16that told me
00:53:16I never amount to
00:53:17nothing
00:53:17the juicy single
00:53:19dropped somewhere
00:53:20in 94
00:53:21it was all a dream
00:53:23I used to read
00:53:24word up magazine
00:53:25but Biggie's trajectory
00:53:27was not zero
00:53:28straight to the top
00:53:29Biggie had a slow
00:53:31start
00:53:31very nervous at first
00:53:33at the time
00:53:36that West Coast
00:53:37thing is happening
00:53:38so we began to look
00:53:40at what they were
00:53:41doing
00:53:41and Tupac was like
00:53:43a shining star
00:53:44there's a song called
00:53:45I Get Around
00:53:46by Tupac
00:53:47that song
00:53:53if you're like
00:53:54in a science lab
00:53:55and you're looking
00:53:55at something
00:53:56with a microscope
00:53:57and you're trying
00:53:58to figure out
00:53:58what it is
00:53:59and what it's made of
00:54:00that's what we did
00:54:01with that song
00:54:02I Get Around
00:54:03Sean was just
00:54:05mesmerized
00:54:06by that particular song
00:54:07the structure of it
00:54:09the video
00:54:09and the visuals
00:54:10it showed
00:54:11the culture
00:54:12it's like
00:54:13let me dissect this
00:54:14let me understand it
00:54:16let me do it
00:54:16my way
00:54:17and the next single
00:54:20was Big Papa
00:54:21and that dropped
00:54:22and it took us
00:54:23over the edge
00:54:24with Biggie
00:54:24I liked it
00:54:25yeah
00:54:26he was out of here
00:54:27from that moment on
00:54:28I loved it
00:54:29when you call me
00:54:30Big Papa
00:54:31throw your hands
00:54:32in the air
00:54:33if you's a true player
00:54:34we had Ready To Die
00:54:37before it came out
00:54:38Bigg had sent
00:54:40Tupac a demo
00:54:41and we played
00:54:42that tape to death
00:54:43man
00:54:43we played that tape
00:54:44till it was destroyed
00:54:45and then Pac
00:54:47got the phone call
00:54:48that Bigg was having
00:54:49an album release party
00:54:50he said to us
00:54:52man we all go into that
00:54:53he was very excited
00:54:55for him
00:54:55I've never seen
00:55:02someone more excited
00:55:03for someone else's success
00:55:05as Pac was
00:55:07for Bigg's success
00:55:08you ready nigga
00:55:10yeah
00:55:10ready for that
00:55:11raw dog shit nigga
00:55:12I don't know
00:55:13how to grab it
00:55:14okay
00:55:14alright
00:55:15let me see how
00:55:16I'm gonna hit you with
00:55:17he thought Bigg was dope
00:55:19he wasn't doper than him
00:55:22as far as he was concerned
00:55:23Tupacalypse don't sleep
00:55:25I keep a motherfucking Glock
00:55:26in my car
00:55:27but he was the next
00:55:28thing smoking
00:55:30I'm a high guy
00:55:31from Bed-Stuy
00:55:32putting the swelling
00:55:33on your eye
00:55:33your nose even
00:55:34when I choke you
00:55:35you stop breathing
00:55:36when police come
00:55:37I'm leaving
00:55:38peace and love
00:55:39here we go
00:55:40Pac would take Bigg
00:55:44with him on tours
00:55:45and let him open up
00:55:47for him
00:55:47break back
00:55:48break shit
00:55:49what the fuck
00:55:50you expect me
00:55:50from high guy
00:55:51fuck it
00:55:52I'm a high guy
00:55:53Pac was developing
00:55:55thug life
00:55:55this ideology
00:55:57of taking back
00:55:58our communities
00:55:59Bigg 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
00:56:08insanely jealous
00:56:10of Bigggy
00:56:12and Pac's friendship
00:56:13you know when I was
00:56:16around Bigg
00:56:16I felt like
00:56:17he really loved me
00:56:18I felt like
00:56:19if I left the room
00:56:20he wasn't gonna say
00:56:22nothing bad
00:56:22or somebody said
00:56:23something bad about me
00:56:24he would defend that
00:56:25he was probably
00:56:27one of the only people
00:56:28I had really trusted
00:56:29like for a long time
00:56:30there's a yearning
00:56:36for him to have
00:56:37that complete
00:56:38total control
00:56:40you're my artist
00:56:42you're my best friend
00:56:43you're writing this song
00:56:44for like 30
00:56:45motherfucking days
00:56:46extra clips
00:56:47in my pocket
00:56:48I pay you
00:56:48you work for me
00:56:49I make hits with you
00:56:53I needed money
00:56:54on my own
00:56:55so I started playing
00:56:56and who is this guy
00:56:58why do we need him
00:57:02in the picture
00:57:02guess who gonna win
00:57:05Tupac was a very
00:57:06likable person
00:57:07all the women
00:57:09loved him
00:57:10being a rapper
00:57:12being a movie star
00:57:14for Sean
00:57:16being a marketer
00:57:18you're a manipulator
00:57:20please welcome
00:57:21Tupac Shakur
00:57:22and there's envy
00:57:24for people
00:57:25who have success
00:57:26fame
00:57:27with no manipulation
00:57:29Puff
00:57:32is
00:57:33to me
00:57:33very threatened
00:57:35by Puff
00:57:36when I reflect
00:57:40on how this all
00:57:41came into play
00:57:42it's a trail
00:57:43city college
00:57:48innocent lives
00:57:50got taken
00:57:51then it became
00:57:54the ability
00:57:54to get away
00:57:55with anything
00:57:56then you circle
00:57:59in the fact
00:57:59that he has
00:58:00legit money
00:58:01then you have
00:58:04the antagonist
00:58:04Tupac Shakur
00:58:06all those agreeance
00:58:15created
00:58:16the chain
00:58:16of events
00:58:17that
00:58:18started
00:58:19in New York
00:58:20and ended
00:58:22in Vegas
00:58:23do you know
00:58:37who was responsible
00:58:38for the killing
00:58:38of Tupac Shakur
00:58:40no I don't
00:58:42I think that
00:58:46Sean now
00:58:47in my mature
00:58:49mind
00:58:49had a lot
00:58:50to do
00:58:51with the death
00:58:52of Tupac
00:58:53Tupac Shakur
00:58:54no I don't
00:58:55at much
00:58:57of Tupac Shakur
00:58:59make the
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