Music journalist Touré says he's uncovered new context to Diddy's downfall ... claiming the rap mogul's drug use fueled him to throw X-rated "Freak Off" parties.
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00:00You have posted some things over the weekend that are stunning.
00:08I'd like to start with your relative who did an internship for Diddy because this story is pretty shocking.
00:19This is the story that was hardest for me to tell, something that I actually didn't think about for years until recently.
00:28I knew Puff well enough to call him and say, hey, will you give an internship to a family member of mine who's a young person who's trying to come up, needs a little break?
00:42I knew him well enough to ask him that. We weren't friends, but I knew him to get him on the phone and say, hey, I need a little favor for the next generation.
00:51He was like, cool. About three months later, the whole thing ended abruptly and unceremoniously after having been very exciting.
01:04I was getting happy reports about we're doing this, we're doing that, and it's fun, and we're getting somewhere, we're doing something.
01:11Apparently, at some point, Puff said to my family member, come home with me and spend the night with me or this internship is over.
01:22I didn't even find out that part of it until years later, but that told me right there this is a person who will say anything, will do anything.
01:35Wasn't even thinking about you're related to a person in media who could who could easily get on a platform and talk about this.
01:45Friends are telling me there's been about 15 years of hardcore drug abuse, anything that he can get his hands on that are detaching him from who he really is.
01:58So when you think about why did you make such bad decisions to do these parties with so many people, to videotape them, to say no when Cassie says we can make this all go away for 30 million dollars, which is a lot to him.
02:15And he says no. Well, that's because he's been dealing with drug addiction and his mind being clouded and he's not in his right self.
02:26He was extremely sharp, motivational, very strategic in the first couple of decades when he was rising.
02:34The last 15 years has been a haze of drug abuse.
02:38And that's why he's making these horrendous decisions.
02:41And that is not to excuse him in any way for the things that he is alleged to have done or that he did.
02:48But a way of trying to understand why would somebody make so many bad decisions?
02:52Well, he's been dealing with, you know, and when I said, what is the drug of choice?
02:58The answer is whatever there is on the bleeding edge of, you know, narcotics that can get you high.
03:08So he's not even dealing with the normal stuff that we're dealing with.
03:11And I think that there's this desire in him to have everything be the most.
03:17He wanted to be superior to other people.
03:19He wanted to be, you know, have better clothes, have more money, have more fame and better parties.
03:27And the first three things that I named there, nothing wrong there.
03:30But what it meant to have the better parties than others grew from something that was, you know, let's say PG rated.
03:38I went to a bunch of PG rated diddy parties to something that was crazy.