Dive into the shocking revelations from the Peacock documentary "Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy" as we uncover the untold story behind Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs. From childhood trauma to industry controversies, this documentary exposes the complex journey of one of hip-hop's most notorious figures.
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00:00Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're revealing some of the lesser-known facts about Diddy's life,
00:05according to the documentary, Diddy, The Making of a Bad Boy.
00:10By now, the media has thoroughly investigated nearly every detail of the criminal charges
00:15facing rapper and producer, Sean, Puff Daddy Combs.
00:18Unchecked wealth and power is very dangerous in our culture.
00:22It allows people to get away with horrific behavior.
00:26But what remains murky is the minutiae of his upbringing,
00:29with Diddy's tempestuous backstory holding clues to imminent atrocities.
00:34We need to be asking the question, not what's wrong with you, but what happened to you.
00:44In the new Peacock documentary, childhood friends and early acquaintances recount
00:49stories about the man they knew before the fame.
00:52I know Sean. Not Diddy, not Daddy Love.
00:56And draw a linear progression from innocent boy to industry beast.
01:01He's monsterized now. But monsters are made.
01:06So what new discoveries account for Diddy's dark rise?
01:10Here are 10 surprising findings from Diddy, The Making of a Bad Boy.
01:15It's something that's been going on in the industry, and those who speak about it
01:19usually meet their demise.
01:22Sean's father was a murdered gangster.
01:25Although his murder was never solved or even investigated,
01:29Sean's father Marvin was assassinated when Sean was just two years old.
01:34It's believed that Marvin was gunned down due to his involvement with New York City gangs.
01:39Though Marvin's criminal streak opens up questions of nature versus nurture,
01:44it's made clear that the fallout of his death and the environment Sean inhabited
01:48would serve as far greater forces in his own life of pompous crime.
01:53Here's a man who lost his father early in life.
01:57There's a desire to belong to something bigger than yourself, to not be isolated.
02:03Sean was raised on a silver spoon.
02:06Despite accounts that he grew up in Harlem surrounded by poverty,
02:09Sean moved to the suburban north side of Mount Vernon with his mother Janice
02:13just after his father's death.
02:15In the documentary, childhood friends paint a different picture of a little boy
02:20decked out in jewelry and nice clothes.
02:23This is a four-year-old in a 30-year-old's wardrobe.
02:27Sean attended a private Catholic school,
02:29and became adjusted to the finer things in life from a young age.
02:33He also was one of the first kids that I knew that had like a Gucci watch,
02:37because he always had all the best of everything.
02:39It wasn't all golden glitz, however.
02:41He was relentlessly bullied for being viewed as a soft rich kid,
02:45and his home life would soon become rife with chaos that planted the seeds for his future crimes.
02:51The freak-offs began in Sean's childhood.
02:54At the height of his fame, Diddy's deceivingly lavish after-after parties,
02:59quietly referred to as freak-offs, were a hotbed for criminal activity and abuse.
03:04But little was previously known about his mother's Janice Combs parties
03:08that he was subjected to as a child.
03:11Tales of sex, substance use, and highly adult matters,
03:15all occurring in Sean's home, emerge in the making of a bad boy.
03:19This is what we were fed.
03:21Was it desensitizing us?
03:23I'm sure it was.
03:24Were we aware of it?
03:25No.
03:26That was just Saturday night.
03:28A specialist pointedly highlights how this early exposure could have normalized bad behavior,
03:34and generated traumas that Sean would rehash as a rich and famous adult.
03:39The trauma is there and is still unresolved.
03:44And you just have more resources to do more damage with.
03:49Sean Joined the Same Gang Crew
03:52Sean grew up with a lot of material things, but was missing a lot of emotional support.
03:57He had no father figure, his mother lived a wild and reckless lifestyle,
04:02and his best friend and protector had gone away to the military.
04:06To avoid isolation, Sean turned to the same gang.
04:09In fact, this is when the name Puff Daddy was born.
04:12I'm like, what's up Sean?
04:14He say, yeah they call me Puff now, and I'm a Puff Daddy now.
04:18In a way, Sean had shed the skin of that meek, directionless boy.
04:22The same gang's outlaw camaraderie provided a new sense of glory and power to the hungry young man,
04:28who'd soon be known to the world as Diddy the Media Mogul, and later Diddy the Media Monster.
04:35Some perpetrators are profoundly damaged individuals and feel very powerless.
04:42And a way of being powerful is controlling and victimizing other people.
04:48Diddy fought tooth and nail to land his first gig.
04:52Despite the privileges he was graced with,
04:55Diddy still had to earn his place in the music world.
04:57He resorted to drastic measures to get the attention of top producers at Uptown Records,
05:02including sleeping outside of their cars, until he finally landed an internship.
05:07Diddy was determined to fulfill that grandiose self-image he'd manifested
05:12in order to cement a legacy.
05:14I'm reaching big. I'm going for the big time.
05:17I'm trying to have my name in lights one day, baby.
05:19The City College Tragedy Made Diddy Infamous
05:22One of Diddy's first majorly publicized scandals was the City College Tragedy,
05:27where a crowd crush at an overbooked celebrity basketball game took several lives.
05:33The media descended on the hellish spectacle,
05:35thrusting cameras in the face of Diddy, the event's promoter.
05:39This thing of somehow or another made him the most famous guy around.
05:44How you doing, baby?
05:46Coffee became more known. It almost made him in a real weird way.
05:51Diddy was hit with lawsuits and settled privately, but never faced criminal charges.
05:56He never owned up to it, never, never just said, I apologize.
06:01You know, we sold tickets, but we didn't outsell. The play wasn't sold out.
06:06That's a blatant lie.
06:08Those involved in the lawsuits discuss how this lack of accountability made him feel
06:13untouchable and was an early indicator of the vicious streak that would come.
06:17I can show you how we have fun to stay out of jail too. They make money.
06:22Diddy's bad boy image was born behind the scenes.
06:26After establishing his own label, Bad Boy, Diddy was launched into superstardom by
06:31recruiting a roster of the industry's most influential voices. This multi-million dollar
06:36windfall provided an impenetrable dome that inspired Diddy to act on his bad boy image,
06:41which was not just a moniker, but his true persona.
06:45He felt like that in order for him to have his image, you have to be larger than life.
06:51And he thought that if people fear him, they respect him.
06:55Dozens of documentary participants come forward to unveil threats he'd made to people in the
07:00industry. Anonymous whistleblowers report how he forced employees to perform heinous tasks for him,
07:06sworn to secrecy out of fear of retaliation.
07:16He was harsh and violent towards his collaborators, like artist Dawn Richard.
07:21What people don't know is behind the scenes, she was denied food,
07:26she was denied water, she was denied sleep.
07:29The documentary also revisits disturbing allegations of abuse toward his partners,
07:34Kim Porter and Cassie Ventura.
07:37If this is what the man does in public, we can only imagine what he does in private.
07:42Diddy's wholesome family was a construction.
07:45Despite flaunting his supermodel arm candy, Kim Porter, and boasting about adopting her son Quincy,
07:51the boy's father, producer Al B. Scher, claims there was never a legal adoption,
07:57implying that the entire ruse was crafted by publicists to make Diddy look like an angel.
08:02If you haven't noticed, his name is still brown.
08:06Kim's image was carefully constructed too.
08:08He would fly Glam out to even, like, vacations because we had to make sure Kim Porter
08:14looked perfect.
08:15And Diddy even controlled who was allowed to come in contact with Quincy.
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08:35Diddy May Have Been Involved In Biggie's Death
08:38Though it's mostly spoken about in a vague, inconclusive manner,
08:43former bodyguard Gene Deal recalls Diddy's suspicious behavior before and
08:48after the murder of one of the biggest names in hip-hop, Biggie Smalls.
08:52He was just acting real anxious and trying to get Big at this party.
08:56Big was telling people he had to be in London,
08:59but Puff was telling people he ain't going to London.
09:02Gene believes Diddy could have set Biggie up by placing him in the atmosphere where he'd be killed.
09:08He even goes on to detail how, in their last conversation,
09:12Biggie was trying to distance himself from Diddy.
09:15He just wanted to be out of Bad Boy and out with Puff,
09:19because Puff owned his publishing. That's a whole lot of money.
09:24Whether or not Diddy directly influenced the assassination of Biggie Smalls may remain a
09:29mystery, but Biggie's issues with the record label were not at all uncommon.
09:34Diddy's publishing rights deals were shady.
09:38When artists signed with Bad Boy, they handed over the copyright of their music to Diddy.
09:43Although he assembled a stacked roster, many inevitably ditched the producer over money disputes.
09:48Everybody who went to Bad Boy left without their royalties,
09:54and then he tried to come back and give people back their publishing.
09:58Despite publicly offering artists their royalties many years later,
10:02there was a caveat.
10:03It came out that Diddy supposedly forced musicians to sign NDAs,
10:07barring them from speaking about anything that happened to them at
10:10Bad Boy in exchange for their publishing rights.
10:13Honestly, somebody told me one of the artists was like,
10:15they only offered you like $300.
10:18Though Diddy making of a Bad Boy proposes an explanation for much of Diddy's troubling behavior,
10:24we're still left with a lot of questions.
10:26I don't know the answer to why, but I truly believe it all goes back to childhood.
10:31And a lot is left unsaid.
10:33Yeah, no, I can't go into that.
10:36There's legal proceedings going on right now, so this would be...
10:40But yeah.
10:41Despite these candid testimonies, the filmmakers consistently undermine purported allegations
10:46with immediate disclaimers that the speaker's confessions are technically unproven.
10:51So while it's tricky to weed through what's true and what's hearsay,
10:54we can only hope that Diddy facing true legal accountability will embolden more
10:59victims to tell their stories, setting the precedent that powerful
11:02perpetrators can never remain insulated forever.
11:06We can't play with Sean Combs.
11:09These are things that we have to keep like our dirty little secrets.
11:13Did you buy into the documentary's agenda to explain and rationalize Diddy's dark rise?
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