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The rap world
has been shaken again,

this time by the violent death
of the performer

known as Notorious B.I.G.

He went down
in a hail of gunfire

on a public street.

His death comes just
six months after his rival,

West Coast rapper,
Tupac Shakur,
was assassinated.

Last six months,
hip-hop probably lost
its two biggest stars.

It's just a tragedy.

After B.I.G passed,
I got this call from Puff.

I remember
he sounded so depressed.

He said that he hadn't
left the house in days.

He was one of the only people
besides my mother

that really cared about me.

And he said,
"People have been
knocking on my door.

I've just been here by myself.
I ain't eat nothing."

And he was almost
sounding suicidal.

I just tried to talk
some light

into what I could hear was
a time of a lot of darkness.

And just tell him that,
you know, you have
a lot to live for.

Then, I remember days later,
him calling me back,

"Yo, G, come by
the studio after work."

And he played
Every Breath You Take.

And he was playing it loud.

He was just into it
and just played it,

and kept playing
and dancing to it.

And I remember him
asking me,

"What do you think?
What do you think?

Do you think people
would rock to this?"

I didn't know what to say.

Because, you know,
Every Breath You Take
was so white pop.

I couldn't hear it
or couldn't envision it
at the time.

But I'm glad to see
that his creative juices
were flowing again.

And then I'll Be Missing You
was huge.

It was a runaway hit,

it captured the emotions
and the grief at the time

that was happening to the
African American community.

We just knew
this was helping us remember
Biggie in some way.

On a Sunday morning...

headed to church,
and I'll Be Missing You
came on.

It made it
to the gospel station,

and that's when I knew
who he was.

It was like
an amazing grace

for the hip-hop generation.

When people hear that,
it still touches people.

He could see things

for the culture
that other people
just couldn't see.

And I remember just thinking,
like, "This man is a genius."

But while this genius man
was developing his talent,

what else was not developed

that he became somebody

who could create
a lot of pain?

One of my big motivations

of wanting to be
a part of this,

it's one of those situations

where you just have
no idea in real time

that you're working
with somebody

that ends up
changing the world.

It is hard to overstate
how important

Bad Boy and the Puff sound
was to the '90s.

I remember a time
where you could listen

to the radio for an hour

and hear nothing
but Bad Boy artists
for that entire hour.

Diddy knew
how to create

what Black culture
wanted to see,

what mainstream culture
wanted to see,

what American culture
wanted to see.

Puffy started to work
with producers

that.. that were using samples
lifted from records

and then taking
some of the vocals,
and interpolating them.

Puffy took that
to yet another level,

to sing hooks on top
of the... the rhymes.

I feel like Combs and crew
were just throwing things

against the wall,
and everything was sticking.

He was having
a relationship

with product and audiences
from the beginning.

But nobody really
could see that

until the empire got so big,

they was like, "Oh,
this is what he's been
trying to do all this time."

It was interesting
to see Puffy

move into other areas
other than music.

It was just inevitable
for the clothing to be next.

We call it
urban high fashion.

We combined the look
of the European clothes

to... to the urban style,

which is a little bit loose,
a little bit baggy,
a little bit more,

has a better fit, too.

Sean John was
incredibly successful.

You saw it go from
it's just worn on artists,

to it's worn
by influential people

in the cultural scene...

to, like, a dad in Missouri

who's got a Sean John shirt.

Could he name
any Puff Daddy record?

No. But he knows who Puff is,

and he's rocking
the Sean John.

The clothing brand,

now, at this point,
transcends the music,

and it becomes
part of this mythology...

that Sean Combs
begins to build.

I remember going
with him to Macy's,

and we were up
in... in the boardroom
with all the executives,

and they treated him
like he was Ralph Lauren.

He was a king.

There was nobody
in New York City

that Diddy could not
get in touch with.

We used to call him
Puff the Magic Dragon,

and we said that with love.

He was so much fun.

He threw the best parties.

I remember seeing celebrities
just let their hair down.

I remember seeing
Mary J. Blige,

Ashton.

I mean,
it was Gatsbyesque.

It was like in the movies.

They were huge.

And part of Sean's move
with the parties is not just
a party for party's sake,

but really to embellish
who he is in the culture.

Who can come
to Sean Combs' White Party,

in the Hamptons.

It speaks more
to a new Black money.

It carried a different
kind of cachet.

What we heard,
even at the time
that they were taking place,

was that there was
a lot of debauchery.

Puffy would have
women laid out

and have food on their bodies.

These are things that were
photographed and publicized,

and just viewed as kind
of grand and opulent.

I started
blogging in the early 2000s.

I started getting reports
about the type of things

that would happen
at these parties.

I was hearing
about illicit drugs.

I was hearing
about sexual escapades.

I always have decisions
to make about stories.

And for a long time,

when it came to things
pertaining to Diddy,

I wouldn't run certain things
because I feared retribution.

He felt and seemed
like he was invincible.

I mean, I work,
like, 20 hours a day,

and I feel
as a young Black man,

about anything
I put my mind to,
I could do.

Whatever I put into it,
I'm gonna get out of it.

And I put 150%, 200%
into anything I do, always.

Diddy really personified

Black excellence
and authenticity.

He was succeeding,

and he was doing it
in an authentically Black way.

So, he was really someone
that a lot of us looked up to.

But with money,
he got more gangster,

he got meaner.

He got more no nonsense.

He couldn't let the foot
off nobody's neck.

His foot got harder on necks.

Because he knew,
"Yo, if I slip one inch,

if I show one inch
of weakness...

they gonna take it from me."

I definitely think
there's a huge

reflection of his childhood
to who he is today.

Sean started
breathing rarefied air

before he even realized it.

Janice wanted a prince,

and the last thing
she wants to do

is to have her prince
making her look bad.

And one thing about
anybody from Harlem,

if you're soft,
you're done.

That's just the mentality.

'Cause, mind you,
she lost her husband.

Now, she's got this kid
that looks just like him.

That's emotions.

Someday, she'll wake up,
she might be mad
when she sees him

because she sees
what used to be Melvin.

So, Sean's mom
had to fill the shoes

of Sean's dad and mom.

And I'm sure everything
from Janice's way of raising
him was coming from love.

But there were times
that I would see

Janice's personality
go from hot to cold.

And he had to be
on the receiving end

of a hot night
or a cold night.

Janice didn't take no shit.
None at all.

She ruled with her iron fist.

Better get right.

And, you know, a lot of times,
Sean couldn't get it right.

Couldn't get nothing right.

And she didn't let him
get away with nothing.

Nothing.

And that's how it was
in Sean's house.

If he did something wrong,
he'd get his ass beat,

simple as that.

She knew that he wasn't
hard enough.

In those days,
that was the order.

You know,
you didn't spare the rod.

I remember that real vivid.

Especially if you don't know
if the punishment..

really fits the crime.

Wasn't my place to say
whether it was or not,
but to me,

it didn't seem
necessary at times.

So, he's learning how to be
a wolf the hard way.

For him, it wasn't as easy.

It took a while for him
to become his wolf.

Goddamn,
when he became a wolf,

it was no turning back.

As part of our investigation,
we looked at the history

of Diddy's behavior
and relationships.

We have found that there has
been a clear pattern of abuse

since the beginning,
since he was a teenager.

I noticed
how he interacted
with his girls,

and it was way different
than I interacted
with my girls.

It was more physical.

It was more
self-esteem lowering.

It was a lot of insecurity.

It was a lot of
"who you're dealing with.

I heard you was here.
I don't like that."

You know, a lot of girls
got thrown out of the car.

Sometimes, I would drive
his girlfriends' home

to wherever they live

because they...
they had a fight.

So, you know, I was the go-to.

I was the "Timmy,
what's wrong with him?"

It just never
seemed to get better

with him and relationships.

One of Combs'
first public relationships
was with Misa Hylton,

who also grew up
in the Mount Vernon area

and was a teenager
when they started dating.

Any girl that's with Sean
has to be fixed.

To his specs.

Sean looked at Misa
as his blank canvas,

like, "Oh, my God.

Yo, dawg,
I could fix her. Ooh!."

It was his project.

So, Misa became
somebody in the game.

When you think of the most
classic, iconic '90s looks,

Misa Hylton was behind them.

She was a visionary
in her own right,

creating some
of the best-known looks
for Lil' Kim.

She really created the mold

of what an artist
at that time looked like.

My sister, Sonya, and Misa
were close friends.

I heard that Puff was putting
his hands on Mis

in '89, '88,'89.

So, at that time,
I heard a few occasions,

he was physical with Misa.

They fight all the time.

They argue like cats and dogs.

And yeah, I've definitely
seen them put hands
on each other.

I remember
when Misa was pregnant,

Sean was in his early 20s.

This dude
is a millionaire now,

he's not even 25 years old,

he's got millions of dollars.

They might have broke up
15 times in a week.

They'd just break up,
back together,

break up, back together.

And here's Sean,
fear is kicking in him,

"I'm about to be a father.
I gotta hustle harder now.

I gotta hustle so hard,
I got this kid on the way."

One night, Puffy decided
that he didn't want
Misa Hylton to go out.

He got into this rage,

and she screamed,
and her parents came out.

He just grabbed the baby.

And he said, 'You're not...
you're not getting this baby.

You're not having it."

The father tried
to talk to him

and he didn't like
being talked to.

The... the grandmother tried
to talk to him and everything.

Eventually, they had
to call the police.

Misa Hylton may have felt

that something
was really happening

that she had no control over.

This is her life.

He was using
the baby to control her.

That, I think,
scared her a lot.

He was just angry and upset.

He made threats.
You know,

he was arrested.

She endured a whole lot,

his mercurial temper.

She was one of the few people

who got to understand
that type of rage,

who he was.

There was a monster
that came out of him

that nobody knew about.

But then,
after Misa,

it was Kim.

Kim Porter was a model,
sometime actor.

Great smile.

One of those girls
that's just, like, so pretty.

She was Andre Harrell's
assistant at Uptown Records.

Puff told me
how they first met.

He was working as A&R

at Uptown Records,
and that she was
the first face

that he would see
when he got out the elevator.

And he had fell in love
with her.

And he said,
"By all means necessary,
I'm gonna get her."

And that was his mission.

Puff's a little
older now when he met Kim.

And Kim was starting
to, slowly but surely,

teach Sean
what love looked like.

It's not fighting
all the time. It's this.

And he started to receive it.

He started changing
his ways a little bit.

He softened up for a minute.

He wasn't so triggered.

He wasn't so reactive.

He was trying
to become a good man.

His relationship
with Kim Porter,

I knew that it was
an on again,
off again relationship.

They would, you know,
break up, get back together.

But then,
there's the infidelity.

Kim Porter,
a woman he described
as the love of his life

and the mother
of four of his children,

witnesses his relationship
with Jennifer Lopez

just flood the media.

I was there
in the beginning
of the Jennifer days.

Just like all the other girls,

Sean goes all the way
to get you.

Sean Wanted J.Lo.

And he got her.

When we talk about Kim
and Sean, I don't see them

the way I saw Sean and J.Lo.

They would be
at the same function,

but not together type thing.

Not like him
and Jennifer Lopez,

you publicly see him
at red carpet events.

So, what we see is a man
who claimed to love this woman

more than any other woman,

but was not necessarily
treated that way.

I've seen him act around Kim
in ways that were just awful
and very mean.

I knew her well enough

to occasionally
socialize with her.

It was a last-minute
girls' night,

Kim Porter
and some other girlfriends.

And then I see Puffy
come into the club.

I really thought he was
coming in to kick it.

I thought he was about
to squeeze into the booth.

And it was about to be...
really about to turn up,
you know?

But everything
just turned on a dime.

It was not
a cool situation at all.

He just started
hollering at her

that she should be at home
and not out.

And then he grabbed
her handbag

and literally
turned it upside down.

He just emptied it out

in front of everybody.

I was so in shock.

The reason people
do things like that

is just to shame you
and make you feel small.

To scare you.

I never saw him
put a hand on her.

But as we all know,

that's... that's not
the only kind of abuse.

It was
a controlling situation.

Puff felt like he could do
whatever he wanted to do.

Puff was definitely
abusive toward Kim.

I remember one time
telling him...

"I can understand you having
a problem with one person.

But when you have a problem
with every woman
you're dealing with,

then you've gotta look
into yourself."

So certainly, now we know
that there were signs

of some of the abuse
he would be accused of later.

It seemed that because
there were never

any real consequences for him,
his behavior escalated.

I was a producer
and an engineer

for Bad Boy Records
for about 12 years,

and Puffy, over time,

became more aggressive

about what the company
could do

and what the vision
for the company was.

Bump somebody.

There's a clip of him.
He hangs up the phone

and he jumps up,
and he's exclaiming,

"Whatever I want,
I have to get."

I'm a savage!

Whatever I want,
I'm going to get!

Whatever I want,
I'm have to get!

It was a really raw moment,

and it was just a clear window

into how he thought
and how he operated.

The case
involving Steve Stoute,

you know, helped to expose him

for who he was
and the kind of mafia way
he went about,

you know, trying to...

to bring people in line.

Steve Stoute is a pretty
important executive,

a marketing genius.

In the music business,

he was working with Nas
at the time.

And Puff had done a song
with Nas called "Hate Me Now."

And just like any other event,
this thing was being built up.

"You heard the Nas joint
with Puff? It's crazy."

In retrospect,
it almost sounds ridiculous

if Nas and Diddy
would be on a song together.

But, of course, Diddy
gives Nas a visibility

that Nas doesn't have
quite yet.

In the video,
they ended by being crucified
like Jesus

in an obvious
visual Jesus analogy,

Nas and Puff together.

But then Diddy doesn't like
the way that he's depicted
in the music video

and wanted to be changed.

But the version of the video
with Puff and Nas

being crucified in the desert,
was serviced to MTV

and the puff was
extraordinarily upset.

And he went to Steve's office.

Puffy went in with his people

and assaulted him.

When he did that
to Steve Stoute,

it became one of
the biggest stories.

The Steve Stoute incident
is incredibly telling.

I mean, this was over
a music video.

So what we're learning is that

there are almost no lengths
that Puffy won't go to

if he feels that his ego
has been hurt,

if his pride has been hurt,

if his demands
haven't been complied with.

He goes into court and
the prosecution to him said,

"Judge, we reached
an agreement

that Mr. Combs
would plead to a misdemeanor."

Puff walks out of
the courtroom.

One day
of Anger Management.

In the courtroom,
the judge actually said,

"Mr. Combs,
do you remember me?"

And, um, Puff says,
"I can't say that I do."

So the judge said,
"You have quite a history."

Because he's always
getting away.

There are so many cases
that the public
doesn't know about.

A source actually
pulled these records.

He had this knack for
actually getting the system

to like him
and to go easy on him,

where he kept
avoiding going to jail.

A lot of this really worked
to Puffy's advantage
in the hip-hop world.

You don't want
to be seen as someone

that the streets
can't respect,

where everybody
can run all over you.

There ended up being
a lot of violence.

I think it's just...

was something that was always
a part of his emotional...

DNA, in a way.

Diddy, as a child,
believed his father, Melvin,

died in a car accident.

But as he grew older,

he came to find out that
that wasn't really the case.

So Diddy learned
that his dad was part

of a drug organization
up in Harlem.

Puff's father, Melvin,
was connected to Frank Lucas,

one of the biggest
drug dealers in Harlem.

And he was connected
to the Mafia.

There is a video
Diddy posted on Father's Day,

where he talks about his dad,

and there's
a real sense of loss

and kind of an admiration
as well for him.

And the things
that people have long said

about Combs,
that he is really determined,

that he's like
a world conqueror,

he credits those traits
to his dad.

Even if we
don't know our parents,

we still have their DNA in us.

I have his
hustler's mentality,

his hustler's spirit,
his drive, his determination.

So I think it's just--

was something
that he's had to grapple with

that his father
had been a drug dealer

had been killed in the game.

Sometimes I wonder if that was
something he was proud of

or something
that he was ashamed of

or something
that he may have...

you know, I mean, emulated.

I mean, the record company
was called Bad Boy Records.

It wasn't called Good Man.

It was called Bad Boy.

You know?

I worked with Puffy in 2023.

Puffy mentioned once
that he shot a person...

um...

in the club when J.Lo
was with him.

He said he's done
a lot of things before

and sometimes he could be
a person to overexaggerate.

It's like, "Okay,
he's talking that stuff.

He's got-- he's been sipping
juice or whatever it is"

But when I told somebody that,

they said, "No, he--

There was a situation
happen in the club with J.Lo

where Sean went to jail
for the shooting."

I'm spelling.
I'm trying to google

S-H-I-N-E,

only to realize, no,
it's S-H-Y-N-E.

Shyne was known around
the Flatbush area

as a young guy who could spit.

And Puffy played
on young people's desire

to want to be
in the spotlight.

Sean "Puffy" Combs says,
"Look, hang with me."

He's now being considered
the next big thing in hip-hop.

He was growing,
he was going to be big.

No one pictured it to turn out
the way it turned out.

I will never forget
the first time I heard about
the 1999 club shooting.

It was shocking.

I've spent
a quarter of a century

with my integrity
and my name

in doubt.

In light of
the current atmosphere,

with the lawsuits

and all of the stories
that have come out,

I knew it was time for
me to speak up.

This is something
that was in my past,

and it belongs in the past.

But I can no longer just
remain silent.

This is the first time I've
shared my story on camera.

I started driving
for Mr. Combs in 1999.

On December 26th,
I was informed

that Mr. Combs would be
requiring my services.

I drove down to his studio
to pick up Mr. Combs

and Jennifer.

Mr. Combs
got in the vehicle

and I happened at one point
to glance over my shoulder,

and I noticed him
holding a black handgun.

No words were exchanged.
We made eye contact.

He said nothing.
I said nothing.

And I proceeded en route
to Club New York.

I hadn't been in
the club scene or anything

for the better part
of a month.

Honestly,
I really wasn't going out,

but one of my good friends
was a party promoter.

She wanted me to come out

and I wanted
to support her endeavors.

Puff arrives
with his entourage

and they go
to the VIP section.

There started to be
a crowd walking through

coming from the dance floor.

People are gravitating
towards the VIP section.

And there were some people
who just...

say,
"This guy is showing off."

People were telling Puffy,
you know, "You ain't shit.

You ain't this.
You ain't that."

The next thing you know,
we see pushing and shoving.

The crowd is swaying.
You hear...

like, angered voices.

And he bumped into Puffy

and Shyne just uttered,

"I'm tired of this shit."

I start to see Puffy
and Shyne backing up,

backing away from the area
of the melee towards the door.

And I see them
reach in their waists.

I turned to tell my friends,
"Oh, my God, Let's go!

Let's go!

Watch out! Something's
getting ready to go down."

And just as I turn back
and I look at them,

I see them both holding guns,
and God said to me,

"Be still.
You're about to get hit."

And I just see
the muzzle flash.

Pow, pow.

I grabbed my face because
I instantly feel this hot...

torching flame on my face.

And I turned my head
and I'm like, "Oh, my God...

I got shot in my face."

I felt myself separated

and the cold air
rushed towards my chest

and passed through me.

I could feel it
pass through me.

I was certain that
I was going to be dead

at that moment,

because I didn't think a human
could lose that much blood

and still be alive.

And I just...

I knew my life was never
going to be the same again.

At that moment,

Puffy is trying
to make the great escape.

It's just chaos.

Shyne was in custody
of the police.

Mr. Combs,
his security guy, Wolf,

and Jennifer Lopez comes out.

I'm instructed to, "Let's go.
Let's get out of here."

I was driving
through the red light,

evading the police.

I'd noticed the rear
passenger window

over my right shoulder
had been opened.

I later found out
that was when Mr. Combs

apparently tossed his weapon
out of the vehicle.

Mr. Combs and Wolf
were screaming,

"Don't stop! Don't stop!
Don't stop!"

Seated next to me,

I noticed another gun
in Wolf's waistband.

And then a cruiser
had come out,

blocking Eighth Avenue.

And I said, "Chase is over."

We are all escorted
into the police precinct.

That's when out of the side
of his mouth,

Mr. Combs says,

"Yo, I'll give you $50,000
to take the gun."

And he was saying this
under his breath, of course,

because we were right
in front of the desk sergeant.

Puffy reaches onto his pinky
and says,

"I will give you
this diamond ring,

which is worth $300,000,
to hold as collateral

if you don't think
I'm good for the money."

I did not want
to take the bribe,

but the phrase
on the street is...

snitches get stitches.

Go, go, go, go, go!

-There go Puff.
-Puff!

Before it even began,

the trial of
Sean "Puffy" Combs

had turned into
a tabloid torrent.

A high-profile case

that's attracted
overwhelming support

from Combs' diehard fans.

Not guilty!

Puffy's future is
in the hands of 12 jurors

and faces up to
15 years in prison

on charges of weapons
possession and bribery.

Sean Combs,
in the early 2000s

is about selling a lifestyle,
selling a brand.

So he really had
to protect his reputation

and his freedom at all costs
in this moment.

His high-powered
defense team,

including Johnnie Cochran...

Johnnie Cochran,
he's known as
the O.J. Simpson lawyer.

If it doesn't fit,
you must acquit.

There was another attorney
by the name of
Benjamin Brafman,

one of the top criminal
defense attorneys in the city,

defending Puffy.

Shyne, Wolf and Puffy,

they all have
separate lawyers.

It was really two trials.

It was this great celebrity,
"Puffy" Combs

and his bodyguard,

and Shyne, really just
a New York City teenager

that had just signed
the deal of his life.

From the notoriety
of the people on trial

to the notoriety
of the attorneys,

it was a circus.

While he's not accused of
gunning anyone down,

prosecutors say someone
at the club taunted Combs

and he and fellow rapper
Jamaal "Shyne" Barrow

pulled out guns and fired.

Barrow's shots allegedly
injured three people.

Puffy denied
from the beginning

that he ever fired a gun,

that he ever had any guns
in his possession.

I want to make this
100% clear.

I had nothing to do
with a shooting in this club.

During the trial,
Puffy is looking around,

he's very confident.

"Hey, I allegedly
paid off people,

so I have
nothing to worry about."

But then...

Liar, liar, pants on fire.

I decided to testify.

I was the prosecution's
main witness.

The most damaging testimony
so far from his former driver.

Yes, I was nervous
about cooperating,

but I had to.

You have to stand up for
what's right in this world.

Fenderson testified
Combs had a gun.

I was recanting my statement
and no longer going along

with their scheme to take
ownership of the gun.

But Fenderson
wasn't the only witness

to put a gun in Combs' hand.

When I had to testify,

I said, "I saw without a doubt
who shot me.

I was shot
by Sean 'Puffy' Combs."

I've said that
ever since that day.

I never once
ever changed that,

modified it,
modulated it in any way.

And I never expected
to be a part...

of such a reckless
act of violence.

Natania, she had
the kind of resilience

and defiance...

My heart was with her.

The defense described
a two-prong approach.

First,
calling their own witnesses,

who say he didn't have
a gun at the nightclub.

Most of the witnesses
who came up

said, "Shyne had a gun

and we did not see a gun
in Puffy's hand."

And, second, discrediting
the prosecution witnesses

who put a gun in Puffy's hand.

The lead defense attorney,

his cross-examination
was getting a bit aggressive.

I says,
"I'm not the one on trial
here today, Your Honor.

He is."

And I pointed and glared
right over at Diddy.

Some people said
this was a conspiracy.

People cursed me out,

accusing me of trying
to take down a good Black man

and destroy hip-hop.

My heart really,
truly breaks for Natania

and what she has been through.

Natania deserved
nothing but compassion

and protection,

and the culture failed her.

They were
ridiculing me on the air,

saying, "Does anybody
know this one-eyed ho?

Call us up and give us
some dirt on her,"

playing rapid succession
gunfire soundtrack

in the background.

I was devastated.

Why were they doing this
to me?

After the shooting, Natania,
she was appearing on the radio

and trying to tell her story.

She was actually
getting death threats.

I would
look out the windows

and there'd be
blacked-out SUVs

parked on the corners
by my house.

Those SUVs were watching me.

And for my own safety,
I had to be moved.

I will never forget that day
when the verdicts were read.

A gasp went up
in the courtroom.

I'm just really right now--
I'm just very emotional.

Um, I'm at really a loss.

I'm very emotional.

I'm just-- I feel blessed.

It was like Mardi Gras.

They all went out
to celebrate.

And not only was it
Sean Combs acquitted,

but Anthony "Wolf" Jones
was also acquitted.

And, of course,
"Shyne" Barrow was convicted.

Yeah, I spoke to Shyne.

Shyne says, "Look,
he lied on the stand.

He got people to lie for him.

Puffy betrayed me."

Those were his words.

He went in there

and he lied about the fact
that he didn't have a gun.

Everybody knew pretty much
that Combs had a gun.

When I found out the verdict,

I was shocked
and disappointed

at our legal system.

But I was relieved

because I did not want to be
the guy that sent him to jail.

I didn't want that
for my own safety.

I was a child of hip-hop.

I didn't deserve this.
I was a victim.

I wanted justice.

You know,
went to try and console

Shyne's mother, grandmother.

And...

as we left that day,

there were still
supporters outside.

But no one really cared
about him at that point.

He was yesterday's news.

When he was convicted,
I got angry

because there are families

that are giving young people
to you, Puffy,

and you have a responsibility
to these young people

on your record label.

I think it was an attempt
to take down another rap star.

And I think that, clearly,
we proved his innocence.

He was, in fact,
a victim that night.

And I think you're going
to see great things from him

for the future.

I think it was pretty clear
to most people

that at the very least,
he hung him out to dry.

And at the very worst,
Shyne took the fall.

There was
the City College incident,

Steve Stoute incident,

and the nightclub shooting.

He's getting this reputation
of being a Teflon Don.

And that is a pattern
that we continue to see,

is that even when things
are really, really bad

for other people,

for puffy, just a blip.

He was getting away
with things for so long.

But I believe...

the truth will always
find its way,

even in the dark.

Thanksgiving break
in November 2023,

I got a call.

"Your rape
was caught on tape."

I said, "What do you mean
my rape was caught on tape?"

Who said we had to have
one name?

Combs found a way to rise again.

He was seen to many people

in the media as
a safe person of color.

I am the American dream.

Who wouldn't want to be
associated with him?

Puff was the top.

But then, everything changed.

Who would have thought that
Cassy was going to be the one?

It's almost like
a Greek tragedy.

I always believed that
I was the only victim.

He said, "Now you're hot enough
that I can you."

"I can you now."

He said, "Sometimes you just
gotta let these hoes know who
the boss is."

I feel like the drinks
were spiked.

Puff said,
"Keep your effing mouth shut."

People knew,
and people kept quiet.

He looked at me
and he said

"You don't want to end up like
my ex, Cassy."