A brand new Diddy documentary shines the sunshine on a side of Sean Comb’s childhood that will have bearing on the mogul rapper’s alleged subsequent felony conduct.
In ‘The Making of a Unhealthy Boy’ it arises that, in line with longtime childhood buddies, Diddy’s mom Janice would usually throw ‘wild events’ at his childhood house, the place you’d often stroll right into a room the place adults have been having intercourse.
Rolling Stone reported:
“’That’s what we have been aware of; that is what we have been fed’, hip-hop producer Tim ‘Dawg’ Patterson says in Diddy: The Making of a Unhealthy Boy, which premieres on Peacock on Tuesday, Jan. 14. ‘Was it desensitizing us? I’m positive it was. Had been we conscious of it? No, that was simply Saturday night time’.”
That is the context resulting in an grownup life full of controversy, and finally federal racketeering and intercourse trafficking expenses and over 40 civil lawsuits.
“’I’ve at all times been requested the query why’, Patterson says. ‘I don’t know the reply to why, however I actually imagine all of it goes again to childhood’.”
The documentary options childhood buddies, early Uptown Information colleagues, and Howard College classmate-turned Hit Man music producer Ron “Amen-Ra” Lawrence.
Janice moved her household to Mount Vernon after Diddy’s father Melvin was murdered in 1972 and was discovered shot twice within the head in a automotive.
“Janice saved the main points of Melvin’s grisly homicide from her younger son, intent on offering him an idyllic childhood. Combs was at all times dressed to the nines and, consequently, was ‘checked out because the wealthy child’, Patterson says within the documentary. He performed little league baseball, served as an altar boy and made the soccer crew at his all-boys personal Catholic highschool. However Combs’ friends might ‘odor he was not robust’, Patterson stated, claiming that Combs was badly bullied as a child.
In the meantime at house, ‘there was at all times issues occurring’, Patterson stated, including that Janice would regularly throw events on the house. ‘On the weekend, [Combs] partied in the home, and we did that loads’, he stated. ‘He was round all forms of alcohol; he was round reefer smoke. Drug addicts round, lesbians round, homosexuals, he was round pimps, pushers. That was simply who was in our home. Folks that attended the events have been from Harlem, from the streets. It wouldn’t be a factor to mistakenly stroll into one of many bedrooms and you bought a pair in there, butt bare’.”
DJ EZ Lee Davis additionally heard rumors in regards to the events the place ‘everybody was welcome’.
“’[Janice] had little cool chicks that might come round and … she made positive everyone was comfy’, Davis defined, laughing.
Combs beforehand talked about having an early introduction to intercourse, regularly watching soft-core porn and dropping his virginity at age 12, replicating the tough strikes he had been watching in grownup movies.”
DJ EZ Lee Davis additionally heard rumors in regards to the events the place ‘everybody was welcome’.
“’[Janice] had little cool chicks that might come round and … she made positive everyone was comfy’, Davis defined, laughing.
Combs beforehand talked about having an early introduction to intercourse, regularly watching soft-core porn and dropping his virginity at age 12, replicating the tough strikes he had been watching in grownup movies.”
Diddy awaits a Might 2025 trial behind bars on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn. If convicted, he faces as much as 15 years to life in jail.
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