Alexandria Stapleton

You know, the story is not over.

I think, you know, there's over 100 civil suits that he's still facing right now.

So there's a lot more to play out.

So it's not a yes, but it's not a no.

He smiles a lot, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, I do, like, he... No, he doesn't hate Diddy.

No, and to be honest, I would do cuts, screen them, you know, for him, and he was smiling.

But, you know, he was actually... He would give me feedback about...

uncovering things that were actually, and talking to people that were, that loved Diddy, you know?

And he loved the complexity of the story.

That's, you know, what made this partnership, I think, really good when we sat and talked for the first time before I started.

He's a very complex, you know, he thinks about things in a very complex way.

He understands the power of nuance.

And so we never had conversations where he was like, put more of the bad stuff in, you know?

He was like,

you're doing an incredible job you and the team of of um showing this other side of him you know it was really important to us to keep the story of hip-hop in here as well and to not throw the baby out with bath water you know so they say uh to not cancel the whole culture because of the doings of you know allegedly one man i see i see that makes sense and do you think that

I think that the goal, I think we have a long way to go.

And I think that the goal that I had was just to be able to have conversations like this, because we weren't even really talking about this in the space of hip hop before.

And America went through a Me Too movement, other industries went through that, but the hip hop,