Sean Diddy Combs
Appearances
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Bad Rap: Party's Over
Spreading love, Fourth of July. You know, I'm out here making movies and meeting new people, and that's what the white party's about, about people meeting new people.
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Bad Rap: Party's Over
This is a legendary white party. It's the real white party. Make some noise if you've been here before. Okay. And to all the kids, the kids have like an hour left. So get extra comfortable, kids, because after that, y'all got to go. It's a wrap for y'all, because this thing turns into something that when y'all get older, y'all don't want to come to, okay?
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Bad Rap: Downfall
As he gave this speech, the toddler, Love, smashed her face into the cake and started licking the frosting.
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Bad Rap: Downfall
I make no excuses. My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I'm disgusted. I was disgusted then when I did it, I'm disgusted now.
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Bad Rap: Downfall
I mean, I hit rock bottom, but I'm committed to be a better man each and every day.
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Bad Rap: Before and After
First of all, I want to thank God. God, thank you. Thank you so much. Never leaving my side.
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Bad Rap: Before and After
This school has given me so much. I feel it's one of, not just one of, I feel like it's the most important black educational institution ever. And so we as alumni have to keep pouring our seed back into it, you know, keep on investing back in the home. And so, you know, I'm blessed to be able to do it.
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Bad Rap: Before and After
Diddy also launched his first studio album in nearly 20 years. Surprise, surprise, he called it the love album, Off The Grid.
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Bad Rap: Before and After
But today is not about me. Today is about my mother. Ma, I love you.
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Bad Rap: Before and After
Y'all, I'm going to keep it 100 with y'all. I was in a dark place for a few years, you know what I'm saying? And I have to give a special thank you to the people that was really like there for me. Bishop T.D. Jakes, my chief of staff, Christina Corum, KK.
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Bad Rap: Before and After
I'm just not who... I am before. I'm something different. So my new name is Love, a.k.a. Brother Love. I will not be answering to Puffy, Diddy, Puff Daddy, or any of my other monikers, but Love or Brother Love, okay?
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Bad Rap: Before and After
Diddy just turned and became love. Yeah, um... Man, I think I was also like going through like a stressful time, too. And, you know, that's a part of growing up. You evolve and you see things differently. And then just being honest with yourself on like, how do I want to be seen? How do I want to make people feel?
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Bad Rap: Before and After
People were getting punched in their face every day. So I figured, why don't I be the first one to punch people in their face since the punching in their face is going to start at some time.
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Bad Rap: Before and After
I got three girls, three boys in there, like, they're really kind, great people.
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Bad Rap: Invincible
I was going to make the clothes that you would get dressed in, the fragrance you would put on, listen to the music that I produced, to buy the vodka that was in the club.
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Bad Rap: Invincible
I wouldn't do diddy dog food. You wouldn't do dog food? I mean, I would do what's organic for me. Like, I love candles. I would do candles. I love jewelry. I would do jewelry that fits. I would do hotels. You know, whatever was in the realm of entertainment or lifestyle. a curator of cool, that's what I'd do.
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Bad Rap: Invincible
They'll say, well, you know, you took some... I can't move on how people think. You know what I'm saying? I can only be judged by God. You know what I'm saying? And I got to constantly be living... with myself. I got to live with myself at the end of the day. I got to close my eyes and know what's right.
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Bad Rap: Invincible
Yeah. I mean, after Biggie's death, I was like, that was my heart. So my heart wasn't beating. So I was dead, too. And it was just a situation where I didn't want to.
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Bad Rap: Invincible
I said, I'll clean your car, I'll wash, whatever, I'll do whatever. Because where he's at, that was the pulse of the music, you know what I'm saying?
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Bad Rap: Invincible
I would like to let the families of the victims know how deeply hurt we all are.
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Bad Rap: Invincible
I've gone through a lot. I've seen a lot of tragedies. I've seen a lot of death, you know, in my short time. And I don't know why. Believe me, I ask myself the same question. Like, you know, why have I been chosen to see all of this, you know, death at such a young age?
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Bad Rap: Invincible
At the end of the day, I have to also live with the fact that, you know, I was throwing a vent trying to do something good and something bad happened.
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Meet The Other Me
What started as a rescue ended with a gruesome discovery that only got worse. Now families wait to find out if those women are their loved ones.
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Meet The Other Me
Sean Michael Great is being held for kidnapping tonight, and the sheriff's department says he should be charged with murder.
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Meet The Other Me
Prosecutors reveal gruesome details about the deaths of two of his alleged victims.
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Meet The Other Me
Real justice would be for you to come with me for about five minutes, burn in hell.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Well, yeah, you have to think about what an enormously public story this was. So there was fallout for her family. There was fallout for Keith. They had also, Sherry had applied for victim assistance funds that exist in states when something like this happens to you when you're the victim of a crime. So she had taken money from these funds. She's charged with that.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
That's eventually part of what she's ultimately charged with is taking money that she shouldn't have taken that's intended for victims of crime.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Yeah. And when we spoke to Keith last year, you know, I don't know that he would use the term get along. I think they were different. You know, they were divorced. They were in court. They are still in court. I'm going back and forth about the custody agreement. Keith remains the sort of primary custodian of his children. And I think Sherry is fighting to get expanded rights.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
But, you know, I think as we could all understand, Keith was dealing with feelings of incredible betrayal. And I think he wanted to just focus on his children and move forward.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Well, so this is the latest chapter of the Sherry Papini story, right? Is that in all these years, you know, we did get the opportunity to talk to Keith several times. We did get to talk to the law enforcement about how they really unraveled this story. But the person everybody, I think, has wanted to hear from now is Sherry Papini herself. And that's the reason why we're doing the story again.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
That's right. That's right, Deborah. So Sherry Papini did ultimately plead guilty to making false statements and to mail fraud. The mail fraud was in connection with the victim's funds that she took that she shouldn't have. So she went to prison. She served 10 months, was released. She and Keith divorced. And yes, people have always wanted to hear from her.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
What would she say about why she did this? And now she's speaking out in this documentary. Her story is surprising, I will say.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Definitely. So, you know, they spent a lot of time with her. They clearly shot several interviews with her. I think the headline of their documentary is that. Her story has changed from when she pled guilty. When you plead guilty, you sign a form.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
You own up to it. And there was a document that laid out exactly what happened. And she signed that document. Well, she now says that the majority of that document is not true. And that the only thing that she lied about was that two Hispanic women abducted her.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
She now says that her ex-boyfriend, James Reyes, who she readily admits that she was speaking to, they were talking that he she was out for a jog one day. He showed up and he abducted her. And she says the rest of what she originally told was true, that he held her. He, you know, he abused her. He branded her. He starved her. And then he let her go.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Correct. You know, police, when they were doing their investigation, they found James Reyes and they spoke to him. They interviewed him. They recorded that interview. That interview is a part of our reporting on the story.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
He said, you know, I thought I was helping a friend. You know, she asked me to come get her. I got her. She stayed with me for a while. He says she did the majority of the things to herself. She cut her own hair. She didn't eat a lot. She, you know, hit herself in the face with a hockey stick to, you know, break her nose. He does say she asked me to help her with a few things and I did that.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
But this was Sherry's idea. And he was not charged. He was never charged with a crime in connection with this. And we should also point out that he took a polygraph administered by the FBI and he completely passed that.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
So the authorities stand by their investigation and believe that Sherry Papini was the mastermind behind this, not James Reyes.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Correct. So, you know, the filmmakers have asked that we not reveal what happens in that test. But yes, they brought in a legitimate polygrapher and they hooked Sherry up and they asked her these questions. It's definitely an interesting part of the documentary.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Yeah, I think we'll have to wait to see how the authorities handle it. We did reach out to the Shasta County Sheriff's Office, who we spoke to, and they said that they consider this case closed.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
I think there were, Debra. I mean, one of the things I think that's great about a show like 2020 is that we've been on for so long, we have such an incredible archive, and we get to follow stories for a long time. So as you said, this one's been going on for almost a decade. And we were there at the very beginning. And so when it first happened, as you say, it was a shocking story.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
I mean, a mother seemingly snatched off the street as she's out for a jog in the middle of the day.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Yeah, it was certainly a story that caught everyone's attention. And so, of course, we were following it as well. She ends up showing back up in sort of a seeming miracle on Thanksgiving morning. Weeks and weeks later. Weeks later, yeah. And we did our first show on this in 2016, just days after she had gotten back. Matt Gutman sat down with her husband, Keith Papini.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
She, we had been told at the time, obviously was not in any condition to do an interview herself. But her husband came out and spoke to us and told us, you know, how he was so, I remember at the time he was so emotional and talked about, you know, having her back, that this was a, you know, a miracle.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
He was so thankful to all the people who, I mean, because her community had really come out and searched for her, raised money for her. I mean, everybody was concerned about this mom.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Yeah. At the time, it was this it was almost, you know, everybody referred to her as sort of a picture perfect mom. I mean, there were these gorgeous photos of her and her family and her two young children. And, you know, clearly they'd had some really nice photos, professional photos taken of their family that were out at the time.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
And so, yeah, everybody just thought she was this perfect mom who had this horrible thing happen to her.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
That's right. Yeah. So her story was that two Hispanic women abducted her while she was out for a jog, that she was held for 22 days. She was starved. She was beaten. She was, as Keith was just talking about, she was branded. I mean, that was the thing, I think, that really took people back, that That she had a brand on her back.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
We did eventually do another show on this story and we did get to speak to law enforcement. And so as you were kind of alluding to early, even in the very first days, there were questions out there. People kind of thought parts of her story didn't seem to add up.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Right. And so law enforcement kind of just dug into the case. But it was sort of on parallel tracks. On one side, I think they were treating her as a victim, believing her story, because there was another story that we covered here at 2020 that had happened just a year before this in California. It was what was known at that time as the Gone Girl case, the Denise Huskins case.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
And in that case, Denise Huskins was abducted out of her home in the middle of the night. And when she came back, police sort of very publicly questioned her. And it turned out that her story was true. She had been abducted. She'd been held by this man, Matthew Muller. And so when we talked to the law enforcement in Sherry Papini's case, they talked about that.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
They said, you know, we were, as everybody in the country was, we were aware of that case and we didn't want to look like we were going to do the same thing and have egg on our faces.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Exactly. While at the same time saying there are definitely questions about this case. So on that other parallel track, they are looking into it and they're trying to sort of verify what she's told them. And it's not all checking out.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Well, I think the biggest thing in the case was when Sherry came back, she was wearing sweatpants and she did have a chain around her. And so, of course, authorities collected all of that as evidence, including all of her clothing. And they were able to determine that there was DNA on her clothing. The first thing that they determined is that it was male DNA, which didn't make sense.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Because she said two women. Two women. It was two women. Two women held her the whole time. According to her, two women who had abused her. So that was a big red flag for authorities. And it began a very long process of them, I think, trying to figure out who that DNA belonged to. They used what we now kind of hear about all the time, genetic genealogy, to trace it back.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
And they found that that DNA belonged to a man named James Reyes, who Sherry had actually dated at one point before she was married to Keith. So that was another huge red flag.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Is it okay if I go look in that room, the closet? I'm curious if it's the same as she described it.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
It took a long time. Yeah, the authorities, when we were able to finally interview them, which, you know, we did the piece again in 2022, and we got a chance to talk to some of the lead investigators. And they basically just said we wanted to be absolutely sure of ourselves. Again, kind of referencing back to this Denise Huskin's Gone Girl story.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
And also they just wanted a bulletproof case so that when they took it to her and confronted her, they were able to say, we know this happened. We know this happened.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Yeah, and I think you can understand where he was coming from, right? Something in his intuition told him in that moment that this didn't seem right. But as you say, this was his wife, the mother of his children. And we did get to see these images of Sherry Papini, what she looked like when she came back. And the investigators say the same thing.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
The extent of her injuries were so extreme that any doubt that I think popped up in his head, he just immediately said, How could I even think that? How could she possibly do that? How could she do this to herself? And I think he felt a sense of guilt at the time even for having that thought. So, you know, and again, it took years for him to understand what really happened to his wife.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
And I think that it was a very, very difficult process for him to accept.
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The After Show: Sherri Papini: Where the Truth Lies
Exactly. And I think understandably so. There were many people in the Hispanic community who, especially in that area of California, who were offended by this once they found out that this was a hoax kidnapping and that she had participated in this herself. The fact that, yes, that she blamed it on two Hispanic women, it just, you know, it didn't sit well with people.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Party's Over
Spreading love, Fourth of July. You know, I'm out here making movies and meeting new people, and that's what the white party's about, about people meeting new people.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Party's Over
This is a legendary white party. It's the real white party. Make some noise if you've been here before. Okay. And to all the kids, the kids have like an hour left. So get extra comfortable, kids, because after that, y'all got to go. It's a wrap for y'all, because this thing turns into something that when y'all get older, y'all don't want to come to, okay?
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Downfall
As he gave this speech, the toddler, Love, smashed her face into the cake and started licking the frosting.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Downfall
I make no excuses. My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I'm disgusted. I was disgusted then when I did it, I'm disgusted now.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Downfall
I mean, I hit rock bottom, but I'm committed to be a better man each and every day.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Before and After
But today is not about me. Today is about my mother. Ma, I love you.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Before and After
Diddy also launched his first studio album in nearly 20 years.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Before and After
Hey, y'all, I'm going to keep it 100 with y'all. I was in a dark place for a few years, you know what I'm saying? And I have to give a special thank you to the people that was really like there for me. Bishop T.D. Jakes, my chief of staff, Christina Corum, KK.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Before and After
Yeah, and also Cassie for holding me down in the dark times. Love. Love.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Before and After
I'm just not who I am Before, I'm something different. So my new name is Love, aka Brother Love. I will not be answering the Puffy, Diddy, Puff Daddy, or any of my other monikers, but Love or Brother Love, okay?
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Before and After
Diddy just turned and became love. Yeah. Man, I think I was also like going through like a stressful time, too. And, you know, that's a part of growing up. You evolve and you see things differently. And then just being honest with yourself on like, how do I want to be seen? How do I want to make people feel?
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Before and After
People were getting punched in their face every day. So I figured, why don't I be the first one to punch people in their face? The punching in their face is going to start at some time.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Before and After
First of all, I want to thank God. God, thank you. Thank you so much. Never leaving my side.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Before and After
This school has given me so much. I feel it's one of, not just one of, I feel like it's the most important black educational institution ever. And so we as alumni have to keep pouring our seed back into it, you know, keep on investing back in the home. And so, you know, I'm blessed to be able to do it.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Invincible
I was going to make the clothes that you would get dressed in, the fragrance you would put on, listen to the music that I produced, to buy the vodka that was in the club.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Invincible
I mean, how about Diddy Dog food? No, I wouldn't do Diddy Dog food.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Invincible
Yeah, I wouldn't do Diddy Dog food. You wouldn't do dog food? I mean, I would do what's organic for me. Like, I love candles. I would do candles. I love jewelry. I would do jewelry that fits. I would do hotels. You know, whatever was in the realm of entertainment or lifestyle. a curator of cool, that's what I'd do.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Invincible
The newest addition to the Ciroc family, Summer Calata. Thank you.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Invincible
I can't move on how people think. You know what I'm saying? I can only be judged by God. You know what I'm saying? And I got to constantly be living. with myself. I got to live with myself at the end of the day. I got to close my eyes and know what's right.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Invincible
Yeah. I mean, after Biggie's death, I was like, that was my heart. So my heart wasn't beating. So I was dead, too. And it was just a situation where I didn't want to.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Invincible
I said, I'll clean your car, I'll wash, whatever, I'll do whatever, because where he's at, that was the pulse of the music, you know what I'm saying?
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Invincible
I would like to let the families of the victims know how deeply hurt we all are.
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
Invincible
I've gone through a lot. I've seen a lot of tragedies. I've seen a lot of death in my short time. And I don't know why. Believe me, I ask myself the same question. Why have I been chosen to see all of this death at such a young age? At the end of the day, I have to also live with the fact that I was throwing a vent trying to do something good and something bad happened.