Simone Boyce
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first heard Dec 2024
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Previously, I had gone with the rubric of naming my livestock after famous historic dictators because it amused me to have to, for example, cut the shit out of Joseph Brodstito's ass dreadlocks. Like, that's just kind of funny, right? But this particular goat was really cute, so I decided I wanted to give him a mirthful name. And I told Sophie, my producer, I'm going to call him P. Diddy.
Now, let me say here, I'm not a pop culture guy. I didn't know anything other than, like, P. Diddy was, like, a rapper. I actually didn't realize how into gangster rap he was, because, again, not super aware of all this stuff. I was just like, oh, he's like a Snoop Dogg-type figure, right?
Yeah, sure. And yeah, so like that was, I was like, oh, just named P. Diddy. That's a fun name, right? Anyway, Sophie did her job, which is to dive in front of bullets for her host as a producer. It's called the Wednesday. Yeah. And said, no, you cannot name your goat after Diddy because he's a monster. And I was like, oh. And I looked into him and there wasn't a ton out at the time.
And then he got righted by the FBI a few months later. And I was like, oh, Sophie was right. It only took a minute. Yeah.
Don't hang out with Diddy. I had even watched earlier this year that movie Blink Twice. And I was like, oh, this is kind of interesting. And then I find out later like, oh, it's supposed to be about Diddy. Like this was a veiled way of talking about this guy.
So if you're like me or if you're someone who knows more about Diddy, you know, the question is, how did how did all this like how did this guy get to where he is and get to do what he did for so long without having a downfall? And we are going to answer that question and more this week on Behind the Bastards, a podcast about people I almost named goats after. And we're back.
So, Sean John Combs, which is kind of Sean John, which is the name of the clothing brand he's going to make later, was born on November 4th, 1969 in Harlem, New York. He was the son of Janice Combs, a former model who worked as a teacher's assistant, most of his childhood. His father, Melvin Earl Combs, had served in the Air Force, but later in life became a drug dealer.
He also, he worked for a guy named Frank Lucas. And does the name Frank Lucas mean anything to y'all? Hmm, no. He is, if you've seen American Gangster, that's the guy Denzel plays, an American gangster. Oh, Denzel, right. Okay, all right. Sean's dad works for a very serious gangster, like played by Denzel serious, right?
As an aside, if your goal is to make a movie about crime is bad, don't have Denzel play the gangster.
It was like the Gladiator 2 movie really would have been a totally different film.
I watched the whole movie and thought he was a good guy.
I was just like, oh, man. He should be the emperor. Yeah. This seems fair. Yeah. So, tragically, Melvin Combs was never played by Denzel in a movie. Instead, he was assassinated, shot dead in his car in Central Park when he was 33 years old. Yikes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is Diddy's dad. That is a young one. Yes, yes. Sean is two years old at the time, so he never really knows his father.
As a little boy, his dad's death served as a constant reminder of the consequences of crime as a lifestyle, or at least that's what he would say. I don't know how true that is because, again, very involved in crimes.
Yeah, don't be a private, be a general. Yeah. Yes, yes. So his mom moved the family out of Harlem not long after Melvin's death, taking them to Mount Vernon, a suburb in Westchester County.
Now, as an adult going by the name P. Diddy, Sean would make a lot of statements about the poverty he was raised in, because if you are coming up in hip-hop in the way he did, you want to, like, act like you came from a really hard background.
Yeah, yeah. Whereas, I mean, we're going to talk about Biggie. Biggie does come from, like, a rough background. Right, selling cocaine instead of making record deals. Yeah. Now, and obviously, Sean is massively exaggerating how rough his background was. I don't want to minimize, like, his dad getting shot when he's two.
But his mom is, like Tupac's mom, one of these people who works incredibly hard and is very responsible. She gives her kid a service. a good degree at kids, a lot of stability and comfort. Sean goes to a prestigious private school, Mount St. Michael. It's a Catholic school. His family is very Catholic. He wears a uniform. He plays football.
His mom describes him in interviews as having been an entrepreneur from a young age, starting his own paper, and not in the way that you often mean that in Hip Out. He starts a paper route as a kid, right?
In order to make money. She told the New Yorker, we had a Cadillac car and a house, and he liked life like that. Right? Huh. So, yeah.
When your kid says he wants to be a CEO, look, I'm not saying you should do this legally, but maybe get him into drugs.
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