Simone Boyce
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 20 Oct
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And winning a Grammy. And winning Grammys. Yeah. So one story Diddy likes to tell is of the time his aunt babysat him at her home, which was in a public housing project called the Patterson Houses in the Bronx. So again, his mom gets out to the suburbs. They own a home. Other members of his family obviously are a lot less comfortable. And the story he tells is that he wakes up.
Sometimes he'll say, I woke up with 15 cockroaches on my face, which... You didn't count the cockroaches. Nobody would in that situation.
And in other recitations, he's less specific. I'm not saying this didn't happen. I think it probably did, just knowing the other stuff about his life.
This apparently inspired him to seek wealth and success. Quote, and this is from him years later, I was like, no, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to get out of here. I'm going to be somebody. I'm going to own something and be able to take care of my family. I don't want to live in these conditions no more. And again, you know, I'm not maybe something like this happened.
He also does bring it up exactly the way you would if you're trying to, like, throw out in interviews scenes that people will put in a biopic about you. Right.
Now, Diddy would later claim that the memory of this harrowing event inspired him whenever he made a change in his career. It was something that just kind of snaps on you. Don't take less in life and fight back. Those roaches still to this day, whenever I get comfortable, I just remember them.
I remember living in a situation where babies weren't changed for two or three days and everything smells and there's no food. The memory is the thing that really fuels me to make sure that one day none of us have to live like that. You didn't do anything to make sure none of us had to live like that, and you didn't live like that, right? Yeah. You made sure he don't live like that.
Yeah, you made sure you didn't have to live that way, but... Fair enough. Yeah, fair enough.
Yeah. And it's I mean, like everything, it becomes more oligarchic as it fucking ages and gets sclerotic. But like, it's also not weird. You know, I can say I didn't I wouldn't say I had a hard upbringing. My parents were like poor when I was a little kid. Financial stress is like a lot of my earliest memories. And that's definitely part of why I have gone after money as an adult. Right.
Because like I. I didn't want to have screaming fights in front of my partner about the fact that we couldn't afford rent or whatever. You know, that's yeah, that's absolutely like that. Absolutely. A lot of people have had that experience. A lot of people deal with that now. It sucks ass. Like so I I don't doubt that some version of this is true. Right.
That he encountered a lot of poverty around his family and was like, well, fuck that shit. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And I do think it's interesting that like his connections with financial desperation are not direct. They're family members. Right. So he always there's always this sense of like I'm separate to from this from the hardship. Right. Like it's not direct to me, which is interesting.
Now, it's worth noting that Diddy, as an adult, told lots of inspirational stories about moments from his childhood that inspired him to later greatness. And maybe all of these are bullshit, but, you know, let's hear them out.
And I'll even say that's not, you know, that's a thing that rap gets from the same source that a lot of other, because you see that in evangelical Christianity, the whole like, I was, you know, down and out, high rising and low sliding, popping reds and busting heads, kicking into
and banging whores and then i met jesus you know that sort of fucking deal um praise the lord it's this thing everybody gets from like you know power of positive thinking like hustle culture where it's like okay you got to have like the down and out story and then i had my realization and like you can do it too it works for everything it's not just mlms yeah and just to tag on to that
Yeah. Yeah, that's just that's just the way you like frame things if you want Americans to if you want to be a fucking mogul. Anyway, here's a quote from something he said later in a CNN article. One day when he was a child, he asked his mother for a new pair of sneakers, but she couldn't afford them. He recalled in a 2016 CNN interview that his mother almost began to cry upon hearing his request.
That day, he said, my hustle was born. And he's got a lot of, that day, my hustle was born soon. That was the one day. His mom being like, we had a Cadillac. Maybe she's exaggerating because she doesn't want to admit that things were harder than they were. But I kind of think it might just be more that he wanted expensive sneakers. And his mom wasn't like, no, we don't have the money.
His mom was like, no, you don't need those sneakers. Yeah. I'm not going to spend $200 on fucking sneakers for you. Like.
Yeah, it's a lot less inspirational to be like my story, which is like, I wanted a computer that could play StarCraft. And my mom said, no, you don't need that. I was like, well, I want to be able to buy my own computers when I grow up, right? Like, that's not an inspirational story. That's not... Like, yeah, nobody's going to put that in the biopic.
You know, the music swells and you get a fucking razor. Um... So, yeah, one thing that we can definitely mark as a turning point in his life was a football injury that he acquired while playing for Mount St. Michael Academy. He will always say, I was going to be in the NFL. I was good enough to be in the NFL. He'll kind of insinuate he was being scouted by the NFL. I don't know that he was.
I'm not entirely sure, but I'm pretty sure he's like 5'9 or something, right? He's not a big guy. He's not a big guy, but there's positions for shorter guys. Sure, for sure.
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