Simone Boyce
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And there's a slightly different story that he told in 1998 to Jet Magazine. Whenever I got mad as a kid, I used to always huff and puff. I had a temper. That's when my friends started calling me Puffy. Right. Yeah, but, you know, they're not necessarily exclusive.
Oh, man, and puffer fish, infamous sex criminals. Do not let your friends go home alone with a puffer fish. I remember that in Finding Nemo.
Yes, yeah. At least pests.
Sex pests, yeah.
So with football out of the way, young Sean leaned into the other less discussed aspect of his personality, which was that he was kind of an artsy theater kid. Diddy had a reputation at his private school for being neatly dressed, you know, and in college for wearing designer clothes, which he funded through a variety of legal entrepreneurial ventures.
For example, in between classes, this is again when he's at college, he's at Howard University. He would operate a shuttle service to the airport and he would also sell his old term papers, T-shirts and soda to his classmates. So, again, entrepreneur, but not exactly a gangster.
Roe Ronan's book, Bad Boy, which covers Diddy's influence on the hip hop industry, paints a picture of a young man who was beyond everything else an opportunist. At one point, while he's at Howard, there's this massive protest campaign on the campus over the presence of Lee Atwater on the University Board of Trustees. And again, Howard is a historically black university.
Lee Atwater is the author of the Republican Party's infamous Southern Strategy, which I cannot relate directly to you without using the N-word repeatedly.
The basic idea of the strategy that Lee Atwater helps put together is that you can't campaign in 1968. Before 68, you can campaign by just screaming about black people and saying you want to hurt them, right? By 68, you can't do that.
So you have to instead campaign on issues that will hurt black people, but that you can pretend aren't racist, like fiscal conservatism, cutting programs that help black Americans without calling them slurs, right? That's Lee Atwater. So obviously, Howard University students are like, the fuck is this guy doing on the board of trustees?
That is essentially the tenor of the protest campaign. Now, Sean's peers rightly thought it was fucked up for this guy to have a seat on the Howard board, and they do win. Spoiler, he winds up stepping down.
Right. Protests work. Protests can work. So there's this big protest campaign. There's like clashes with riot police. They occupy buildings on campus. It's a whole thing.
In the book, It Was All a Dream, culture journalist Justin Tinsley writes this of sophomore Sean Combs' involvement in this protest campaign. For Combs, the student protest in the spring of 89 presented an opportunity to unite the student body and put some money in his pockets at the same time.
Combs took images from the protests, photos of students and police clashing and students being whisked away and printed up some posters. And he like sells posters based on this. Oh my goodness. So he's like, he's a profiteer. A write-up by Chris Malone goes further.
Future producer and co-worker of Diddy's Derek D. Angeletti was at Howard at the same time as Diddy and saw how he made a quick buck from the protests. In the 2003 Notorious B.I.G. documentary Unbelievable, he spoke about Diddy's photo enterprise during the protests. He made hundreds of them and sold them for $10 and $15 a piece, Angeletti said. That's the type of guy I saw.
All this protest shit is well and good, but who's getting paid off it? He was ready.
It's a lot more money.
This was back when a dime bag cost $10, and that wasn't cheap.
we had onions on our belts it was a style at the time yeah yeah uh amusingly enough in 2009 diddy made statements in support of another protest movement at howard promising i got y'all back and saying do what we did and take it over let's go and do it in a peaceful way but do it and again you did not take anything over you sold pictures of people doing that you
He was always doing something. You're not facing a riot line to get Atwater fucking fired.
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