Everybody Who Discusses Diddy In New Netflix Documentary

Netflix lately launched its four-part docuseries, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, a deep dive into Diddy‘s life from his early days in Mount Vernon to behind-the-scenes footage of his crew scrambling earlier than his arrest. With 50 Cent serving as its government producer, it turned some of the anticipated documentaries on this explicit matter, particularly given their historical past and the quantity of antagonizing that Fif did forward of its launch. 

Nevertheless, what provides the docuseries energy isn’t simply the behind-the-scenes forces however those that stepped in entrance of the digicam with the braveness to share their tales. Plenty of them labored with Diddy in some capability, having uncovered a few of his extra sinister methods intimately and protecting up the paths. It’s fairly the exposé that threads the patterns from his upbringing to Uptown Data, establishing Dangerous Boy, and finally, his RICO trial that concluded earlier this 12 months. And it wouldn’t be the case had it not included childhood pals and colleagues to workers, and collaborators. 

Beneath is a breakdown of everybody who’s appeared within the documentary, from forgotten Dangerous Boy co-founder to the jurors who selected Diddy’s destiny. 

Erick Sermon’s position within the narration of this docuseries highlights Diddy’s early days within the music trade, however extra particularly, one of many earliest tragedies related to his identify. Sermon mentioned his relationship with Misa Hylton, however extra importantly, the movie star basketball recreation at Metropolis School of New York in 1991, the place a stampede killed 9 individuals, passed off. That particular incident sparked large information protection and, as Sermon defined, “how [Combs] received super-famous. That’s the start of Puff Daddy.” However it’s a second within the docuseries that marks the place to begin of controversy and tragedy in Diddy’s profession. 

Kirk Burrowes was Puff Daddy’s longtime enterprise companion and co-founder of Dangerous Boy Leisure. Within the documentary, Burrowes particulars his dealings with Diddy and the alleged shady enterprise practices that passed off behind the scenes at Dangerous Boy. His position underscored his personal complicity in how Diddy’s enterprise and private affairs would collide with one another, and his allegations have been much more intimate than most others included within the documentary, particularly because it pertained to a lot of the mythology round Diddy. He made revelations that made Diddy complicit within the murders of Tupac and Biggie, together with how he dealt with funds. Maybe considered one of Burrowes’ wilder claims right here is that Diddy not solely prevented Biggie from leaving Los Angeles earlier than a global press run which might’ve saved his life, but additionally made Biggie’s funeral a recoupable price in his contract–a declare that has since been denied. Burrowes explains that he ran Dangerous Boy’s budgets and even managed a lot of Combs’s private funds, protecting exhaustive journals of each transaction, excerpts of that are proven within the docuseries. 

“From Day Zero, I wrote every part down, each day, so I may maintain observe of every part I wanted to do,” stated Burrowes. “I ran all the cash, all of the budgets for the corporate, in addition to quite a bit for his private life, and all that got here with it.”

He alleges that as Combs grew extra highly effective, he turned more and more jealous and manipulative. In a single clip, Burrowes describes how Combs was “insanely jealous of Biggie and ’Pac’s friendship”, and he repeatedly warns that “with Sean, typically you’re humiliated… Typically violent issues occur to you.” Total, Burrowes’s interview paints an image of Dangerous Boy’s youth as more and more managed by Combs’s private agenda.

Greg Kading is a former Los Angeles detective who was a part of a activity pressure to resolve gang crimes, together with the homicide of Tupac Shakur. His investigations explored Diddy’s alleged connection to the Crips and their relation to the loss of life of Tupac. Nevertheless, it additionally seemed deeper on the connections that Diddy had with Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the uncle of the alleged shooter Orlando Anderson, who claimed that Combs introduced that he would give “something” for Tupac and Knight’s loss of life with a bounty of upwards of $1M. Diddy has at all times denied any accusations surrounding any involvement in Tupac’s loss of life. Nevertheless, Kading’s testimony on this, together with suggesting that “Keffe D and Puffy Combs are the final males standing” within the case, faucets right into a principle that many have contemplated through the years. 

“D1” is a former gang member affiliated with the Mansfield Crips. His background helps tie collectively his insights into Combs’ connection to Los Angeles’ gangs and the road networks that stood behind him, whether or not it is the connection he had with the Crips and even his alleged “uncle” who is claimed to be a Harlem drug lord. 

Lesane, Tupac’s cousin, seems in Episode 2 as somebody with deep perception into Tupac’s relationship with Biggie and Diddy. He remembers arriving at New York’s Quad Studios on the night time Tupac was shot (in 1994) and seeing Combs on the scene. Lesane urges viewers to “take a look at the information,” noting ominously that “Puff is there. Pac has been shot in New York underneath [his] watch.” In the end, he ties collectively among the behind-the-scenes particulars that he suggests may implicate him in that state of affairs. Once more, Diddy has at all times denied involvement in Tupac’s taking pictures, however Lesane’s look provides a extra private layer to Kading’s claims.

In Episode 2, the movie additionally contains commentary from Derrick Parker, the NYPD’s authentic “hip hop cop,” who labored on New York instances within the Nineties. Parker discusses varied New York controversies involving Combs and the way he typically was assigned to stated points surrounding Puff. This contains the incident involving Steve Stoute and far of the extra violent and contentious instances surrounded Diddy’s identify within the late 90s.

Certainly one of Diddy’s most vocal critics through the years has been Mark Curry, considered one of Dangerous Boy’s earliest artists. What Curry supplies all through the whole lot of the doc sheds gentle on what it was allegedly like being signed to Diddy, and particularly witnessing his rise as a solo artist following Biggie’s loss of life. His testimony supplies perception into a few of Diddy’s enterprise dealings with artists, but additionally how his manufacturing credit and artistic output relied on others.

Al B. Certain has made a number of allegations towards Diddy, and that’s very true after the loss of life of Kim Porter, who’s the mom of Al. B’s son Quincy. His testimony right here proves integral to diving into Diddy’s early days as an intern at Uptown Data, and his sample of attempting to take different males’s girls, which he equally did with Erick Sermon, and later tried with Suge Knight in Atlanta. Al B. Certain’s look has been one which many anticipated ever since his hospitalization a number of years again, although his contributions don’t delve into current rumors and allegations.

Roxanne Johnson, who was married to Dangerous Boy rapper Craig Mack, seems within the documentary as properly. She offered attention-grabbing perception into not solely Mack’s dealings with Diddy and Dangerous Boy but additionally the conversations he had with Suge Knight about becoming a member of Loss of life Row East.  Although transient, the interview involving Johnson was one of many uncommon moments the place we heard from the spouses of the Dangerous Boy signees and the way Diddy’s supposed selections and dealing with of his artists had greater impacts on their households. 

Former Danity Kane frontwoman Aubrey O’Day (who received her begin on Making the Band 3 underneath Combs) within the documentary. Her on-screen section is without doubt one of the buzzed-about elements of the sequence. O’Day says she was sexually harassed and probably assaulted throughout her time in Dangerous Boy. She recounts receiving an affidavit from one other alleged sufferer who claimed to have witnessed Combs and a person assaulting O’Day at Dangerous Boy’s studio whereas she was “out of it”

Within the documentary, a dazed O’Day appears on the digicam in tears and asks, “Does this imply I used to be raped?… I don’t even know if I used to be raped.” The filmmakers additionally present sexually express emails Combs allegedly despatched to her. For instance, O’Day reads aloud a lewd e-mail (confronting the digicam with shock): “I don’t wanna simply fuck you. I wanna flip you out… I can see you being with some motherfucker that you just inform what to do. I make my lady do what I inform her to do, and he or she loves it”. O’Day additionally says that she was finally dismissed from Danity Kane for refusing to take part sexually, hinting that her exit from the group was tied to rejecting Combs’s advances.

Episode 3 additionally options Kalenna Harper, a singer-songwriter who carried out with Diddy as one-third of the R&B trio Diddy – Soiled Cash (2009–2012). Harper presents a vivid portrait of Combs’s work habits and drug use in the course of the 2010s. She describes what she calls Diddy’s “14-day cycle”: he would keep awake for 2 weeks straight, fueled by lavish quantities of cocaine, to enter a “motherfuckin’ zone” of creativity. Harper remembers that in these stints, Combs would spearhead nonstop studio periods and photograph shoots underneath the affect – to the purpose that she quips “he didn’t need to fall asleep.” Her interview makes use of behind-the-scenes footage of Soiled Cash working within the studio as she speaks. 

Clayton Howard, a Houston-based escort, seems within the docuseries. He has already develop into some of the sensational sources from the sequence. Howard says he was employed (by way of a now-famous Las Vegas occasion referred to as a “freak off”) to take part in elaborate, four-day, drug-fueled sexual marathons that he alleged Combs organized on the anniversary of Biggie’s loss of life. He explains that Combs held considered one of these orgies yearly on March 9 (the date Biggie was killed). As Howard chillingly places it, Diddy would spend the anniversary “calling me up” to return to the massive get together. Howard additionally alleges Diddy would get jealous and violent at instances with Cassie. 

Da Band’s Brooklyn “Babs” Chula, a contestant on Making the Band and member of the early-2000s boy band Da Band, additionally seems within the documentary. Her look supplies extra context for Diddy’s rise as an MTV persona and the 2000s iteration of Dangerous Boy, the place he created teams on the MTV sequence to signal.

A number of former contestants from Making the Band 4 (the group Day26) additionally seem in Episode 3. Que Mosley, Brian Andrews, Willie Taylor, and Robert Curry have been all signed by Combs in 2009 because the R&B group Day26. 

Joi Dickerson-Neal performs a central position within the documentary as considered one of his accusers who’ve stepped ahead publicly. In 2023, Dickerson-Neal filed a lawsuit claiming that she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Combs (alleging he additionally filmed the assault). Dickerson-Neal says she felt impressed to return ahead as soon as fellow singer Cassie Ventura accused Combs. “I felt very unhappy for her, however it was additionally validation to know I’m not the one one,” she explains on digicam. 

She recounts how she finally confronted Combs after studying rumors of a secretly filmed tape, and that he vehemently denied doing “this factor” to her. In emotional clips (Episode 4) she tearfully vows she’s “now not going to be embarrassed” and can “arise” to inform her story. 

Capricorn Clark was Combs’s assistant and later a artistic director at Dangerous Boy Leisure (Episode 4). She has additionally testified at Combs’s trial, telling jurors that at one level Combs had kidnapped her and threatened her life as a part of the Child Cudi/Cassie episode. In The Reckoning, Clark displays on her traumatic experiences and the way badly the trial felt skewed. She notes that watching the jury deliberate was surreal: “I’m watching them… I feel all of them kinda had a like for Puff,” she says. “They have been starstruck.” Clark provides that she felt none of her testimony “actually received believed” by jurors. 

One other vital a part of Diddy’s inside circle is Roger Bonds, who has been on a string of interviews for the reason that allegations first emerged. Bonds’ position on this docuseries allowed him to supply vital perception into Diddy’s day-to-day exercise, alongside together with his relationship with girls, comparable to Kim Porter and Cassie.

One a part of the documentary that basically units it aside from different docs on the topic is that it contains two members of the jury opening up about what occurred in the course of the trial. One of many jurors stated she turned satisfied that Diddy “will be” violent, as evidenced within the lodge video involving Cassie, although Diddy wasn’t charged with home violence, so they may not discover him responsible of that. One other juror defined that he had “zero information” of Cassie and Diddy’s relationship. He stated that they have been “two individuals in love” with a sophisticated dynamic between them.

One other some of the anticipated interviews on this documentary is from Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, who produced songs on Love: The Album. His look marked one of many first instances he opened up this candidly concerning the lawsuit he filed towards Diddy in 2023. Right here, he discusses working with Diddy creatively, but additionally reiterates a few of Diddy’s alleged devious habits behind the scenes. He offered extra perception into Diddy’s drug habits and the supposed “freak-offs.” In a single a part of the doc, he additionally dives into an incident the place gunshots have been fired in a rest room.