Sean (Puffy) Combs
Sean Combs, Puff Daddy, P. Diddy – no matter what name he goes by, he’s a household music powerhouse, known by generations of music lovers. That name is a staple brand with deep roots planted within the music industry. He’s a mogul at the top of the food chain, an apex predator, destroying everything in his path like the ‘bad boy’ he brands himself as.
Despite having keys to multiple cities, despite being a legend within the industry and despite founding some of the biggest names to ever be heard, truths have recently been brought to light. Sean Combs is not a brand or a legend. Sean Combs has been revealed to be nothing but a sick man with narcissistic tendencies.
Sean Combs, the baron of baby oil, has been under heavy fire in the media recently due to his shady past resurfacing. We’ve seen wrongdoing after wrongdoing. The community has seen everything, spanning from rape charges to physical assault, to overzealous parties known as ‘freak offs,’ but how deep does this rabbit hole go? Have we just scraped the surface of what seems to be the tip of the iceberg? Where does injustice lie? What is known as right or wrong in the ‘elitist’ world? What else are the industry’s top dogs hiding?
With all these investigations under way, the public is yearning for answers. How can such a well esteemed man commit such acts? How could he be such a monster? Amongst all these questions, the most powerful one should be “who else is involved?” or even “who knew?”
What if I told you that someone died to get the truth out? What if I told you that multiple people died for crossing paths with Combs and his accomplices? What if I told you that his accomplices are just as powerful and twisted as he is? What if I told you that everything built around us was a lie? In truth, it seems ludicrous, yet as we venture deeper into the rat nest, the pests of the house are shown in full infamy. The best way to get rid of these rats is to break that nest from the roots and leave the rats to scatter.
Tupac (2Pac) Shakur, legendary rapper and activist.
To begin the extermination, we should expose what we believe is the accomplice to the mouse. Allow me to question the audience, what can be that one ally of the mouse that’ll never leave it, even in death? The answer to that question is right behind you. It’s around everything, even if our eyes can’t detect it. What can a rat’s greatest ally be besides its shadow? Shadows are constantly changing with the movement of its host, as its specialty is hiding in the darkest corners, lurking out of our focus, yet always in hindsight. We should focus on those shadows’ sharpest attributes. This attribute, or accomplice, goes by not a single name, but a unit of names. Unlike theories claiming Jay-Z, Beyonce or even Meek Mill are Combs’s allies (not that this isn’t a possibility), there’s one indisputable key player that always worms its way out of the story, lurking in the shadows as a true prophet of downfall. Money will always remain the most miniscule shadow with the slickest cunning in Combs’s arsenal of deceit.
You might be wondering, “what exactly does that have to do with conspiracy?” To put it briefly, it has everything to do with it. The year is 1993, Combs, then known as ‘Puff Daddy,’ founded Bad Boy Records. Enter Christopher Wallace, the star prodigy who would be the first person to be signed under Combs’s new label, revolutionizing and altering Bad Boy forever. Wallace, (Also known as The Notorious B.I.G), had a close friendship with a certain prophet of peace. Enter Tupac Amaru Shakur. Shakur and Wallace hit it off almost immediately, becoming fantastic friends and close allies with one another. Wallace even asked Pac to manage him, in which Shakur replied “Nah, stay with Puff, He will make you a star.”
During the midway point through the production of “Ready To Die,” Wallace’s first studio album, it was well established that Wallace was considering leaving Bad Boy Records, searching his opportunities and seizing higher stardom; meanwhile, Shakur befriends some dangerous individuals, ignoring Wallace’s advice to stay away from those sorts of people. Everything would change on Nov. 30, 1994, when Shakur was fatally shot outside of Quad Studios on his way to meet Wallace and Combs. When Shakur awoke from his coma, he was arrested and forced to spend eight months in prison. Eventually, Wallace dropped a song titled “Who Shot Ya,” eliciting the idea in Shakur’s mind that Wallace was the one who set him up. From this point on, one of the biggest rap beefs of all time commenced.
You might find yourself asking, “Where’s the conspiracy?” Well, allow me to introduce a single key player. Enter the late and tragic hero Kim Porter, ex girlfriend of Sean Combs, and mother to four out of five of Combs’s children. You see, Porter dated Combs on and off from 1994 to 2007. Her untimely demise came on Nov. 15, 2018 from ‘flu-like symptoms.’ On Sept. 6, 2024, just weeks before Combs was arrested on charges of trafficking, racketeering and all sorts of other charges.
As stated by Jamal T. Millwood, the author of Porter’s posthumous memoir, Kim’s Lost Words, the contents of the book are direct quotes from Porter herself; the story interprets her words and completes the book she herself was writing. The 60 page bestseller described what it meant to be with Combs. During the duration of the book, it’s revealed that Shakur and Wallace were en route to opening their own label and making their own way. Combs didn’t like that, not one bit. Porter is revealed to have overheard a meeting in which Combs and a man by the name of Jimmy Henchmen were in attendance. Jimmy was a close friend of Combs. Porter states that he was a frequent participant in the ‘Freak offs’ and after-event antics. As she overheard their meeting, she heard Combs say things such as how “Tupac should not leave this studio alive.” That same night, Shakur was fatally shot by a man named Jimmy Henchmen and several other gangsters.
A few weeks later, Porter claims that it was Combs who allegedly rushed Wallace to finalize “Who Shot Ya?’ and had it placed in Wallace’s debut album, which was released three weeks later. This bolsters the belief that Shakur was set up by Combs, not Wallace. Combs was the one who began the West Coast versus East Coast rap feud.
Shakur later released the legendary diss track “Hit Em Up,” and Combs was infuriated. According to Porter, Combs traveled to Los Angeles and met with the SouthSide Crips drug dealer, Keefe-D. He offered Keefe-D $1 Million to assassinate Shakur, as well as Combs’s other competitor, The CEO of Death Row records, Suge Knight. On Sept. 7, 1996, Shakur was fatally shot by Keefe-D’s nephew Orlando Anderson in a drive-by in Las Vegas. He died at the age of 25.
Was Combs truly the cause of a West Coast legend’s demise?
Christopher (The Notorious B.I.G) Wallace, Seans greatest star.
Aside from his feuds, Sean ‘Love’ Combs is a chaotic tyrant within his company. As related to the prior section, we’ve seen how he may have gotten rid of his competition, but what if I told you that he may have gotten rid of his own stars? According to the late Kim Porter, that’s exactly what happened on the night of March 9, 1997, the night The Notorious B.I.G was murdered in a still unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles.
B.I.G’s death was about as suspicious as Shakur’s. They were both killed in drive-by shootings; the suspected perpetrators were each other’s respective labels. For Pac, it’s thought that Combs had him killed, and for Wallace, it’s a pretty common assumption that Suge Knight, the CEO of Death Row and Shakur’s manager killed Wallace. According to Mrs. Kim Porter, Combs was behind not only Shakur’s demise, but his protege Wallace’s death, as well.
Per Wallace’s death, Combs saw opportunity. He maximized profits off of Wallace’s death, as when B.I.G died, he left his records and catalog with Bad Boy. He died before he could finalize his efforts to leave Bad Boy Records. According to Jaguar Wright, a well known anti-Diddy activist/singer/songwriter, “Puffy has been making money off of Biggie’s name for longer than Biggie was alive.”
The funds from Small’s verses alone supported all Bad Boy. Other artists such as Craig Mack, Lil Kim, Faith Evans and Combs himself didn’t make nearly as much commercial success compared to Wallace’s one album, “Ready To Die.” When news of him wanting to leave after dropping his second album arose, Combs grew concerned.
According to B.I.G’s mom, Mrs. Voletta Wallace claims that, “[she believes] Combs loved [her] son – after he was dead.” Combs, at all costs, was determined to get the royalties of Wallace’s second album before he left.
According to Gene Deal, Comb’s ex bodyguard, who was present on the night of Wallace’s death, claimed that Combs took extra measures to get Wallace to go to that party he was leaving when he got shot. He claimed that the cars Wallace and Diddy rode in were marked. One of them had a street gang sticker while the other one didn’t. He claims B.I.G. was purposefully set up for death. Gene’s story didn’t change a single time in the years he’s been preaching it.
According to Kim Porter, she shares a conversation between Wallace’s widow and Combs. She claims that he “didn’t have to die.” According to the story, Combs replies with derogatory statements, such as,“don’t get me wrong, I miss him, but he was leaving me anyway.”
In Porter’s posthumous book, Combs also speaks on how B.I.G. and Pac were on the verge of starting their own label together. Combs says “those mother**ckers were gonna try to start their own label and compete with me. ME! ME! After all I did for that fat f**k. Nah, I wasn’t using resources to protect that mother**cker. No f***ing way.” Fast forward to after this conversation when it’s solely Porter and Combs in the room. To support the claims of his outlandish narcissistic tendencies, he asks Porter, “how the f**k [he’s] the bad guy.”
Corruption within a broken system leads to peace, especially if you’re the composer, orchestrating the choir to move at your beck and call. Combs was the main man, the writer, singer and actor in his play, portraying himself as a hero.
Sean and his late longtime partner, Kim Porter.
Even after a supervillain is caught, the hero never rests. The hero doesn’t get to reap the benefits and kick back as the city recovers. Crime continues as the world is left with the aftermath of what seems to be irreversible damage. In this story, the hero didn’t live to see justice. The tragedy that built Bad Boy and filled Sean Combs’s pockets are the prices of fame and power. Throughout this story, I mentioned a certain model who had a posthumous autobiography published per her own wishes before her tragic demise- Kim Porter died for the truth to be revealed.
During her years with Combs, she was allegedly abused, forced into things she hated and degraded as a person while Combs grew more and more powerful. Our hero lost. Porter tragically died nearly six whole years ago of ‘lobar pneumonia’, after several days of “flu-like symptoms.” She knew she would die. She knew that in life she feared him, and she’d die because of him.
During the beginning of Comba’s rise, he worked with a special crew. This crew was known as Uptown Records. It started with five people. These names include Andre Harrell, Al’B Sure (Kim Porter’s Ex/father of her first son), Heavy D, Kim Porter herself and Combs. All of them are now dead besides Al ‘B and Combs. Both Heavy D and Andre Harell perished due to heart attacks, and Porter died from pneumonia, yet during her first coroner’s report, it was ruled a homicide due to toxins being found in her system. All of those names which have just been stated were in the processes of creating stories explaining their lives. They all died suddenly of similar outlandish circumstances.
As for Al B Sure, in July 2022, he collapsed while working on new music and fell into a coma that lasted until Oct. 2022. During the time he collapsed, he was working on a documentary, focusing on his life and rise to where he is now. Combs was the only person who lost nothing.
When Porter died, Combs lost the only person who truly threatened his empire of dirt, as she knew more than any other person. He isolated her, beat her to the point of hospitalization and even forced her to do illicit things to him. During her book, she stated that Combs was possessive. Anyone she dated tragically died of pneumonia. She knew it was no coincidence.
During her final chapters of the book, she stated that “[she] could be next.” She stated that she made a power move. She did something to guarantee her safety. Porter claimed to have made copies of tapes from his parties as leverage. She said there were videos of men, women, children and other celebrities such as Lil Bow Wow, Usher and even Justin Beiber being illicitly scrutinized by Combs. In chapter 18-19, she comments on confronting him. She wanted to be done with him forever. He left her house with pure hatred that day.
As life got normal once again, Porter found herself writing a book on exposing Combs. It was then that her house was burglarized. The only thing that was stolen was her laptop. In real time to her last days, she stated that she was going to write as much as she could, but she claimed that she wasn’t feeling well. She was thankful the kids weren’t there that weekend, so she could rest. She eventually did call her doctor, but coincidentally they were not answering. With fear for her kids, she called Combs. She was heartbroken that her kids were left with that monster. During her final call with him, Combs feigned innocence. When she asked how he could do this, he responded with “how could I what? I gave you everything and you went to someone else.You left me the way everyone else did.”
It was at this point Porter knew it was over. During the last few pages of her story, she was regretful. She regretted trying to be free from him. She expressed how she should’ve published the book she was working on silently. Her words were, “I’m gonna die like Heavy D, like Biggie, Like Pac- like so many others because he’s a monster plain and simple.” It was at this point she shot group texts telling everyone that Combs got her before calling 911. Her last sentences in the story are horrific. She says, “as I sit here waiting for the ambulance, I am writing this chapter and praying that I make it to the hospital. I don’t feel like writing anymore. I might not be around to see it in print. It’s okay, I’m sending it out. He won’t get away with this. I will have to say my final words. Sean Combs will get exposed, even if I lose my life doing it. My kids have always been my most cherished possessions. I want the world to know that, but more importantly, I want them to know..” That was the last sentence ever written in that book.
During the time she died, Combs preordered a casket one month prior. On her initial autopsy, her death was ruled a homicide due to strange toxins in her lungs. When a private pathologist who made the final call on the ruling ran the autopsy, it was ruled as pneumonia.
Heroes are remembered, but legends never die. Evidently, it seems that supervillains prosper for years, rising from the ashes of the heroes. No matter how big a shadow the rats can cast, the light will always reveal their full forms. No matter how dark a room rests or how bleak a situation can be, even the dimmest light will always prevail. Lucifer was once the brightest angel, yet his true intentions were revealed and he was expelled from heaven itself.
Combs is currently facing his actions, from abusing to drugging to racketeering or raping. Shakur’s family are looking into private investigators, and the public, along with Al B Sure, are desperately pleading for the reopening of Kim Porter’s death investigation. As the mogul falls to the forces of his past, maybe justice really will prevail. Sean is paying his dues as he walks the line. I’m sure the ghosts he crossed couldn’t be happier.
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