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The musician accused of sex trafficking started as an intern for a rap label before setting up his own structure, where he notably launched The Notorious BIG. He took the microphone himself late in life, becoming a big name in commercial rap.
Those who know the journey of Sean Combs aka Puff Daddy, P. Diddy then Diddy, will tell you to what extent everything, from the start, converged towards an inevitable collapse. At the end of 1991, the future hip-hop mogul, who was still only a 22-year-old novice rapper, performed as part of a charity event that he co-organized. The event takes place in the gymnasium of the City College of New York, a room with a capacity of just over 2,700 seats into which no less than 5,000 people will try to fit, causing an uncontrolled crowd movement which will cause 9 dead and 29 seriously injured. In a life in the form of permanent ascension, superlative delirium à la Gatsby, this drama has always served as a premonitory moon lurking behind the sequins and the mirrors.
Born in 1969 in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, P. Diddy grew up in the north of the Bronx, in Mount Vernon, between a mother who was an educational assistant and a father who was a drug dealer who was shot dead in his car at the end of a settlement. accounts. A childhood marked by deprivation which he compensated for with brilliant studies and a football championship title with the Mount Saint Michael Academy Catholic school team. Intern for the rap label Uptown Records at the age of 22, he became known for the crazy parties he organized, attracting up to several thousand participants – the r’n’b singer Usher, then close to Diddy, confided in 2016 to microphone of host Howard Stern as the lifestyle of the j
