Nabuguzi. Kiwanuka
Last night I started watching 50 Cent’s Sean Combs documentary. I almost found myself petty for watching something someone’s nemesis did, but I was still curious. I wanted to see how much more petty he could get, and I was ready to laugh at the exaggerated lies, but less than 30 minutes in, and I was already wondering how much time this man invested in working on this docuseries.
The first minutes made me wonder if he had found Diddy’s double to act like Diddy, but I was also sure it was Diddy in flesh. This man got hold of the content Diddy tried to shoot leading to his arrest and published it before him.
The first 30 minutes revealed Diddy to be a suffering man. A monster created by his own mother. There were temper tantrums recorded and one can only wonder how far he can go when not seen.
His childhood friend Tim Patterson still shudders at the thought of how his mother used to beat him – a beating he believes was a mother’s way of nurturing a fighter in her son. I think he may have mentioned that he too was beaten by his parents but Janice Combs’ way of beating her son was different. He said Diddy in a fight, was not just going to throw punches. He didn’t fight to fight. He fought to win and if it required to bite off your ear, he would.
Last year, I followed up on Diddy’s stories/highlights off of what Stephanie Soo shared on her podcast. It took me a couple of days to make sense of how horrendous a human being can be.
With the kind of respect and impartiality she has exhibited for a long time, Stephanie’s Rotten Mango podcast became my only source of information/updates from the Diddy trial earlier this year.
I had my share of vicarious trauma and could only imagine the kind of emotional load his survivors had or have to endure.
50 Cents’ docuseries for me, was a chance to see some of the names I’d heard of in the previous media coverages – so many music industry players whose names I only got to hear of because of the Diddy stories. Most of what was reflected in the docuseries felt like I chose to watch it to satisfy my confirmation bias.
For a minute, I didn’t want to watch it because I already know the executive producer’s stand on Diddy, but I thought I should probably just check it out for the comedy and exaggerated facts that he might cook.
First, I don’t know if they knew what they did in those first 30 minutes, but for the first time ever, I felt sorry for the child in Sean Combs. I also acknowledged that Janice as a single mother had her own fears and probably did not know how much of a monster she had turned her son into. Besides the inhumane beatings Sean received from his mother, Tim Patterson said that when they were growing up, Diddy was never guided on what was right and what was wrong.
Janice bred a son with narcissistic tendencies and never redirected him one bit.
A couple of times, in the docuseries, I heard someone or people (don’t remember who) who said Diddy was jealous of his artists. It didn’t make sense but as the different experiences were shared, this fact was unravelled. He was the star and nobody else. There’s also a part where he said the only person that can be compared to him is the Son of God.
The most scary thing about Diddy’s story is that for some crimes, he committed with his sons.
First of all, I’d like to applaud 50 Cent for not being chaotic and dramatic with this #SeanCombsTheReckoning. I thought he had decided to take his social media dragging posts to a bigger audience but I’m glad I was wrong.
Secondly, the next time I will write about Diddy or reference him, it will be on a topic I’ve been passionate about for so long – mostly because I kind of understand why Diddy turned out to be the person he is.
Thirdly, this docuseries isn’t the Jaguar Wright sit-down where she just talks about the people who were hurt by Diddy. Some of the names that she always talked about, spoke for themselves in the series.
After completing it, I am convinced 50 Cent has a specific message he is sending with it. For those who have watched it, I believe you have seen that he didn’t hesitate to remind us about Diddy’s status update as of December 2025. He did this at the beginning and end of all the 4 episodes.
50 swung the gavel right back at America’s judicial system when he brought out those two jurors. Juror 160 is mad-crazy about Diddy. Just asking about him had her so giddy about having been in the same space with him. She went from “we were not allowed to look in his direction” to “there was a time he and I shook our heads like ‘really?’ when someone said something”. She’s the same person who said Capricorn Clark relieved the äbuse that happened over a decade ago, but was still unbelievable. What???!!
Juror 75 barely has an idea about how abuse affects the victims. He does not believe that someone can be in an abusive relationship and still play happy to keep the peace. He didn’t even care for the fact that there were life threats involved. He just said a relationship is like two hands clapping. (I don’t even want to be mad right now )
This docuseries has partly answered my question about how much the selected juries know about the nuances of the cases they are called for. The Prosecution brought Dr. Dawn Hughes as an expert witness to testify about the dynamics of domestic violence, sexual assault, and trauma… but I guess Juror 75 most have been asleep. Bringing him along Roth Juror 160 at the end of the docuseries, is how 50 throws a middle finger to the verdict.
Kalenna Harper’s turnaround speaks to the possibility of someone knowing that you suffered indeed but will choose to be blind because the very person that you’re trying to report, is the same person they need help from. But we applaud her for finally speaking the truth.
Clayton Howard, one of the sæx workers who was a constant in the freak-offs, says his interview was over-edited. He confirmed that many times Cassie was beaten but (outside the documentary) he has sued Cassie alongside Diddy for “transporting him”. He swears Cassie was a victim but also swears she was a conspirator. Make it make sense.
Diddy is portrayed to be the King Herod of the American Music industry. Just like Herod tried to hunt down Jesus, Diddy is seen to hunt down any promising artiste – either to stay close to them or to squash them if at all they desire to be independent of him or get bigger than he is. Diddy fits the narrative of many African dictators. I pity Lil Rod and all the others that fit his category of victimhood. No one should put their heart into a project only to be threatened when they ask for their pay. Someone said 50 must have gotten the never seen footage because Diddy didn’t pay and he was willing to pay. Talk about lying in the bed he made.
Diddy is also a sick man. I am almost sure that he will re-commit the crimes he is known for. He is that village thief who is beaten by the mob, imprisoned for a few days and goes out again to steal with broken lips. Just like his childhood friend, Tim Patterson, said that Diddy was never taught to distinguish right from wrong, he couldn’t hide his evil doings from his children. When these kids wrote a statement defending their father from the possibility of kïllïng their mother, I felt sorry for them. There were rumours about his sons being as guilty as their father, and guess what 50 got in some of the never-seen-before footages… Diddy’s sons are shown to even guide on who should be called to clean their father’s mess. Justin was placed at the scene of a certain man’s shooting who to this day Lil Rod doesn’t know where he is.
Kirk oh Kirk! Kirk Burrowes is that person who buys a python for a pet and in the end, it swallows them. Or perhaps he is one of the people who saw how untouchable his mate was and chose to play by the book even if it meant being abusëd sëxüälly.
I’ve seen many people say Kirk came ready with the receipts and I agree with them. Someone asked why I still have WhatsApp chats of 2019, but Burrowes had notes taken in the 90s. Where bloggers said “it is said Diddy beät his mother too”, Kirk put a date to when he first saw him do it – and at the time, Diddy was still young in the industry.
The most Burrowes got from Diddy was to be Diddy’s Son’s homeless godfather. I felt a knot in my stomach when he said, “I thought that when you love and care for someone, it’s automatic for them to stand with you”
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