Sean “Diddy” Combs (Pt. 1): A Nightclub Shooting, a Fatal Stampede, and the Cost of Doing Business
DISGRACELAND
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Sean “Diddy” Combs is a music producer and rapper, but he is a businessman first. And as every businessman knows, you gotta pay the cost to be the boss. You’ve gotta bet big to win big. You have to have drive, determination, and swag. Three things that Diddy possesses and which helped Diddy navigate through the fallout of a fatal stampede, an alleged beatdown of a record exec, and a shooting at a Manhattan nightclub. All of them obstacles on the road to building one of the most dominant empires in hip-hop: a record label and a brand that commanded top dollar and defined the commercial apex of the genre in the mid-to-late 1990s.
This episode was originally published on December 12, 2023.
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| 0:49.3 | So we released our episode on Sean Diddy Combs, the episode that you're about to listen to back in the winter of 2023. |
| 0:55.4 | And we had that episode ready to go after a couple months of production, like we do most of our episodes. |
| 0:57.3 | We knew what the story was going to be about. |
| 1:04.5 | It's going to be a look at Diddy through the lens of the crimes that had checkered his rise to fame up to that point, the crimes that we knew about. |
| 1:13.4 | Then the news of Cassie Ventura and the accusations that Cassie had made broke right before we were to release this episode on Sean Diddy Combs, our first episode on Diddy. And what Cassie Ventura was |
| 1:21.0 | accusing Sean Combs of had absolutely nothing to do with our story because we didn't know about it. |
| 1:30.5 | So we didn't know what to do. |
| 1:38.9 | We were like, uh, this makes no sense now. So we ended up releasing the episode. I think we waited a week or two before we released it. And we just, you know, told our listeners what was going on, like, hey, we |
| 1:44.7 | had this in the can. And now it kind of makes sense. Because despite whatever anyone knew or thought |
| 1:50.5 | they knew about Sean Combs at the time and his relationship with Cassie Ventura, everything that's |
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