Diddy Allegedly Charged Biggie's Estate for His Own Funeral!!

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Diddy Allegedly Charged Biggie's Estate for His Own Funeral!!"

Podcast: The Downfall Of Diddy
Host: Tony Brueski
Date: December 5, 2025

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Overview

This episode, hosted by Tony Brueski, scrutinizes shocking allegations involving Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs—including claims that he billed Biggie's estate for the late rapper's extravagant funeral and manipulated contracts posthumously. Tony dissects these accusations, recently reignited by the Netflix documentary Diddy: The Reckoning, and dives into a pattern of exploitation alleged by insiders from the Bad Boy Records era. Through expert commentary and chilling insiders’ testimonies, Tony explores whether Diddy's “loyal friend” persona masked a calculated and self-serving business model that left many in his orbit devastated.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Myth of Diddy’s Grief and the Alleged Funeral Bill

• Cultural Impact of Biggie’s Death and Funeral

  • Tony recalls the gravity of Biggie’s 1997 funeral, attended by thousands and considered one of the largest in hip hop history. Diddy publicly positioned himself as the heartbroken best friend, especially in the wake of the chart-topping tribute, “I’ll Be Missing You.”

  "If you were there, you remember it. The procession rolled through Bed Stuy, fans wept on the sidewalks. And standing at the center of that grave, positioning himself as the man who’d lost his best friend... Sean Combs." (04:04)

• Allegation: Biggie’s Estate Was Billed for His Own Funeral

  • According to Kirk Burrows (co-founder of Bad Boy Records), Diddy viewed the cost of the lavish funeral as an expense Biggie’s estate should bear, not himself or the label.

  "Did. He looked at the bill for that massive funeral. And decided. Oh shit, I'd rather get some more crystal than pay for this. Let's put it on Biggie's tab." (08:05)

  • Tony underscores the cruel irony: Diddy gained immense cultural and financial capital from his display of grief, while the cost of that very display allegedly fell on Biggie’s grieving family.

  "The man who rode that funeral into superstardom literally rode it like a float at a Macy’s Day Parade... Biggie’s mom got the bill." (09:41)

Manipulation of Contracts After Biggie’s Death

• Attempted Posthumous Contract Alteration
  • After Biggie’s death, Diddy allegedly sought to alter contract terms to benefit the label more, without informing the estate. Burrows claims he refused to participate and was fired shortly after.

  "So the man's barely in the ground, and allegedly the paperwork was already being shuffled." (12:43) "What Diddy was allegedly proposing was...let's make it more favorable to Bad Boy, not to the estate of Biggie." (13:33)

The Bad Boy Template: Convenience, Control, and Suppression

• Burning Craig Mack and Other Artists

  • Tony introduces a pattern: Craig Mack, Bad Boy's first breakout artist, was allegedly shelved when he sought control, eventually dying destitute and forgotten after being blacklisted and fearing Diddy’s wrath.

  "Craig Mack should have been set for life. Instead...he was essentially shelved. His second album got delayed...he clashed with Diddy...In 1996, Mack filed for bankruptcy..." (17:37)

• Mark Curry’s Revelations on Exploitation

  • Mark Curry, former Bad Boy rapper, documented tactics allegedly used by Diddy—including charging hidden “guest appearance fees,” billing artists for his own luxury cars, and muscling into royalties and production credits.

  "Curry claimed Diddy would insert himself into artist tracks so he could charge special guest appearance fees, fees the artist wouldn't even know about..." (21:16)

Recent Allegations: Producers, Publishing, and Public Gestures

• The Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones Story

  • Lil Rod spent 13 months producing a comeback album for Diddy, only to be offered $29,000 (less than many entry-level jobs) for the entire project, with many payments allegedly still unpaid.

  "What was he offered for producing an entire album for one of the richest men in hip hop? $29,000. For context, that's less than a first-year public school teacher..." (22:29)

• Diddy’s Grand Return of Publishing: An Empty Gesture?

  • Diddy made headlines for "returning" publishing rights to several Bad Boy artists and estates—including Biggie's—but by then, Tony notes, the catalogs had been stripped of value.

  "Returning them was like giving someone the keys to the house after you've sold all the furniture, ripped out the copper wiring, and let the roof cave in..." (25:02)

Pattern of Punishment and Silence

• Retaliation Against Those Who Resist

  • Most whistleblowers—including Kirk Burrows, Craig Mack, Mark Curry, and Aubrey O’Day—describe being ostracized, blacklisted, or reduced to obscurity after crossing Diddy.

  "So what happens to the people who push back? Burroughs was fired and says he was blacklisted for 25 years. He ended up in a homeless shelter. Craig Mack’s career was destroyed." (23:14)

• Revelations by Aubrey O’Day

  • Alleged sexual advances, isolation within Danity Kane, and expulsion for refusal added another layer to the claims against Diddy.

  "Aubrey O’Day...says she was kicked out of the group after refusing Diddy's alleged sexual advances. In the documentary, she reads explicit emails he allegedly sent her." (23:55)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Narratives that Defined Diddy

  "Biggie was bigger in death than he was in life. That song became one of the best selling singles of all time. Diddy built a mythology on that death." (07:34)

• On the Pattern of Exploitation

  "The funeral for Biggie wasn't grief. If those allegations are true. It was branding. A performance designed to position one man as the heartbroken loyalist while the estate of the dead artist picked up the tab." (25:21)

• On Industry-Wide Patterns

  "The relationships were transactions. The loyalty was leverage. The contracts were traps. And every time someone tried to push back, they were erased..." (25:36)

• On Whether This Is a Pattern or Just Accusation

  "It's one thing when one person is saying something that seems to be completely out of line with one's character. It's another when...a cacophony of so many people that worked with this man, all having similar horror stories. That's a pattern." (28:00)

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Important Timestamps

• 03:18: Tony introduces the Biggie funeral allegations, sets the stage for the docuseries’ revelations.
• 05:31: Discussion on Diddy's tribute single and public image as a grieving friend.
• 08:05: Introduction of the funeral billing allegation.
• 09:41: Detailed breakdown of the family allegedly picking up the funeral costs.
• 12:24: Alleged attempt to alter Biggie’s contracts posthumously.
• 13:33: Explanation of how contract manipulation would have worked.
• 14:55: Rolling Stone cover story allegations and Diddy's self-promotion.
• 17:24: The story of Craig Mack, Bad Boy's first star, and his tragic fate.
• 21:16: Mark Curry’s book revelations and pattern of exploitation.
• 22:29: The Lil Rod producer payment scandal.
• 23:14: The impact on whistleblowers—homelessness, career destruction, exile.
• 23:55: Aubrey O’Day’s allegations of sexual misconduct and expulsion.
• 25:02: Analysis of the hollow gesture of returning publishing rights.
• 25:21: Tony’s summation: Bad Boy’s empire was allegedly built on the backs (and tragedies) of others.
• 28:00: On the cumulative weight of allegations and the power of patterns.

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Conclusion

Tony Brueski closes by acknowledging Bad Boy’s undeniable musical legacy but contends that history and recent accounts demand a reexamination of the personal costs. He challenges the audience to weigh the magnitude and number of allegations against Diddy’s continuing denials and leaves listeners pondering whether these stories expose a “tyrannical” reality behind the "Bad Boy" brand.

"There are horror stories like this all throughout... 30 years of horror stories. And now finally, people are listening. Not because the stories are new, but because the man at the center of them is sitting in a cell. And for the first time, the mythology can’t protect him." (26:37)

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For further discussion, listeners are invited to comment, subscribe, and join future episodes as Tony explores even deeper layers in the ongoing saga of Sean 'Puffy' Combs.

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No, not at all. Or Tupac's murder or any of this. All these years later, I mean, my goodness, almost 30 years and we are still discussing this with literal breaking news. We're gonna go into some of the new allegations that have come out in the documentary on Netflix.50, Diddy, the Reckoning doc that is out right now and a very interesting piece that is discussed on here in the allegations that are made. Obviously Diddy has maintained his innocence and all these things. He's made statements about this. You can certainly find them online. He's denying these allegations, saying that this is basically, you know, it's been to lies and bl. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So he's saying that all this is bullshit.

But there's a lot of other people that saying it's not. And we're going to talk about that. And I'd love to get your thoughts in the comment section on YouTube if you're not already there. Search Hitting Killers with Tony Bruski. You'll find us. And there you can comment on this video. You're like, why are you saying that I'm watching you on video right now? Because there's a podcast element to this program too. And actually more people listen to that than actually watch us. So Vice Vers, if you're listening, if you're watching, if you're watching, go check out the podcast too. Press subscribe over there. If you're listening Check out the the video on on YouTube and hit. Subscribe there. Anyway. March 18, 1997, Brooklyn, New York. Thousands of people lined the streets to say goodbye to Christopher Wallace and Notorious B.I.G. gunned down in Los Angeles nine days earlier. At 24 years old, it was one of the largest funerals in hip hop history. If you were there, you remember it. The prosecution rolled through Bed Stuy fans wept on the sidewalks. And standing at the center of that grave, positioning himself as the man who'd lost his best friend. That was the narrative going forward. His brother. Not like literally his brother, but you know, Sean Combs.

Remember what came next, right?

Well, it was a little Diddy from Sting. I'll be missing you. Yeah, Diddy and Faith Evans on radio. Every radio station in America started playing this song.

Remember, it's kind of hard Would you nod around? Know you're in heaven Smiling down watching us so we pray. Then he's like dancing around and shit. I can't spin because my, my cord here will rip. And nobody wants a ripped earpiece cord.

Dancing around. Let me just put this in perspective. Radio stations that didn't play rap played this song.

That's a big deal that, that only happens to very specific songs like the adult contemporary stations that were jamming out to like Chicago and Celine Dion and John Cicada and Gloria Estefan were also pumping. Diddy rapping to I'll Be missing you because it had the Sting sample in there. Everyone played this song. It was big.

I mean, you were there at that moment in time. You thought, oh, this is like my. This is a man grieving. My God, look at this amazing tribute that he's making to his best friend. This is stunning. This is beautiful.

Now we're hearing the rest of the story.

So what is the rest of the story? Well, looks like this was one giant narcissistic muse now, wasn't it?

Look at this martyr on stage, dancing around. He just lost his best friend, his biggest artist.

Except turns out Biggie was bigger in death than he was in life. That song became one of the best selling singles of all time. Diddy built a mythology on that death. The loyal friend, the man who loved Biggie so much, he turned his pain into art for nearly 30 years. That's been the story for nearly 30 years. Almost like every interview Diddy goes into, it's like, I'm so sorry for your loss.

Here's the part that allegedly got left out. According to Kirk Burrows, the co founder of Bad Boy Records, the man who was there from day one Did. He looked at the bill for that massive funeral.

And decided.

Oh shit, I'd rather get some more crystal.

Than pay for this.

Let's put it on Biggie's tab. That's the allegation. That is the allegations Biggie's estate was who was billed for it.

So he bills Biggie's estate allegedly for this, this hoopla, this massive, massive funeral and all the events and pomp and circumstance that normally doesn't go with a funeral, but went with his funeral. And at the center of all of it at the time.

Well, it wasn't the corpse of Biggie. It was Diddy dancing around in this white outfit. Oh, isn't he pure? Isn't he just? Gosh, he's mourning.

In the new Netflix documentary Sean Combs the Reckoning, Burroughs describes how did he announce they were going to throw the biggest funeral in New York had ever seen. And then when he saw the price tag, he allegedly made it a recoupable charge to Biggie in death.

Let that just sink in for a second. The man who rode that funeral into superstardom literally rode it like a float at a Macy's Day parade. Use the moment to cement his image as a grieving loyalist. Allegedly handed the invoice to the family of the man in the casket. He got the mythology, Biggie's mom got the bill. That's the allegation. Now, before we go any further, let's talk about who's making these claims. Because Diddy's team is already calling this documentary a hit piece. They're calling it bs. They're calling it a vendetta to protect a Vendetta project from 50 Cent who executive produced the series and look, Fitty and Diddy have had beef for years. That's real. But maybe there's a reason. But here's the thing. The people talking in this documentary aren't Internet commenters or clout chasers. They haven't had the beef the way that those two have. They're the people who help build Bad Boy Records. Kirk Burroughs, co founder. He co founded the label. He handled accounting. He took handwritten notes in journals, notes that are shown in the documentary. He's been trying to tell his story since the early 2000s. He sued Diddy in 03. The case got thrown out on a technicality. The allegations were deemed too old. But Burroughs never changed his story. And now with Diddy sitting in federal prison after being convicted on prostitution related charges this past summer, Burroughs is finally getting his platform. And he's not the only one the documentary features former Bad Boy artist Mark Curry, who wrote a book about this in 2009. It features Aubrey O' Day from Danity Kane, producer Lil Rod Jones, former security, former staff. These are insiders, people who were in the room. And the picture they paint isn't complicated. It's damning. Let's go back to Biggie because the funeral allegation is. Is not where this ends. According to Burroughs, after Biggie died, Diddy allegedly tried to alter the rapper's contract with Bad Boy. Listen to this. Biggie had just signed a new deal right before his death. Burroughs claims Diddy wanted to secretly change the terms, make them more favorable to the label without notifying Biggie's family. Because even though Biggie's dead, someone's still gonna profit off of this. Someone's gonna get the proceeds his estate is going to get. You know, the, the rewards, the.

The profits of his work. He had already recorded Life After Death. There was plenty of other recordings that were going to be profited off of in the future. And no, that shouldn't just go to the record company. It goes to the estate of the person who made that work.

So the man's barely in the ground, and allegedly the paperwork was already being shuffled.

Burrow says he refused to go along with it. Ninety days later, he was fired. So what does that mean exactly? Well, let's say you have a contract. You got a whole bunch of pages in that contract. Okay? You read through it. This is when you're alive, okay? You're at the last page. Sign here. Okay, Sign. That's the contract. It's all stapled together. Boom, boom, boom. This is. What's that? What Diddy was allegedly proposing was. Okay, let's take the staple out of this contract. Let's go to some of those middle pages that have the actual terms of the agreement on. On who's getting paid what. And let's make it more favorable to Bad Boy, not to the estate of Biggie.

And just slip that stuff in there like that. And that last page, it's already signed. We're not gonna touch that. But those middle pages, let's. Let's mess with that.

It's illegal. You can't do that. It's extremely unethical. But that's the allegation that he wanted to do that so no one would know that. Well, you know, he's dead now, so I should prob. Well, no one's gonna know if I make more than he does. And if it looks like he signed it, well, nobody's gonna question that. He wanted me to have this money. He wanted Bad boy to be a bad boy for life. Right?

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That's. The allegation is that.

Burrow says he refused to go along with it. Ninety days later, he was fired. And wait, there's more. Before Biggie was killed, he'd reportedly secured a Rolling Stone cover. Would have been a major moment for Biggie. Yes, Rolling Stone. The allegation is. Rolling Stone said, hey, we want to put Biggie on the COVID in validation on a national stage. And at that moment in time, Biggie was huge. Diddy was not. Diddy was still the producer in the background. The jealous, weird side guy that was hanging out on everything was like, who's that guy in these songs? Okay.

He wasn't the spotlight man. And Diddy did not like that. Allegedly. According to Burroughs, when Rolling Stone reached out and said, we want to do the COVID Diddy called back and demanded they pull this idea. Why? Because Diddy's solo album, no Way out, was coming out in July, and he allegedly decided he needed that cover for himself.

Think about that timeline. Biggie still alive. He has a cover story locked. And allegedly if his own label head, the guy he's supposed to be building his career, bigfoots him because the spotlight needs to stay in one place. And then Beggy died and did. He got more magazine covers than he could count.

And a Grammy and a number one single and an image as a loyal best friend. Here's the part nobody wants to say out loud. For Sean Combs, Biggie's death.

Might have been the best thing that ever happened to his solo career. And these allegations, if they are true, he was positioning himself to benefit from that relationship long before the bullets flew. Fun little fact that just coming to my mind right now. There was a copy of Hits magazine. I don't know if Hits is still around, but Hits was a magazine. Orangish cover. Diddy's dancing on it. There's an image of me in that magazine back in my radio days. We were some event. I don't remember. It was something. I wasn't with Diddy. It was nothing to do with Diddy. It was a magazine that covered the music industry. But I have a copy of that. I remember it's in some box somewhere. And I remember that was the COVID of the magazine. It was probably 2001 ish. If you happen to have a treasured copy at home, which I'm sure I'm probably the only one that does, in a box in my garage. I Remember that there's me and some radio people. I don't. Again, I don't remember what the hell we were doing. Probably some artist or something at the radio station.

Now here's where the story shifts. Because what happened with Biggie wasn't an exception, according to multiple people who worked with Diddy. It was the template. Let's talk about Craig Mack. A little flavor in your ear. Most people under 40 probably don't know that name.

And honestly, people who knew the music probably still don't know his name.

Because he wasn't promoted properly.

Craig Map. Boom boom, boom boom. Put a little flavor in your ear. Bad Boys first star. It dropped in 1994 and put the label on the map. The remix featured Biggie, LL Cool J, Busta. It was massive. Craig Mack should have been set for life. Instead, According to a 2024 Rolling Stone investigation and multiple sources, he was essentially shelved. His second album got delayed for years. He clashed with Diddy over creative control and was allegedly punished for it. In 1996, Mack filed for bankruptcy, not because he was reckless, but because he was reportedly trying to escape his Bad Boy contract. He argued it was financially destroying him. He almost got out. Suge Knight, of all people, offered him a deal to come to Death row Records. A $200,000 advance, a $1.25 million recording budget, a fresh start. But according to Mack's ex wife, Roxanne Hill Johnson, when Bad Boy found out, Diddy was enraged and Craig Mack got scared. He backed out. The bankruptcy filing was withdrawn. Hill Johnson's quote from that Rolling Stone piece is hard to forget. She said diddy became a vindictive bastard, stuck it to him. Craig Mack's career never recovered. He bounced around, put out an album that went nowhere. Eventually he left the music industry entirely and joined a religious commune in South Carolina, a doomsday group allegedly led by his self proclaimed profit. He died there in 2018 at 47 of heart failure. He was broke, he was forgotten. And the label he helped launch became a billion dollar empire. That's some flavor in your ear.

You'd think that story would be an outlier, a cautionary tale nobody repeated. But the documentary makes it clear it kept happening. Mark Curry was a rapper and songwriter who worked with Bad Boy for about a decade. He appeared on Biggie's posthumous album. He's on Bad Boy for life. He co wrote Come With Me, which by the way, still a great jam. Come With Me, the Led Zeppelin sampling track from the Godzilla soundtrack. He was by any reasonable measure a contributor to some of the label's biggest moments. And according to Curry, he was never properly compensated for any of it. In his 2009 book, Dancing with the How Puff Burned the Bad Boys of Hip Hop, Curry laid out the alleged playbook. He claimed Diddy would insert himself into artist tracks so he could charge special guest appearance fees, fees the artist wouldn't even know about until they got their royalty statements. He claimed Diddy would put his own cars in music videos, then build a production budget for rental fees and claim tax deductions on top of it. He claimed Diddy muscled his way into songwriting and production credits he didn't earn. And perhaps most gallingly, Curry described how Diddy would flaunt his wealth directly in front of the people he was allegedly bleeding dry. Diamond and encrusted cars, mansions, all of it on display. While Curry was wondering how he'd pay rent. The Wikipedia page for Mark Curry, updated as recently as this week, notes that Curry wasn't even invited to the recording sessions for albums he ended up appearing on. He showed up anyway. He wrote songs anyway. And according to him, it was still treated like a nuance or a nuisance, rather. Eventually, Curry wrote his book partially as leverage. He admitted that.

In the text. He thought maybe if Diddy knew the dirty laundry he was about to go public with, he'd finally deal fairly. It didn't work. The book came out, Curry still broke, and the industry barely blinked.

If all this feels like ancient history, Let me bring you up to 2023 because it don't stop, it won't stop, can't stop. Rodney. Lil Rod Jones is a producer who got tapped to work on Diddy's album the Love Alb off the grid. He spent 13 months embedded with combs at his house on his yacht. In his world. The documentary features footage Joan shot during that time. He was there, he was recording. He thought he was gonna be part of this amazing project. It was gonna be his big break. Diddy's first album in 13 years and you're like one of the main producers on it.

What was he offered for producing an entire album for one of the richest men in hip hop.

A number that only came out allegedly after he produced the album. You're thinking, of course this is gonna be great. I'm gonna make bank on this.

Less than a part time employee at a closed down family video. $29,000. $29,000. For context, that's less than a first year public school teacher in most states for over a year of work on a major label release and according to Jones, he still hasn't been paid. Jones is now suing Diddy for sexual assault. He's made other allegations that go beyond the financial, and those are for another conversation. But the money part alone feels. And it tells. It tells you everything about how this machine allegedly operates. You dangle access, you promise opportunity, you extract the labor, and then you move on.

So what happens to the people who push back? Burroughs was fired and says he was blacklisted for 25 years. He ended up in a homeless shelter. Craig Mack's career was destroyed. He died in obscurity. Mark Curry wrote a book. Nothing Changed. He's worked a series of jobs outside the music industry for years, including at one point, a juice bar in Miami. Aubrey o', Day, who was in Danity Kane and later Diddy Dirty Money, says she was kicked out of the group after refusing Diddy's alleged sexual. I don't think she was in Diddy Dirty Money. I could be wrong about that, but I don't believe so. I want to be. I want to be clear on that. I think there's some confusion there. But Danity Kane for sure kicked out after refusing Diddy's alleged sexual advances. In the documentary, she reads explicit emails he allegedly sent her. She talks about being separated from the other girls in the group, groomed, isolated. And when she didn't comply, she was out. The message, if these accounts are accurate, was consistent. Play the game or disappeared. And if you try to tell your story, good luck getting anyone to listen. And then there's a final insult. A few years ago, Diddy made a big public gesture. He announced he was giving artists back their publishing rights. He returned catalogs to Mace the Locks, the Estate of Biggie. It was covered as a magn. Magnificent act. Look at this. A man making things right. Mark Curry wasn't impressed. He posted a video on Instagram asking the obvious question, what's it worth now?

Because here's the thing about publishing. The money is in the exploitation, the licensing, the royalties, the sink deals. By the time Diddy gave those rights back, he'd already extracted decades of revenue from them.

When the songs were at their peak, the catalogs were picked clean. Returning them was like giving someone the keys to the house after you've sold all the furniture, ripped out the copper wiring, and let the roof cave in. Hey, nice structure. It's got good bones, right?

Curry said he wanted a million dollars in cash so he could actually plan the rest of his life. Instead, he got a piece of paper that said he owned songs nobody was paying for anymore. Generous, huh? Here's where I land on this. Sean Combs built one of the most successful empires in music history. That is not disputed. Bad Boy changed hip hop. It launched careers. It shaped a generation of sound. It was the soundtrack to many of our upbringings in the 90s. But according to the people who helped build it, the co founders, the artists, the producers, the staff, that success came at a cost. And they're the ones who paid it. The funeral for Biggie wasn't grief. If those allegations are true. It was branding. A performance designed to position one man as the heartbroken loyalist while the estate of the dead artist picked up the tab. And that wasn't a one time move, according to testimony spanning three decades. It was the model. The relationships were transactions. The loyalty was leverage. The contracts were traps. And every time someone tried to push back, they were erased. Burroughs put it simply in the documentary. He said, you've abused everyone and used most everyone. There are horror stories like this all throughout.

30 years of horror stories. And now finally, people are listening. Not because the stories are new, but because the man at the center of them is sitting in a cell. And for the first time, the mythology can't protect him. Give me your thoughts in the comments section. This has been a very fascinating docu series. I have a lot more thoughts, I have a lot more videos to come on this. I just finished the whole thing last night. There's a lot of pieces I want to dig into here and I hope you'll join us forward. So please do press subscribe so you don't miss any of that. We're also trying to get to 100,000 subscribers here by the end of the year as of our recording. So if you don't mind, if you're enjoying this content, hit subscribe on YouTube. If you're listening to this on a podcast platform, Apple Podcasts, wherever it may be, please on YouTube do a search Hidden Killers with Tony Bruski. You will find us there. And hit subscribe. And please, in the comments section, give me your thoughts on all this. Is this all insane? Is this all crazy?

All a bunch of lies.

Like Diddy is claiming?

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Is there truth to all of these stories from all of these people?

It's one thing when one person is saying something that seems to be completely out of line with one's character.

It's another when you literally have just people lining up left and right in like a cacophony of so many people that worked with this man, all having similar horror stories. That's a pattern. It certainly shows something.

It shows a sign and exposes a piece of him that he certainly never thought anyone would see or he never thought was bad.

It was just part of him because he's a bad boy for life, remember? So that all comes with the territory. He was kind of saying that for all this time, did we not take him seriously enough? Did we just think, oh, that's a. It's a good slogan there. You know, you're a bad boy. You know.

It wasn't like it wasn't tyrannical Monster records. It was bad boy one sounds a lot, a lot less bad than the other. Again, your thoughts in the comments section. Until next time, I'm Tony Brusky. We'll talk again. Want more on this case and others? Then press subscribe now and don't miss a moment of true crime coverage from Tony Bruski and the Hidden Killers Podcast.

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