This is a Netflix documentary and it’s good but, unsurprisingly, very woke. Now that Puffy is in jail, he can be a convenient sacrificial victim. The documentary presents him as the source of every dysfunction on the rap / hip hop scene. Puffy seems to have murdered everybody. Tupac, Biggie, crowds of other people. The documentary even hints he organized a mass murder. And why is he such an exceptional (in the documentary’s telling) piece of shit? Because he’s not really black! How is he not black? We’ve all seen Puff, and he’s clearly very black.
But see, he’s not “culturally black.” Even though Puff spent his entire life promoting cultural products by black artists, he’s not culturally black. Because black culture is good. Yes, it is, what are you, a racist? If he were culturally black, he wouldn’t have murdered all those people, degraded all those women, and ended up in jail.
That’s the argument the documentary makes, and it’s moronic. Combs is a degenerate but his entire industry is filled with degenerates. He’s not at all exceptional.
The reason why I liked the documentary is that I love Puffy’s music. I love the music of every artist featured in the series. I grew up on it, I appreciate it a lot. An artist’s degeneracy doesn’t seep into my enjoyment of his art. Of course, it was also fun to find out the shocking details of these people’s sorry excuses for a life. It’s entertaining that the only crime it was possible to pin on Puff is transporting prostitutes which doesn’t sound like much of a crime at all.
One thing I find impossible to understand is why all these people can’t enjoy sex without having to do all sorts of perverted shit and ingesting a whole pharmacy full of drugs. Poor Puff had to go to extreme lengths to get it up even for sensationally beautiful women and long before he reached age forty. I must have very limited horizons because I don’t get why it would take so much effort.
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“he’s not “culturally black.”
Born and raised in Harlem…. yeah, harder to get less black than that…
“why all these people can’t enjoy sex without having to do all sorts”
A couple of things.
Warning (non-scientific over-simplification incoming):
William Burroughs once described the difference between heroin and cocaine…
Heroin was like having a second stomach, you have to keep it fed but a single dose takes care of you until you need the next dose.
With cocaine on the other hand, if you did ten pounds of cocaine then all you wanted was to do more cocaine, there’s no ‘I’ve had enough cocaine’ off button for most people.
Human drives are roughly divided into more closed (like heroine and more open (like cocaine). There’s some individual variation as well, but food, for example, for most people is more closed. Eat a meal and you get to a point where you no longer want food for a whiole.
Security for most people is less closed, so almost no one feels they have enough money to feel completely secure.
Sex for men is more like food. Regular meals (as it were) are enough. But some people get broken (the sex equivalent of Prader-Willi syndrome) and psychologically are always hungry. But the male body doesn’t work like that and so they try to short circuit it through ever more extreme stimulation).
That’s one part of it….
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The guy is so broken that he had to pay a male prostitute for many years to have sex with his girlfriend Cassie Ventura because he couldn’t get going without another guy initiating. Cassie Ventura is stunningly beautiful. If even she couldn’t arouse him, he had to be extremely broken in the sexual realm. The documentary suggests that his mother beat him sadistically when he was a child.
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“couldn’t get going without another guy initiating”
That’s another aspect… male sexuality, for better or worse, is tied to the idea of overcoming obstacles. When obstacles no longer exist (as in the case of celebrities that women throw themselves after) they have to create artificial ones. The other guy was a symbolic obstacle.
Yet another aspect is that, as Camille Paglia said, transgression is hot.
Put those together and people (well….. men) with broken sexual response cycles internalize obstacles and need ever more transgressive/degrading/illegal stimuli to get going. That’s part of the celebrity pεdo thing….
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That’s very interesting.
I think Combs is also a closeted gay. Like, so deeply closeted that he won’t even confess it to himself. But there are several men in the movie who hinted that he sexually abused him. And it’s not an industry or a culture where men easily confess to that kind of thing.
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I may have mentioned this theory before. If you asked chatgpt to design a culture where:
It would come up with rap culture. They call themselves “hard” men but they’re walking stereotypes of fragile women.
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