2024-09-25 10:52:03
The lawsuits against jailed artist P. Diddy read as oppressive as they are shocking. But does that mean sexism in the music business is basic? Does hip hop believe it is above the law? The answer to the “system question”.
Sean Combs is in custody in New York. He is known by stage names like Puff Daddy, P. Diddy and Love, as a rapper, fashion retailer and mogul, as the powerful in hip hop is called. In your own 14 pages long indictment The public prosecutor’s office charges “sex trafficking”, i.e. human trafficking and sexual exploitation of children, as well as prostitution, organized crime, kidnapping, forced labor, bribery, drug trafficking and obstruction of justice. .
He “abuses, threatens and coerces women to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation and protect his character.” He trusts his government, his officials and advisors, bodyguards and donors. P. Diddy’s plan. A $50 million bail request was denied due to “great danger to society.” Now he sits where R&B singer R. Kelly once sat for his sex crimes.
It reads even more clearly Civil actionwhich was obtained in New York a year ago and is now drawing criminal charges from the State Attorney’s Office. Singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura accused P. Diddy of systematically sexually abusing her years ago. “Freak offs”, forced to have sex with male prostitutes, physical and psychological abuse, rape. A video shows him punching her in the hotel lobby and kicking her as she lies on the floor. New complaints are coming in for a week. Then the published diaries of Kim Porter, his ex-wife who died in 2018 – forced sex at gunpoint, among other things.
When you read all of this, the question of organization arises in hip hop, if not in the music business as a whole. So much for reading that “The New York Times” by the “Guardian” from “Clock”. The question arises – but, as with Rammstein and all other musicians, where the case is completely different, in the fog of the MeToo accusations, it cannot be answered.
If you read all of this, there is a powerful man in the New York City Detention Center number 37452-054 who has used his power for criminal sexual interests. What is systematic and structured about him is the long-standing silence of his servants and, because they are more than rumours, namely open secrets, of his business partners.
Not that the industry, the music business, doesn’t have its structural problems. His hubris from earlier times, when he felt all power and disrespect by the laws and officials. Their positions are high, which seems to be at the same time long enough that they can be easily abused. A feudal system with courtiers and groupies. The transfiguration of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.
In hip hop there is also a personal song that exalts the law for whom only his own, external law, applies. Hip hop is not poison when an artist like P. Diddy calls his record company Bad Boy, but when someone like him becomes a criminal. If the trial confirms the charges and convicts him, Sean Combs could face 15 years or even life in prison.
Michael Olu
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