{"id":127375,"date":"2024-11-18T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=127375"},"modified":"2024-11-18T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T13:03:00","slug":"the-honorable-shyne-offers-new-insight-on-1999-diddy-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=127375","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Honorable Shyne&#8217; Offers New Insight On 1999 Diddy Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/sean-combs-conspiracy-theories-enablers-sex-trafficking_n_670d3befe4b0ce20754b3454\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"conspiracy theories\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"670d3befe4b0ce20754b3454\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">conspiracy theories<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/url-sean-diddy-combs-lawsuits_n_66fc3e5ce4b0d70dca9f5973\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"actual allegations\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"66fc3e5ce4b0d70dca9f5973\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">actual allegations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against disgraced media mogul Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs, the details that have maybe been on people\u2019s minds the longest concern the night he and then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez were arrested after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1999\/12\/28\/nyregion\/rap-performer-puffy-combs-is-arrested-after-shootings-at-times-sq-nightclub.html\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"a 1999 nightclub shooting\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1999\/12\/28\/nyregion\/rap-performer-puffy-combs-is-arrested-after-shootings-at-times-sq-nightclub.html\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a 1999 nightclub shooting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in New York. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s in part because while Combs also went on trial for the shooting, it was Jamal Barrow aka Shyne, a 19-year-old promising rap star under Combs\u2019 Bad Boy Records, claiming his innocence, who was sentenced to jail for 10 years in 2001. He was charged with two counts of assault, reckless endangerment, and criminal possession of an illegal weapon. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And both Combs and Lopez <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/03\/17\/nyregion\/hip-hop-star-cleared-of-charges-in-shooting-at-a-manhattan-club.html\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"walked away from the incident\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/03\/17\/nyregion\/hip-hop-star-cleared-of-charges-in-shooting-at-a-manhattan-club.html\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">walked away from the incident<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> clean. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fans who were around then never forgot about this morsel of pop culture history. And a new generation has been itching to relitigate what happened now that they\u2019re discussing Combs in a more damning light. Folks grew even more eager after statements Barrow made in April reflecting on that night in \u201999, amid mounting allegations against Combs that culminated in his arrest on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/diddy-arrested-manhattan-grand-jury_n_66e8e237e4b0bcfae1197abd\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"sex trafficking and racketeering charges\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"66e8e237e4b0bcfae1197abd\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"4\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sex trafficking and racketeering charges<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in September. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEveryone knew all along that I was the fall guy,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.channel5belize.com\/shyne-on-club-new-york-shooting-it-opens-wounds\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Barrow said\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/edition.channel5belize.com\/shyne-on-club-new-york-shooting-it-opens-wounds\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"5\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barrow said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cBut my political enemies and detractors try to make me into this criminal. But everyone knew that I was a young kid that took the fall. That was the story. I\u2019m just saying that I maintained my innocence all this time.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The empathy audiences have for Barrow and the disgust they feel toward Combs will likely be what drives them to watch \u201cThe Honorable Shyne,\u201d Disney-ESPN\u2019S Andscape\u2019s new documentary following the rapper\u2019s rise, fall, and rise again that premieres on Hulu on Nov. 18. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s particularly true given its timing. It\u2019s being released during an ongoing investigation of Combs while he sits in jail without bail, awaiting trial in May, and as multiple <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/50-cent-announces-diddy-documentary_n_6571abfde4b0a10def8bad48\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"documentaries\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"6571abfde4b0a10def8bad48\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"6\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">documentaries<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/09\/sean-diddy-combs-docuseries-id-1236092547\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"docuseries\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/09\/sean-diddy-combs-docuseries-id-1236092547\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"7\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">docuseries<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the mogul and the allegations against him are announced seemingly every day. There\u2019s clearly a cultural appetite for the downfall of Combs. That\u2019s understandable.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Viewers coming into the film, directed by Marcus A. Clarke, might expect Barrow to finally and more explicitly bad mouth Combs and spill all the tea about what <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">really<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> happened that night in \u201999, despite never having done so before, even during his own trial. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"cli cli-image js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"img-sized\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/67363cbb1e00001d00bcdc6a.jpg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&amp;format=webp\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-sized__img landscape\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" alt=\"Years after serving almost nine years in prison, Jamal Barrow aka Shyne became a politician in his native Belize.\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/67363cbb1e00001d00bcdc6a.jpg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"cli-image__source-wrapper\"><figcaption class=\"cli-image__caption caption-cli\">Years after serving almost nine years in prison, Jamal Barrow aka Shyne became a politician in his native Belize.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For context, the rapper was deported back to his native Belize in 2009 after serving almost nine years in prison. In the decade and a half since his release, Barrow seemed to have moved on. He had <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/la-xpm-2011-jun-26-la-ca-cultural-exchange-20110626-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"converted to Judaism\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/la-xpm-2011-jun-26-la-ca-cultural-exchange-20110626-story.html\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"8\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">converted to Judaism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, changed his name to Moses and became the opposition leader of the House of Representatives in Belize.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, audiences looking for something more sensationalized and anti-Combs could be disappointed with \u201cThe Honorable Shyne.\u201d <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because the movie paints a far more complicated portrait of vindication, redemption and even forgiveness. It also makes you consider an uncomfortable question many recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/nick-aaron-carter-docuseries-questions-allegations_n_6655e9c1e4b022987c31a3b0\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"tabloid-forward celebrity documentaries\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"6655e9c1e4b022987c31a3b0\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"9\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tabloid-forward celebrity documentaries<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> avoid: Is it us or is it Barrow that should be doing the forgiving?<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For all intents and purposes, few things about \u201cThe Honorable Shyne\u201d are what you might expect or even want from it at times. Clarke \u2015 who\u2019s also helmed documentaries on rappers Future and Nas \u2015 and his team tell a story that generally doesn\u2019t cater to conjecture from the peanut gallery or a need to appease an audience chomping at the bit for salacious details.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what we get is something more interesting \u2014 though, yes, including some WTF moments as you might have come to expect from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/diddy-1000-bottles-baby-oil-costco.html\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"any stories attached to Combs\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/diddy-1000-bottles-baby-oil-costco.html\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"10\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">any stories attached to Combs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at this point. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Honorable Shyne\u201d isn\u2019t really about Combs (also known then as Puffy and now as Diddy), though. Back in the late \u201990s and early \u201900s, the media did a pretty good job of referring to Barrow as \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/06\/02\/nyregion\/combs-protege-is-sentenced-to-10-years-in-shooting.html\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Combs\u2019 prot\u00e9g\u00e9\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/06\/02\/nyregion\/combs-protege-is-sentenced-to-10-years-in-shooting.html\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"11\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Combs\u2019 prot\u00e9g\u00e9<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d in reductive headlines for articles that were mostly about Combs\u2019 legal troubles, when ultimately, it was Barrow\u2019s life on the line. A documentary in 2024 doesn\u2019t need to repeat those same errors. And Clarke seems to understand that. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The director instead meets Barrow where he\u2019s at \u2014 literally in Belize fighting the good fight, and figuratively in a place of personal peace from his past \u2014 and tells the trajectory of his film\u2019s flawed and fascinating eponymous figure. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"cli cli-image js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"img-sized\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/67363e0a1f00001f00b2700d.jpg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&amp;format=webp\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-sized__img landscape\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" alt=\"&quot;The Honorable Shyne&quot; meets the rapper-turned-politician in a space of personal peace.\" width=\"720\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/67363e0a1f00001f00b2700d.jpg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"cli-image__source-wrapper\"><figcaption class=\"cli-image__caption caption-cli\">&#8220;The Honorable Shyne&#8221; meets the rapper-turned-politician in a space of personal peace.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Honorable Shyne\u201d features interviews with Barrow\u2019s parents, musicians, music execs, friends from his time growing up in Flatbush, political peers in Belize, and people within Combs\u2019 camp in the \u201990s and early \u201900s. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of these interviews awkwardly take place on the sidewalks of Brooklyn, though perhaps to illustrate Barrow\u2019s longtime connection to where he came from that, like him, has strikingly evolved. Other conversations, like ones with Faith Evans and N.O.R.E., are set in what appear to be studios. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The movie presents both allegations of the media mogul\u2019s unsavory behavior and a complex look at a political rising star that appears to be in some ways just as much struggling with how he\u2019s perceived versus who he wants to be as he ever was.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s around the 25-minute mark when it begins to build context around Combs\u2019 relationship with Barrow, sparing no details about who Combs allegedly was during that period of his life and career (the \u201cMichael Jackson\u201d of hip-hop, Barrow\u2019s manager Manny Halley says). As the film explores, the mogul eagerly pursued Barrow and his music, engaging in a bidding war during a golden era of hip-hop that turned (mostly male) lyricists like Shyne into superstar millionaires.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-1999-mar-30-cl-22301-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Daddy\u2019s House\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-1999-mar-30-cl-22301-story.html\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"12\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daddy\u2019s House<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was the name of the foundation Combs established in 1994 to help nurture underprivileged youth, interestingly hiring activist Sister Souljah as its executive director, but its repeated reference in \u201cThe Honorable Shyne\u201d gives it another connotation. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early in the Combs segment of the film, Cheryl Fox, a former executive at Bad Boy plainly says, \u201cPuff ran Bad Boy, I mean, like he was the dad, and he was here to take care of everybody.\u201d She added later that, \u201cHe wanted to always have the upper hand.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later, Gene Deal, Combs\u2019 former bodyguard, alludes to that same paternalistic name. He alleges in the film that as Combs anxiously awaited the verdict in his own trial following the shooting, he often accompanied the mogul to places of worship: \u201cWe spent more time in the house of God than we did in Daddy\u2019s House.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"cli cli-image js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"img-sized\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/6736416d1e00003400bcdc71.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&amp;format=webp\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-sized__img landscape\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" alt=\"Combs leaves the state Supreme Court in Manhattan on Jan. 29, 2001, after the first day of his trial for possession of a weapon following a shooting at a nightclub in 1999.\" width=\"720\" height=\"483\" src=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/6736416d1e00003400bcdc71.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"cli-image__source-wrapper\"><figcaption class=\"cli-image__caption caption-cli\">Combs leaves the state Supreme Court in Manhattan on Jan. 29, 2001, after the first day of his trial for possession of a weapon following a shooting at a nightclub in 1999.<\/figcaption><div class=\"cli-image__credit\" aria-label=\"Image Credit: Newsday LLC via Getty Images\">\n<p><span class=\"credit\">Newsday LLC via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deal then alleges that during that time he also went with Combs to Central Park, where the mogul met with someone who advised him to reach into what Deal said appeared to be \u201ca dog cage.\u201d Deal alleged that Combs pulled out of it a bird that he threw into the air only for it to fall directly onto the ground, lifeless. And he claimed that the mogul then walked away. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOh shit, there go Damien,\u201d Deal recalled thinking then, referencing the 1976 horror movie, \u201cThe Omen.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is the single most bizarre story told in the film that gives it an unwanted tabloid vibe that undercuts some of its strengths. Who knows how much of it is true, if any of it, but it certainly succeeds at portraying Combs in an excruciating light. As does this: Deal recounting the mogul\u2019s alleged feelings toward Barrow while awaiting his own verdict on charges of gun possession and bribing a witness (Combs was acquitted).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe made everybody believe that it was Shyne\u2019s fault,\u201d Deal says in the movie. \u201cMan, this dude looked me in my face and said, \u2018Man, I hate this motherfucker. Don\u2019t let nobody take pictures of me and this motherfucker. I hate him.\u2019\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interwoven in this segment about Combs is a rather temperate Barrow, adding texture to the story with his perspective on his life as a child in Belize and beyond, at times while seated on a wicker chair in a dignified suit. He looks back on his past and his relationship to Combs with interesting clarity. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barrow acknowledges his own hunger to get into the rap game as a teenager who got caught up in the streets before recognizing his own gift and an opportunity to make particularly his mother and Belize proud. As many of his friends verify, he then pursued that aggressively. But even amid his accumulating success, he couldn\u2019t truly get away from his past reputation.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With sharp context in the film from activists like minister Conrad Tillard, \u201cThe Honorable Shyne\u201d also points to the belief some had then that record labels were encouraging young talent like Barrow to get involved in \u201cstreet tiffs\u201d in order to gain street cred. Barrow cosigns a version of this, more or less saying that he acted the part to get a record deal, including how he presented himself and the clothes he wore. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHip-hop was founded on a drug culture,\u201d Barrow says in the movie. \u201cThey all dressed like drug dealers.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"cli cli-image js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"img-sized\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/6736425b1e00003400bcdc72.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&amp;format=webp\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-sized__img portrait\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" alt=\"Rapper David Banner (born Lavell Crump) wears a T-shirt in support of then-incarcerated rapper Shyne (born Jamal Barrow) on Aug. 9, 2004, in New York City.\" width=\"720\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/6736425b1e00003400bcdc72.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"cli-image__source-wrapper\"><figcaption class=\"cli-image__caption caption-cli\">Rapper David Banner (born Lavell Crump) wears a T-shirt in support of then-incarcerated rapper Shyne (born Jamal Barrow) on Aug. 9, 2004, in New York City.<\/figcaption><div class=\"cli-image__credit\" aria-label=\"Image Credit: Julia Beverly via Getty Images\">\n<p><span class=\"credit\">Julia Beverly via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s a particularly jarring quote in the film that, firstly, isn\u2019t true and, secondly, conflates a style that is today <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/hip-hop-style.php\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"rightly heralded and studied\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/hip-hop-style.php\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"13\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rightly heralded and studied<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as an image of resistance with the wares of the drug epidemic. It also disparages himself and his accomplishments, even while celebrating and taking pride in his short-lived though legacy-establishing music, including songs like the megahit \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lmFPTqexVzE\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Bad Boyz\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lmFPTqexVzE\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"14\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bad Boyz<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (featuring Barrington Levy, who is also interviewed in the \u201cThe Honorable Shyne\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He bittersweetly looks back on making his first million with Bad Boy, and being able to buy both a Mercedes Benz and a Range Rover by the time he turned 21. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One day he\u2019s in Flatbush,\u201d his childhood friend Derrik Castillo Jr. remembers in the film. \u201cThe next day he\u2019s at the Trump hotel.\u201d <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barrow also reflects on ruffling feathers inside the Bad Boy camp with his uncanny similarity to the late Biggie Smalls\u2019 voice, which angered members of the Junior M.A.F.I.A., his labelmates. So much so that shots were allegedly fired at Barrow.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of this allegedly unsettled Combs, and drew a wedge between him and Barrow, providing some interesting context to something that might have been brewing long before the shooting.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But all of that is evidently an image and time period Barrow now looks back on in a more critical light. Still, he talks at length about the love he still has for his music, the friends and family that were in his corner when he realized others, including Combs, turned their backs on him, and the pain he felt and when his American Dream was cut short. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So much of what Barrow says, though, is coated with a sense of duality that he doesn\u2019t seem to bother to reconcile in the film. That makes for an alluring watch. While none of the questions the interviewees in the film, including Barrow, are responding to are actually heard in the movie, it\u2019s clear that the former rapper was prodded to answer to some of fans\u2019 most lingering curiosities.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like, his relationship with Combs, which will certainly be at the front of audiences\u2019 minds as they watch \u201cThe Honorable Shyne.\u201d That\u2019s with good reason.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"cli cli-image js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"img-sized\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/673642e51e00003400bcdc73.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&amp;format=webp\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-sized__img landscape\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" alt=\"Barrow and Combs on stage at O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire One Night Only event on Nov. 07, 2023, in London, England.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/673642e51e00003400bcdc73.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"cli-image__source-wrapper\"><figcaption class=\"cli-image__caption caption-cli\">Barrow and Combs on stage at O2 Shepherd&#8217;s Bush Empire One Night Only event on Nov. 07, 2023, in London, England.<\/figcaption><div class=\"cli-image__credit\" aria-label=\"Image Credit: Samir Hussein via Getty Images\">\n<p><span class=\"credit\">Samir Hussein via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2012, not long after Barrow returned to Belize and made a new record that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/id.21468\/title.shyne-explains-his-problems-with-rick-ross-diddy-addresses-his-voice-change\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"was widely panned\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/id.21468\/title.shyne-explains-his-problems-with-rick-ross-diddy-addresses-his-voice-change\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"15\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was widely panned<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he did an interview with Hot 97 about it and how Combs is \u201ca creep.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe pretends to be sorry,\u201d he said in a clip also used in the documentary. \u201cMaybe he even wants to be sorry. But he\u2019s so much of a creep, he just can\u2019t find that part of himself. Like when he say, \u2018God is great,\u2019 I think he\u2019s talking about himself. He thinks he\u2019s God. He has no accountability.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in 2021, Combs helped Barrow <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibe.com\/news\/national\/shyne-granted-us-visa-help-diddy-1234626081\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"secure a U.S. visa\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.vibe.com\/news\/national\/shyne-granted-us-visa-help-diddy-1234626081\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"16\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">secure a U.S. visa<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, so that the politician could meet with senators and congressmen to help strengthen relations between Belize and the U.S. And in 2022, Barrow did <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibe.com\/news\/entertainment\/shyne-bet-awards-red-carpet-interview-1234672158\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"a surprise performance\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.vibe.com\/news\/entertainment\/shyne-bet-awards-red-carpet-interview-1234672158\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"17\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a surprise performance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the BET Awards in Los Angeles, as part of a segment honoring Combs with the Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Honorable Shyne\u201d rightly raises a question about that BET performance and presumed reconciliation then between Combs and Barrow. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt took a lot of years,\u201d Barrow explains in the film. \u201cBut part of fixing it was fixing me, wasn\u2019t really about Puff. So, once I fixed myself, once I healed and once I was fully immersed in my purpose, then it\u2019s not about anybody else. That\u2019s a distraction.\u201d <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That purpose, he goes on, is his responsibility to transform Belize and not focus on \u201canybody\u2019s shortcomings.\u201d <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the film does a thoughtful job examining Barrow\u2019s journey in Belizean politics, complete with a scope of the political landscape there and how honored both his family and peers he\u2019s managed to maintain in the hip-hop game are, it creates an intriguingly dichotomous portrait.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That feels honest but still frustrating. That\u2019s partly because some of the people interviewed who criticized Barrow going to jail also praised his reunion with Combs. \u201cThat was important to show that you can get past having a situation with somebody,\u201d Junior M.A.F.I.A.\u2019s Lil\u2019 Cease says. \u201cIf they can get past that, the new generation should be able to get past the little shit that goes on.\u201d <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While it is uncertain throughout most of \u201cThe Honorable Shyne\u201d when exactly the interviews all took place, that\u2019s crystallized with at least the interviews with Barrow that they occurred prior to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/diddy-properties-raided-homeland-security_n_6601e0f2e4b09f0d725901c4\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Combs\u2019 homes being raided\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"6601e0f2e4b09f0d725901c4\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"18\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Combs\u2019 homes being raided<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in March. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"cli cli-image js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"img-sized\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/673645c41f00002c00b27015.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&amp;format=webp\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-sized__img landscape\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" alt=\"&quot;Everyone was partying and having a great time with Diddy while I was left to rot in prison,\u201d Jamal Barrow says in &quot;The Honorable Shyne.&quot; \" width=\"720\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/673645c41f00002c00b27015.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"cli-image__source-wrapper\"><figcaption class=\"cli-image__caption caption-cli\">&#8220;Everyone was partying and having a great time with Diddy while I was left to rot in prison,\u201d Jamal Barrow says in &#8220;The Honorable Shyne.&#8221; <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Almost <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">immediately after showing footage of Barrow celebrating Combs on BET, \u201cThe Honorable Shyne\u201d dramatically shifts tones with the politician walking back to the interview chair in slow motion as text materializes onscreen about the raids. It more importantly points out music producer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/producer-lil-rod-recording-studio-shooting-new-complaint_n_65e6320ce4b0f890593397ec\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Rodney \u201cLil Rod\u201d Jones\u2019 lawsuit\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"65e6320ce4b0f890593397ec\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"19\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodney \u201cLil Rod\u201d Jones\u2019 lawsuit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in March which states that Combs allegedly confessed he was responsible for the \u201999 club shooting. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That transition in the film makes it seem like Barrow is going to wildly change his stance on his relationship with Combs. That doesn\u2019t really happen. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, he doubles down on what he said before: \u201cI was absolutely set up to be the fall guy. So, this was shocking not because it\u2019s true. It\u2019s shocking because it\u2019s all finally coming to light and people believe it. Because when I said it, everyone was partying and having a great time with Diddy while I was left to rot in prison.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And to be clear, not only did Barrow always claim his innocence after the shooting, but the victim <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/02\/08\/nyregion\/witness-insists-hip-hop-star-was-holding-gun-inside-club.html\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"also named Combs\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/02\/08\/nyregion\/witness-insists-hip-hop-star-was-holding-gun-inside-club.html\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"20\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">also named Combs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> then, even testifying that at his trial and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/woman-who-claims-diddy-shot-her-in-the-face-cheers-his-downfall\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"claiming that still today\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/woman-who-claims-diddy-shot-her-in-the-face-cheers-his-downfall\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"21\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">claiming that still today<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, none of what Barrow says at this point toward the end of the film is, as he put it, particularly shocking. What is, though, is that Barrow alleges that Combs called him amid Jones\u2019 lawsuit and Barrow consequently speaking out about it <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hDicBbvlAIs\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"in a press conference with Channel 5 Belize\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hDicBbvlAIs\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"22\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in a press conference with Channel 5 Belize<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe was like, \u2018I just wanted to know we\u2019re on the same page,\u2019\u201d Barrow said, recalling his conversation with Combs in \u201cThe Honorable Shyne.\u201d \u201cI was like, \u2018Listen, you know that we weren\u2019t good. You know that you destroyed my life. If it weren\u2019t for you, I would have beat the case. I would have walked just like you.\u2019\u201d <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Shyne also says, \u201cThose are the facts.\u201d And they\u2019re difficult to reconcile with the other fact that it took seeing Combs in a video that showed him <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/diddy-cassie-surveillance-video-assault_n_66479745e4b00e1a0a6c0a8b\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"brutalizing ex-girlfriend Cassie\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"66479745e4b00e1a0a6c0a8b\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"23\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">brutalizing ex-girlfriend Cassie<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2016 to, as he puts it the movie, \u201ccompletely disassociate\u201d from him. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or another fact that doesn\u2019t make it into the documentary: Following the U.S. election this year, Barrow took to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DCCYjaDRtqY\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"his Instagram\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"67363b05e4b0958bad3e940a\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DCCYjaDRtqY\/?hl=en\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"24\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his Instagram<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to congratulate \u201cthe president-elect of the United States, Donald J. 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