Is Diddy A Psychopath?

Good lord no, but there's a video, so let's do this...

All right, this post is not my idea, but rather it is a review of a video by Kanika Batra regarding this topic. Before I start, and I must stress that I haven’t watched this video yet, I try to react as I write, that if she has deigned him to be a psychopath, nothing that she claims will matter. This is true for a number of reasons.

Celebrities are not who they are in public, that they are in private. They have a persona that is what is shown to the masses, but it does not in any way show you who they are internally. You cannot judge someone based on observations, this is doubly true of celebrities. That is why you won’t be seeing me put out proclamations or assumptions regarding anyone.

Granted, her video is almost a year old, and since much more has come out regarding Diddy, that makes it clear that he is nowhere near psychopathic. He has deep rage issues, he has insecurities, he has a whole array of emotions that a psychopath does not, and can not have. This is where most people would grant the benefit of the doubt to Ms. Batra, but I will not, as this is precisely why you don’t try to label people that you know nothing about.

Here is the video that I will be reacting to:

Let me be clear, the title, “Is P Diddy Really A Psychopath? A Sociopath's opinion.” is pointless. Her being a sociopath gives her no more Kreskin like abilities to divine whether anyone else is psychopathic, sociopathic, or anything else, for that matter. Being a sociopath does not endow anyone with any special gifts. Insights can be, and often are, wrong. It is essentially claiming to be a mind reader. I’m not, she’s not, you’re not, no one is, so this is, from the outset, a waste of everyone’s time. So, let’s waste it.

Oh, good lord… that voice. This is going to be a chore.

Fifteen seconds in, and already she is totally off the mark.

Is P Diddy really a psychopath? I’m going to give you a unique perspective on that, because it is very likely that we share the same disorder.

Her “opinion” is not unique. It is nothing more than conjecture without anything to back her up. Also, in the first fifteen seconds, she has already conflated psychopathy and sociopathy. This is beyond lazy, it’s catchall. One is not the other. They are nothing alike at all. If she were actually interested in giving out factual information, she would have made that difference clear, but this is likely, and I am guessing here, going to be about ego. As I mentioned, I haven’t watched this yet, and it is likely that she admires Diddy, and the thought of them being kindred spirits is one that makes her feel special. Let’s see if I’m right.

We may have the same thoughts, but… I’m just less likely to commit those same crimes.

What?

I am a psychopath, and I do not have the slightest interest in Diddy’s BS. Nothing about what he was up to has anything to do with psychopathy or sociopathy, rather it was a smorgasbord of the seven deadly sins. These are the seven deadly sins because they are so common, in humans. God wasn’t hanging out and thinking to himself,

“You know, those neurotypicals, they’re perfect as far as I can tell. No improvements necessary, but those psychopaths… They have some bad thoughts and habits. Hey, get me a pen and some paper. Let me write down the sh*t that only they do, and make them the seven things that will get you sent straight to hell.

“So… do you want to call them the seven psychopathic sins, and then just give them out to the psychopaths… or…”

“No, of course, not. Give them to everyone, and tell them that this crap needs to stop. I have had it with all of this”

“But… if the neurotypicals aren’t doing this… wouldn’t this be like… I don’t know, judging them for actions and thoughts they never had, to begin with?…God…”

“Yeah, he’s gone. He does stuff like that all the time, but he’s the boss, so make it happen.”

No, these are the seven deadlies, because neurotypicals are emotional, and all of the sins come back to emotions. Diddy’s indulgence was just what happens when someone that isn’t worried about the consequences of his actions having way too much money, and way too much power.

She now goes into a history lesson about Diddy, which I don’t care about, and won’t be covering. If you are interested in a long form exploration of Diddy and this BS, let me know, I can set you up with the one that I listened to. Then, you too can listen to way too many hours about this dude’s past. It doesn’t add anything other than understanding that the guy was always ambitious, and had a need to be in the spotlight, even when he really had little reason to be there.

Something that you should understand about him, however, Diddy isn’t an artist. He’s a producer. His “music career” is a secondary to being a music executive. He was a pushy, ambitious, and the type that would do anything.

In the background I have this video playing while I am typing, and I swear to god, I am on the previous paragraph when she makes this statement:

You may be wondering, what is so important and imperative for this nineteen-year-old that these people can’t get enough. From anywhere else. The truth is, he was being assaulted. Most likely by Clive Davis (music industry dude) as well as Andre Harrell (who owned Uptown Records).

Let me be clear. These statements may rise to defamation level legally, and I am in no way the one making them. Go harass the video chick if it is. Unless she has proof that this was occurring, this is entirely reckless to claim. Was Diddy assaulted? I have no idea. Even if he was, you would need to know for a fact that either of these people were to blame before making this as a statement of fact. She did say, “likely”, but that isn’t enough. These are serious allegations, one of the men has been dead for several years, the other does not appear to have any sort of arrests regarding this sort of thing, so, I think the statement is out of line legally.

She then goes on to say:

Uptown Records was owned by Andre Harrell, but backed by Clive Davis. Anyone who’s seen Clive Davis and understands sociopathy and psychopathy, could quite clearly make the distinction that his eyes, have no life to them whatsoever. They look positively reptilian. Though he was the first openly gay music producer, he also had the tendency to be incredibly creep and predatory toward young males, especially, attractive young males, like Sean Diddy Combs.

*head on desk*

There is so much… so, so much… to go through here. First of all, a huge nope. I mean, to all of it, but especially this”

Anyone who who’s seen Clive Davis and understands sociopathy and psychopathy, could quite clearly make the distinction that his eyes, have no life to them whatsoever. They look positively reptilian.

This statement alone is enough to make me be done with the whole video, or at the very least, stop being so nice about it. These are the same ridiculous myths about psychopathy and sociopathy that neurotypicals and wannabes lean into. Do psychopaths have staring eyes? Yes, but this is masked. Blink more, and it’s not a problem. Also, don’t stare at people. Someone that has made it far in the entertainment industry and happens to be psychopathic or sociopathic, learned that before they left grade school. The fact she is leaning into this myth tells me a lot about her, and what she wants psychopaths and sociopaths to be, and what it is she wants, is not reality.

No one has “reptilian eyes”. This is just so much drama and hyperbole that it’s cringe. The predatory stare is real, but no one that is a psychopath is going to be like, yeah, my eyes are totally like a reptile’s. That’s someone trying to feel a certain way about themselves. They want to be dangerous, they want to be scary\, they want to be inhuman, and quite honestly, spare me. That egotistical crap is such a waste, and not very indicative of psychopathy. Sociopaths, I’ll you all speak for yourselves. It doesn’t fit what I have garnered from the sociopaths that I have spoken with on Quora, but maybe that’s just them.

Now, on to the accusations themselves. It is well known, and it has been well known that the entertainment industry is a cesspit. People prostitute themselves to the higher-ups on the regular, and will bring them fresh meat. Ever see a more uncomfortable picture?

If anyone is unfamiliar with the players in this picture, Oprah, Harvey Weinstein, and appears to be some ingénue that is being introduced like an offering. Granted, it’s a snippet in time, and the context might be totally different, but the sense that it gives off, knowing what we know about Mr. Weinstein, it might give us insight into what that might have looked like.

It appears that her argument now, is going to be that Diddy was assaulted by industry bigwigs, and that made him a psychosociopath because… reasons, but we’ll see what she claims. For the record, sociopathy is cemented, it seems, before the age of six, so whatever happens after that, the window to develop sociopathy is well shut. Moving on.

So… Diddy got fired by Uptown records. I thought that he was the one that people couldn’t get enough of. That was short lived. According to Combs, this is why he was fired:

“I was very passionate, and I didn’t understand protocol or workplace politics,” Combs told Winfrey. “So I got fired because there can’t be two kings in one castle. I wasn’t trying to be disrespectful to Andre, but I was fighting so hard. He wanted to be more diplomatic and to make sure everybody felt involved. Getting fired was one of the best things that could have happened to me.”

He mentions nothing about assault. Does that mean that it didn’t happen? No. Does it mean we can believe his explanation? No, but it’s what he said about his own life, so I would say that in regard for who to believe, the person whose life we are speaking about directly, he gets the nod.

You might think this was a time of him being depressed, and not being able to live with himself because he lost his cushy job that no other nineteen-year-old had, but he was given his own label, Bad Boy Records, where he was the CEO and was being backed by Clive Davis, specifically.

Seems like less of a firing, and more of a diversifying of funds. Fire the guy so he has no connection to your label. Start a new label and give it to him to run. Have the new label be, “independent”, when in reality it was just a subsidiary to Davis. Sounds pretty normal, and I don’t see how any of this, except if she is going to point out that he wasn’t sad or depressed as evidence for his so-called psychopathy, is relevant to this video. This could have been summarized succinctly thusly:

Combs went to work for Uptown. Got “fired”, and came out the other side as the CEO of Bad Boy Records, backed by his former boss. So far, we are two minutes and thirteen seconds into this video, that is just over seven minutes long, and I have yet to hear one smidge of information that would lend to Diddy being anything other than a music industry guy that ends up being all about the depravity that is, that industry.

Okay, I am going to unpause her. Give me strength for four and a half more minutes of this.

So now, Andre Harrell is out of the way. When Diddy made a name for himself, he decided that he wasn’t going to be (g)raped and groomed. So, he decided he was going to do it to other people instead. This can be seen in his interpersonal relationships, and it is very relevant to psychopathy, because psychopaths love control, they love manipulation, and they love exerting power over everybody around them, no matter what their relation is.

For the love of all that’s holy, how can one person, supposedly one that knows about psychopathy and sociopathy, say so much wrong in such a short period of time? Seriously, how? That was only twenty-five seconds, and a plethora of nonsense.

If you understood actual psychopathy, you would immediately know that she is entirely wrong. Psychopaths do not love power, control, manipulation, etc. Manipulation is human interaction, but the love of toxic manipulation, and control, those are emotional payoffs that require empathy. They are a form of sadism, and that requires emotional empathy. Perhaps, if she is actually a sociopath, and I am having my doubts because it seems she has no idea what words mean, she thinks this is true because she thinks we are like sociopaths are.

I got this truly excellent comment last week, and I share it here, because it is relevant to my point:

Yeah that lady is a sociopath. The big tell is how much she cares about what people think of them. My psychopath friend told me that an actual psychopath would rather blend in and be totally unnoticed with no one realizing it was ever a thing. Drawing a big glowing arrow to psychopathy is the absolute worst outcome.

"Will ASPD be a result of perpetually being online. A person that is disconnected from the world around them [....]"

I think the reverse is more likely. A person gets traumatized in such a way that they use the internet as a substitute for the missing father, mother, friends etc. I have heard a similar analogy for porn - porn addiction is real but men wouldn't be using porn enough to get addicted if they could get meaningful relationships with women in the first place.

Having experience with both ASPD and Psychopathy I came up with an analogy I think works. Most people are happy sheep on a farm who are content to socialize and be social creatures without ever thinking about it too hard and there's nothing wrong with that.

Psychopaths are canines, wolves at the worst and sheep dogs when they blend in, who will never be able to operate as a sheep because they simply aren't the same type of creature. They can hunt sheep at will or they can guard sheep because they operate at a different level of awareness of the world. They get no comfort from the flocking herd mentality.

ASPDs are sheep who were so traumatized that they can no longer hang out in the sheep flock because of their anti social behaviors. Maybe they have a biting problem because of rough handling as a lamb or they got lost in the woods too long or something. The ASPD sheep is going to be tougher than their peers since they have to survive without the full support of the flock and may live in the same outer regions as the wolfs and dogs but they are not the same. They're still a sheep at heart with the same needs and suffers living at the peripheries while the wolf is happier outside than inside. A battle scarred sheep and wolf might relate over their shared living conditions but they are not the same.

Maybe that’s what’s going on here, but frankly, it her claims raise my, detecting dishonesty, hackles. Psychopaths don’t care about other people. This notion that psychopaths just love manipulation, and control, power, and money, is pure projection by people that those things matter to. If you actual knew a psychopath, you would know, what matters to us, is what matters to us. It might be tiddly winks, but if that’s the focus at the moment, that’s the focus.

If a psychopath wants to be in a position of authority, it is because that position provides them something that is worth that investment of their time. It may be that the position is interesting to them, or it may be that it gives them the lifestyle that they want. It isn’t because they look at all the people around them, tent their fingers, and say:

“Now I’ll get you my pretty.”

That’s not how we operate. Remembering that other people exist, and we have to interact with them, is a challenge. To focus our whole lives around them? Even with dedicated investment in doing so, it isn’t possible.

Want an example? I am invested in my Significant Other. More than anyone else. I am writing this in the morning, or I was, before he got up. He is now up. He is sitting next to me. It is time to close the laptop and finish this later. Have I? Not yet. Because I am focused on me. So he is sitting here, in silence, trying not to disturb me, when all he wants to do is have a nice morning with me, drink his coffee, and watch TV. I know I am being selfish, so I will come back to this later. Also, it gives me a break from her voice.

Back at it. Let’s review the evidence for “psychopathy” in Diddy, that has so far been presented. Hmm… let’s see. He’s alive. She claims he was abused but presents literally no evidence whatsoever. Claims that abuse was then reflected on to other people because… he’s a psychopath. That is not an argument. So far, there is no argument, but I digress. Mostly because I want to avoid resuming listening to her voice.

Sean was absolutely ruthless when it came to his personal relationships. This included people he worked with creatively, the people he dated, and the people that were unfortunately his friends.

Ruthlessness is not a psychopath specific trait. Innate ruthlessness is, but anyone can be ruthless. This demonstrates nothing. Also, she offers no examples. Imagine this:

Jesus was absolutely ruthless when it came to his personal relationships. This included people he worked with creatively, the people he dated, and the people that were unfortunately his friends.

Where is my evidence of this? Because I say so, does not an argument make. Was Diddy a d*ck? Sure seems that way, but in order to make that claim, you have to show your work. She seems to take no issue with just saying things about people that she does not know, and has never met, and doesn’t concern herself with anything regarding supporting arguments. I can say the exact same thing about Jesus, but unless I can give you examples to prove my point, I’m just talking out of my ass.

He was known as “Puff Daddy”, because he would huff and puff all over the studio. Whenever he didn’t get his way, he was so controlling he asked one of his artists to drop their manager that had been there with them for the start of their career for their entire trouble periods, and when he wouldn’t do that, he decided to drop him from the label and to hold onto the rights to his music so he could exert power over him.

I know I have said this before… but oh my good lord. This is painful. This woman doesn’t know anything about what she’s talking about. Let me give you a quick lesson in industry practice. If you sign a contract with a label, they own the rights to your music, unless, you specifically make that not part of the contract. This is standard. Nothing about this is weird, or against industry standards, it is not indicative of anything other than, the music industry is like Vegas. The house always wins. Do you know how many lawyers they have working for them? Do you know how iron clad contracts are? Do you know how little new artists know or care about the contracts that get put in front of them, what they agree to, and what they sign away?

NOTHING. They almost always know NOTHING. They want to be famous and make a lot of money. They have a studio that is interested, and they don’t have the money for a lawyer to redline the sh*t out of that contract like they should have. The idea that somehow this shows Diddy as a psychopath is beyond a reach. That’s like saying, “Did you see them breathe. That for sure shows that they’re a psychopath.

There has been so much controversy amid Scooter Braun purchasing Taylor Swift’s former label, Big Machine Records, meaning he now owns all her master recordings.

A music executive is speaking to The Blast and revealing that many other major artists do not own their master recordings.

“Drake, Katy Perry, and even Bruno Mars have similar deals where they do not own their own masters,” the exec told The Blast. The exec added that because Taylor wrote many of her own songs, she does own parts of the publishing.

Like Taylor Swift, These Other Artists Also Don't Own Their Master Recordings

It is standard that artists do not own the rights to the music that they create under the label to which they are contracted. If the artist wants their catalog, they would have to buy it, but frankly, this is just how the industry works. This woman is giving me a headache. I am now just reacting to the subtitles. I cannot listen to her anymore.

Side note, my SO wanted to know who I was writing about, so I looked her up past her YouTube channel, to show him, and I came across an article written about her where she states she has narcissistic personality disorder. That is not something that can co-exist with sociopathy. You aren’t going to develop NPD and sociopathy at the same time. The conditions for these things to form are wildly different, and the emotional constructs are as well. If you guys want, I can do a post on that article. Let me know.

Diddy was drunk on power with his own label, and he ended up finding the Notorious BIG, who we all know as Biggie. He was a mentor to him and he and he was a very close friend…

I am going to just go ahead and insert here that, that does not appear to be the case. At all. There is apparently a lot of bad blood there, and Diddy and BIG had some…. issues between them. This comes from the case study I watched regarding this whole mess, but the rumors have been there for decades.

…they were very close, and he still had the audacity to invite him to an after party when he had a broken leg, and Biggy refused this multiple times. He was just like no, I don't want to do this. I’m meant to go to London. I'm going to go to London, but no Diddy he dragged him there, and then after that he was fatally shot.

And?

Either the claim here is that he insisted on hit so-called super duper closest friend ever to a party, after which, he was unfortunately shot. Or, the claim is that he invited him knowing he had a broken leg, but didn’t care, insisted anyway, and then he got shot. Or, he invited him, talked him into going, knowing that he had a broken leg, and also knowing he would get shot, so he set him up across the board.

None of those possibilities lends to psychopathy, and most of them lend toward an unfortunate event. Granted, the rumors say otherwise, but that’s why they’re rumors, and not facts. They are conjecture, that cannot be forced into a narrative about psychopathy without there being some sort of line drawn effectively. The only thing effective about this video so far is the effectiveness of her voice and lack of knowledge acting like a brain-eating amoeba in my skull. Damn, all I want right now is a nice hot pizza, and I still have… let me see… FOUR MINUTES OF THIS NONSENSE?

Nope. It’s going to be two posts. I need a break. I don’t know how much more I can write about this video today. This is it for this post, you will be tortured more next week, so show up promptly. I have to endure it, so you get to as well.

Lucky you, right?