Until I had the displeasure of sitting through four hours of Sean Combs: The Reckoning , I had managed to avoid watching the footage of the rapper, once known as Puff Daddy, then P Diddy, then “Brother Love”, beating his girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a hotel hallway and dragging her across the floor.

That video, recorded on surveillance cameras in 2016 and released to the world last year, marked a turning point in the fate of the “rapper” and businessman, who in October began his 50-month imprisonment for two counts of transportation for prostitution, amid hundreds of accusations of sexual violence, still pending, and acquittal on charges of racketeering.

The footage is violent, horrible, weird, and especially undignified given the monster is waddling around in only socks, with a towel

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