-Obviously, your entire career has been documented,
and, you know, 20 years ago,
a lot of this footage is just cameras that you had.
-Yes.
-I want to show a quick clip of your management style
back in the early days.
You said you were very hard on yourself.
-Yeah, yeah.
-You can also -- Is it true that early on --
It seems like in the film you were pretty hard
on everybody else, too. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, I had a lot of success early,
and this is the definition of somebody
that went crazy with a lot of success and money.
Check it out. -Yeah, here we go.
-I got my MTV. I'm [bleep] savage!
I'm a savage!
Oh! I'm a savage!
Whatever I want, that's what you get!
[ Laughter ]
-That is definitely not something
they teach at Harvard Business School.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah. I had to evolve my approach to things.
-Yeah.
-We were having a lot of turnover in the company.
[ Laughter ]
But, you know, it's really about the passion, you know?
This is, like, you know...
This is to me, like, just the way a basketball player
takes what he does, or an athlete, you know.
Hip-hop for me, and making it this global juggernaut
is something that I dreamt about,
is something that in the '90s I put it on my back,
and I wanted us to --
you know, the culture, for people around the world
to understand this is a multi-billion-dollar business.
-I think it was Mary J. Blige, because a lot of people
are interviewed in it, talking about first meeting you,
and she sort of says, she can't remember what you first said.
But she just remembered, you were telling everybody
that we were gonna win. -Yeah.
-And it must have been just so contagious to work with you
back then for those people
who are all just getting their starts via you.
-Yeah. I mean, I came in with a very crazy attitude
because my connection with God made me believe,
and my faith, just growing up in Catholic schools
and going to church.
My grandmother just taught me
that whatever you really, really believe in,
you can make come true.
And so I was really believing that we were going to be
one of the world's most famous record companies.
And we were going to all go on to superstardom.
And so, that's the motivation that I would have
on all of the artists that, you know, came up with me.
-That's fantastic. It's fantastic how right you were.
There was another moment I really liked
because I want to use this as a management style.
At one point in the documentary,
you take one of your colleagues aside.
You basically say you do not care for his energy.
And you tell him to go for a walk
and come back with better energy.
Is that something you often do? -Yeah, yeah,
because now I'm really protective around --
about the energy that's around me, you know.
And so I really only want to deal with positive energy,
and so, if I see any of my friends, any of my employees,
their energy is not right,
we have this thing called "check your energy," you know?
I think it's time that you check your energy
because it's not feeling right.
I'm trying to stay on this Kumbaya thing, and...
[ Laughter ]
...I'm not going backwards. I'm going forward, okay?
-Yeah, that's great.
You were very nice about it. You weren't upset.
You basically said, "I think you have to go
for a walk and come back,"
and I was thinking, "Oh, man, I can't wait to use that."
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-I want to ask about a photo.
You were at the Met Ball this year.
And here is a photo of you, and your date, and what --
So explain what's going on there.
-If you've ever gone to the Met Ball, especially,
and you've gone with a young lady,
they really just want to take pictures of the ladies.
And so, you know, after I was standing there for two minutes,
the stairs looked kind of comfortable.
[ Laughter ]
You know, I liked my outfit, and I thought I should sprawl out.
-It looks really good. It looks really good.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Last thing, Jay-Z, who is great in the documentary as well --
-Yes.
-Beyoncé -- They just had twins. You have twins.
-Yes, I do.
-Did you give counsel to Jay?
Did you tell him what was coming down the pike?
-Jay is usually the one that gives me counsel,
so I was so happy to be able give him counsel on this,
and the thing that I said is
that you really have to be prepared for double the love.
You're used to getting love from one child,
but when you get this incredible love from two kids
and they're twins, it's --
It's truly a blessing, and may God bless him and Beyoncé
and the family, and everybody out there that has kids, period.
That's what really runs our lives.
But to have twins is double the fun.
-Is it double the work?
-It's -- it's -- Um, um, uh, uh...
[ Laughter ]
I mean, maybe we -- I -- I'm --
No, I just want to say thank you -- tha--
thank you to the mother of my children.
-Give it up for Sean "Diddy" Combs, everybody!
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