Sean “Puffy” Combs reminisced about the summer his mother sent him away to live with an Amish family when he was a boy. The 48-year-old music mogul recalled the “beautiful” childhood summer he spent with an Amish family during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday.
Combs revealed that one of the “greatest” times of his life was when his mother, Janice Combs arranged for him to spend the summer with an Amish family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania via The Fresh Air Fund, a non-profit agency that provides low-income children from New York City with free vacations in the country.
“It’s beautiful. It’s a chance to really kind of get away and just — no electronics. It really teaches you how to just relate with each other,” Combs told Kimmel.
He added that his tasks included milking cows and picking berries daily: “It was a lot of chores. You know, they wake up and, you know, do their chores.”
He also reminisced about some of the Amish traditions that he participated in.
“I remember we used to go to church. And at the church, they used to just have these lavish meals. And it really kind of taught you (about) family… I rode around in a horse and buggy everywhere,” he remembered. “It’s one of the things that helped to make me who I am, you know, just all the different experiences of life. I truly appreciated it. Shout out to the Fresh Air Fund.”
Family is a big part of Combs’s life. He’s sired 5 children with multiple women.
Diddy shared that he didn’t stay in touch with the family because their lack of phones and electricity made it too difficult.
“I think about them all the time. And I’m just like, man, I wonder if they know, you know, what I grew up to be. But I don’t think they did.”
The Fresh Air Fund has many success stories like Combs’s, but one inner-city kid who didn’t benefit from the program is convicted drug dealer Alpo Martinez, who reminisced about the summers he spent with a Caucasian family in a documentary.
Despite the positive influence the experience had on his life, Alpo grew up to be a high-level drug dealer. At his peak, he sold about $50,000 worth of crack a week on the streets of Harlem with his partners Rich Porter and Azie.
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Interesting story.
but one inner-city kid who didn’t benefit from the program is convicted drug dealer Rich Porter, who reminisced about the summers he spent with a Caucasian family in a documentary.
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Good for Diddy. RIP to that man. ?? Spending time with Caucasian family don’t mean their lives are perfect.
Masonic gesture pointing down. Wake up folks
he sounds unsure with all the “you knows” and “kinda” and “chores, like you know, chores”. ? but it’s cool if the experience taught him, you know, something that he may or, you know may not remember. ??
Sometimes it be like that. You have to go through stuff in life to really find your own way to a prosperous journey.
nope, gots nothing on this. see yall next post!
Catching up on QS,I want Rem and Nova!
Real life me wouldn’t condone it …
ugh
Sean(whom I partied with at a exclusive private Prince BET Awards After Party at The Beverly Hills Hotel) was a sight to see trying to get Prince’s attention.
Making meatloaf mashed potatoes sweet peas and iced tea. ?
This dude right here is a loser he is unapologetic vampire , he is a empty vessel , he has lost his connection with the Universe . He let entities jump in and out of him , he has sold his soul experience here in this illusion, now he is stuck here in his mind for ever ever he is truely a beast . There is no such thing as color it’s jus energy and he is connected to the virus that is controlling everybody’s mind. Wake Up people and let’s get out of these bodies which is a trap and go to the real world in the Cosmos ….. Love and Light
Puffy, them thighs are about to start a fire.
Are you smoking purple haze by any chance ?
I always think about them having a much simpler life. I grew up on a farm and if given a chance and I knew we would make it, me and my family would go off the grid TODAY. They live a much simpler life for sure. Plus too with all that physical labor, Chile please I’d be so dang fine!!!!
Cosign
My dad grew up on a farm and when I say that place is the epitome of PEACE. Its so just EVERYTHING. I dream of grid jumping AS WELL
This is a very nice take on his experience. I think as we age, we look back at things from our childhood and realize NOW how much it impacted you when you have looked at it so different for YEARS.
Big up to YoungLife. My summer camps was so awesome we would cry when we left
Summer!! Hey Sis!
I really like them together!
Darla done got clean and a spine!
one of the things that helped to make me who I am, you know, just all the different experiences of life
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THIS is exactly why I “TRY TO” be nice to EVERYONE I meet. You never know whose life you are put into at that moment. I LEARN from everybody and everything I come in contact with. I instill this type of stuff into my daughter, niece’s and nephews daily. Be the example. You never know who’s paying attention………because someone is ALWAYS paying attention.
Turkey meatloaf? Will it have a lot of onions and green peppers in it? What about the onion mushroom soup mix? Will you bake it in chicken broth? Do you use a “ketchup” sauce or brown gravy? I like a sweet ketchup based sauce on mine. Scratch the peas and add broccoli then fix me a plate. LOL
I just brought some veggie meatballs from IKEA with their lingonberry jam. Man lissen!
Did you get left behind by that comet cult hun?
but one inner-city kid who didn’t benefit from the program is convicted drug dealer Rich Porter, who reminisced about the summers he spent with a Caucasian family in a documentary.
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What’s the name of this documentary?
I will have a farm one day. I may not be able to go off the grid but it is definitely my dream to grow my own food/meat. I feel like that is why we are all so unhealthy here in America.
THIS. I was so upset yesterday I saw TRADER JOES having a damn food recall. I cant even trust Trader Joes to not be contaminated? Like wtf! Some of it is GROWING in contanimated soil. Its doomed before it even reaches stores!
That’s a dream of mine as well. JUST visited a multi-generational newly built home on Saturday. Met the builder’s father….and he showed me THEIR home. Shit was NIIIIIICCCCCEEEE!!! House had a tunnel (type) hallway underground that connected the two houses. The other MGH I went in, the houses connected through a wall. You open the wall, go down some steps and yo ass was at “Grandma and Grandpa’s”. LOL
This is worded as if he’s still
alive. ?
Hey!!! I’m liking Darla too these days.
Is he not? I’m too lazy to do the education. LOL
What they done did????? I haven’t watched in a while!
Family is a big part of Combs’s life. He’s sired 5 children with multiple women.
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I was always Team Darla. Is RA still crying in every episode?
No ma’am. He’s been gone a long time. Mekhi Phifer’s character in the movie Paid in Full was based on Rich Porter.
Wow, why did I JUST read this. *scroll down first Yoni, scroll down* LOL
OHHHHHH!!! I watched PIF years ago. Good movie. Didn’t know it was considered a “documentary”.
It’s not. There are a couple documentaries out there about him & his crew. One is called Game Over. I can’t recall the names of the others
This. Thank you.
No problem
That was a typo. It was Alpo who lived with a Caucasian family, not Rich Porter.
I can’t recall the name of the documentary, but it was very good. It detailed Alpo’s life from a kid to a drug kingpin. I fixed the typo in the post.
Thank you.
From IKEA, they sell food now, thought they sold furniture?
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received as a teen from a mentor was, “If it is to be, it is up to me.” That let me know that whatever I wanted to do or be, I had to make it happen. I was not entitled to anything except what I worked for.
I spent part of my summer in the country and I appreciated the quiet, actually seeing the stars twinkle for real because there was no light pollution, and just the smell of clean air. The older I get the more I appreciate simplicity.
Say that!!
I think the world needs a take a week and live like the Amish with no electronics and what not. Now a days everyone in the restaurant are on their phones instead of eating and enjoying each other company. I see people at the gym in my building on their damn phones instead of just working out. Smh ????? My phone stays upstairs in my apartment when I’m working out.
Documentary is Gangsters: America’s Most Evil
Alpo just had a different kind of success, that’s all…
So true. I been thinking back and reminiscing a lot lately. I just called one of my uncles last night to reminisce about how he would always fix anything me, my sisters or cousins would break as a kid. From toys to bikes to tv’s. He can fix anything and I am so appreciative of that.
They don’t make men like that hardly anymore. Hell the men I have come across can barely fix a flat or change a light bulb.
They’ve been selling food for a min. The ice cream and meatballs are good
Lord! Where have I been?
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Lol
That might be it. Or it could be this documentary –> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toPaFAQWbhI
Major Shade!!!!
how did it change him? sired 5 kids with mulitple women, no marriage for any of them..really
aww damn…that was my fav movie and never knew it was about Rich…damn Money Making Mitch….love that damn movie….
Yes, this is it. It’s one of the episodes in the Gangsters series. The one on Jemeker Thompson was excellent.
Turkey and beef. Yes lots of onions and bell pepper. Onion soup mix indeed. No to the chicken broth . I make my own gravy. I didn’t have broccoli this time . That lingonberry jam is the TRUUTTHHH!!
He appears to be a good father to his children. He appears to spend time with all of his kids together. While not perfect… he seems to be doing a pretty good job.
amen to that!!!
So Sandra… we couldn’t end this story on a high note? But… since you didn’t there could be many reasons that Alpo Martinez went a different route.
I wish you would have ended this on a high note.
I considered that, but I also wanted to contrast Puffy’s success with another high profile kid with a similar experience who took a different route.
Paid in Full the movie is based on Alpo’s story as well; it just never touched on the Caucasian family that had an impact on his life. Alpo stated they still kept in contact with him in prison, and he wondered what his life would be like if he stayed with them.
It was very good. I remembered it because of the mention of the Fresh Air Fund, and the fact that he still turned out bad.
Yes. This is the show they did phone, and video interviews and everything.
No I am woke and giving the Universe different experiences unlike you mind controlled masses , Know Thyself…. I hate the condition of our people y’all got to raise y’all vibration so you can understand what hell is going on in this Matrix ……..the only reason it continues is because y’all comply , truth don’t need defending …. I don’t laugh at y’all because in the Age of Aquarius and y’all still not woke is jus disheartening, the condition of black people who choose a illusion over real reality , refuse to wake up is not a laughing matter .. Love and Light
It was already stated down below. Thanks.
I noticed after typing it; I showed up late to the party my bad…lol
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They started something and I likie
Well Puff if you are still interested in tracking this family down and thanking them for helping you becoming the man you are today,with all this new technology and your hook ups it won’t take long. They probably have no idea how they’ve influenced your life. (Lmaooo) They prolly don’t even care. Shidt I can’t even continue..lort!!!!
I just finished the season … never damn mind …Nova always giving something up
free vacation? milking cows and picking berries?
Sis, ALL OF THESE COMPANIES – Whole Foods,Trader Joe’s, Costco,Kroger, Dollar Tree/Family Dollar, 99c Only, Fast food & “fine dining” restaurants, city/county govts, prisons…buy from THE SAME FEW MANUFACTURERS. So if one ingredient in the supply chain turns up tainted, its likely affecting a whole mass of end users…
(I peeped this as I transitioned from entertainment marketing to b2b marketing for a manufacturer…)
We make the EXACT SAME SHAT w/minor variations (packaging mostly) for every single one of the Co’s I mentioned.
SMH – We all need to grow/eat our own crops.
*end rant* LOL
I agree, I hope his daughters don’t repeat what they’ve seen modeled before them, money can’t give you high self esteem!
Women already have it hard avoiding men who are unavailable, irresponsible, womanizing, and double standards when they have good dads because there are so men who set bad examples for their boys and girls !
Love and light to you too hun..
I mostly comment with jokes to laugh…I keep my wokeness to myself
Puff you almost worth a billion what are you waiting on to find this family that so called altered your life!!
The new season? Damn, it’s wrapped already? Yes, Nova is a bucket.
In a QS group I’m in on FB (haven’t been on FB in a while) folks were pissed at the start of the romance. Again, I haven’t been able to keep up with it. I’m busy and unplugged. LOL
:fistbump:
I’m a simple, no frills kind of chick. Makes life easier and stress-free that way.
Yes, they have a “Marketplace”. They sell their meatballs (original, chicken and veggie) and smoked salmon and jam and lingonberry juice and cookies and shit.
sweet.
Exactly! He’s full of it. Just another feel good story for t.v
I noticed that too ?
Electronics? Take a seat, no one is looking for you Diddy!
Love and Light
It does seem like he spends quality time with his kids, but one day they will hear and read about his devious behaviors with young men and the physical abuse their mother (Kim Porter) endured. I wonder do they ever wish their dad lived with them and married mom like so many of their classmates?
Wonderful story.
I’ve often said that there needs to be a mechanism whereby black boys can go live in africa for a summer; or something like what Sean did, in the country.
That would get their minds straight.
Please, stop!
What is your reasoning for constantly commenting about the celebrities you know? I don’t get it.
I don’t think this was for me.
I’ve wondered that too though ?????
What the…lol. i swear I replied to the right person. Lordt.
Open your 3rd eye and U can feel like you are smoking purple haze too..learn thyself…Love and Light