Will the real Sean Combs, please stand up? I repeat, will the real Sean Combs, please stand up? That is a serious question folks, and given that the rapper changed his stage name numerous times from Puff, to puff daddy, to P diddy and the most recent name, diddy, I wonder, who is he really? Let’s start with the basics of what you and I have known for many years. Sean Combs is a rapper, three-time Grammy award winner, an entrepreneur, and creator of Bad Boy records who represented some of the most influential musical artists such as, Mary J Blige, The Notorious B.I.G and Lil Kim, and so many other big names. However, that is not what others in the entertainment industry view him as. According to source, the people who knew Diddy personally, rather that is a romantic partner, a musician who has worked with him on a project, an assistant, or some A-lister, all have referred to him as the devil. A former assistant of Diddy, Capricorn Clark, speaks out in a message posted on her Twitter account after Suge Knight, former CEO of death row records, made a statement about Diddy’s alleged violence towards women.

“Black women end up being the sacrifice for the F-ckery. Last 11 years of my life, I have had to deal with EVERYONES nonsensical allegiance to the devil. I pray that ends. I don’t think highly of any of you. Can’t keep your head down and pretend sh-t is cool, no more! Do better,”

This is what Suge told source,

“What Puffy done, what Puffy did, or what Puffy do, is not a surprise — everybody know what it is. I mean, you gotta be able to that type of shit to a woman and to other women. But it’s not like its new news.”

He then goes on and claims that he believed that Diddy assaulted his assistant, Clark, because she didn’t tell him about Cassie Ventura, Bad Boy artist and Diddy’s lover, who had allegedly been creeping around with rapper, Kid Cudi. In November 2023, we finally got the confirmation of these alleged accusations when Ventura filed a lawsuit against her ex – partner Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing him of sexual assault and physical abuse. Soon after, 120 accusers of 60 men and 60 women, came forward in a series of lawsuits against Combs accusing him of sexual misconduct and abuse that have not been filed yet.

To me, it is mind blowing that Combs has gotten away with these allege crimes for so long, which leaves me with a lot of unanswered questions as to what is really happening in the entertainment industry behind the scenes, and why other celebrities aren’t coming forward about this. I mean sure, they may fear of their life and reputation, but something is just still strange about it all. We all know that Combs was also known as one of the best hosts who threw those massive parties that reportedly, had cost over a million dollars, and filled with A – list celebrities who were his closest friends and could be as screwed up as he is, but could there have been something dark going on in those parties? Is the legend true that you must engage in what others may call it, an illuminati Sacrifice, also known as, to sell one’s soul; and during your contract, you must not speak of the sacrifice and if you do, you will be punished? Is it also true that when the deal is made after all the fame, sex and money, at the end of your contract, you will be exposed in the most gruesome way and when you die, your soul will be taken by the Devil?  If you are not familiar with, “To sell one’s soul,” it is defined as, to gain wealth, success and power by doing something bad or dishonest. In a more mythical context, it is a person who has sold their soul (to the devil) for fame and prosperity. Now, while all ties into the notion of theory, it has brought to my attention that this legend, to sell one’s soul, has been around for some time, even decades ago. In the early 1920s, there was musical legend by the name of Robert Johnson who had allegedly, sold his soul to the devil for fame and fortune. Johnson was a legendary blues musician and songwriter based in delta Mississippi. His legacy influenced many famous musicians for generations such as, B.B king, Muddy Waters, Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, and Chuck Berry. The rock and roll hall of fame even describes him as,” the first ever rockstar,” but before I dive into the story of Robert Johnson and his brush with the Devil’s blues, I’d like to share a scripture from the bible that I believe will best suit this topic and my thoughts on it.

In the new King James version, Mark chapter 8:35 – 36 reads,

“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it for what will profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?”

In translation, Whatever life you seek in the present moment will cost you your eternal life but for those who is willing to follow Christ in their journey in this world, will find eternal life.

In my own opinion regarding this statement is that I believe if you allow yourself to be patient and learn the lessons that you need to learn in this journey and trust in the lord, you will prosper and become successful. As an artist myself, I choose Christ way, and even though I’ve been striving for almost 10 years independently, doubted myself, dealing with rejections and so on, by changing my perspective and understanding who I am as a divine feminine, why I am here, and how the process really works, for that, I am gaining more knowledge in my field and getting better and stronger as an artist. Now, I’m starting to realize that this is the right path for me, and I am grateful that I’ve allowed myself to go through the struggles in my journey the way the lord has called me to do to become closer to him, and I wouldn’t change that for nothing.

Analyzing the myths and legend of Robert Johnson

 Upon researching on the musician, I’ve noticed that some of the information I found was quite confusing as to what was accurate and what was not. Most of what I’ve discovered were statements written in articles about him from people who knew him personally like, childhood friends, fellow musicians and family members or from peers who have seen him periodically, and other information I found from source were allegations from the word on the streets. So, if you will, take the information with a grain of salt.

 Biography of Robert Johnson

Robert Leroy Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi on May 8, 1911, to Julia Major Dobbs (born October 1874) and Norah Johnson (born December 1884) Julia married a landowner and furniture maker by the name, Charles Dobbs, whom she later had ten children with. It is said that Charles was forced by a lynch mob to leave his land in Hazlehurst due to a dispute he had with white landowners which caused Julia to leave town with Robert when he was only an infant. There was no location listed in the information I found where they’ve resided. However, according to source, within two years later, Julia took Robert to Memphis, Tennessee to live with her husband Charles, who had supposedly, changed his last name to Spencer, in which I suspect, to protect himself and his family from possible dangers happening again. Robert spent most of his childhood in Memphis, approximately 8 to 9 years there. He attended Carnes Avenue elementary on J W Williams Lane located in North Memphis, an all-colored school, where he received lessons on, reading, writing, English, and took extracurricular activities such as, physical health, and music. It was Memphis that inspired Robert to want to purse music and learn about blues and other popular music. It was reported that around 1919 to 1920, Robert reunited back with his mother who was then married to Will “Dusty” Willis, a man who was 24 years her junior, and an illiterate sharecropper. At the time, the family lived on a plantation in Lucas Township in Crittenden County, Arkansas, but soon after, relocated across the Mississippi river near Tunica and Robinsonville on the Abbay & Leatherman plantation. There, Robert attended Indian Creek school in Tunica where it is said that students and residents referred to him as, “little Robert Dusty,” even though it was reported that he was registered as Robert Spencer, a last name from his mother’s previous marriage to Charles that had not yet been changed. During a documentary that was filmed later in life, one of Robert’s childhood friends, Coffee, stated that Robert was very musical, and was known around school for playing the harmonica and Jaw harp, but was always absent for long periods, but then speculated that he may have returned home to Memphis where he studied music. However, because of his lack of playing skills, he took a short break from music, returned home to Robinsonville, and got married. At the age of 17 years old, Robert married 14-year-old Virginia Travis around February 1929, but it is said that the couple lied on their marriage record to appear older. The couple then moved to a farm in Bolivar County, Mississippi, where they lived with Robert’s stepsister, Bessie and her husband, Granville on the Klein plantation east of Robinsonville. Somewhere around the 1930s Robert supposedly, return to music after he had a realization that working as a farmer, was not so fulfilling to him anymore, and given that he was a husband, and soon to be father, he wanted more for his family than just an ordinary life. On April 10, 1930, while Robert was out playing music, his wife Virginia, had gone into labor and died in childbirth along with their baby. Robert was devastated about the unfortunate news and became extremely depressed. In a recent statement from surviving relatives of Virginia, they told blues reporter, Robert “Mack” McCormick, that they believed that her death was a divine punishment for Robert’s decision to sing secular songs. Although, it is said that Mack believed that Robert accepted the phrase, “selling your soul to the devil,” as a testament for abandoning his role as a farmer and husband to pursue his dream as a fulltime blues musician. Meanwhile, during my search, I then discovered that Johnson married again to a woman named, Caletta Craft, in May 1931 in Clarkdale Mississippi, who he supposedly, had a secret son with named, Claud Johnson. Unfortunately, Johnson, for the same reason in his previous marriage, neglected his new family to pursue music, and sadly two years later, Caletta Craft died in early 1933. Johnson never married again but had girlfriends from time to time, in reports it says that Johnson wanted to focus on his music entirely and settling down with a lover was not on his agenda anymore, so he did just that. While on his quest as a serious blues musician, other locals around town still viewed him as an amateur. Even fellow musicians like blues musician, Son House, who stated that Robert was a young boy who was a decent harmonica player but an embarrassingly, bad guitarist. Later in life, Robert left Robinsonville and went back home to his birthplace to find his biological father in Martinsville, according to source. Legend has it that, while he spent his time there, he met skilled guitarist, Isaiah Zimmerman, also known as, “IKE,” who taught him new styles on the guitar through a supernatural technique that is learned and done by visiting graveyards at midnight. When Robert returned to Robinsonville, he had appeared to miraculously have gained new style techniques. He was so skilled that he can even play a seven string on the guitar. While locals didn’t believe that Johnson could have been taught new style techniques on a guitar within a year he had disappeared, given that he was known around as a bad guitarist before, they speculated that instead, his new talented came from a pact he made with the devil at the crossroads. Legend has it that, he went to the crossroads at midnight, and was met by a large black man, “the devil,” who then took his guitar and tuned it. The devil played a few songs and then returned the guitar back to Johnson, giving him “a mastery of the instrument, “in exchange for his soul, Johnson became a famous blues musician and the best guitar player in the world overnight.

Could this legend be true? Was this the beginning of the illuminati, I wonder? After hearing Robert Johnson’s song, Crossroad blues that was written by him, was he trying to describe what happened that night at the crossroads in a metaphorical way? I’ll let you decide.

Crossroads blues lyrics

I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees
I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees
Asked the Lord above, “Have mercy, now, save poor Bob if you please”

Yeah, standin’ at the crossroad, tried to flag a ride
Ooh-ee, I tried to flag a ride
Didn’t nobody seem to know me, babe, everybody pass me by

Standin’ at the crossroad, baby, risin’ sun goin’ down
Standin’ at the crossroad, baby, risin’ sun goin’ down
I believe to my soul, now, poor Bob is sinkin’ down

You can run, you can run, tell my friend Willie Brown
You can run, you can run, tell my friend Willie Brown
That I got the crossroad blues this mornin’, Lord, baby, I’m sinkin’ down

And I went to the crossroad, mama, I looked East and West
I went to the crossroad, baby, I looked East and West
Lord, I didn’t have no sweet woman, ooh well, babe, in my distress

Allegedly, soon after Johnson was gifted his supernatural powers from the devil, he relocated to a new town, in which not notated in the reports, where he began playing on street corners, and local bars to showcase his new talent to the public for tips. Musicians in town who have witnessed him live have said that instead of Johnson performing his original dark and complex style of music, he focused on playing what the audience wanted to hear by performing more well-known pop music with no blues influence behind it. With his ability to pick up tunes, Johnson had no problem of playing other genres requested by the audience. Later, after he experienced a new style of different music, Johnson sparked an interest in jazz and country music, and because of that, he had gained a huge following in every town he played. He even recorded 41 songs in two sessions in Dallas and San Antonio, Texas for the American Record Company during 1936 and 1937. According to source, while in the peak of his success, Johnson had a weakness for whiskey and women. It is said that the blues singer had special powers over women at each show he played, and that Johnson could possess women and have any woman he wanted, including married women. During a show, he would cultivate a woman to look after him and ask her if he could go home with her. In some cases, he was accepted, until their partner arrives and then he would move on and find another woman to sleep with. Suddenly, not long after, Johnson’s fame had abruptly ended. It is said that because of the end of his career, he became a regular at local juke joints and had become an alcoholic and very promiscuous. On the night of his death, Sonny Boy Williamson, a blues musician and friend of Johnson, recalled the fatal incident that night in a recent report stating that, Johnson began flirting with a married woman at the bar who had given him a bottle of whiskey that had poison in it, laced by her jealous husband. Williamson then explains that when he saw Johnson take the bottle, he knocked it out of his hand, warning him to never drink from a bottle that he had not personally opened. Johnson then replied, “don’t ever knock a bottle out of my hand.” Not long after the confrontation, he was offered another bottle by the same woman that had poison in it and accepted it. Later that night, Johnson felt ill and was helped back to his room. Three days later, his condition had worsened, and sadly, died shortly after on August 16, 1938, at the age of 27 from a possible cause of pneumonia. While some medical professionals suspected otherwise that the cause of death could be related to congenital syphilis, others believe that his deal had ended with the devil and his soul was taken. Musicologist, Gayle Dean Wardlow, who was researching about Johnson’s life, had supposedly, found his death certificate, which only listed the date and location with no cause of death and autopsy done. To this day, the cause remains a mystery.

Gravesites

Today, the true location of Johnson’s grave is unknown, but it is reported that three different markers have been erected at possible sites in church cemeteries outside Greenwood, Mississippi. Here are the alleged grave locations listed from source attached below.

• Research in the 1980s and 1990s strongly suggests Johnson was buried in the graveyard of the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church near Morgan City, Mississippi, not far from Greenwood, in an unmarked grave. A one-ton cenotaph in the shape of an obelisk, listing all of Johnson’s song titles, with a central inscription by Peter Guralnick, was placed at this location in 1990, paid for by Columbia Records and numerous smaller contributions made through the Mount Zion Memorial Fund.

• In 1990, a small marker with the epitaph “Resting in the Blues” was placed in the cemetery of Payne Chapel, near Quito, Mississippi, by an Atlanta rock group named the Tombstones, after they saw a photograph inLiving Blues magazine of an unmarked spot alleged by one of Johnson’s ex-girlfriends to be Johnson’s burial site

• More recent research by Stephen LaVere (including statements from Rosie Eskridge, the wife of the supposed gravedigger, in 2000) indicates that the actual grave site is under a big pecan tree in the cemetery of the Little Zion Church, north of Greenwood along Money Road. Through LaVere, Sony Music placed a marker at this site, which bears LaVere’s name as well as Johnson’s. Researchers Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow also concluded this was Johnson’s resting place in their 2019 biography.

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Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Horror Obsessive. All allegations and claims mentioned are based on publicly available information and speculation, and should not be considered factual without proper verification. Horror Obsessive does not assume responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or truth of any statements made in this article. Readers are encouraged to conduct their own research on the topics discussed.

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