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Hip-hopogles Sean Diddy Combs is in custody this morning after being detained overnight by federal authorities in New York.

According to a person familiar with the situation, Combs was caught off guard by his

arrest in the lobby of the Park Hyatt Hotel where he'd been living for several weeks.

Since November,

Combs has also been hit with multiple civil lawsuits

with similar allegations, including sexual assault,

sex trafficking, and illegal distribution of guns and drugs.

As rap mogul, Sean Diddy Combsbs sits in a Brooklyn jail facing criminal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering and at least seven civil suits alleging sexual assault, we talked to investigative journalist Brian Joseph, who spent many years writing about the relationship

between hip-hop culture and sexual exploitation.

Brian recently released a book called Vegas Concierge, Sex Trafficking, Hip Hop and Corruption in America.

In it, he focuses on the so-called pimp and prostitute culture that's been glamorized

and normalized in the media. Specifically, Brian reports on the case of

Jamil Rashid, known professionally as Marley Marl, an American hip-hop producer who worked with the

likes of Snoop Dogg, Chris Brown and Wiz Khalifa, among many others.

In 2021 Rashid was sentenced to two years in prison for sex trafficking, with prosecutors claiming he'd been running the

operation for at least 12 years. Before we begin, please be advised that Brian

uses the term prostitute in the way that we here in Australia now use the term sex worker.

It's certainly not used in a derogatory way, but it's still the most common descriptor used in the United States.

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