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You can download "Swagga Like Puff" from Diddy's MySpace.
Sixshot.com has an interview with Mista Raja.
Sixshot.Com: What is it like working with Diddy?
Mista Raja: Working with Diddy is always a high pressure situation because he's such a beast in the studio honestly. He's demanding and he knows how to pull the best out of you at all times. He can test you but when he does the best will rise out of you, that’s for sure. Being around him just makes you better as an artist. ...
Sixshot.Com: You wrote on 'Come to Me', which was a huge record. Did you think it was going to be that big?
Mista Raja: I knew it was going to be a hit right off the bat because that's all Diddy does. The man makes hits and his track record speaks for itself. I was worried how people were going to react to him just because of the fact that he took such a long break between albums but Press Play was a great project and I thank God that I was on it. The whole process was amazing and it came out great. It was a real success for everybody involved in it.
While I was away, Diddy decided to release his own unique spin on Jay-Z and T.I.'s star-studded single "Swagger Like Us," calling it "Swagga Like Puff." You can listen to it in our audio player. I like it. Coinciding with the release of the song, two versions of Diddy Blog #20 were posted and named "Upclose and Personal" and "The Streets Are Watching." The first one features Diddy in front of a web cam while the second one is Diddy riding in a Jeep with Chase N. Cashe and Hit-Boy of the Surf Club. Check them out below.
Photographers caught Diddy doing, what else, stepping in some dog poop. Funnily enough, this made the cover of the New York Post. Okie dokey.
Diddy made fun of this in his most recent video blog, included below.
Via Liz Kelly.
Jose Martinez of the New York Daily News reports on the dismissal of a lawsuit filed against Diddy and Vibe Magazine, contending privacy violations due to the publication of a photo from the 2003 edition of Diddy's white party.
Maria Dominguez, now a hedge fund manager, had filed the suit, as she is pictured in one of the photos in a mermaid outfit and is not wearing a top.
Justice Doris Ling-Cohan rejected the suit, as she felt that it was unreasonable for Dominguez to expect privacy at such a widely publicized event.
This was pretty much a foregone conclusion due to previous remarks, but Diddy officially endorsed Barack Obama for the presidency of the United States on tonight's episode of Making the Band 4.
Complex has an interview with Nelly. On a Bad Boy related note:
Complex: What’s the deal with the Sean John ads?
Nelly: I did one for my man Puffy. He’s a cool dude.
Complex: How long are you locked into that? Is it just one season, or were you guys going to talk about expanding that?
Nelly: Nah, it’s a thing where Puff is my man. He wanted to do something that we thought would be special. He wanted to launch something, and I had an album coming out, and we thought that it would be a good thing for both sides. Puffy is a real, real good friend of mine. It’s very rare that you could have people that you can call directly when you have a problem and things of that nature. When I was trying to get Apple Bottoms off the ground, he would give me advice, and lead me in the right direction. He had Sean John, he had things poppin’ off, and he didn’t really have to do that, and I thought that was real hot. It meant a lot to me. Obviously we handle business, it’s not a thing where Nelly is officially a Sean John model, I just did an ad.
A new version of the Darkchild remix of the Pussycat Dolls' "When I Grow Up" has been released. Lil' Wayne has been taken off of the track and Rock City has been added. The intro is cleaner, as well, with Diddy's vocals being left uninterrupted as Fatman Scoop and Lil' Wayne have been removed. You can listen to it on DJBooth.net.
So, we've got this little "controversy" about Diddy owning a jet - or not. I find that most Diddy related controversy or criticism is fueled by a lack of knowledge or research. Alex Rodekrans of Halogen Guides puts to rest claims that Diddy doesn't own a jet.
Now, as a veteran of the rap game, P. Diddy hardly needs our help to brush off the haters, so to speak. However, it pains us to see fractional ownership programs like NetJets so misunderstood in the popular press. NetJets owners are not purchasing time aboard an aircraft, as some suggest. Instead fractional jet holders are the legal owners of a portion of an aircraft, which is then leased back to the fractional company who manages the plane and regulates its use.
In an interview with Sixshot.com, Slim of 112 says that Diddy is wrapping up a remix to his single, "So Fly." The original version of the track featured Yung Joc and the video remix added Shawty Lo. He also mentioned that Diddy will be featured on his upcoming album, "Love's Crazy."
SixShot.com: Faith Evans is also on your album, do you still have a relationship with most of your ex Bad Boy label mates that you basically grew up with?
Slim: Yup… As a matter of fact, I just got off the phone with Puff probably like an hour ago. He’s finishing up the remix to the ‘So Fly’ joint. He’s on my album, Faith Evans, and Jadakiss. I talk to all of them for real; we’re a Bad Boy family. This is a situation where it’s not just something on paper, so once you’re a family, you’re always a family. We always stay in touch.
As a follow up to the gas prices video he posted last month, Diddy has a new blog where he announces that gas prices have dropped some (still not enough) and that he's back on the jet. Watch below.
That cab driver couldn't wait to get Fonzworth out of the car.
Stephen Whitty of The Star-Ledger spoke with Derek Luke, thanks to his role in the soon to be released, "Miracle at St. Anna." But, in the interview, Diddy comes up, as well. Luke will play him in the upcoming Biggie film, "Notorious."
Q: Of course, you're not only playing Diddy in "Notorious," he's also one of the executive producers of the film. Any trepidation there, knowing he'd be watching?
A: Triple trepidation at first. I had to go to him for myself, I needed to know, OK, what do you want from me? Why me? But he said, "I trust you, I like you, I've seen some of what you've done. Go do your thing." And that was it. If ever I asked him questions it would be, "It's cool, just go do your thing."
Warning: explicit language.
Diddy will be hosting a party, the "Black & White Attire Extravaganza," at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Mashantucket, Connecticut. Tickets cost $100 and can be purchased on their website.
Via Nick A. Zaino III of the Boston Globe.
Check out this video, featuring Picaso, a Bad Boy fan, former Bad Boy intern and A&R for Bryan-Michael Cox, talk about Diddy's production talents and his desire, as a fan, to see him return as a producer.
I loved watching this, as a fan, and agreed with most of it. I liked the note at the end, about artists who have complained and left Bad Boy. I really like Donnie Klang's album and Cassie's, so far, sounds great, as well. Day26 and Danity Kane dropped great efforts this year, as well. But, I would love to see Diddy get back behind the boards as a producer more. In fact, I wrote about this last October.
You simply cannot mess with Diddy's production predigree. Some people try to, they try to cheapen it. But, you can't. The guy has produced insane, monster records and, for the most part, no one in the world can stack up to what he's done and accomplished.
There is a certain selfishness to this sort of request, as a fan, however. What I believe Diddy fans like about the man, in addition to other things, is his drive and his creativity. He accomplished what you can accomplish as a producer. And he moved on to other things. He's an artist, that's why we like him, and artists evolve and they do other things. They change. I loved "Press Play," I loved the variety. I don't mean to say that I want Diddy to go back to 1997. That doesn't make any sense. You grow and change. You can't do what you've already done, you have to do something new.
Interestingly, Diddy has stepped back into producer mode again, recently, with "Welcome to the Dollhouse" (3 tracks) and "Day26" (7) and with "Take You There" for Donnie Klang. And I've liked a lot of it. But, I do miss the frequency of his production and of remixes. Bad Boy remixes, man.
As I wrote back in July, Diddy has expressed an interest in bringing The Hitmen back together, but it didn't gain any steam, thanks to a lack of interest from others. So, it's on his mind.
But, again, it's unrealistic and unreasonable to expect such a thing. You can't produce with that regularity and be the CEO of Bad Boy, manage Sean John, work with Ciroc, be an actor and all of the other things that he does. Diddy's certainly earned the right to do whatever it is that he wants without anyone slighting him for it. At the same time, that doesn't mean that we can't dream, right?
Last week, I highlighted the Diddy interview on UptownLife.Net. That appears to be the cover story for their Fall 2008 cover. See it below, care of Diddy's MySpace.
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