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On his Twitter, Diddy mentioned that he has done a new track with Simian Mobile Disco. It's unclear, at this time, what this track was for.
From a New York Times feature on model/actress Dree Hemingway (great-granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway):
CURRENT OBSESSION: Twitter. My mother turned me on to it. I had no idea what it was, but it’s so fun. You just update your status constantly. I enjoy reading P. Diddy’s. He has the funniest updates. Like: “Women are God’s gift to earth. What are you doing?” I love it.
Brennan Williams of Black Voices reports:
"Ending the Rockefeller Drug Laws is a great victory for the hip-hop community," Russell Simmons said in a statement issued by his rep Jody Miller. "We worked hard, turned up the volume on this issue and rejuvenated and broadened the coalition, but it was hip-hop artists like Diddy, Jay-Z and 50 Cent that gave this movement for change the power to wake people up and to get the politicians to do the right thing."
AllHopHop.com has a track called "Maybe" by Jay-Z featuring Diddy. Honestly, it doesn't really sound like anything. Maybe an interlude. Diddy is talking at the end, I guess - he's sort of hard to here. Just passing it on, though I don't know what to make of it.
Thanks Theo.
The Fredereick News-Post, a newspaper based in Frederick country in Maryland, has a feature on Terrance Welcher, a makeup artist who works for MTV and BET. I thought I'd share this snippet:
He had become a professional makeup artist by the age of 18, after graduating from Frederick High School. He has since done makeup for several celebrities, including Naomi Campbell and Sean "Diddy" Combs.
"My best compliment was when Diddy said, 'You're on my team now' É I'm not, like, a fanatic, but I admire him so much."
It's a nice story.
Over at The Huffington Post, Barry Michael Cooper has released the final fourth part of his "Sean John Combs: Once Upon A Time In America" video series ( watch the first three parts).
In this clip, Diddy discusses using his influence for good, "Vote or Die," getting started in video production with Hype Williams (I had no idea about this) and more. Must watch! Mr. Cooper deserves a lot of praise for his work on this series and for delving down a bit and caring enough to ask about these topics. Diddy's a controversial figure for various reasons, some unfair, but he only rarely ever gets his full due.
Here's the flier for The Main Event II. It's happening on Friday in Miami.
What I thought would just be some promotional stuff turned into a cool video for fans where Diddy briefly touches on the unreleased Diddy dance album, "Divided Soul." Felix credits Diddy for his early forays into dance music.
Just as he did last year, Diddy will be participating in The Main Event, DJing against Felix da Housecat in Miami on March 27 in Miami. Details here.
Diddy now has a Ustream.TV channel, PTWITTYTV. Previously, he had used the Mogulus live streaming service.
The cover for the April 2009 issue of Mixmag, featuring Diddy and Felix da Housecat is on the Mixmag website.
Diddy is briefly mentioned in the March 2009 issue of Upscale Magazine, in a feature called "Generation Paid." There is nothing newsworthy in the feature, it's basically a quick rundown of his success.
XXLmag.com reports that Diddy previewed "Diddy Boppin" and talked a bit about Mase on a live stream from his Mogulus channel last week.
... Diddy solicited questions from his Twitter followers, requesting that people “hit me with some hard questions. Hit me with something you really wanna know.” When a user asked if he still talks to former Bad Boy artist Mase, Puff stated that he hadn’t spoken to Mase in a while but that they’re still on good terms and that the Harlem rapper-turned-pastor sometimes texts him.
Diddy now has his own Mogulus channel, called P Twitty Tv Live. Mogulus is a live video streaming service.
Bad Boy has launched a new YouTube channel for the P Twitty TV series. It's PTWITTYTV.
People reports that, during an appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, Diddy was asked about reports indicating that Diddy had let Chris Brown and Rihanna stay at his home in Miami.
"It was a dark time for them and I was there as more of a support," the music mogul said during an interview on the Ellen DeGeneres Show that aired Tuesday. "I'm not immersed in [their situation]. I'm not going to pass judgment on it. I'm going to be there as a friend."
There are more quotes in the full article.
Via Jayson Rodriguez.
From DJBooth.net's interview with Royce da 5'9":
DJ Booth: A lot of my coworkers begged me to ask you who you are ghostwriting for these days.
Royce: I’m writing for Diddy right now, that’s pretty much it. I’m so involved with my project, the Slaughterhouse project, that I don’t have much free time to do side stuff. And I don’t even consider Diddy’s project side stuff, I consider that something that’s gotta get done. I’m officially a go-to guy for him; whenever he calls me, I stop what I’m doing, even if I’ve gotta work ‘em at the same time and just get ‘em done.
DJ Booth: When he sends you a check, does he include Sean John clothing and some cologne?
Royce: Yeah, he sends me everything – he sends me some Sean John clothing, Sean John cologne. He sent me a million-dollar check yesterday that I just got. I’ll probably buy you something for Christmas—what do you want?
As I have before, I must note that it's not ghostwriting if you're credited in the album booklet.
In a pair of Twitter messages, Diddy announced that new music, "a new era of Bad Boy hits," would be coming from Bad Boy starting on Thursday.
Shortly after that message, he also said that a new track "for the clubs," called "Diddy Boppin" would be released in 3 weeks, declaring that it was for the DJs.
Via HipHopRx.com.
Here are a couple of fun, entertaining videos featuring Jadakiss talking about "doing it like Diddy."
Update: Just noticed that I can't embed individual videos, I guess. Part 2 is the one currently displayed, but if you click back to the video before it, you'll find part 1.
In February, during a radio interview, The-Dream said that he had given Diddy "the best male record I've written. Probably the best record I've written overall."
Entertainment Weekly has a little more on the track, including a title. It's called "Change." Here's what he said:
''This record I wrote two nights ago. It's [going to be] one of the biggest I ever wrote. Diddy sang the record gracefully. He really pulled it off, and he really surprised me. Because it's Puff, nobody expects it. [But] he's got the goods''
Via Rap-Up.com.
The Times Record reports:
Eighth grade language arts teacher Sharon Callahan never missed her students more than when she sat in the contestant's chair on the syndicated television game show, "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."
For $32,000, she had to answer the question: "Hip hop impresario Sean 'Diddy' Coombs is the father of twin girls named D'Lila Star and what?"
A. Jessie James, B. Dannie Oakley, C. Sanity Jayne or D. Dot Holliday.
She guessed C., whereas the answer is A.
I just wanted to mention that Diddy.com, which is now the same as LastTraintoParis.com, has a new sample playing.
Last night and into the early morning, between Twitter and YouTube, Diddy posted a series of 5 videos called "P Twitty TV." The videos show Diddy at Daddy's House, working on his album and talking about random subjects. The 5 episodes are below and I recommend watching them. I did want to highlight a few music related things that were mentioned in the videos, though.
Diddy is shown in the studio with the Soul Diggaz, Sean C and Dawn Richard of Danity Kane. Just because they were there doesn't mean they were working, though, so take it for what it is.
At one point, Diddy steps into a room where they are playing a track that he says is a new one from Ron Browz that he is getting on. Aasim is in the room, sitting over a pad and pen, possibly writing for the track.
Right after that, he heads into another room where Cassie is recording and a text caption comes on the screen, saying that her album will be released in July.
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The Last Train to Paris website has launched - sorta. Basically, it's a one pager featuring some audio that we saw on Making the Band 4. You can subscribe to the mailing and mobile list by clicking "click for information," which brings up a mock train ticket.
Now that Diddy's two episode stint on CSI: Miami has come to an end, I thought I would ask: what did you think?
Personally, I enjoyed it. I thought it was a great performance and enjoyed the show as a hole, honestly. If he was on regularly, I'd watch every week.
USA TODAY reports:
Brown and Rihanna are staying at the home of Sean "Diddy" Combs on Star Island, according to reports from People, Us Weekly and TMZ.com. USA TODAY was unable to confirm the reports. Rihanna's publicist said the singer's announcement last week indicating that she would not comment on the incident at the request of authorities was her only statement. Brown's camp did not respond to queries, and Diddy's publicist would not comment.
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