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Valerie Nome of OK! Magazine has a quick interview with Diddy. Though the title implies he's comparing himself to Vogue editor Anna Wintour, he actually heaps praise on her, calling her his godmother in fashion.
“She’s like a godmother to me. She doesn’t know that, but I’ve adopted her as a godmother to me in fashion because she’s the one who first took me to the shows in Paris, she’s the one whose always treated me like a designer when she reviewed my collections and told me the truth about what was right and what was wrong.”
Almost two weeks ago, Britney Spears appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman (video) to read the "top 10 days the country would be different if Britney Spears were President." Number two was "Vice President Diddy."
"I would gladly accept," Diddy told Nome.
Earlier today on Twitter, Bad Boy A&R Daniel "Skid" Mitchell sent a public message to producer Rashad Smith, asking about an "Angels" remix to which Smith replied he would be finishing this week.
Smith's past production credits include Biggie's "One More Chance/Stay With Me (Remix)," Diddy's "Young G's," Craig Mack's "Making Moves with Puff" and MC Lyte's "Cold Rock a Party (Bad Boy Remix)." Suffice to say, I can't wait to hear this remix.
Update (9/2/09): Listen to the tracks now!
According to Bad Boy A&R Daniel "Skid" Mitchell, the new Diddy/Dirty Money singles "Angels" and "Love Come Down" premiered on Hot 97 last night during Funkmaster Flex's show. I was too late to catch them, but if you happened to do so, please tell us about them in the comments. It'll only be a matter of time being they are released where we can all listen to them.
On Diddy's Twitter, he mentioned that he will be "launching" two singles from "Last Train to Paris" during Labor Day weekend (September 5-7). Previously, he announced that "Love Come Down," a new "mix show/club single" would be sent to DJs on September 2.
In an interview with MTV News, T-Pain talked a little bit about Diddy/Dirty Money's upcoming "Last Train to Paris" album, revealing that he's written 12 songs for it. This includes "Let's Play a Game," which uses old board games as metaphors for a relationship. According to the singer, he's mainly contributing ideas and concepts.
Interestingly, in the clip below, he says that Diddy told him he was putting together a group of two guys (Diddy and one other) and two girls for the album. It's unclear if Pain is mistaken or heard incorrectly, but take it for what it is.
Finally, Steven Roberts, who wrote the article, says that T-Pain feels that Diddy's past experience of singing hooks will be of use Diddy on this singing driven album. "Auto-Tune will help that out a little bit, but I just told him to put some more into it," he said to Roberts. "But he's pretty good [at singing] actually, which is weird."
Shinan Govani of the National Post reports:
As far as initiations go, hanging out with Diddy in Toronto the other night must have been right up there for Drake, Canada's (and hip hop's) Next Big Thing. There they were at Sotto Sotto. There, again, at Century Room. There, too, in the recording studio above Tattoo Rock Parlour, on Queen, where the Gatsbyish Diddy was said to be recording with the Toronto singer...
On a recent episode of The Late Show with David Letterman, Britney Spears appeared to count down the "top 10 ways the country would be different if Britney Spears were President." Number 2? "Three words: Vice President Diddy." Check out the clip below.
Via Samuel Lora.
Update (9/2/09): Listen to the track now!
A message on Diddy's Twitter revealed that the first "club and mix show single" for Dirty Money will be sent to clubs and DJs on September 2. It's called "Love Come Down."
Back in July, we reported on TechCrunch's publishing of leaked notes from internal Twitter strategy meetings that mentioned Diddy in both a favorable and unfavorable light (generally, it was more of the latter).
Kim-Mai Cutler at VentureBeat spoke with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone about the leak and their efforts to control the damage.
He said that Twitter reached out to everyone who was mentioned in the notes to make them aware of the situation and "to tell them that these notes didn’t reflect anything."
He also talked about their meeting with Diddy. "When we came away from that meeting with P. Diddy, we were super impressed with how savvy he was," Stone told Cutler. "He has stayed relevant for so long and how does he do it? He’s constantly reinventing himself."
Karen Bliss of Rolling Stone and Marc Malkin of E! Online have new TV and movie focused interviews with Diddy.
Diddy spoke to Reuters, briefly, about "P. Diddy's StarMaker" and "Making His Band," discussing how artists need to be able to brand themselves, in this day and age.
Presented by Felix Da Housecat and Diddy, the "Lectro Black (Last Train to Paris Mixtape)" has been released for free download on RCRDLBL (you can also listen to it below, as well). It comes as one long (59 minutes, 29 seconds) .mp3 file.
This happened a couple of weeks ago, during my break, but it is just too awesome not to post.
Toward the end of July, Diddy made an appearance on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," and his segment of the show was very funny, as he switched between seriously talking about his projects to jokingly taking on the role of cliched pitch man to simply joking with Fallon. He even jumped in to remix the show's normal "Slow Jam the News" segment, where Fallon (backed by The Roots) gives news items the slow jam treatment. Check out the clips below.
Via MTV Newsroom.
In an interview with New York Magazine, actor/comedian Aziz Ansari talked about working with Diddy on "Get Him to the Greek" and his efforts to get Diddy to follow him on Twitter.
You've been sending Diddy messages on Twitter for months. Did he know who you were?
He did know me. I've seen him at a couple of things and he's kind of known me, I'm not sure from what. But he knows who I am somehow. So I saw him at the Get Him to the Greek table read and he was like, "Hey man, you hit me up on Twitter, right?" And I was like, "Yeah, I did. Hey man, why don't you follow me?" He was like, "I don't follow you?" And I was like, "No, you don't!" So I got a request on MySpace from Diddy. And I was like, this is not the real Diddy. And I looked and it was the real Diddy requesting me as a friend! So I approved it and I sent him a message that was like, "Hey, after much consideration I decided to approve your MySpace friend request" And he responded to that and was like, "Oh, thank you. Let's go!" or whatever he writes. And then the next time I saw him, I was like, "Hey, you didn't follow me!" So he said, "Oh man, I'm sorry, I'm going to get on that right now. Write down your name." I was like, alright. And then like a month or two later, we went back to filming and I was like, "Sean, you're still not following me, man. It's been like two months." And he's like, "Oh no, I forgot." And then he started following me. But man, he is so funny in that movie. You are really going to be blown away. He was cracking me up. He was really good. He's a pro. I was very impressed.
Back in July, Diddy paid a visit to The Late Show with David Letterman and, during his time on air, he shared a story from approximately six years ago of Michael Jackson spontaneously attending a party that Diddy was hosting. Jackson apparently asked Diddy where he could find Beyonce (this was before she was together with Jay-Z). Check it out below.
Latifah Muhammad at The Boombox reports that Nas' "Hate Me Now" featuring Diddy will be included as part of the soundtrack to the upcoming "Madden NFL 10" video game. It'll be in stores on August 14.
In a video posted on Jay Electronica's YouTube channel, Diddy and the guys from Chester French have some fun as Diddy takes on a character auditioning for the band. Fun stuff and worth a watch. Warning: some content not suitable for all audiences.
According to his Twitter, Diddy has been working in the studio with former Bad Boy rapper G. Dep. In another tweet, he mentions that Dep is "on the Last Train to Paris."
G. Dep has had some health and financial troubles, but hopefully he's got himself back on track. I wish him well and I certainly wouldn't mind seeing him return to form as I definitely enjoyed his Bad Boy material.
Via Theo.
MTV has released a pair of interesting promotional clips from "Making His Band," which premiered on July 27. In the first one, Diddy, Dawn Richard and Kalenna (Dirty Money) are in the studio working on "Angels." In the second, Diddy takes voice lessons from Romeo Johnson.
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