MTV News reports on Thursday night's star-studded 40th birthday celebration at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. The guest list included Trey Songz, Tyrese, Red Cafe, Andre Harrell, F. Gary Gray. Jay-Z, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, Kim Kardashian, Martha Stewart, Gayle King, Jimmy Fallon, Bell Biv DeVoe, Jimmy Iovine, Bono, Russell Simmons, Nelly, Estelle, Herbie Hancock, Regina King, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Kid Capri, Al Green, Spike Lee, Cassie, Dawn Richard, Kalenna, Lupe Fiasco, Sean Garrett, Rev. Al Sharpton, Dennis L.A. Green, Derek Hough and Shannon Elizabeth, as well as Diddy's mother, Janice Combs; sons, Quincy, Justin and Christian and Justin's mother, Misa Hylton-Brim. DJ Cassidy, D-Nice and Q-Tip provided DJ service. MTV News has quotes from attendees and photos.

Here are some clips inside the ballroom:


Attendees pass along their well wishes:

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On his Twitter, Red Cafe shared this new track, "Nasty Girl" featuring Sheek Louch and Ross Fortune. Listen below.

On Wednesday, Funkmaster Flex on Hot 97 premiered a new remix to Dirty Money's "Love Come Down." The remix featured three new rap verses from Jim Jones, Fabolous and Red Cafe - the Red Cafe verse had previously been released by itself.

The remix is now available in our audio player. In addition to the new verses - the remix also removes Diddy's initial rap verse, keeping the shorter, track closing one. I am all over this mix. Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments.

Check out our audio player for the brand new Rick Ross featured remix to Dirty Money's "Angels." The remix is close to the original, except for an opening rap verse from Ross and the removal of Biggie's two, repeating verses. The mix recently premiered on Hot 97.

Philadelphia DJ Benja Styles has teamed up with Ness to remix Cassie's "Let's Get Crazy." The track gets an entirely new treatment with a lead rap verse from Ness, but keeps Akon's vocals. Download now. The package also includes a clean version without Ness and an instrumental.

Last night on Hot 97, Funkmaster Flex interviewed Dirty Money and Diddy mentioned that veteran DJ Ted Smooth would be remixing some tracks for them, but he didn't specify what those tracks were.

On Twitter, Ted Smooth was kind enough to RT (retweet, which means to pass the message forward on Twitter) the story and so I asked him for some details, which he graciously provided. He told me that the remixes would be of "Angels" and "Love Come Down," Dirty Money's dueling lead singles. The "Love Come Down" remix will feature Jim Jones, but it will not be the remix that Flex played last night that featured Jones alongside Fabolous and Red Cafe. When the remixes are released, we'll have more.

Here are Bad Boy's positions on the most recent Billboard U.S. album and single charts, released today. This week's loan gain: Dirty Money's "Love Come Down" debuting on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop chart.

Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Catalog Albums

22. "Ready to Die" by The Notorious B.I.G. (unchanged).

Songs

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

65. "Love Come Down" by Dirty Money (down from 63).
96. "So Good" by Day26 (down from 87).

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay

65. "Love Come Down" by Dirty Money (down from 63).

Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop

39. "Love Come Down" by Dirty Money (debut).

Dirty Money came on Funkmaster Flex's show on Hot 97 tonight for a great interview and during it, Diddy mentioned that there are remixes of "Angels" coming that feature Rick Ross and Lupe Fiasco. They played the remix with Rick Ross.

He also shouted out Jim Jones, Fabolous and Red Cafe while talking about the remixes and, sure enough, they played a remix of "Love Come Down" that featured all three. Finally, he mentioned that some remixes with Ted Smooth are coming "next week."

Funkmaster Flex asked Diddy about Black Rob during an interview tonight on Hot 97. He asked him if he was still on the label. Diddy didn't exactly answer that, but he did echo some of the things I've been saying.

"What I am... I'm a provider of an opportunity," he said. "I own a label called Bad Boy. I don't have a secret type of spell to control people's lives. I can't keep Black Rob out of jail. That's something that I could not do. I love Black Rob to death. That's what happened to Black Rob. If Black Rob was here and around, I know he'd be making great music."

Diddy gave what is perhaps his most revealing answers about the situation with Mase tonight to Funkmaster Flex on Hot 97. Recently, he had discussed the possibility of Mase returning to Bad Boy. Then, in October, video surfaced that showed Mase supposedly bum-rushing Diddy during a radio show appearance and getting the Bad Boy CEO to sign a piece of paper. At the time, it was unclear what exactly this piece of paper was - but, Diddy says that Mase is now off of Bad Boy and is free to sign wherever he wants. He also went into detail about the financial issues between them.

Diddy: "[When Mase came back for "Welcome back"] that was the second big check. Everybody was wondering 'yo, what's going on? why ain't you letting him do the 50 thing?' We just had some unfinished business after the first one when he decided to become a pastor. He had decided to become a pastor after he had just got a big check."

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