Diddy was the first to come out. He presented Terrence and Rocsi with Sean John shades. He talked about his BET Awards performance (his first performance at the BET Awards as an artist), his performance at the Princess Diana concert, his recent performance in South Africa, his kids, his breakup with Kim Porter (he said she's his best friend and it's not something he wants to go through, but he'll always love her).
After a video break, Mario Winans dropped by. They asked them what it's like in the studio when they're together. Diddy said it's magical and Mario said that he "always loves doing records with [his] brother". He called "Through the Pain (She Told Me)" "another passionate joint." And then Diddy introduced the video. Following with what
I talked about recently, he introduced the video as "Through the Pain, a.k.a. She Told Me, Dear Kim". The video was credited As "Through the Pain (She Told Me): Dear Kim".
What can I say about the video? It's a cool video, I like it a lot, as a fan. The video opens with Diddy and Mario riding in a car and Mario sings his opening part. And then, as the song progresses, they move to a club, to the front of the parked car in the city, in front of a woodgrain wall, etc. It has a good vibe and fits the song.
After the video was over, Diddy announced that the
DVD for the second season of P. Diddy Presents the Bad Boys of Comedy. It was released on July 17.
After a commercial break, Diddy announced B5, stopping to allow audience screaming and applause and then continuing, saying "not since the Beatles have a group come out that's gonna cause this much hysteria throughout the world."
Before they could introduce their record, Diddy interrupted and told everyone that radio stations around the country are "fronting on this record" and he encouraged all of the ladies to call in and request the record and if they don't play it, tell them that you are going to turn off your radio. B5 then introduced "Hydrolics".
After the video, Diddy encouraged everyone to vote the video onto the countdown and talked about Bad Boy's upcoming releases as well as the upcoming release of Sean John Ladies. He didn't say much except to say who was coming, which we already know about.
During the commercial, it mentioned a Screamfest 2007 special that will feature Yung Joc on 12:30 PM ET, but I missed the day. And that's it.
Yung Joc's
Rap City appearance was today, actually. So, either it got moved or I was told incorrectly. Anyway, I missed the first 10 minutes of it of the show, but I don't think I missed much, if anything of Joc's appearance. It seems like it may be over. Nothing noteworth except that, at the end, he mentioned "new movie" and then wouldn't give any other details.
Since
I announced the official tracklisting released by the label, I've been getting a few questions about the B5 track "All Over Again" which they have been performing, supposedly, introducing it as a cut from the new album. Yet, it wasn't on the tracklist.
You asked - I found out. I spoke with B5's manager, Jim McMahan, a few moments ago and he told me that the song has now been added to the album and the tracklisting has been changed. Here is the new, final tracklisting:
1. Hydrolics
2. How You Not Gonna
3. Right to Left
4. Erika Kane
5. Got It Like That
6. Tear Drops
7. In My Bedroom
8. All Over Again
9. What it Do
10. No One Else
11. I Must Love Drama
12. So Incredible
13. Things I Would Do
14. Rockstar (Bonus Track)
I'm guessing that "I Must Love Drama" is the same as "Drama", "So Incredible" is the same as "Incredible" and "Things I Would Do" is the same as "Things I Do For My Girl". Besides "All Over Again", "How You Not Gonna" is the other new track.
Yung Joc's "Coffee Shop" is going up against Katharine McPhee's "Love Story" and The Kooks' "She Moves In Her Own Way" in MTV's
latest edition of Battle of the Videos. You can
vote now and up until July 23 at 3 PM ET. As of now, McPhee is in the lead with voting totals not being revealed.
Aubrey has
launched a new MySpace. It was announced via a MySpace bulletin that features what is presumably a picture of her maybe in the 3, 4, 5 age range getting out of what looks like a mini swimming pool and she's... well... naked. It's not that big a deal, but it struck me as kind of odd. Imagine you're an Aubrey fan and you happen to open up her bulletin while someone is walking by your screen... they might think you deal in child pornography. Maybe that's a little too serious as it's just a candid picture, but I wouldn't have used that one, if it was me.
Aubrey will be hosting, along with Jeremy Jackson, the Ed Hardy fashion show on July 20 at the Tentation Lounge in Newport Beach, CA.
See the flier>
The executive producers for "Don't Talk, Just Listen" are Diddy and Kevin Wales with Harve Pierre receiving a Co-Executive Producer credit.
Update: We are now closed to questions. Thank you!
Last call for
questions for B5. I'll be interviewing them at 12:30 PM ET on Friday, so I'll be closing to suggestions tomorrow. I'll only have 15 minutes with them, so I'll need to get my questions trimmed down big time, but I'll ask as many of your questions as I can.
Thanks.
It appears that Gorilla Zoe is
blogging for WordOfSouth.com. His
first entry talks about touring, his new Gangsta Grillz mixtape called "Hood N**** Diaries" (hosted by Block and DJ Drama) and he also mentions that he'll be on Screamfest 2007 (presumably to perform "Coffee Shop" with Yung Joc).
On
106 & Park, T.I. mentioned a new venture,
StreetCred.com and also mentioned that Yung Joc has a "block" and Diddy has a "block". Blocks are just what they call the profile pages. Here's
Diddy's and here's
Yung Joc's.