How much drama can a picture with Diddy create? Pitchfork has an article talking about what happened when El-P (a "groundbreaking artist, virtuosic producer, profound lyricist, label founder, A&R; maverick and underground icon", according to his MySpace) took a picture with Diddy.

D-Nice has photographs from Diddy's birthday party.

Also, check out D-Nice's blog which features a number of Bad Boy related pictures.

CNN.com has an article on the Diddy and Snoop European tour.


The "rivalry" part of the article is kind of blown up, I think. Snoop and Diddy have been pretty cool for a long, long time.

I just wanted to highlight this from HHNLive.com's interview with T'Yanna Wallace:


I just thought it was nice to hear. After Biggie died (especially after the first few years of him being gone), some people really got into speculating all sorts of nonsense. Biggie wanted to leave Bad Boy, Biggie wasn't friends with Diddy, Biggie wanted to sign to Death Row, etc. etc. etc. At the end of the day, if you listen to what Biggie said himself, you get a pretty clear picture.

So, it's been 10 years since Biggie passed. Today, my thoughts are with his family and everyone who was close to him.

When Biggie died, I was 12 years old. I don't even remember knowing about it, to be honest with you. I wasn't a Biggie fan, yet. Puff Daddy made me a Biggie fan. I got hooked on Bad Boy music in 1997. I'm not sure what the first track that I caught onto was... it may have been "Mo Money Mo Problems"... it may have been "I'll Be Missing You"... could have been "Feel So Good"... or maybe even "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down"... I forget, but it was all of them, truly. There was Puff Daddy, there was Mase... and there was The Notorious B.I.G. Puff Daddy made it so that I had to know Biggie.

After discovering Puff Daddy, I eventually made my way through the entire Bad Boy catalogue, including Biggie, from Life After Death to Ready to Die to guest appearances. And, at first, I liked some of it, but I wasn't into most of it, if I recall. As I got older, that changed. I got more into Biggie and became the big fan I am today. But, as you can see, I wasn't a fan of Biggie until after he died. Kind of a shame, really. But, I can't be mad I wasn't born 5 years earlier.

I've seen people say, in some tributes and over the years, obviously, that Biggie would be upset if he saw hip hop today. I've heard people say that he wouldn't do a song with so and so... wouldn't do a song with KoRn or Slim Thug or whoever was a featured artist on "Born Again" or "Duets: The Final Chapter". I don't think that's true. I think if we could ask him what he thinks, he'd be happy. Biggie was not someone to simply only work with a certain type of artist. I've read interviews, read articles and he seemed to me to be the type of the person who would experiment, try new things, innovate. Would he have wanted to do a song with KoRn? Who knows? Maybe not. But, I think simply dismissing it is to not fully understand what Biggie was, which was an artist.

When people say they miss Biggie, if they really do, there are two things that they miss. They miss the person - and they miss the artist.

Rest in peace.

In addition to some of the ones I've already mentioned, there are so many Biggie tributes out now - as there should be, of course. What I'm going to do is summarize all of the good one's that I have gone across. So, put a good hour or two aside and proceed...

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You can listen to it at the Brandon Kane MySpace.

Via soccachic00 at BadBoyForever.com.

Here are Bad Boy's positions on the latest Hot 100:

23. "Last Night" by Diddy (a new high, up from 29).
57. "Tell Me" by Diddy (down from 52).
90. "1st Time" by Yung Joc (a new high, up from 97).

The next 8 Ball & MJG video will be for "Cruisin'" featuring Three 6 Mafia and Slim of 112.

Check out the Nissan site for a series of Diddy parties that will be hosted in Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo and Kobenhavn.

Via SeanJohn at BadBoyForever.com.