02/11: Diddy Interview Covers "A Raisin in the Sun"
Kam Williams has a great interview with Diddy, covering "A Raisin in the Sun", but also touching on other subjects. Well worth a read.
KW: You wear a lot of hats: actor, rapper, producer, etcetera. Which is your favorite?
SC: I just like being an entertainer. I just view myself as an entertainer and I really try to look at myself as the entertainers of old. They did many different things. They had albums and they acted and they also had some side businesses. I like entertaining people and pushing the culture of hip-hop forward, so that we can do other things that aren't maybe written for us to do that are not very typical. And maybe that way we could raise our culture up.
KW: Because you've broken so many new artists, I was wondering how you know when to sign someone who's going to be the next new sensation?
SC: I think that you know that was one of my blessings, so that's why after all these years, I'm still here. I just signed a new artist, Janelle Monae, and it's just a feeling that I get. I just get this certain feeling when I see an artist, I can't really describe it. It's just like, you know, if it touches me emotionally and it has certain unique tones. I love vulnerability and rawness, but if you go like on My Space and look up Janelle Monae, you'll see my newest artist and she's really groundbreaking.
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