Check out this video, featuring Picaso, a Bad Boy fan, former Bad Boy intern and A&R for Bryan-Michael Cox, talk about Diddy's production talents and his desire, as a fan, to see him return as a producer.


I loved watching this, as a fan, and agreed with most of it. I liked the note at the end, about artists who have complained and left Bad Boy. I really like Donnie Klang's album and Cassie's, so far, sounds great, as well. Day26 and Danity Kane dropped great efforts this year, as well. But, I would love to see Diddy get back behind the boards as a producer more. In fact, I wrote about this last October.

You simply cannot mess with Diddy's production predigree. Some people try to, they try to cheapen it. But, you can't. The guy has produced insane, monster records and, for the most part, no one in the world can stack up to what he's done and accomplished.

There is a certain selfishness to this sort of request, as a fan, however. What I believe Diddy fans like about the man, in addition to other things, is his drive and his creativity. He accomplished what you can accomplish as a producer. And he moved on to other things. He's an artist, that's why we like him, and artists evolve and they do other things. They change. I loved "Press Play," I loved the variety. I don't mean to say that I want Diddy to go back to 1997. That doesn't make any sense. You grow and change. You can't do what you've already done, you have to do something new.

Interestingly, Diddy has stepped back into producer mode again, recently, with "Welcome to the Dollhouse" (3 tracks) and "Day26" (7) and with "Take You There" for Donnie Klang. And I've liked a lot of it. But, I do miss the frequency of his production and of remixes. Bad Boy remixes, man.

As I wrote back in July, Diddy has expressed an interest in bringing The Hitmen back together, but it didn't gain any steam, thanks to a lack of interest from others. So, it's on his mind.

But, again, it's unrealistic and unreasonable to expect such a thing. You can't produce with that regularity and be the CEO of Bad Boy, manage Sean John, work with Ciroc, be an actor and all of the other things that he does. Diddy's certainly earned the right to do whatever it is that he wants without anyone slighting him for it. At the same time, that doesn't mean that we can't dream, right?