The Nottingham, UK date for the Snoop/Diddy tour has been moved back a day, from April 2 to April 3.
Via Bad Boy.
You can listen to it on his MySpace.
Dr. Glenda E. Gill, professor emerita of drama at Michigan Technological University, will present a lecture titled "P. Diddy and Walter Lee Younger: Brothers and Saints" at Tuskegee University. It will be at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center Auditorium on March 28 at 3 PM. The lecture will discuss Diddy's portrayal of Walter Lee Younger on Broadway.
Someone from The Independent spent a couple of nights on the Diddy/Snoop tour. The result is this article which is a great read.
All the same, it must feel strange to them to be playing to so many white, middle-class people on this tour.
"I'll be honest," says Diddy. "It's always been young white kids. People in hip-hop never wanted to accept that, but it's true. Young white kids have been rebelling, sneaking out of the suburbs, and coming to the shows for years. And they're going home right now to turn up our music in their bedrooms. Hip-hop is something you can't stop - it ain't got no colour lines." ...
What's the point of Diddy's growing business empire: the fragrance, the clothes, the TV shows? Is it all about the money?
"It's not about making money," says Diddy. "If money was my only motivation, I'd be a billionaire right now. It's about appreciating and respecting the hip-hop culture. The other big conglomerates - the Fortune 500 companies - they don't respect hip-hop. They don't, like I do, make things especially for hip-hop."
But the money's still good? "Oh, the money's great," says Diddy, while Snoop laughs. "But I'm showing young people that they can empower themselves in a legal way. The money I make is legal. You got to understand that where we come from, that's a blessing." ...
"I'm not going to say that, compared to everyone else, I'm the best," he says. "I see myself more as PT Barnum. I'm the ringleader of the circus: the producer; the entertainer; the dancer; the vibe motivator. I don't really compete with the other guys who say, 'I'm going to lyrically massacre you.' I just like to get people moving and grooving.
"But look at my career in black and white. It's undisputable. Look on Billboard at the three pages of hits I've had. I'm not being braggadocious - it's just important that you state the facts when you talking about someone, and what they mean, and who they are."
Hal Boedeker reports that the episode of " Coversations with Carlos Watson" with Diddy will be on this week. Check the TV schedule for times. There is a clip from the episode here.
From Entertainmentwise.com:
Diddy has struck up a friendship with Coleen�s fianc� � England international Wayne Rooney, after meeting through the Beckhams at their World Cup summer party. Rooney successfully bid to spend a week with the rapper. ...
A source told The Sun: �It was looking like Coleen�s 21st would be a let down�Diddy rescued the situation by making a special effort to turn up on the night.�
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.
CNN.com has an article on the Diddy and Snoop European tour.
Snoop Dogg, 35, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, said Notorious B.I.G. would be amused to see the two musicians linking up.
"He is going to be smiling when he sees me and Puff (Combs) on the stage today," said the California rapper.
"That is all that matters, that the spirit of hip-hop lives on. Everything that was not right, we are getting right."
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:
Quinton: How is your relationship with Diddy?
T'Yanna: That's my uncle Puff, I love him. He's busy a lot though. When he doesn't get to talk to me or my brother as much as he can I know it's not personal. It's because he's really busy all the time, but I love him for that.
Quinton: You know Puff is a hustler!
T'Yanna: [Laughs] Yeah!
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.
Pages:
«Prev
|| ...
11 ·
12 ·
13 ·
14 ·
15 ·
16 ·
17 ·
18 ·
19 ... ||
Next»
|
