This is probably obvious by this point, but Diddy Beats were not released on April 14, as had been announced. According to Best Buy and the Diddy Beats website, they are now set to ship in May.
Billboard's Mariel Concepcion reports that, according to a source close to Diddy, he has agreed to manage both Rick Ross and Nicki Minaj, along with one of his own managers, James Cruz.
The article mentions that representatives at Interscope, Def Jam and Universal Motown - the main distributing labels of Diddy, Rick Ross and Nicki Minaj, respectively - all could not be reached for comment. Meanwhile, Cruz had no comment to XXL.
Interestingly, the Concepcion notes that Ross made reference to a "big announcement" that he and Diddy would be making soon, during a radio on Power 105.1 earlier this week. She also mentions a "rumor" that Ross is "extensively contributing to the writing" on "Last Train to Paris."
At press time, nothing about this story had been mentioned on the Twitter profiles of Diddy, Minaj or Cruz. I've reached out to Diddy's publicist for comment.
Right now, Diddy and The Hitmen hold a commanding lead over Herbie Luv Bug, with 90% of the vote in their favor. In the second round, it looks they will face off against one of Diddy's mentors in Teddy Riley, who is is leading 72% to 28% against Kay Gee.
Diddy will make a cameo appearance in the upcoming music video to Fat Joe's "Ha Ha (Slow Down Son)," which features Jeezy. NOWWUT has some behind the scenes footage, which you can check out below. It includes Diddy standing on the hood of a convertible Rolls-Royce Phantom.
On the most recent Billboard charts, released yesterday, the production and songwriting credits were included for Diddy/Dirty Money's "Hello Good Morning."
inthemix reports that the two resolved their differences during the recent Winter Music Conference in Miami, according to Felix Da Housecat, thanks to a chance encounter in an elevator, which led to them talking things out.
"[Lipton has] been calling me for the last three years to do it, and I was kind of nervous and said, 'I'm not at that level,' " Diddy said. "I'm looking at Meryl Streep up there, and Scorsese, Al Pacino and Denzel and Chris Rock. He was saying he wanted to take it from a different perspective of somebody on the rise. I appreciated that. After doing Broadway and now with 'Get Him to the Greek' coming out ... the time is right."
