As part of their cover feature with Diddy, BlackBook has teamed with the Bad Boy CEO to release a free iPhone app called Diddy's BlackBook.

The app promises Diddy-selected hotspots in 50 cities around the world, including shops, boutiques, bars, clubs, restaurants and hotels.

BlackBook has published the Nick Haramis-penned feature on Diddy. It's a nice read, mostly personal. One interesting, work related note is that Diddy turned down the role of a fashion designer in the movie "The Devil Wears Prada."

The role was portrayed by Daniel Sunjata in the film, which centers around the experience of a one time assistant to Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Diddy didn't want to risk angering her, as she'd been supportive of and helpful to him. They also have a photo gallery from their shoot with Diddy.

Speaking with MTV News' Jayson Rodriguez, Diddy revealed a few high profile features that will make their way onto the upcoming "Last Train to Paris" album.

He named Drake, T-Pain, Rick Ross and Lil' Wayne as collaborators that he could confirm. He also said that Jay-Z is "supposed to be on the album." He also talked about the importance of the featured artists getting into the story line of the set. Check out the video below.

In the video below, rapper Royce Da 5'9" is asked about his work with Diddy, starting at the 6:20 mark. The interviewer, Ms. Drama, asks a bit of a funny question; suggesting that Diddy might ask Royce to "dumb it down" when it comes to the lyrical content.

"That's one thing he's never asked me for," Royce responded. "He's never came and said 'yo, that's too lyrical.' If anything it's like 'yo, put some lines in there.' He's fan of lyrics. It's just the overall sound, I think, when people hear it that they're under the impression that he wants to dumb everything down. But, I think he's just the opposite. I think he wants to figure out ways to combine both of the worlds. The very, very commercial 'I can sell this to anybody' world, but he wants to maintain that lyrical integrity because he's from the streets."


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A remix to Mario's "Thinking About You" has leaked online and features a verse and adlibs from Diddy. When a full, high quality version of it is available for listening, I'll post an update.

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In an interview with Ryan Seacrest, Diddy announced that he's been working with Dr. Dre on the creation of "Diddy Beats," which will be audio ear buds; and "Diddy Beatbox," an iPod speaker base system. Beats by Dr. Dre, the high quality headphones, were created through a partnership between Monster, Dr. Dre and Interscope Chariman Jimmy Iovine.

A couple of "Last Train to Paris" notes. Diddy told Ryan Seacrest that "Last Train to Paris" is coming in March.

Secondly, in the press release announcing the Bad Boy/Interscope deal, it was mentioned that Rage would be directing the "Love Come Down" music video, which is supposed to be shot or have been shot this week.

A few days ago, we mentioned a Billboard report that indicated that Diddy would be leaving Warner/Atlantic Records, but that the Bad Boy roster would remain. At the time, I said that this created more questions than it answered. Well, Diddy jumped on Hot 97 and spoke with DJ Absolut last weekend and, though he referenced the situation, he basically revealed nothing.

Absolut asked him: "We want to know about this new Bad Boy exclusive distributor. What's going on with that?"

"Yeah, that's why I'm out in L.A. right now," Diddy answered. "'Bout to wait for this ink to dry, so like Monday or Tuesday. Definitely big shout out to Atlantic Records, [Michael Kyser] and Julie [Greenwald] and Kevin [Liles] and all them. We had a nice run; time for a change for me just in general and a fresh start for Bad Boy in general and I'm still involved with Day26 and Janelle Monae and [Cassie] and all of the acts that I have over there, but I get to get a fresh start in my new situation."

You'll notice that no label was mentioned beyond Atlantic. The rumors are Interscope, of course, but that hasn't been confirmed.

On Twitter, Diddy posted a scan of his November 2009 Ebony magazine cover.

The Sean John blog has scans from Diddy's cover appearance in the Autumn/Winter 2009-2010 issue of Vs Magazine. Their website has more - just click on the picture of Diddy on the homepage.