The green carpet was not without drama of its own. Taking advantage of being one of the last people to come into the ceremony, Sean "Diddy" Combs took his time, having the press line almost all to himself. And just as his Diddy-ness was pausing to make a grand walk up the stairs for the paparazzi, his former publicist Rob Shuter pushed Jessica Simpson up the stairs ahead of Combs, stealing his thunder. "Rob, don't do that," the rap impresario called. After literally being called on the carpet, there was a happy ending—Simpson and Combs posed together for the press.

AllHipHop.com: What about “I Gotta Story to Tell” by Notorious B.I.G off of Life After Death?

Buckwild: Biggie had three beats to choose from. One of them was one that The Lox wanted also. That record ended up having sample clearance issues, and never came out. Then I come to find out that he chose the one to “I Got a Story to Tell.” Biggie was a dude that thinks about his lyrics first, no matter what. With the concept and everything he was like, “Cool, I could rock with that.” ...

AllHipHop.com: I want to build on that and ask you about your opinion of Puffy. What do you think about him as a producer?

Buckwild: PD, Mister Producer extrodinaire. He showed me and a lot of other dudes what a producer really is. He showed the part of production that most dudes never really knew, like, when you’re coming in and not even touching the drum machine. You’re shooting ideas like, “Yo, this needs to be like this,” and “No, you gotta do this like this.” He showed that part of production that dudes never really knew: You thought just because you made beats, you’re the producer? You’re not.

AllHipHop.com: It came out in the news recently that you and several other artists and producers have a lawsuit against him for royalties owed.

Buckwild: Alright. Let’s set this straight: There’s no lawsuit that’s out against Puff.

AllHipHop.com: Okay, what is it?

Buckwild: The only things that’s going on is that dudes haven’t been paid on a few albums. So, Warner Brothers is getting their books updated so everyone can get paid. I think what probably happened was, in the time that he left Arista, a lot of people weren’t getting their statements from that point on. [For me], it’s my part of Life After Death, part of Life Story and any albums that came out after that. It’s residuals. It’s just a matter of Warner Brothers getting everything updated so everyone can get paid what they’re supposed to. Knowing Warner Brothers, it should be finished in the next few months.

Ms. Congdon: What are you gonna do with all this archive footage? I see you have your own cameraman.

Diddy: You know, content is king. So, you know, we've been getting footage for the last 12 years. I definitely wake up and I feel like the people around me - we have a young company, African American based - and we feel we're doing something important and we want to document it to make that if people can see it, especially our people - that they can see it years down the line.

Ms. Congdon: I hope you put online - people will want to see it.

Diddy: Yeah, yeah - no, I'm about to launch Diddy.com. I just got the rights back to my own name online. You know how that is. But, I'm about to launch that in June and there is going to be a big announcement about the content, the special content.

Ms. Congdon: We hope there's video on there.

Diddy: Yeah, yeah - there will be.

P. DIDDY, David Cameron and the “King of the Booze Cruise” were among 500 guests making small talk over the canapés at the Beckhams’ lavish World Cup send-off last night.

"God Willing — that's the name of the album," Gravy said. "I got a Jeezy record, a couple of treats. I don't want to put all the guests out there like that. But I got Mase, Diddy, I got some joints. What's so crazy, as I listen to the album, I predicted I was gonna get shot from all the hate I get on the streets."

Scratch also said that he produced a track entitled “Bounce Back,” which he hopes makes Diddy’s new album.

“It’s a club banger. Busta Rhymes wrote it and he’s on the hook as well,” says Scratch. “I came on that project because I just happened to be in the studio. So, it’s not 100 percent definite that it’s going to be on the album right now, but if he (Diddy) doesn’t use it, Busta will.”

"We amicably settled, and that's all we can say," said Herman Stephens, an attorney for Cedrick Bobby Lemon, who filed the lawsuit in May 2002. ...

As two bodyguards tried to clear the backstage area to escort Blige from the Joel Coliseum following the concert, they punched Lemon in the head, kicked him in the back and broke his right ankle, according to the lawsuit.