Kam Williams has a great interview with Diddy, covering "A Raisin in the Sun", but also touching on other subjects. Well worth a read.
KW: You wear a lot of hats: actor, rapper, producer, etcetera. Which is your favorite?
SC: I just like being an entertainer. I just view myself as an entertainer and I really try to look at myself as the entertainers of old. They did many different things. They had albums and they acted and they also had some side businesses. I like entertaining people and pushing the culture of hip-hop forward, so that we can do other things that aren't maybe written for us to do that are not very typical. And maybe that way we could raise our culture up.
KW: Because you've broken so many new artists, I was wondering how you know when to sign someone who's going to be the next new sensation?
SC: I think that you know that was one of my blessings, so that's why after all these years, I'm still here. I just signed a new artist, Janelle Monae, and it's just a feeling that I get. I just get this certain feeling when I see an artist, I can't really describe it. It's just like, you know, if it touches me emotionally and it has certain unique tones. I love vulnerability and rawness, but if you go like on My Space and look up Janelle Monae, you'll see my newest artist and she's really groundbreaking.
Despite numerous reports, Sean "Diddy" Combs is not quitting music for acting, a representative for Combs told Bad Boy Blog.
Similar to the recent stories on a name change, it appears that something he said was taken and sensationalized a bit to mean something other than what he meant. He's quoted as saying, "Right now I'm transitioning from a recording artist to acting." He doesn't have to quit being a recording artist to transition into an actor. He can be both - and already is.
Personally, I doubted the story because, let's face it, Diddy loves music. I don't see him ever quitting it, really. And I hope he never does. But, to be sure, I reached out to one of his representatives who, again, confirmed to me that he is not quitting music.
OK! has thoughts from Diddy on actor Heath Ledger, who recently died due to an accidental overdose of prescription medication.
"When I first arrived on set, the first person I saw was Heath Ledger," Diddy tells OK!. "He kind of took me aside and was there for me. We didn’t have to work the first day I was there, so me and him kind of hung out that day and kind of became acquaintances."
ABC News' reports on "A Raisin in the Sun."
He went from Puff Daddy to Puffy, P. Diddy to just plain Diddy. For now, you can call him Sean Combs, serious actor.
The rapper-turned-fashion designer-turned vodka pitchman denies reports he plans to change his alias (again). Instead he returns to his real name as the star of the ABC television movie, "A Raisin in the Sun," an adaptation of the classic Lorraine Hansberry play in which Combs made his Broadway debut in 2004.
In a press release today, Diddy urged young voters to head to the polls on Super Tuesday (tomorrow) to let their voices be heard.
"Thanks to your voice and your vote, the political candidates can no longer ignore your concerns about this country and your future," Diddy said. "Young people are poised to continue the work that Citizen Change and other organizations started in 2004, when more than 20 million young people showed up at the polls and voted. In 2004, you waited in lines, you said enough was enough. And in 2008, you’ve inspired more young people get in the game."
"Change will only be real when young people across this country go to the polls on Super Tuesday and in November and stand up and have their votes counted. This election is already historic because of who is running in it. It will gain a greater place in history because of who is voting in it."
In the next few months, Diddy plans to announce what Citizen Change will be doing in 2008.
Diddy has a channel on UVN TV, an internet television network from Ice Cube.
Right now, it seems to be repeating the Beats, Style & Flavor fall fashion showcase from 2006. It features performances from Cheri Dennis and Lyfe Jennings.
Via MMARingReport.com.
From the New York Post:
Nearly every last bottle of Cristal in the state of Arizona has been snatched up on behalf of music mogul P. Diddy, who is hosting a blowout bash tonight at Club Axis/Radius, organizers say.
"He's hoarding all of it," the distributor for the AZ Wine Co. told The Post. "Cristal is hard to get anyway, but with the Super Bowl in town, it's impossible."
Club organizers say they hope the 100 bottles now on hand are enough.
I guess all that boycott stuff has blown over...
VH1 has opened up casting for the new VH1 reality series that will help Diddy to find a new personal assistant. Previously, he had announced that he would be hiring three more assistants through the show. They'll be holding open casting calls in February in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Boston and Miami. You can also make a video submission.
SOHH.com reports that they'll be picking 20 candidates and the reality show will follow those 20 as they attempt to become Diddy's assistant.
For more information (and if you'd like to try your hand), check out workforpdiddy.com.
WSFA 12 reports that Diddy is expected to attend a rememberance of the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march, which will have occured 43 years ago this year. The four day event will begin on March 27 in Selma, Alabama.
In denying the recent reports of a name change, Diddy told the New York Post's Page Six: "If I change my name again, y'all can have me certified as crazy. Alright? But I'm not crazy, so I won't change my name."
Via PR-inside.com.
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