Diddy will be appearing on the
Late Show with David Letterman tonight. The show starts on CBS at 11:30 PM ET.
MTV News' Jayson Rodriguez talked to Diddy about Dirty Money and "Last Train to Paris." The interview isn't much, but it's worth a read. Check out the clip below.
On Friday,
we picked up a Billboard report that revealed that Diddy's "Last Train to Paris" had been pushed back from September 22 to some time in November. I reached out to someone at Bad Boy and they confirmed the report, saying that the album is now slated for a November 24 release.
In the July 18, 2009 issue of Billboard Magazine, it's reported that the "Last Train to Paris" album by Diddy is slated for November 2009, with a specific day TBD. This would represent a push back from the
previously announced September 22 release date. I've reached out to Bad Boy for comment.
As an aside, I was disappointed with their Fall/Winter 2009 music feature as it neglected to spotlight "Last Train to Paris," which is the latest album from a highly successful artist. Considering some of the other albums they profiled, it felt like a notable omission.
Back in June,
we shared video of Asher Roth at Diddy's Miami home, where Diddy jokingly caught Roth taking slippers from his house. In an
interview with Ben Barna at BlackBook, Roth discusses hanging out with the Bad Boy CEO:
I saw a video of you and your buddies at Diddy’s crib in Miami. How did that happen?
That’s when I realized how powerful Twitter was. I was in Miami on Memorial Day, on Twitter, and I was like “Yo Diddy what’s up, we have some margaritas and a boat,” and the next thing I knew I had an email that was like, “This is Diddy’s home line, he wants you to call him.” And I call him up and he picks up the phone and he’s like “Hello?—just talking all Diddy-ish—and said that he was telling me to come over and have some food, just to meet me and see what I was doing. He’s actually a really cool dude. I went over there and it was just Diddy and Cassie. So we just kicked it, took out some jet skis, had a steak dinner, and talked about my mission and what he’s been doing. And Diddy’s a fan, and I’m also a fan. I mean Diddy’s a mogul, you can’t deny that. It was just really a pleasure to be over there and just spend some time with a mogul.
On Tuesday, TechCrunch, a large blog dedicated to business and startup news, revealed that they had been sent a
cache of private corporate documents from Twitter from an
alleged hacker.
So, why am I mentioning this? Well, a portion of the
documents highlighted by TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld outlines an internal discussion about Diddy's use of the service and the possibility of bringing him on as an adviser.
The notes are brief, but they appear to indicate that they discussed giving Diddy "adviser shares" in the company, before suggesting that Diddy is "not so strategic." They discussed the ideas of entertainment business development as well as an Entertainment or Marketing Advisory Board.
But, it's not all kind words. "It would be hard to explain to him what we would be doing wrong since he thinks about business differently," reads one line. "Diddy values his contribution higher than we do," says the next line, indicating that Diddy values his contribution to the growth of Twitter higher than the Twitter people do.
They express an interest in talking to the people at Ciroc and putting together a group, rather than just focusing on Diddy. Perhaps, the notes say, they could get members of this group to invest in Twitter "which will give us more pull with them when they do things we don't like."
A "distractionary element" is mentioned and the section closes with simply, "Keep them happy."
People are going to blow this up to be a bigger story than it is. I can see it now. "Twitter disses Diddy." But, the reality is that most this is pretty reasonable, though I feel they are both underestimating Diddy's business savvy and overestimating how he values his own contributions.
For his part, Diddy has appeared to be an unabashed promoter of the service. He didn't adopt it early, necessarily, but he adopted it a heck of a lot earlier than a lot of other celebrities did, celebrities of a much lower stature in the world of entertainment.
Over on
Russell Brand's website, check out a funny clip of him and Diddy on a private flight to Las Vegas. Some content not appropriate for all audiences.
MTV News has a short, funny video clip from an interview with Tracy Morgan where he says that Diddy is a fan of the "30 Rock" and would like to be on it, as
previously reported.
After finishing third in both
2007 and
2008, Diddy has moved up to second place in the
2009 Forbes list of the top earners in hip-hop.
Diddy's $30 million dollars in estimated income was a $5 million dollar drop from 2008 (though still $2 million dollars higher than 2007), but the list as a whole saw a 40% reduction. This was thanks in large part due to 50 Cent's one time Vitamin Water buyout, which was part of the 2008 figure.
Diddy finishes behind only Jay-Z at $35 million and ahead of Kanye West, 50 Cent, Akon, Lil' Wayne, Timbaland, Pharrell, T-Pain and others.
Diddy just released a trailer for
"Making His Band," the new reality show that will see Diddy forming a band that will support him and Dirty Money on tour. Part of the show will be the making of "Last Train to Paris," as well. The show premieres on July 27 at 10 PM ET on MTV. Check out the trailer below.
