MTV News' Shaheem Reid spoke with Diddy on the state of hip hop and his upcoming album.
"Right now, I'm working on my record, and it'll be out in the end of summer," he told us recently in NYC. "It's feeling good. It's different. I'm creating a new sound. It doesn't sound like anybody else's stuff out there. With that comes a risk. I'm excited about the risk. I do have a beef a little bit with the game right now. I think hip-hop has lost its risk-taking quality. Everybody goes to the comfort zone. It doesn't have that risk anymore. You're not like, 'What is that?' when you hear that record anymore." ...
"People have figured out the formula when they make records for radio, and DJs ain't DJs no more," he declared. "DJs don't break records no more. DJs don't play album cuts. DJs play what is going to move the crowd. DJs, they don't expose you to the newness. That was the DJs' thing. Hip-hop is in a recession also. It's not dead, it's definitely way better than where it was at, as far as with 'Ye, T.I. and with Jeezy. It's so much great stuff out there, the responsibility has to come with the DJs. I'm about to call the DJs out. 'Cause they are the future, and they gotta step it up. I can't keep turning on the radio no matter where I'm at and can't tell who's who.
"DJs used to have a style," Puff continued. "The hottest DJ in the game right now is Q-Tip. That right there is a DJ playing, taking you on a mind-travelling experience. Playing something and you're like, 'What's that?' "
MTV News' Jayson Rodriguez caught up with Diddy, on his Steelers winning the Super Bowl.
“I’ve been a Steelers fan since Mean Joe Greene gave the little boy the jersey,” Diddy wrote, referencing the classic Coca-Cola commercial from the ’70s starring Pittsburgh’s former defense legend. “And I always will be. It’s a great day to be a Steelers fan. From Obama to the Steelers. It don’t get better than this.”
MTV News' Jayson Rodriguez spoke with producers Sean C. and LV on the secretive nature of the development of Jay-Z's last album, "American Gangster." Diddy worked with the duo, introducing Jay-Z to the tracks that made up the foundation of the album, which is nominated for a Grammy award.
Despite what the article says, however, Sean C. and LV are not managed by Bad Boy.
Warning: explicit content.
Toward the end of the video, what Diddy is referencing is Royce's YouTube channel ImNaS***FoolTV.
There's a supposedly new T.I. track that was "leaked" in the last day or so called "Better Than This." Some websites are saying that this track was produced by Diddy. Adding credence to this claim is that, on the track, T.I. shouts out Diddy and/or Bad Boy several times.
Curious, I reached out to someone at the label and they told me that the track was not produced by Diddy, but by Richard "Younglord" Frierson, formerly one of The Hitmen. The track is also a "few years" old.
Speculation on my part, but listening to it closely, I get the feeling that this may have been a reference vocal. Or, at least the first verse and maybe the third. A reference vocal is when one artist performs the track, how it should flow, how words should be formed, etc. for another artist, as a suggestion of how the song should be structured.
The reason I say this is because of the Diddy/Bad Boy shout outs and the fact that T.I. raps, "why, 'cause their name ain't Diddy like this," on the first chorus. Thinking about it, a few years ago might place it around the time where Diddy was working on "Press Play." Frierson produced the lead single to the album, "Come to Me." We know that T.I. was working with Diddy on the album and recorded in the booth, thanks to a YouTube clip on the Bad Boy Records channel. While he did write on "Wanna Move," which was featured on the album, perhaps this was something that they worked on, as well.
Via Theo.
As we reported on Thursday, Diddy released a video where he talked about Lil' Kim's displeasure with her portrayal in "Notorious." In the video, he says:
"The only thing that I can say about the movie, that was great from their relationship, is that he really respected her as an artist, as an MC and was into her like that. All the other extra stuff - it was a movie. And Kim will have her chance, her own movie will come out there. Give Kim her chance. Don't believe what you saw in the movie; it wasn't only about that. She was with us, that was our queen. She'll always be the queen. She got every right to feel that way. The movie is really about B.I.G. Don't focus on none of our parts; focus on B.I.G. as the man."
The emphasis is mine. People are taking "Don't believe what you saw in the movie" as sort of condemnation of the movie's accuracy, but the line that follows it is a qualifying statement. With this sort of movie, some of it isn't going to be true. That's just the way it is - it is based, for the most part, on memories and, in some cases, second hand memories, stories that one person told another. And in those cases, they didn't even get the whole story. So, it's probably mostly true, but it's not all true.
And the same goes for Kim's part. Some of it, a lot of it... may be true, but it wasn't only what Kim was about - it wasn't the whole story of Lil' Kim because this wasn't a Lil' Kim movie, it was a Biggie movie. That's what was said in the video. MTV News' Jayson Rodriguez nails it, in his report, saying that "Puff and D-Roc agree that Kim's portrayal in the movie was incomplete." That's exactly what I take away from this.
ABC News' Luchina Fisher reports on speculation that Joaquin Phoenix's reported foray into rap is a hoax. It cites an EW.com quote from an anonymous former co-worker who says that Phoenix told him this was so. Diddy was mentioned in the article, in this passage:
It's also possible that P. Diddy is in on the hoax. According to media reports, Diddy is producing Phoenix's rap album. At first his rep said she was unaware of his involvement but later she sent ABCNews.com an e-mail saying, "I cannot comment on this at this time."
Human Nature Magazine has a politically centric feature on Diddy.
“I think one of the things we don’t do enough is take the time to enjoy certain things,” Combs told Human Nature. “I think we should enjoy the moment [of Obama being elected]. We’ve been through so much as a race, as a people, as a generation. We should take the time to be able to enjoy it now because the bar has been raised and we got to step our game up.”
Check out the video below for a video blog from Diddy featuring D-Roc, a good friend of Biggie's who was recently released from prison.
Diddy speaks on Lil' Kim's displeasure with her portrayal in "Notorious." Basically, he says that there is more to Kim than what was shown in the movie.
"Don't believe what you saw in the movie," he said. "It wasn't just about that. She was with us. That was our queen, she'll always be the queen. She got every right to feel that way."
Toward the end of the video, Diddy and D-Roc riff on people who are making things up, without elaborating. "Let me tell you something," D-Roc said, gesturing toward Diddy. "This man right here don't owe nobody nothing."
"I owe my fans everything, man," Diddy added. "I love y'all, I appreciate y'all."
"That's right," D-Roc agreed. "That's the only people he owe."
I think this ranks as one of my favorite Diddy blogs. Good to see.
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