Titled "I'm Still Here: The Lost Year Of Joaquin Phoenix," the Diddy-featured documentary on Joaquin Phoenix's move to rap is set for a limited release on September 10, followed by a wide release one week later. This news comes care of Deadline.com's Mike Fleming.

In May, Diddy told MTV that Phoenix's rap career was "real" and that, if it wasn't, "he tricked me."

Via Sean O'Neal.

During Diddy's appearance earlier this month on Peter Rosenberg's "Noisemakers," he was presented with a custom pair of sneakers, inspired by him. SoleRedemption.com has a story on them, complete with photos. They were designed by Nelson Cepeda of Rebelaire.

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries of The Wall Street Journal's Digits blog reports that eleven record labels have filed a lawsuit against adult website operators RK Netmedia and RealityKings.com (warning: inappropriate content) claiming copyright infringement through the unauthorized use of copyrighted songs more than 500 times.

A report by CHARTattack mentioned that Bad Boy was one of the eleven labels. Together, the group is requesting $150,000 per infringement, or unspecified damages and profits made by the defendants. They are also seeking an injunction to prevent the videos from being played further.

XBIZ Newswire spoke with Lawrence Walters, an attorney representing RK Netmedia. He suggested that there may be a fair use and freedom of speech issue.

"As a copyright holder, RK greatly respects the need to enforce one's intellectual property rights," said Walters. "That being said, there are some important fair use and 1st Amendment issues inherent in this action. It is RK's hope that we can achieve a resolution to this matter that protects both the plaintiff's copyright interests and RK's right to free expression and commentary on popular culture."

According to a copy of the complaint posted online, the Bad Boy songs that allegedly were infringed upon were The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Mo Money Mo Problems" (3 times) and "Hypnotize" (3), Gorilla Zoe's "Hood Figga" (3), Yung Joc's "It's Goin' Down" (13), Diddy's "I Need a Girl, Part 1" and "It's All About the Benjamins," Cassie's "Me & U" (9) and 112's "Dance With Me."

With Rick Ross' "Teflon Don" album (pre-order on Amazon.com) coming out in just 3 days, you can now listen to the album on his MySpace.

This includes "No. 1" featuring Diddy and Trey Songz. Diddy adds a rap verse and ad-libs to the record.

The song is the cut that featuresthe unreleased Diddy verse that I mentioned at the end of June.

Aasim has released a visual for "Impossible" from his "Off the Shelf" mixtape (free download). Check it out below.

Here are Bad Boy's positions on the most recent Billboard U.S. album and single charts, released yesterday. Dirty Money's "Hello Good Morning" sees an overall rise.

Albums

The Billboard 200

139. "The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III" by Janelle Monae (down from 114).

Top Current Albums

126. "The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III" by Janelle Monae (down from 105).

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

30. "The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III" by Janelle Monae (down from 25).

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Diddy will be featured on the July 20th episode of Fuse's "On the Record." It airs at 8 PM ET on Fuse. A second airing is set for July 22 at 5:30 PM ET.

I'm not sure that the tweet should necessarily be taken all that seriously, but Dawn Richard spoke with Vibe about a tweet that Qwanell "Que" Mosley sent that, in so many words, asked her to marry him.

Following up on the short clip I posted in April, here is a longer behind the scenes video of the Dirty Money shoot for Black Men Magazine, featuring Dawn Richard and Kalenna, released by BlackTree TV.


Via Rap Radar.

Back in November, Diddy released a remix to Dirty Money's "Angels" featuring Aasim (free download). Aasim has released a clip adding some visuals to his verse. Check it out below.