It has been almost a year since the group name "Dirty Money" was revealed by Dawn Richard on the Making the Band 4, Season 3, Part 2 finale.

The next day, we found out that the third member was Kalenna, even if we didn't quite yet know how to spell her name. A few months later, Diddy introduced Dirty Money as Sean, Dawn and Kelenna.

When some of the earliest visual branding of the group was released, such as the single covers for "Angels" and "Love Come Down," the songs were labeled as being by "Diddy - Dirty Money." This is exactly how the music videos have been credited and how the the songs are labeled on digital music services like Amazon and iTunes.


However, there is a small issue that I've noticed and it's one of brand confusion. Though it has been floating around for a while now, it was underscored when, before Dirty Money's appearance on American Idol, host Ryan Seacrest introduced them as "Diddy Dirty Money." Of course, "Diddy Dirty Money" isn't actually a thing. Diddy is an individual performer who is a member of the group Dirty Money.

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Updating my post earlier today about the promised free download of Dirty Money's American Idol performance, long time Bad Boy Blog reader Curtis commented, informing me that the performance was on iTunes - at the price of $1.49.

In the run-up to the show, Bad Boy had said that the performance would be up on iTunes for free on April 1. I checked throughout the day and the video was never, in my viewing, listed in the free section of iTunes or of the special American Idol section.

It's unclear if the free download has just been pushed back or if it has been canceled entirely. I'm working on finding out more. Stay tuned.

Following the trailer, here is the full "O Let's Do It (Remix)" by Waka Flocka Flame featuring Diddy and Rick Ross. Fabolous and Red Cafe make cameo appearances.

Gucci Mane, featured on the original version of the track was cut, most likely due to him being in prison and, as such, unavailable to tape the music video (watch behind the scenes footage).


While I enjoyed parts of it, this video is a little disappointing for me, due to the generally low production value. Low budget music videos are fine, bit it becomes an issue when they have the appearance of being low budget, as well, and the heavy reliance on various camera effects (look at all of the flames and how many times Diddy's verse is interrupted by a color change or pause) doesn't help.

Pushed by their performance on American Idol, Dirty Money's "Hello Good Morning" has continued to rise on the iTunes singles chart, reaching #6. It has since fallen back to #7.

In advance of Dirty Money's appearance on American Idol, a free download of the performance was promised on iTunes on April 1. It's now April 2 and it is not listed on iTunes free download section.

I had someone ask me about it, so I thought I'd bring it up here, as well. I don't know. I'm trying to find out. Stay tuned.

Interscope has issued a press release regarding Dirty Money's American Idol performance and the subsequent rise of "Hello Good Morning" on iTunes.

One other tidbit is that it names D'Mile as one of the producers on Dirty Money's upcoming "Last Train to Paris" album, in addition to Rodney Jerkins, Mario Winans and Danja, which we'd previously mentioned here at Bad Boy Blog.

D'Mile's previous credits include Janet Jackson's "Feedback," Justin Bieber's "Favorite Girl" and Mary J. Blige's "Gonna Breakthrough."

Updating a previous report indicating that Rico Love wrote Dirty Money's "Hello Good Morning," an Interscope-issued press release mentions that he co-wrote the track. We should have a clearer picture on the song's credits if it debuts on the Billboard charts next week, which I expect it to.

April Fools' Day is almost over, so it's time for us to come clean. The report earlier today about the "Hello Good Morning" remixes is just a joke, in honor of the day. There is absolutely not truth to it; it is completely a prank.

There will be no "Hello Good Late Morning" featuring Red Cafe, "Hello Good Early Afternoon" featuring Rick Ross, "Hello Good Late Afternoon" featuring Pharrell, "Hello Good Evening" featuring Nas or "Hello Good Night" featuring Jay-Z. Reading the titles, it sounds pretty crazy. But, it also sounds just believable enough, right? Especially when you look at the awesome single covers.

When I came up with this idea, I felt the covers would be crucial to the joke. So, I found the font that was used for "Hello Good Morning." It's Friz Quadrata Bold. Unfortunately, this is not a free font. It cost me $29, but it was that important. What can I say? I'm committed.

It was a fun idea, but then something even funnier happened. Rick Ross actually threw a verse over "Hello Good Morning" and released it. Today! No kidding. I had absolutely no advance knowledge of that, but was it ever funny. So, we played that up as part of the prank. Thank you to Mr. Ross for that.

I'd like to thank everyone who read the story for being a good sport and for understanding. I appreciate everyone who spread the word and I hope that you had a fun day. It's that one day of the year... we had to do something! All other stories that we reported today were 100% accurate and our coverage now returns to normal.

Thank you for reading Bad Boy Blog and for sharing a laugh with us.

During his appearance on Red Cafe to premiere the "I'm Ill" music video, Red Cafe mentioned that he has a mixtape on the way titled "No Witnesses."

Previously, he had said he would release the "Hottest in the Hood, Vol. 2" mixtape on March 9, but it was not released. So, maybe "Not Witnesses" is, in effect, the same tape - but, maybe not. We'll see.

Red Cafe and Fabolous will be on today's episode of BET's 106 & Park, airing at 6 PM ET. The BET website says: "Fabolous brings on Red Cafe to premiere his new video."

There are a couple of ways to read this sentence: one being that it's a Fabolous video, the other that it's a Red Cafe video. So, who knows, just tune in.