In the two clips below, Grind Music Radio interviews Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie and he talks about several different Bad Boy related topics. This includes how D-Dot came to work at Bad Boy, how Biggie ended up being featured on "It's All About the Benjamins," Diddy's vision for The Hitmen and more. It's entertainment and a must watch for Bad Boy fans.

Regarding "Benjamins," D-Dot said that Biggie recorded his verse shortly before he died. He rhymed over the original beat, but Stevie J. put the alternate beat under his verse, the one that ended up on the finished cut, making it "epic."


Via Nah Right.

Check out the clip below for a DJ Premier appearance on Grind Music Radio. Premo tells some pretty interesting stories about working with Biggie and Diddy as well as the creation of "Kick in the Door." Regarding the track, he explains how a certain line was directed at Jeru the Damaja and Premier, because of Premier's involvement in "One Day," a record that took some shots at Diddy and Bad Boy.

On her Twitter, Dawn Richard shared an interview with Mela and Kyle of Passion and Loves.

In the interview, Dawn said that the release of the Danity Kane comics soundtrack was delayed because she wanted to release the comic and the soundtrack at the same time. Due to the new deal with eigoMANGA to produce the comic, she says that they'll be released in the Spring.

Also, she confirmed that her and Kalenna of Dirty Money will appear on the remix "Shake Dat," a new song from Qwanell "Que" Mosley, formerly of Day26.

Fabolous is promoting a new free mixtape called "There Is No Competition 2: Funeral Service." The mixtape features two tracks with Red Cafe. The first, "Tonight," is listed as Fabolous and Red Cafe while the second, "Funeral Service," is by Fabolous and featuring Cafe, Kobe, Paul Cain and Willie The Kid. Check out an embeddable player below.

In the month of February, Gorilla Zoe released a mixtape every day - plus two on one day, for a grand total of 29 mixtapes in 28 days. DatPiff played host to this marathon and, according to the numbers provided on their website, the 29 mixtapes totaled 318,901 listens and 173,156 downloads.

According to DatPiff, a listen is counted when a user opens a mixtape player and, regardless of whether he listens to one track or all of them, it counts as one listen. They also log the IP address, so if that same user was to come back the next day, using that same IP address, they would still count as just one listen.

The most popular mixtapes were generally the ones released earliest. They capitalized off the initial buzz and have also been up the longest, providing them with the longest opportunity to have been seen by DatPiff visitors.

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Earlier today, we shared some cryptic messages from Diddy's Twitter stream that indicated that "Last Train to Paris," the upcoming Dirty Money album, may have been pushed up one week, with a set release date of June 22.

Diddy has now confirmed that this is the case.

Within the last couple of hours, Diddy has tweeted twice making references to "6-22-10." The messages themselves are pretty cryptic (see below), but the most obvious interpretation of them is that the release date of the Dirty Money album "Last Train to Paris" has been moved up a week from the June 29 release date reported in February. Hopefully, we'll be able to confirm this soon.

Message 1:


Message 2:

Here are Bad Boy's positions on the most recent Billboard U.S. album and single charts, released today.

Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Catalog Albums

18. "Ready to Die" by The Notorious B.I.G. (up from 20).

Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs

78. "I'm Ill" by Red Cafe (down from 75).
88. "Angels" by Dirty Money (down from 78).

Hot Videoclip Tracks

20. "Angels" by Dirty Money (unchanged).

On Twitter today, Diddy offered a free download link for a brand new remix to "Angels" featuring reggae artist Serani as well as The Notorious B.I.G. Diddy also said that the track was produced by Jerry Wonder.

My favorite part starts at the 1:49 mark where Diddy adds a short, laid back rap verse and introduces Biggie.

Download now (includes main, clean and instrumental versions).

Below, you can see the single cover for Waka Flocka Flame's "O Let's Do It (Remix)" with Diddy, Rick Ross and Gucci Mane. A music video for the song has been announced.