Janelle Monae's "The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III" has debuted at 17 on The Billboard 200, the big chart representing the best selling albums of the past week, regardless of genre.

The album came in at 4 on the Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums chart, 7 on the Top Digital Albums chart, 8 on the Tastemakers chart, 16 on the Top Current Albums chart and 17 on the Top Internet Albums chart.

Due to the increased interest in Monae's music, her debut, major label EP "Metropolis: The Chase Suite (Special Edition)" re-entered on the Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums chart, as well.

AllHipHop.com has an interview with Diddy, asking him about Diddy Beats, Rick Ross, Jay Electronica, longevity and more.


Thanks Theo.

During MTV's "Sucker Free" episode with the Bad Boy family last Sunday, Diddy said that Cassie's upcoming second album, "Electro Love" would "probably" be coming at the end of 2010 or the start of 2011. He also said to look out for a new single.

During the Bad Boy family appearance on MTV's "Sucker Free," Diddy said that a new Aasim mixtape would be coming out soon. After making this announcement, he also said "The Beginning." It's unclear if this is the title or it was just a random proclamation.

Last Sunday, MTV's "Sucker Free" had a special Bad Boy family segment. Check out clips from the show below, featuring Dirty Money, Rick Ross, Janelle Monae, Cassie, Aasim and Red Cafe. They discuss their projects, what's coming next, the Bad Boy management situation, Diddy's work ethic and more. With the exception of another "the blogs" mention from Diddy (attention Mr. Combs: please read this post I wrote back in March!), it's a solid interview with some fun moments. Definitely worth watching.

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Following the footage we posted earlier this month, here is another behind the scenes clip from the "Hello Good Morning" music with Dirty Money, Rick Ross, T.I. and Nicki Minaj.

On Tuesday night, "Get Him to the Greek" made it's Los Angeles premiere at the Greek Theatre. Diddy, Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Judd Apatow, Diddy's kids, Diddy's mom Janice Combs and others were on hand. Check out the stream from the red carpet below.


Via Jay A. Fernandez.

Check out the clip below for Janelle Monae's performance of "Tightrope" on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," complete with Ellen and Diddy at the start and end.

A new Diddy/Dirty Money website has launched at diddydirtymoney.com. Compared to the Diddy's sites of the past, I will say that it is nice to see that it is not heavily based on Adobe Flash. It has a nice, clean look and the normal features you'd expect.

There appear to be some technical issues that need to be ironed out - certain images jump around when you move your mouse over them - but overall it's quite nice. The question is whether it'll stay updated. Bad Boy run sites of the past have had issues in that area. The fact that it has a "community" is also reason for pause, just because communities take great effort to run (you can't just put an intern on it), but the forums or communities that have been on Bad Boy owned sites have usually not been very closely managed.

However, this is effectively the first site that the company has launched since moving to Interscope, so hopefully they'll be changes for the better.

Back in April, we reported that Diddy, and presumably Dirty Money, would be performing during "Good Morning America's" Summer Concert Series. According to the diddydirtymoney.com blog, it's confirmed that Dirty Money will perform, as expected.