Is anyone anticipating the new Diddy album?

i liked the JB song and the Pharoahe song, but i think deej is right it was probably more just the "oh wierd diddy's rocking an Organized Konfusion flow" factor...don't know if it's actually good.

"worst thing that ever happened to hip hop"...man i dunno...i sort of hated him at the time, then i saw the "feels so good" video by mase a while back and I was like "damn why didn't I understand how funny/awesome this was at the time"?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Lou_Reed_-_Street_Hassle_front_cover.jpg

I'm more sublimely indifferent to Diddy than anything else these days but this has always been a pretty weak response to thoughts of annoyance re: a musician. (Anybody, really -- fuck knows I'm not jealous of Clapton, say, about anything!)

i cant post ysis right? The song w/ ceelo, nas and kanye is pretty great.

i'm hyped about this, and i like everything ive heard so far except for the aguilera / just blaze. the throwing-money-about diddyness is a big charm obv; if it were pharoahe monch doing, well, his own song then what's the fun in that?

is 'get off' not gonna be on the album then btw? a 'get off' remix would be a golden chance to give elephant man something to do with his badboy deal!

8. Wanna Move featuring Big Boi, Ciara and Scar
9. Diddy Rock featuring Timbaland, Twista and Shawnna

^^^ dope

he was fucking amazing.

wtf they stole this from my brain

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f100/f10039yk7pv.jpg

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>> I don't understand why people still say things like this.

YouTubers Protest Diddy TV With Parody Videos, Angry Comments

see what he did there

and as deej says, "Diddy Rock" is great. the other one is cool, but sounds like timbaland by numbers

Anyway all in all its a good, enjoyable album (although its no "No Way Out") w/ a largely unified sound and I recommend it.

it's like coaching, was phil jackson a great coach? yes.

would he have done much with out jordan, pippin, kobe, and shaq? no.

NYT on the decision, plus more on the evident rottenness of where he'll be held. (This is not a 'poor Diddy' post, merely observing that everyone who ends up there deals with it.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/arts/music/sean-combs-diddy-bail-appeal.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/arts/sean-combs-jail-brooklyn-mdc.html

i think it's fair to say that a lot of diddy's reputation is tied to him emerging at a time when the male svengali was still a glorified figure in music, when nobody cared if the right musicians were credited or paid for their work etc. some portion of the world we live in (as music fans or certainly as rap fans) exists in the wake of business and creative practices that diddy famously perpetuated and which people have been actively trying to root out of the culture and industry for years. there was a period when rap was dominated by the diddy, jermaine dupri, irv gotti type figure who blurred the lines between producer/executive producer/artist/label boss to the point that it all melded into one big kingmaker type persona whose actual "skills" were unclear to/obscured from the public; this doesn't really exist anymore. i think we're more so in a post-kanye, post-pharrell, post-timbaland world where we expect to know that the genius producer really is a genius musician -- compare the role of metro boomin as the "executive producer" of much of future's music to the way diddy was portrayed early in his career. we expect to know that the person presented as the musical visionary can actually make a beat. or in the case of drake, you may be given a pass for ghostwriting but you will still have to contend w/ a cultural appetite for the facts of the music making process. diddy certainly benefited from existing in a different era, but again i think so much of the culture is post-diddy that it's hard to write a different version of history, at least as it pertains to hip-hop

all that said, pop music has always had, and even still has, a function for executives who can see culture from a big picture standpoint and shift art in accordance to that. if that in of itself isn't a skill, being able to facilitate the hundreds of little tasks that build up to culture shifting certainly is one. it just is not a music making skill, strictly speaking. as a fan of pop music, major label rap and r&b i am fine crediting diddy w/ his role in what i.e. jodeci meant at the time and for the future of R&B even if devante swing is the actual genius at the heart of it

yeah otm about that era for sure

i will say that spending time working in the music industry and w/ developing artists has given me an appreciation for the executive producer. someone who can think bigger than the artist and producer but can also connect w/ them, who can establish enough trust w/ the artist that their voice plays a valuable directorial role in the process ... w/in the realm of pop music i do think this is a real skill. but it's a skill of cultural and corporate translation, bridging boardroom and balance sheet concerns w/ those of the humble beatmaker. oftentimes pop musicians do need someone outside of their head to bring them along a path that they may have laid out for themselves but are unsure of traversing etc

yea relatedly I kind of don't buy that biggie's success centered wholly around 'biggie's talent.' it centered around him having multiple hit singles

the illusion that for the buying public & the undergirding narratives of its biggest artists, 'talent' is the overarching issue——biggie having hit records which conveyed that he was "a success" in the eyes of the public was intractable from his narrative and story. and a lot of that was about puffy's ability to navigate the big-picture cultural moves of certain samples & eschewing the approaches of artists at the time ... you can read the interview with easy mo bee re: Life After Death and he talks about how puff kept rejecting his beats and played him some of the music biggie was making & biggie got the picture and sent in the 'I love the dough' beat ... its not like easy mo bee was just like "you should use this '80s R&B flip biggie" and biggie agreed there was a dynamic going into make this stuff real Show Business

I don't mean in any way to say this stuff "in defense of Puffy" but the creative reality of that project and others we all love was unquestionably shaped by him

*& easy mo bee got the picture & sent the 'I love the dough' beat

*& easy mo bee got the picture & sent the 'I love the dough' beat

like who's idea was the big poppa between the sheets sample ... wasnt 2pac irritated when biggie ended up cutting a song to it after he was planning on releasing this... diddy was a dickhead but he undeniably helped biggie's career become what it was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ15Z3keDKk

and a lot of that was about puffy's ability to navigate the big-picture cultural moves of certain samples & eschewing the approaches of artists at the time

I think this was said in interviews and essays at the time but it's a point largely forgotten. Even with Life After Death it looked more predictable to sample René & Angela than big beat Chic-producing-Diana Ross. The audacity of it.

good posts jordan

it’s been incredibly depressing seeing people revel in the lurid details and ignore the abuse that is the real story

also fools like boosie saying “we’re all traffickers like diddy” cause he thinks “flying out” a romantic partner is the sex trafficking

boosie going from regional rap legend to basically a shitty fox news guest is a real fall from grace

Open Mike Eagle weighs in:

shout out to Jeru the Damaja for being diddy's oldest surviving hater

— OME (@Mike_Eagle) September 19, 2024

From one of those NYT stories: "[The judge] rejected an unusual proposal from Mr. Combs’s legal team in which he would have remained at his mansion in Florida, monitored around the clock by a private security force."

First, just the entitlement of proposing "How about I stay at my mansion" as an alternative to going to jail. Second, I wonder what that feeling was like once he understood he was just going to jail. I'm not expressing sympathy for Diddy, just curious about that really sinking in, that you're not going home, you're going to jail and just staying there.

Former Bad Boy artist Shyne speaks on Diddy's recent arrest and says Diddy destroyed his life.

(🎥 Channel 5 Belize/Youtube) pic.twitter.com/1gO0SYmslV

— The Art Of Dialogue (@ArtOfDialogue_) September 19, 2024

i'm way older then jeru.

Yeah, but did you make any Puffy diss tracks in 1996?

can we not

wtf

SCOOP: Unlikely roommates:
Sean “Diddy” Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried now sharing a common living space in Brooklyn Detention Center, according to sources. https://t.co/Twtx0v6xmh

— Melissa Russo (@MelissaRusso4NY) September 24, 2024

I’d be willing to knock a year off each of their sentences (provided Diddy’s is extreeeeeeemly long) if they’d agree to have their imprisonment together filmed for reality television

still love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BeTqapowAU

shuggadydiddlywobblilydiddlywiddlelydiddlywoooooooaaaaaaahhh

TIL Shyne is Jewish and a Belizean politician.

Shyne has been whatever he is for a while now but it’s fun to learn now or be reminded. In response to the thread title question - I am very much anticipating a new Diddy album.

Lol I'm sure I've learned that before, but it's easy to forget.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/url-sean-diddy-combs-lawsuits_n_66fc3e5ce4b0d70dca9f5973

The attorneys said more than 3,000 people have reached out to them about possible abuse, and they now represent 120 accusers.

Buzbee said a number of Combs’ alleged victims were minors, with the youngest being 9 years old at the time of the alleged abuse. The attorney said the child was brought to New York City by Combs’ record label, Bad Boy Records, for an audition, but was sexually abused by Combs and his associates at the studio. The boy was promised that he and his parents would get a record deal, Buzbee said.

Jesus christ

Holy shit. What an absolute monster.

man alive

it gets worse: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/diddy-orinda-gang-rape-allegation-19842256.php

you can find the court documents online, it is completely insane.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/sean-diddy-combs-lawsuit-sexual-assault-10-17-year-old-boys/3546702/

Jesus fucking Christ, what an absolute monster.

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The latest judicial dismissal of his attempts to get out of pre-trial custody is worth a read:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25429114-2266000-2266752-20224_11_27_combsbail

Some of it is technical but as Mitchell Epner pointed out on Bluesky, a lot of it is clearly boneheaded behavior on the part of both Combs and his legal team. Thus:

There is evidence that Combs violated Bureau of Prisons regulations during his pretrial detention to obscure his communications with third parties. He paid other inmates to use their Phone Access Code (PAC) numbers to make calls to those not on his approved contact list, Dkt. 69 at 17–18, instructed family members and defense counsel to add other people to three-way calls so that their communications were more difficult to trace, id. at 18, and used a messaging program called ContactMeASAP (although the Court recognizes that the parties dispute whether ContactMeASAP is permitted or not). Id. The government gives examples of Combs’s communications utilizing these means from as recently as November 4, 2024, directed to efforts to influence the jury pool, Dkt. 69 at 19–21, or to reach out to potential witnesses, id. at 21–22. The Court makes no determination that the content of Combs’s communications through these channels was improper. However, his willingness to skirt BOP rules in a way that would make it more difficult for his communications to be monitored is strong evidence that the Court cannot be “reasonably assure(d)” as to the sufficiency of any conditions of release, 18 U.S.C. § 3142(g), especially given that they occurred when Combs was seeking bail, and when he knew the government’s concerns about witness tampering and obstruction were front and center. See Dkt. 17 at 9 (describing Combs as a “serial obstructer”); Dkt. 19 at 2 (citing obstruction as a “primar(y)” reason for seeking detention). Underscoring the Court’s concern, despite defense counsel’s assurances to the Court at the November 22, 2024 hearing (with Combs in attendance) that Combs stopped using ContactMeASAP as of November 16, 2024, 11/22 Tr. at 37, the government indicates that Combs has continued to use this service as recently as this past Sunday, November 24, 2024

Funny/not funny cause it’s going to be true https://theonion.com/sean-combs-asks-for-quick-trial-so-he-can-get-to-part-where-trump-pardons-him/