Is anyone anticipating the new Diddy album?

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Uh oh. Hiphop-collabo-as-homoerotic-duet strikes again!

― Apocalypse '07: Rodney Strikes Back (R. J. Greene), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

im p diddy and this is my hetero life partner jamie foxx

― and what (ooo), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

x-post to Deej: Would it be correct to assume that it didn't have Diddy on it, though? Or else....um....step your dream-collabo game up!

― Apocalypse '07: Rodney Strikes Back (R. J. Greene), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

My version also had Bone Thugs and Do or Die

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm really glad that Get Off isn't an album track.

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 2 October 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I think Diddy and Mario Winans were listening to (and possibly staring at) this:

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

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

And Diddy might've been staring at (but probably not listening to) this, too:

ihttp://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:tt9ds30ya39g

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc600/c646/c6460340fqj.jpg

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

> Diddy is the worst thing that ever happened to hip-hop

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

YouTubers Protest Diddy TV With Parody Videos, Angry Comments

― mark 0 (mark 0), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

"Diddy Rock" is great.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

"How dare you?" the creature asks. "How 'bout, on October 17, I just push 'stop'?"

see what he did there

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

"I order all my sandwiches with mayonnaise"

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

two more songs produced by timbaland. http://www.discobelle.net/2006/10/12/timbo-and-diddy/

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

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Just started listening to clips of this on itunes, and...holy shit the intro track. What weirds me out isn't just the obviousness of the sample, but also that it doesn't even sound like one- seriously, it sounds like he got someone to just play the keyboard line from "Head Over Heels."

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

Did I make a mistake walking out of the store without this yesterday?

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

when it's a replayed element from another song, it's an interpolation, not a sample.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

OK I like this album a lot but its not at all what I was expecting.
its like he's going for some adult contemporap (and i mean that in a good way), sade or something? I've never heard that Playgroup album before so I'll have to check it out.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Two levels above you, baby

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Um.. i'ma make you love me baby?

― Rowlando for the kidz (Sam Rowlands), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

I finally listened to the whole thing last night. The second half is the best, the part with all the R&B vocalists, and its got some sort of 80s nu-wave influence that i can't quite place (I'm assuming Andy has a better idea)
The song with Brandy stands out, drum&bass meets a DeBeers commercial aesthetic (mature w/ expensive classy formal attire & 'respectable' dramatic strings) and esp. on the later tracks Diddy's forced pop-rap sounds even more like a throwback and less ... boring. The weakest tracks are at the beginning, the Pharoahe-ghostwritten one (which is just 'ok') and the one after it, "Hold Up," which is just terrible. Diddy isn't a good rapper, but he's an enjoyable enough one as long as he keeps it interesting (meaning the lyrics & or beat need to keep everything going so his pop-rap style works). The timbaland track is incredible (there's only one that's all Timbo, and its with some new R&B chick named Keri who is v. good, although his 'associate' Danja produced two of the best tracks), and the R&B conclusion is really the albums heart, this cold sheen with those weird 80s reverb-y noise gated drums (on "Through the Pain") and of course that Mary J. track with Rich Harrison is one of Harrison's best soul tracks yet - those thumping, organic drums and this "out" horn sample. (Other than that track) this is v. much adult-contempo soul, if Diddy decided to go Sade (which isn't quite what I was expecting but is great nonetheless) and no this album isn't perfect by any means - Like I said, Diddy's rapping can be very boring (although I think he genuinely rips the Nas track and the intro). But like RTC said the appeal of a Diddy album is about how he throws money around, the expensive ghostwriters (its fun to play "who wrote this" - the obvious one is Pharoahe but I'm almost positive track 3 is Jay-Z or a biter, and the Brandy track actually kind of sounds like Eminem, rhyme scheme is familiar that way + 'personal' introspective relationship lyrics), recruiting the biggest singers in R&B, getting Timbaland, Twista and Shawnna on the same track (and then having the balls to call it "Diddy Rock" despite him being the least talented dude on it!) and that Ciara and Big Boi track is straight 80s goth nu-wave over bass 808s (haha now I sound very ILM. Maybe later I'll tell you how it fits in with the Avalanches and shoegaze.)

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

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

hum. thanx for the review I was hesitating to grab it today. will get it tomorrow I guess...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

The Havoc beats are the secret reason why those two bad tracks were doomed. keybs are not friendly to his approach.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Deej's description make it sound like a hip-hop version of the Cassie album. I'm excited

― Baaderonixx in the year of the locusts (baaderonixx), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Shawnna sounds brillaint on Diddy Rock

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

I like "Wanna Move," "Special Feeling," "Through The Pain," "Thought You Said" and "Last Night," esp. if they make single edits. I don't know why they put a Brandy 2-step track on this thing, but hey, not complaining.

― Zwan (miccio), Friday, 20 October 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

this has got Felix's scent all over it

― like_a_child (daddy warbuxx), Friday, 20 October 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

YOUNG TIM FINNEY HAVE YOU HEARD THE ALBUM DIDDY - PRESS PLAY?

I am all over Keri Hilson right now. She had a hand in Mary J Blige's Take Me as I Am and less relevant songs for Usher, Chris Brown, Avant, Danity Kane, and B5. She has a song of her own on the soundtrack to that awful Usher movie. She's on Lloyd Banks' Help and Xzibit's Hey Now (Mean Muggin')*.

*'Entourage rap'

KERI HILSON ON MYSPACE
KERI HILSON ON FRIENDSTER
KERI HILSON ON MOSLEY MUSIC
KERI HILSON ON METACRITIC
KERI HILSON ON AOL
KERI HILSON AT COKEMACHINEGLOW
KERI HILSON AT MUSIC-FOR-ROBOTS

If I had DJ MARTIAN'S energy I would do actual links for (some) of the above.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

It's nowhere near as good as the last one:

http://i14.ebayimg.com/03/i/07/a7/58/f4_2.JPG

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

that Ciara and Big Boi track is straight 80s goth nu-wave over bass 808s (haha now I sound very ILM. Maybe later I'll tell you how it fits in with the Avalanches and shoegaze.)

Give in, Deej. Besides, everything is goth in the end.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

I was just thinking I'd changed my mind about the Keri track! It sounds kind of out of place and while its one of my favorite Timbaland phenotypes* (a bunch of melodic elements overlapping w/ a uniquely wistful Timbaland mood) it doesnt quite fit in with all the tracks around it. Its good don't get me wrong - just feels out of place. I think my favorite track now is the Keyshia Cole one, which they've played on the radio around here.

I also agree w/ Andy that I want to know what Tim thinks!

*c. Tim Finney 2004

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

It's out of place after the lame Prince stunt and even lamer interlude, but I do think it's placed perfectly before the Mario sobfest.

The Keyshia track's my favorite too.

Mid '80s R&B nerds: Juicy's Katreese Barnes does some of the arrangements.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

I think I like the lame prince stunt : /

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Keyshia divides people, I notice.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

She went straight through my torso.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Keyshia Cole is fucking horrible no matter what the context.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I second that.

― Rodney is a group! (R. J. Greene), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Have you heard this song, Dan?

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Herr Drake: the crypto-intellectual anti-intellectual contrarianism of ILM reaches its apotheosis with the mere suggestion that "adult contemporary in a good way" is not an oxymoron!

― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

oh come the fuck on when its french white dudes yall love it

― and what (ooo), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

haha i was about to post a picture of pheonix.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

"We Gonna Make it" is like the exact same sample as Jay's new one.

― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Have you heard this song, Dan?

No, largely because I don't really like Diddy as a performer and I really, really hate Keyshia Cole; there is nothing there that would make me try to listen to this song (at least the Brandy song has Brandy on it).

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

now, back to "Candy Shop"

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

keyshia cole is fine as hell

― and what (ooo), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

My coworker told me she thinks Keyshia's gay.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Might be wishful thinking.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

diddle my skittle
http://www.omroep.nl/nps/dekortefilm/gfx/peaches_150.jpg

― trees (treesessplode), Friday, 20 October 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

"Last Night" = surprised how great it is

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I'm completely addicted to "Last Night", something about the beat really makes it stand out

― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

no get offf sadly but the production on this is so amazing. i really like this album.

― tigertiger (tigertiger), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

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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.

― avoid boring people, Wednesday, 25 September 2024 22:45 (one year ago)

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

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 September 2024 23:32 (one year ago)

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.

― omar little, Tuesday, 1 October 2024 19:40 (one year ago)

Jesus christ

― DJP, Tuesday, 1 October 2024 20:13 (one year ago)

Holy shit. What an absolute monster.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 October 2024 20:21 (one year ago)

man alive

― lil $CHUB (Spottie), Tuesday, 1 October 2024 20:43 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...

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.

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 18 October 2024 03:35 (one year ago)

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

― omar little, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 17:08 (one year ago)

Jesus fucking Christ, what an absolute monster.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 October 2024 17:17 (one year ago)

― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 29 October 2024 18:01 (one year ago)

one month passes...

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

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 December 2024 17:23 (one year ago)

five months pass...

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/

― Bangel, Bangel & Bangel (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 14 May 2025 19:01 (one year ago)

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