Sean Combs

How Have We Not Seen Diddy Crucified in "Hate Me Now?"

It's now 2013. As online music lovers, we've had widespread file-sharing for 14 years, Youtube for eight years and full-fledged communities dedicated to pop-culture preservation and video obscurities for at least five. At this point, every banned music video, live TV blooper or controversial perform ... More >>

Dirty Money Honeys: Dawn Richard And Kalenna Get Off The Bad Boy Train

When Last Train To Paris, the sole album by the hip-hop/R&B trio Diddy-Dirty Money, landed in stores 16 months ago, it would've been fair to assume it was the end of something, not the beginning. The mogul formerly known as the artist formerly known as Puff Daddy had been more of a professional cele ... More >>

Will Half Naked And Almost Famous Turn Machine Gun Kelly Into Bad Boy's New Biggie?

Diddy's new Bad Boy movement is beginning to resemble a hall of mirrors. The label's rejuvenation has been spear-headed by fresh faces—Cleveland's Machine Gun Kelly, Bronx-based French Montana, and Baltimore's Los—but there are striking parallels and warped similarities with Bad Boy's gl ... More >>

Sound Of The City's March Madness Begins With An Uptown Faceoff Between Diddy (4) And Dipset (13)

The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which we determine the quintessential New York musician—launches this morning with a series of polls. Up first: Harlem's quintessential hip-hop cadre, Dipset, takes on the genre's megamogul, Diddy. Check out the argu ... More >>

Pazz & Jop 2011: Alex Macpherson On Pistol Annies, PJ Harvey, And Why You Should Always Trust Diddy

To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. Here, the British critic Alex Macpherson finds protest music and love songs that were worth holding on to past the end of the calendar year. Every year, I cavil about ... More >>

Live: Diddy Has A Family Reunion At The Hammerstein Ballroom

Diddy-Dirty Money, Tyga, Lloyd Hammerstein Ballroom Friday, April 22 Better Than: That time Diddy's son took Nicki Minaj to his 16th birthday party. "Diddy's not so much my thing," said a friend as we waited amid hundreds of fans and at least ten gigantic spinning cardboard cutouts of Ciroc bott ... More >>

Top 10 Rap-Related Reality-TV Moments

​"Reality rap" was once a phrase invoked by gangsta rappers to defend their music against moral outcry from the mainstream media and pesky suburban dwellers. These days, the term largely refers to the slew of emcees lining up to star in their own TV shows. While Boogie Down Productions associa ... More >>

Diddy Goes Back to the Basement

On Diddy–Dirty Money's harsh, jarring, surprisingly emotive Last Train to Paris

Diddy Is A Legend In Both Ibiza and the Franklin Avenue 4 Train Station

Diddy: dirty money plus ice cream.​Rejoice New York, Diddy's long, long, long-awaited Last Train To Paris is finally out today, after three years in the making and some of the most pleasurable pre-album explicating known to man. The record, see, is about the woman of his dreams, except after a ... More >>

Last Night: Diddy Dirty Money and Rick Ross Beat Back the Rain at Governors Island

​Power 105 Power Live, Featuring Rick Ross and Diddy Governors Island Sunday, August 22 The weather on Sunday in advance of Power 105's Power Live concert at Governors Island was fitting, considering its star attraction. There was a thick, slowing dampness in New York City yesterday--not so m ... More >>

Live: Diddy Holds Forth on Biggie, Mary (The Biblical One), and His Own Ambition at 92Y Tribeca

​Shout-out to all the Scorpios in the house. Pics by Ken Goodman.​The question: "What's your favorite non-hip-hop pursuit?" Diddy's answer, after a meaningful, somewhat bewildered pause: "happiness."

Diddy, To Some Terrified Producer: "I Want A Beat That Makes Me Feel Like A White Man In A Basement In Atlanta"

Image taken exclusively for l'uomo Vogue by Mark Seliger, via Myspace​Ever wonder what it's like to produce for New York rap stalwart Diddy, a man whose creativity and ability to leech off of the creativity of others knows no real bounds? Ask 26-year-old British producer Alex Da Kid, who lever ... More >>

Proof That Anna Wintour Actually Danced During Diddy and Pharrell's Performance at the Met Gala After Party?

Second from the left, no? Credit: BBC​It's not quite Katie Couric busting the world's most unseemly move, but the above photo would seem to be evidence of Vogue editrix Anna Wintour's ability to clap her hands in a somewhat demonstrative and possibly even rhythmic way. Or is it just a lookalik ... More >>

Sean Combs Tapes An Episode of Inside The Actors Studio!

​No, this is no prank! Puff Daddy Diddy Diddleysquat...whatever the heck his name is, he just shot one of those James Lipton-hosted shows talking about his craft and shit! And let's not forget he was in Monster's Ball and on Broadway in Raisin in the Sun, after all.

American Idol Season 9: Top 10 Results

Diddy, please never let that white suit go. Photo by Michael Becker / FOX. ​Are the results shows always this bad? This padded out with product placements and movie tie-ins and Seacrest/Cowell banter that seems one barb away from a loogie to the face? Just kidding--I know they're always this b ... More >>

Diddy Will Pay For Your Cab Ride Home Tomorrow If You Drink Enough Ciroc Vodka First

At first we though all these news stories circulating today about Diddy distributing $15 pre-paid taxi cards for drunken New Year's Eve cab rides home and even more hilariously, $2.25 one-way subway cards, were based on a year-old article of ours that seems to have been making the rounds lately. B ... More >>

Diddy's Birthday Party Cost Three Million Dollars

​According to the New York Post, anyway. Commenters there make the eminently reasonable suggestion sponsors likely picked up a huge piece of the tab, which is very possible. Either way, let's all keep in mind this is the same person who detained 160 people in a 106 & Park BET studio for hours ... More >>

Look at All The People Who Want to Work for Diddy

​ "What's it like working for me?," says Sean Combs in the trailer for tonight's season premiere of the mind-boggling I Want To Work For Diddy 2. "It's a little like working working in Hell." So what we have here is the group photo of all the aspiring contestants for VH1's hip-hop ripoff of ... More >>

"Satan Is A Big Tall European": A Young David Paterson Shares the Stage with KRS-One and BDP

Wow. This stellar clip of BDP and KRS-One getting it in Harlem, circa 1990, contains both cameos from a not-yet-Governor David Paterson--that's him, circa 47 seconds in, right around when KRS gets his white devils dig in--and a pre-Bad Boy Puff Daddy, working a kind of proto-Diddy Bop in the backg ... More >>

Common+the Roots

Notorious Onslaught Does Not Stop: Diddy Crying

Diddy's "White Parties" in the Hamptons Finally Explained

Hua Hsu grabs the cover of the Jan/Feb Atlantic Monthly to explain what Sean Combs and Jay Gatsby have in common, the post-racial world that even Nelly knows he lives in, Stuff White People Like, The (White) Rapper Show, WASP style, and the other stubborn trappings of "The End of White America." ... More >>

Diddy Pays for Your New Year's Cab Ride to the Next Bar

The city didn't go for Sean Combs' offer to donate $1 to local charities if they refashioned the New Year's Eve ball to resemble "the blue stone of Ciroc," a vodka he promotes. So now he's offering free cab rides to New Year's Eve drunks. He will work with the Taxi and Limousine Commission to have t ... More >>

Our Favorite Diddy "I Am King" Contest Entrant

Four Things Plaxico Burress Should Do, Like, Now

Passing of TRL Unaccountably Mourned

THE TAKEOVER

Time for Summer Jam

Danity Kane and Day 26

Puff protégés preen preciously

Tiger, Paul McCartney and Diddy: Celeb Tabloid Roundup

Diddy's Confessional Rap?

50 Cent's Billion-Dollar Remix

8Ball & MJG: Diddy's Prisoners

Diddy Buys Himself a Good Album

2003

Yet Another VMA Running Diary

Shades of the Past

Parasols emerge from the 1920s intact

Puff Piece

Sean Combs issues an electoral ultimatum, with a side order of ego

Listings

NY Mirror

Souled Out

God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on Today’s Pop Gospel

The 'Bad Boy Curse'

The Perils of Hanging With Puffy

'Puffy Betrayed Me'

Shyne’s Heartbreak:

A Gangsta’s Prayer

Shyne’s Bible Is His First Line of Defense

Big Bad Wolf

Anthony Jones Upholds the Legend of Puff Daddy’s Bodyguard

Bad Boy Shyne

The Gangsta Life and Times of Jamal Barrow

Taking the Rap

Are Civil Rights Leaders Frontin’ for Hip Hop Gangstas?

Daddy Under the Gun

Publicly, Rap Mogul Won’t Beg; Quietly, He Pleads

Guns, Bribes, and Benjamins

Can Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs Purchase Respectability and Buy His Way Out of the Club New York Shooting Trial?

Revenge of the Mad Rappers

When hip hoppers use violence to silence their critics