Sometimes I forget just how rich and just how young Diddy is. So says Time Magazine:
"Combs, known these days as Diddy, has been on the forefront of pushing hip-hop culture into the mainstream. He is a record producer, entertainment mogul, writer, arranger, designer, actor, singer and three-time Grammy Awardâ€"winning rapper. And at age 36, Combs is worth an estimated $315 million."
No wonder why they just named him as one of this year's "100 Most Influential People". The profile is written by fashion designer Vivienne Tam, a good look since most of Diddy's fortune and credibility comes from his clothing company and cologne.
Now here's the question of the day - sure Diddy hasn't done anything spectac' on the music side lately, but are we in hip-hop frontin on dude too much?
What would biggie think about puffy? This is how i know duke dont care about the music no more. Young Joc. I can respect Puffy's business mind(clothes,cologne) but thats where it stops. He seem like that one ni66a who you think is your boy, but when yall finaa get jumped he run. He a fake ass ni66a.
stop hating just be glad a black man is in that catagory you fucking hater
I don't know if I can say that we front on Puff. Don't get me wrong. I respect him alot. I think we all respect his business mind. But I think that we all first identified with Puff musically. And in that light, I think he's lost touch with hip-hop as a whole. All he is doing is picking girl groups (and he still picked the wrong ones). It seems like everyone signed to Bad Boy can't wait to get away from him. I mean, when is the last time Bad Boy had a smash? And now, here he is, doing another album. Meanwhile, no Babs, no Ness, no Choppa (even though he is garbage). I mean, if you call yourself running a label, wouldn't it be best to take care of your artists signed to the label before you worry about yourself?
Hey,
I said it before Puffy does not need music anymore, he is a younger version of Quincy Jones. He is able to influence people because he is affiliated with all things hip and affluent. For thoseallot of affluent people Puffy exemplifies a lifestyle that is admired by white and black and all ages. Puffy is selling a lifestyle therefore he cans sell water to whales. We alll need to take a lesson from Puffy he is selling a dreams. Unfortunantely you must know what cloud to get off.
Puff has always been that Dude that people try to emulate and get caught up while he is doing his own thing.Hence(Shine). He believed in Puffy too much and got caught up!
You right Crispin...Diddy might not be relevant in the music scene, but whatever is in the Kool Aid he will always have influence...but I know it gets under his skin-no pun intended that his bad boy artists can't sell anymore.
I'm glad to see black people make that list, honestly
However, it does hurt to see an empire crumble like that. It's not like he doesn't have the money to fix Bad Boys
Some people doubt that Damon Dash would never had been rich if it wasn't for Jay-Z , I'm starting to do the same for Diddy
youre all my slaves. Got that money. Hate me.
Diddy is my man! A real black man out here doing real things! We should all back and support this brother with all his ventures.
As far as music goes, young Puff was a major reason in why hip-hop is so watered down and so pop. Before Puff, it was a sin to sample, or to copy someone else or to be unoriginal at all. Diddy made it cool to be a gimmick, he made it cool to just redo old hits over and over. Diddy won awards for rapping and don't write nothing. He is one of the worst label heads of all time! The only person that ever gets proper promotion at Bad Boy is Diddy! And he's the worst artist! But support my man, he's doing one of us doing big things and he includes us when he's doin it!
niggaz stop getting ahead of yourselfs. diddy has been doing alot and he is a role model for young niggaz in my neck of woods in jamaica
WHAT HAS PUFFY, P DIDDY OR WHAT EVER HE CALLS HIMSELF NOW A DAYS INFLUENCED NO ONE HE AINT DOING NOTHING DIFFERENT FROM THESE OTHER RAPPERS LIKE 50 CENT, JAYZ, NELLY, THEY ALL HAVE CLOTHING LINE JUST LIKE HIM HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE 100 RICHEST PEOPLE.
puffy used to get on my last danmed nerve but he's impressed me lately mostly because when he label started to fall off he made some smart moves.he hired new pr people .even opened up for n'sync(thats theaudience that makes rappers rich) his dist. deal went from 100 mil. to abot a fourth of that but he kept his catalouge ownership he said he humbled himself and wennt to his friends(jay,etc.)after he begged for thedeal for the badboys 2 soundtrack and begged them to look out then boom he's back in the spotlight he may not hold down the music scene but in got him back in good graces of the A-list crowds and media .i see those parties he throws as being strategic also shit if u need a project to get the green light or a loan who gon turn u down after u flew they ass around the world just to party?
Diddy definitely get's hated on, but that's because he is such and in-your-face opportunist that he gets on your nerves... I got mad respect for DIddy though, he definitely knows how to get that money... I wouldn't sign with his scandolous ass though!
Let me school Cynthia since she doesn't seem to realize what Diddy, J, and some of the other rap icons stand 4........People like Puff and LL actually made it possible for Jay-z and 50 cent to cross over into Corporate America. What is Corp. America? Corp America is where the $ is. It's the place that peole like Bill Gates, Oprah, endorsement deals, ownership in companies and so on. There are fewer black people in Corp. America than Mexican's, or Arabs. That's why we don't own shit in this country. So please, don't knock the man who is helping to pave the way 4 more us to get in that position
All Afrian Americans need Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Respect to Puff, in his heyday I definately hated on the dude for sampling too many big hits and not diggin in the crates. But since he stopped dancing in shiney suits and shit things are on the up and up. Making the band was some of the funniest shit I ever saw, and I see plenty of people wearing his clothes (not me). Whats with the posts about race?
I think puffy is a great
business minded man irrespective of his music. I think he has had more influence on
hip hop than ppl give him credit for. As far as rappers crossing over to corporate
America, puffy is a huge reason for that. I think he really deserves to be on the list. He should sell his label tho'
Hurry and get saved Doch210!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PUFF IS AINT ALL THAT I USED TO LIKE HIS RECORD LABEL UNTIL HE STARTED PROMOTING HIMSELF PLUS ALL HE DO IS MAKE RAPPERS HIS SLAVES [LOX,MASE]HE EATS AND TAKE OTHER PEOPLE MONEY AND HE IS 100 INFLUENTIAL GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE
EVERY ONE NEEDS TO IGNORE RON.
WE ARE ALL FREE MORAL AGENTS. BLACK WHITE WHATEVER!
IF YOU ARE SO SAVED RON WHY ARE YOU ON A SECULAR WEBSITE?
YOU AINT SAVED!
Puffy has done NOTHING that Russell Simmons hasn't ALREADY done.
Let's just leave it at that.
'Stop worrying about hip-hop and start worrying about issues that are affecting your community'
No, no, no....
Why don't YOU stop worrying about HIPHOP...
See, it's that condescending, slave master mentality that's got white gentlemen like yourself all confused.
We don't WANT or NEED you, Kenneth, to tell us anything about the state of the black community or how to live our lives.
Given that you've repeatedly made posts on this site, leads me to believe that you're in need of attention. The wrong kind of attention. The 'crazy white man' type of attention.
Go get your guns out, head towards the local mall, and just start shooting. Go ahead and do it man. What are you waiting for?? Get all of that self-hatred out of your system. It's really toxic.
Then, you'll have the chance to get on TV and tell the ENTIRE world just how messed up US 'poor ignant negros' are.
You have until 11:59pm today. I wanna see you on CNN, FOX news, with a wild fire in your eyes.
Or......you could just stop posting here.
11:59pm Kenneth.
Diddy is a clown.
Black Rob is about to do 7 years and this nigga just chillin.
All of his artists are broke and he don't give a fuck.
Puffy might have brought us Biggie but that is it.
After that he is not good for the game!
What happened to G-Dep and the rest of his crew. and the nigga who was rhyming on the roof.
I don't respect this nigga.
Only white people do!
What the fuk is that, Essex, only white people do?....Im white an i dont respect him...And i doubt all his supporters up above are white..Why every blog always come back to black an white..
HEY DOCH210 LOL I NEW THAT WAS YOU I GOT SUM OF UR DVDS BOY U BE PUTTIN IT DOWN. SORRY TO HERE BOUT UR FREIND HAWK. MY EMAIL UP ABOVE GET AT ME IF U CAN.
So Kenneth, I see you've chosen option 1.
You have until 11:59pm.
My boy Kenneth this clown is too much. It's the same ignorant anglo-saxons that believe that Christopher Columbis discovered America, when people were living here thousands of years ago. That the halocaust never happened, all that ignorant shit. The fact that you are backing up Bill O'Reilly someone who has had multiple accounts of sexual harrasment, and getting washed up by fox from assualting hhis securatries and cocaine problems already shows your stupidity, just an ignorant mother fucker with an educated mouth. And all this neo nazi shit ur preaching, it's just icing on the cake to me. Yall kidanapped a race and made them slaves they didnt make that choice and now your hating on your own moves, you niggas had all the dieaseses and had the overweight problems and thats how all the stds started so you guys just keep digging a hole for yourself. Yall are quick to blame the kid from around the way trying to get some money and beat a system that dont care about them, but you dont think about whos getting the drugs here, and how the government is caking off Cocaine. And now a days we are getting money, fucking your women, and laughing when yall destroy yourselfs. Just like we laughed when Bush knocked down the towers, cuz you got what you desereved for fucking with the middle east and your greed. You say its to help people so why arent you helping niggas in Sudan? Cuz they dont got nothin for you. That's why you guys are all loosing your jobs to Japanese niggas coming here, and bumping you out of your companies, 20 years from now affirmitive action is going to wipe out all you niggas. Yall can barley even pay for your gas prices anymore, shit yall are just another Taliban and at least those arab niggas know what they stand for. You just believe what you hear, if niggas said jesus christ died on an electric chair you would believe that, ignorant fucks
HONESTLY I RESPECT PUFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
BUT I GOT A MAJOR BONE WITH HIM AND EVERY OTHER HIP-HOP DESIGNER CHARGING 75 AND 80 BONES OR MORE FOR A PAIR OF FKING JEANS!!
YOUR CLOTHES ARE HOT IN ALL BUT THOSE PRICES DON'T REP THE HOOD!!
AS A MATTER OF FACT THOSE PRICES REALLY SAY YOU FORGOT WHERE YOU CAME FROM
AND TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE WITH ALL THE NEW DRESS CODES AT CLUBS I CAN'T EVEN ROCK YOUR SHIT AT THE CLUB. I LOVE MY PEOPLE BUT YALL MUTHAFUCKAS ARE GREEDY.
60 BUCKS FOR A FKING POLO T IS CRAZY.
Nigggaa, Niggga, Niggga, Cracka, Cracka, Cracka, this is all I hear from you idiots. This is not about race. It's about P.Diddy being reconized for his accomplishements. And the loud mouths that are hating are the ones that are getting the welfare checks the 1st and 15th. Can we give Diddy the respect he deserves. he may not be the best person, but what record label exec has not did what diddy did maybe even worse? Let's just have a decent disscussion and stop all this children's rap.
50 dollars for a T Shirt is some bullshit!
I'm praying that you guys get saved soon.
FUck ya NY Niggaz!!!! Das y yall lost ya twin towerz. Dat was the funniest shit watchin yall niggaz suffer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! X-BLoc muthaphucaz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Diddy has raped everyone to get to where he is right now. He has horrible work ethic. Other then Russell Simmons, none of the top 5 millionaires in hip hop deserve their money.
man fuk that bitch puffy. all he do is jerk dudes and try 2 act like he somebody. the dudes ain't shit and he stay tryin 2 come out with albums. dude man got mad heads waitin to come out and he still holdin them back 2 put out faggots like young joc.man fuck puffy. diddy or wut ever the faggot wants 2 call him self.
PHUCK NY & DA EASTCOAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dumb Bitches always gotta hate. Like he said, "You can hate me now, but won't stop now" Damn be glad that he's a rich blackman that hasn't turned his back on his own race like some very succesful blacks do
PHUCK U DAMN!!!!!!!!!! You aitn reppin the BLOC 12 Either so shup the PHUCK UP!!!!!!!!! Lame-ass NY NIGGAZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PLAYAAA HAAATERS
Any black person that doesnt at leats respect diddy is mad frontin. Diddy got into the game when it was nothing but white record execs and white label owners and he built up his empire for black people so they werent getting jerked.
Plus if it wasnt for diddy there would never have been a biggie smalls THE GREATEST EVER and for that alone he deserves all the credit in the world
YO X-BLOC
You white as hell! stop frontin
PHUCK YOU ANWHAT!!!!!!!! YOUZ A BITCH SO YOU STOP FRONTIN BITCH!!!!
White and im a guess like 14 maybe 15 y/o
I dont need to stop frontin, cause you know you white, you know you aint a gangsta, you know you aint even scene a gangsta. give me your number, moms know that your still up using her internet?
Yo England!
Good looking out, havent copped it but i will...
ENGLANDREPRESENT, shouldnt you be PHUCKIN YO MAN RON CONWAY? YOU R IN FACT HIS BITCH 24/7. ANWHAT I aint EVEN goin sweat yo BITCH-MADE-ASS. YOUZ a HOE-TRICK!!!!
.....i know i pulled your card so its all good man, best that you stop talking back to me.
But seriously, go to bed.
Yo England, are they remixed tracks or what?
Sounds tight. I have heard that biggie track "nasty" over that old frank sinatra track and it was nice as hell man. You ever heard that old old old school track with biggie and a few other cats i think its called "dogs" the hook is "you aint nothing but a DOG" i think its his first recorded track ever. I would never front on pac, but that biggie track "long kiss goodnight" slayed him man, i think its the illest track ever. Props to Rza for the beat.
What is wrong with you people? How many black rapper's has he ripped off? Look at how he's exploiting Biggie's legacy(y'all know that Born Again & Duets was some flaming garbage). I'm sorry I can't respect a guy who has contributed to the distruction of our culture. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he gave some money to schools, so what? How much money has he made allowing the rich bastards at VIACOM(BET,MTV,VH1)destroy our who community, by "dumbing down lyrics to double the profits". This is what's wrong with the black community. Y'all swing on anybody's nuts that got money, even if that person got rich by making a damn fool out of you. If you supporting that nigga, then don't complain about the materialistic videos on TV, the watered down, mind-numbing garbage on radio, and the over all gluttonous mentallity in the community. One day y'all gon' see that getting paid aint shit if you sold your soul to get there.
P.S. Biggie's one of the greatest ever. He would have been discovered eventually. Puffy just rode his ass to success.
i so much cherish diddy, cos i aprreciate his business acumen, he is the real dude i love him for that, its not easy for a black man to be one of the top 100 in money makin, im tellin yo this nigga is representing, im proud of him. he is being on the grind before most their careers were born he's still gon to be there when their careere are gone.
VOTE FOR BLOC 12 NIGGAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How much money has he made allowing the rich bastards at VIACOM(BET,MTV,VH1)destroy our who community, by "dumbing down lyrics to double the profits". This is what's wrong with the black community.
Posted by: The Black Death at May 3, 2006 02:10 AM
So you think because lyrics are “dumbed down†that THAT is what is wrong with the black community.
What about HIV and poverty and children having children and boys on the block selling drugs, or crooked cops in the streets or poor ass schools that aren’t teaching our children nothing or nasty housing OR
Man I could go on. You think that by dumbing down lyrics that causes all the problems in black America. YOU DUMB ASS!!!!!
Music is supposed to be fun. Remember when music was about getting the party hype and not about who shot your boy and how gangster he is for it?
Lyrics where not complex back then they were fun.
crabs in a bucket
remember nate turner