Is anyone anticipating the new Diddy album?

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I'm with Jaxon - never thought I'd be anticipating a Diddy album, but that 'Future' track is indeed pretty great.

Baaderonixx in the year of the locusts (baaderonixx), Thursday, 28 September 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

"Future" is the Pharoahe-written one.
Jaxon, you can hear it at his myspace i think.

deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 28 September 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

and watch a video of he and his wife announcing her pregnancy

deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 28 September 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

album cover reminds me of this...i supposed diddy should be releasing his "street hassle" by now..makes sense.

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

M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 28 September 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

There are jealous guys in this town.

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!)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 September 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

No Ned thats a quote from Ma$e's "Jealous Guys"!

deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 28 September 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Ma$e feat. Puff Daddy

deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 28 September 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Kinda glad Ma$e passed me by, then.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 September 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 28 September 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Siegbran, where the hell have you been, man.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 September 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

just buy no way out instead

and what (ooo), Thursday, 28 September 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

been around the world and aye yi yiiiii

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

deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://espn.starwave.com/media/nba/2005/0531/photo/a_brown_et.jpg

Andy_K (Andy_K), Thursday, 28 September 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

no more questions

deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

the Cee-Lo/Nas/Kanye song is wack! it's kind of hard to believe that Diddy rejected the "Crack Music" beat and picked that one instead.

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Really? I like the beat a lot more than the Crack Music one, its going for a retro old school thing and works a lot better that way vs. crack music's urgency which rings kind of false.

deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 28 September 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

deej otm, even if the beat is sort of a "corner" retread, there are way worse beats to redo. plus diddy only barely trips over his shit (which is nas-written i think). i was hoping that cee-lo was actually going to rap, but i guess i can't complain about the singing. this actually makes me sort of excited for esco's new one.

max (maxreax), Friday, 29 September 2006 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link

if only we could diddy to stop dancing. who used to pay this man to dance for them? geriatric blind retards?

jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 29 September 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

when is this coming out?

Baaderonixx in the year of the locusts (baaderonixx), Friday, 29 September 2006 07:17 (seventeen years ago) link

cover's a bit grace jones really.

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!

rtccc (mwah), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

1. Testimonial (Intro)
2. We Gon' Make It featuring Jack Knight
3. I Am (Interlude)
4. The Future
5. Hold Up
6. Come To Me featuring Nicole Scherzinger
7. Tell Me featuring Christina Aguilera
8. Wanna Move featuring Big Boi, Ciara and Scar
9. Diddy Rock featuring Timbaland, Twista and Shawnna
10. Claim My Place (Interlude)
11. Everything I Love featuring Nas and Cee-Lo
12. Special Feeling featuring Mika Lett
13. Crazy Thang (Interlude)
14. After Love featuring Keri
15. Through The Pain (She Told Me) featuring Mario Winans
16. Thought You Said featuring Brandy
17. Last Night featuring Keyshia Cole
18. Makin' It Hard featuring Mary J. Blige
19. Partners For Life featuring Jamie Foxx

and what (ooo), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

big no homo on that last track

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

^^^ dope

and what (ooo), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

man i saw twista live once at this video game party.

he was fucking amazing.

M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

9. Diddy Rock featuring Timbaland, Twista and Shawnna

wtf they stole this from my brain

deej.. (deej..), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

and what (ooo), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

My version also had Bone Thugs and Do or Die

deej.. (deej..), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link

> 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 (seventeen years ago) link

"Diddy Rock" is great.

deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

"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 (seventeen years ago) link

"I order all my sandwiches with mayonnaise"

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Two levels above you, baby

deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Shawnna sounds brillaint on Diddy Rock

paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

01 “Brought My Love” (Feat. The-Dream & Herb Alpert)
02 “What’s Love” (Feat. Nova Wav)
03 “Deliver Me” (Feat. Dirty Money, Busta Rhymes, Dawn Richard, & Kalenna)
04 “Stay A While” (Feat. Nija)
05 “Homecoming” (Feat. Jozzy)
06 “Pick Up” (Feat. Jacquees & Fabolous)
07 “Tough Love” (Feat. Swae Lee)
08 “Stay Long” (Feat. Summer Walker)
09 “Belongs To You” (Feat. Jozzy)
10 “Another One Of Me” (Feat. The Weeknd, French Montana, & 21 Savage)
11 “INTERMISSION”
12 “Moments” (Feat. Justin Bieber)
13 “Need Somebody” (Feat. Jazmine Sullivan)
14 “Mind Ya Business (Feat. Ty Dolla $ign & Kehlani)
15 “Nasty interlude” (Feat. Jozzy)
16 “Reachin” (Feat. Ty Dolla $ign & Coco Jones)
17 “Stay part 1” (Feat. Kalan FrFr & K-Ci)
18 “I Like” (Feat. Mary J Blige)
19 “Closer To God” (Feat. Teyana Taylor)
20 “BooHoo” (Feat. Jeremih)
21 “Interlude” (Feat. Burna Boy)
22 “Kim Porter” (Feat. Babyface & John Legend)
23 “Space” (Feat. H.E.R.)

dirty money reunion track!

ufo, Thursday, 31 August 2023 23:36 (seven months ago) link

*ominous synth pad fades in as diddy’s weed-rasped voice intones:* I know you all are loving your pills right now …. But there’s a new diddy album.

Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 31 August 2023 23:48 (seven months ago) link

i can't believe this is real i'm so happy

J0rdan S., Friday, 1 September 2023 02:01 (seven months ago) link

i rly hope diddy does an album like this soon w/ ppl like ty dolla, swae lee etc

― J0rdan S., Saturday, September 21, 2019 11:33 PM (three years ago)

better late than never

J0rdan S., Friday, 1 September 2023 02:02 (seven months ago) link

o m f g

ivy., Friday, 1 September 2023 02:13 (seven months ago) link

time to take pills listen to sade imo

Tim F, Friday, 1 September 2023 02:24 (seven months ago) link

I had to look up who Jozzy is

Murgatroid, Sunday, 3 September 2023 14:42 (seven months ago) link

so does this slap???

k3vin k., Friday, 15 September 2023 15:05 (seven months ago) link

extremely low energy on this. starts out pretty strong (first 5 tracks?) but fades heavily

nobody respects the chair (Spottie), Friday, 15 September 2023 23:31 (seven months ago) link

the jeremih song is pretty great

J0rdan S., Saturday, 16 September 2023 01:17 (seven months ago) link

Yeah that one’s good

nobody respects the chair (Spottie), Saturday, 16 September 2023 02:53 (seven months ago) link

crickets

yeah, this album is kinda boring I guess, nothing is making an impression on me one way or another

Murgatroid, Sunday, 17 September 2023 04:42 (seven months ago) link

Y’all don’t like this? Sounds great to me.

human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 17 September 2023 08:21 (seven months ago) link

pretty obsessed with ”boohoo”

k3vin k., Monday, 18 September 2023 02:50 (seven months ago) link

"boohoo" ft. jeremih is my fav, yeah. dirty money reunion and the mary j blige song are also top notch

is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Monday, 18 September 2023 04:12 (seven months ago) link

this is perfectly fine but there's not a lot to get excited about unfortunately?

ufo, Monday, 18 September 2023 08:55 (seven months ago) link

Reminds me of Dr Dre’s “Compton” where all the things that have made him good are there so you feel like you’re definitely hearing the end product of the same auteur you’ve heard for years but also a bit running on fumes at the same time, like the seams show but it’s still stitched together pretty tight so easy to be fooled into loving it

xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 00:22 (seven months ago) link

"boohoo" is really like jeremih's version of a 'kaleidescope dream' song, which is a wonderful idea

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:11 (seven months ago) link

why is Jazmine Sullivan so good at this

hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:15 (seven months ago) link

there's actually a hint of a great sequel to the dirty money album in tracks 2-6. i love the production on "what's love" ... the way the pianos kinda hit the beat at random like raindrops on a window. vocally nova wav sound a lot like dawn & kelenna. then you get the dirty money reunion song which is good. the nija record leans a bit more traditional but feels of a piece and "homecoming" sounds like a good dirty money song too

the issue is kinda every song w/ a famous artist on it sadly. starting off w/ the-dream disco record is a weird fake out. it kicks off the album's mixed messaging at the beginning... he talks about getting back to the dancefloor, we're on our phones too much etc but there's no real thread there for the rest of the album. nor does it really connect w/ the dirty money ethos so much exactly, the narrative gets lost pretty quickly for me

you get to the jaquees record and the album pretty quickly becomes a conveyor belt of fairly conventional R&B songs that don't seem to be in conversation w/ each other at all. there's also just some bad combos of beats & vocalists ... summer walker would be great on a dirty money style record but the bombastic R&B of the song she does on this just doesn't fit at all. same for the kehlani song. bieber sounds horrific over that kinda production. the swae lee song never congeals into anything. metro boomin beat diddy to his own game w/ the weekend/21 savage sample flip record and did it better. french montana saying he could "turn a whole brick to an NFT" over the "in the air tonight" is not a moment i will remember fondly

the jazmine song is really nice as is the jeremih song. i thank diddy for releasing two great songs by artists who tend to disappear for long stretches of time. but they feel disconnected from the proceedings. you really lose diddy's voice in the second half of the album... he pops up a few times and you're like "oh, right." it starts to feel a lot like a dj khaled R&B album and not very much like an album w/ any narrative or thematic arc to it. ah well, maybe he'll make another dirty money style album one day.

J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 September 2023 17:48 (six months ago) link

french montana saying he could "turn a whole brick to an NFT" over the "in the air tonight" is not a moment i will remember fondly

lol

k3vin k., Thursday, 28 September 2023 22:16 (six months ago) link

one month passes...

well I'm not anymore!!

frogbs, Friday, 17 November 2023 03:52 (five months ago) link

four months pass...

I hadn't really spent time reading the full allegations in that lawsuit before. holy fuck. I'm glad they're going after him criminally.

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 04:44 (one month ago) link

I think it’s safe to say that no one is anticipating a new Diddy album

Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 09:07 (one month ago) link

Apparently he has left the country in his private jet and is somewhere in the Caribbeans
Cassie really opened the floodgates. It's going to be fun when they formally indict him.

Nabozo, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 07:54 (one month ago) link

it's just his plane that is in antigua, he allegedly is still in the US

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/diddy-sources-say-sean-combs-remains-us-amid-19371417.php

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 18:36 (one month ago) link

sheesh back when "can't nobody hold me down" was tormenting my teenage hiphop purism at every turn, i would have cheered headlines along the lines of "international manhunt for puff daddy underway."

now that it's sort of happening, just... man, fuck this asshole. i hate everything about everything surrounding this.

i say just lock him + shyne in a room together and whatever happens, happens.

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 18:48 (one month ago) link

Shyne is in the House of Representatives in Belize so he's probably not going to participate

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:39 (one month ago) link

diplomatic immunity ftw

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:51 (one month ago) link

(yes i knew that re:shyne + i'm glad that he seems to be doing somewhat okay. just wanted to bring up another one in the long line of people pd has fucked over.)

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:54 (one month ago) link

I saw Loon on the Math Hoffa podcast, he had a rough road with prison but has converted to Islam and seemed to be in really good spirits and health. :)

poor Black Rob really struggled after getting fucked over by Puffy (RIP) :(

Ma$e and Cam are killing it in the sports world with their podcast, so that turned out :)

though who knows how much money Ma$e got fucked out of by Puff :(

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:16 (one month ago) link

not trying to gang up on rich and famous black producers but i was watching jimmy kimmel and they had this whole episode devoted to dr. dre with snoop and everyone and skits and celebrating his hollywood star on the walk of fame and all i could think was...so i guess nobody cares anymore about the tons of stories of his assaulting and beating women? or everyone has forgotten? even though its been well known for decades? and he wins special grammys too. is he just too rich to fail?

scott seward, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:28 (one month ago) link

i don't really feel like celebrating him. there are all kinds of cool pioneers you could celebrate. but maybe they aren't billionaires. or they are women.

scott seward, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 20:29 (one month ago) link

G-dep is in prison for murder

ANU (sisilafami), Thursday, 28 March 2024 17:02 (four weeks ago) link


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