Is anyone anticipating the new Diddy album?

Yeah that one’s good

crickets

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

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

pretty obsessed with ”boohoo”

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

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

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

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

why is Jazmine Sullivan so good at this

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.

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/arts/music/sean-combs-diddy-cassie-rape-lawsuit.html

well I'm not anymore!!

Feds raiding Diddy's properties.

BREAKING: Diddy's homes in Los Angeles and Miami have been raided by federal agents, TMZ reports.

Law enforcement are allegedly walking through the house with guns drawn. People are being questioned in front of the house in Beverly Hills. It's unknown if Diddy is present. pic.twitter.com/5BMzRXcj3z

— XXL Magazine (@XXL) March 25, 2024

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

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.

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

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.

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

diplomatic immunity ftw

(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.)

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 :(

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?

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.

Sorry for the ridiculously long link, but if anyone wants to step into the wayback machine:

https://books.google.com/books?id=frt_Py4XUvwC&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=%22this+is+hip+hop.+i+can%27t+look+like+a+dick+head!%22&source=bl&ots=OuWuFtLoYV&sig=ACfU3U1Px0WaClKf32CzwzEJkYDtQ3CCfg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiN4ZSGopWFAxWfEVkFHfccBjgQ6AF6BAgOEAI#v=onepage&q=%22this%20is%20hip%20hop.%20i%20can't%20look%20like%20a%20dick%20head!%22&f=false

G-dep is in prison for murder