DIDDY HAS INITIAL P.ROBLEMBy ORLA HEALY
P. Diddy is changing his name.
Yes, again.
As of this morning, the personality formerly known as Sean Combs, Puff Daddy, Puffy and P. Diddy wants to be called Diddy.
"One word. Five letters. Period," says the hip-hop heavyweight, who swears he isn't taking the P. out of his name to yank our chain - or as a publicity stunt.
Why diddy do it ?
"I needed to simplify things," says the 34-year-old, frankly admitting the confusion created by his last name change, in March 2003, was his initial cause for concern.
"Nobody knew what to call me," he explains. "I'd notice that people were uncomfortable when I'd meet them for the first time, and then they'd ask me what they should call me. I even started to get confused myself - and when I'd called someone on the telephone it took me a long time to explain who I was. Too long."
Apart from the frustration of constantly having to tell people what to call him, Diddy says he worried that the name P. Diddy could be bad for business.
"I went to a concert in Madison Square Garden last year and the crowd started to chant my name," he says dryly.
"Let's just say the name P. Diddy didn't quite flow. I realized immediately I had a problem."
Eliminating the pointless P., a move Diddy is making as he prepares to host the MTV Awards at the end of the month, isn't the only change on the fashion-designing music impresario's agenda.
He's also planning to punch up his act in the wardrobe department.
The man who brought "bling," into the mainstream plans to "go more rock 'n' roll," with his threads.
"It's not going to be costume-y, its more about creative styling," says Diddy about his new look, which is inspired in part by David Bowie and Mick Jagger.
Both superstars, Diddy says, had great style but "neither of them took themselves too seriously."
Asked if this is the last name change he plans to make, Diddy doesn't skip a beat before replying: "I don't know. I never say never."
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― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)
?!?!
I sure hope he doesn't mean the "Dancing in the Streets" video.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)
He doesn't know the half of it!
― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)
― ryansf (ryansf), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)
Gee, you could call yourself "Sean Combs" you fucking idiot.
― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)
I SUPPORT YOU IN WHAT MUST HAVE BEEN A VERY HARD DECISION. I THINK YOU WILL FIND THAT ILM IS FULL OF WHAT IS KNOWN IN "STREET LINGO" AS "HATERZ." PAY NO ATTENTION. YOUR TRUE FANS, LIKE MYSELF, WILL REFER TO YOU AS "DIDDY" AND "DIDDY" ONLY. I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS NEW CHAPTER IN YOUR CAREER, AND I HOPE THAT IT WILL BRING US AS MUCH FINE MUSIC AS THE EARLIER PHASES IN YOUR CREATIVE EVOLUTION.
SINCERELY,M@TT
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)
Apparently there were some sort of legal squabbles over the "Puffy" thanks to Puffy Ami Yumi.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)
― You'll never know (dave225.3), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)
― beatles fan, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)
― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)
― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)
― Diddy-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)
Dude needs to change his name to something like
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/wiki/images/8/84/Princeglyph.png
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)
Mary J Blige/Method Man - Your All I Need to Get ByHypnotize - Notorious BIGFeels so Good - MaseMo Money, Mo Problems - BIG, Diddy, Ma$eIt's All About the Benjamins - Diddy + Family
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)
― Mace, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/slaanesh79/boxes/games/Diddy%20Kong%20Racing%20(U).jpg
― Behold I will do a New Thing Chapel JESUS IS LORD (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)
― Whitey Ford, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)
http://www.nespit.com/new/demo/demopics/diddyracing.jpgxpost
― Behold I will do a New Thing Chapel JESUS IS LORD (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)
Rubberband Man video, 8ball and MJG's Living Legends, Boyz N Da Hood, acting in Raisin in the Sun, registering youth to vote...
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)
That is to say: coasted on the South's newfound cred?
― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)
By FAR my favorite single of 2004!!
― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)
-- Ned Raggett (ned@k
Heh, Ned.
(x-post nickalicious' suggestion - YES!!)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)
b-b-b-but ned, deej is the defender of all things beat related. ilx needs his constant retorts as to not let the indie fuxors win!
― jeed, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)
Person: "I am not fond of Mr. Diddy's current efforts."Deej: "YOU RETRO FUXOR I MOCK YOU WITH TRIFE TO PROVE I AM RIGHT."Person: "...uh."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)
http://www.camscottleisure.co.uk/entertainers_photographs/ken_dodd_large.jpg
He should have called himself Professor Chuckabutty.
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)
God, he's fucking rubbish.
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)
― indian fux, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)
his butler is well dressed!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)
― beatles fan, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)
― 3, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)
― 3, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)
― beatles fan, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)
If this were a pro-Diddy thread and I came in and said he sucked, that'd be trolling...but it's an anti-Diddy thread, which there are clearly enough people who feel this way to constitute. Coming in here and saying everyone is somehow intrinsically bad for feeling this way is trolling also.
It seems like there's another agenda at work with your post here, and I think many have referenced it above. I am not a part of that, but I am possibly exposing a link between the two.
― jeed, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)
jeed, i dont see how i'm trolling. I said 'this is like 2001' because i (wrongly) presumed ILM was beyond kneejerk cliche-ass hating. Then I posted what trife said back in '03 to emphasize that I knew this was an old-ass argument.
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)
otm....like when you said the holocaust didn't happen on that ted leo thread.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)
I'm just saying i expect more perceptive/incisive criticism from people on ILM. "he's rubbish!" is just lazy bullshit that I've heard a million times about diddy, i don't read ILM to hear what I can get from UGHH.com
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)
Chorus: P. Diddy](I want that) Special Delivery!!!This is the remix, special delivery!!!Come on, special delivery!!!Badboy baby!!, special delivery!!!We won't stop!!!, special delivery!!!Yeah! G Dep! child of the ghetto! As we proceed!!!
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)
I think what provoked me was the mean-spiritedness of it, really. No question the name change thing is goofy.
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)
whatever happened to black rob?
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)
I can't really understand much Diddy hate in '05. At least he stopped his skipping dances. What's wrong: they didn't have some Sean John in your size, y'all?
― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)
― BanjoMania (Brilhante), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)
― deej.., Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)
― beatles fan, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/northeast/series5/i/ali_punch150.jpg
― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)
― ugly and mean, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)
― beatles fan, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)
― dj wheatley (dj wheatley), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)
fixed
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)
Yall white people are garbage, man. Step off the man's nuts.That's your boy...Kanye― Kanye West, Tuesday, August 16, 2005 11:22 AM (5 years ago)
That's your boy...
Kanye
― Kanye West, Tuesday, August 16, 2005 11:22 AM (5 years ago)
wouldn't be surprised if kanye actually posted this
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 17:14 (fifteen years ago)
Attention all film directors, casting agents, producers, writers! I am an aspiring actor for hire! Pls call me if you have a job 4 me! 4real... (sic) I take direction well. I'm always on time. I don't come with a (sic) entourage! And I know how to play my position! No ego! I wanna work! Hire me!
― The Everybody Buys 1000 Aerosmith Albums A Month Club (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 23:27 (fifteen years ago)
did anyone watch Puff on Hawaii 5-0 last night? i really wanted to see it but didn't feel like staying up
― some dude, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 23:41 (fifteen years ago)
Today I Learned:
http://www.eonline.com/news/404516/sean-diddy-combs-toluca-lake-home-swatted-steve-carell-in-the-clear
Diddy and Steve Carell are next door neighbor in Toluca Lake. The two of them interactign as neighbors sounds like a scene from broad, Universal comedy circa 2005.
― Cunga, Thursday, 4 April 2013 03:12 (thirteen years ago)
Or a scene from the "Bad Boy 4 Life" video with Carell in the Ben Stiller role
― the drummer for gay Daddy Yankee (some dude), Thursday, 4 April 2013 11:49 (thirteen years ago)
Jesus Christ ILX was very corny and British back in the day
― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Thursday, 4 April 2013 13:06 (thirteen years ago)
Yeah this thread is bad and hated. 2005 deej OTM.
― Tim F, Thursday, 4 April 2013 13:16 (thirteen years ago)
Oh wow -- that "Bad Boy 4 Life" scene was what I was secretly recalling now that I think about it.
― Cunga, Friday, 5 April 2013 23:39 (thirteen years ago)
because music videos like that were proto-broad 2005 comedies with a of LA improv actors (not to knock carell)
― Cunga, Friday, 5 April 2013 23:40 (thirteen years ago)
this video was in heavy rotation in the fall of 2001. just remembered it, haven't heard it in at least a decade. great song & great riff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yd4GG3bed0
― flappy bird, Monday, 6 June 2016 22:47 (ten years ago)
The name "Puff Daddy" will always make me laugh my arse off.
I remember a Q Cash For Questions feature with him where one reader asked "Do you realise the name Puff Daddy has, uh, 'connotations' in the UK?" ... His reply: "I hope so."
Hehehehe!!
― Turrican, Monday, 6 June 2016 23:23 (ten years ago)
and yes, his music's wank.
― Turrican, Monday, 6 June 2016 23:27 (ten years ago)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/magazine/diddy-sean-combs.html
Danyel Smith author/editor / critic re Diddy threatening her when she was the editor of Vibe
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 July 2024 18:45 (one year ago)