How is diddy

Sean Combs, professionally known as his rap name Puff Daddy or P Diddy, has easily become one of the most successful members of the rap industry. While his pals Jay-Z and Dr. In addition to launching his own record label, Bad Boy Records in , scoring himself a debut album No.

While he could easily sit back and let the zeroes expand in his bank account, P Diddy continues to work endlessly to this very day. From film and television appearances all the way to starring in his very own documentary, Diddy is certainly making the most of his money, time, and energy, all while being a father to six kids. The rapper comes from extremely humble beginnings where he and his siblings were raised by their grandmother in Harlem, New York.

Diddy's dad passed when Combs was only three years old, and his mother worked four jobs to support the family, so he and his sister did not see her all that often. Diddy also began working at 12 years old!

Although he didn't have an official job, since he was far too young to enter the workforce, he served as a newspaper delivery boy, doorman, and a lavatory attendant. Diddy began working at such a young age due to the fact that he hated seeing his mother's face whenever she couldn't provide for her family the right way, he said in an interview.

His motivation for making money stemmed from the first deal he made with the legal paperboys, striking a deal with them to deliver their newspapers for them, and he'd give back half the money. While delivering newspapers gained the rapper six routes in a matter of months, he knew he couldn't do that forever. By , when P Diddy was 24 years old, his passion for music gained enough notoriety and success for him to create his very own record label.

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Megan Thee Stallion —. Bowen Yang —. His daughters want him to settle down and get out of these streets. He knows what you are thinking, but he says there is no reason to expect a redux of the Diddy-Lopez romance.

He and J. Lo are just friends. Of the social media post that set tongues wagging over the summer, he says that it was just a throwback post from a great time in his life. I push him gently on this because the streets want to know. As private traumas brought Combs closer to God, the public traumas that define the s—police brutality, civil disobedience, and political retrenchment—forced him to take a hard look at his legacy.

And people out there that are tired of it. Combs sees MeToo as a qualified sign of progress and evidence that celebrities can change the world. What Combs wants now is for that maximum change to come for his tribe. Enter the Love era. It is easy to be glib about the rebranding. But this is Sean Combs we are talking about. He does not ask his people to bring us snacks. What does he have planned for the Love era?

Oh, just a little justice and a lot of Black capitalism. For Love, those are one and the same. Combs is on a mission to lead a five-year takeover of…something. Perhaps of everything? The details are, shall we say, a little murky, but the passion is there.

But besides that, we—the world—is different. We have the internet, we have the power, we have a culture, I have us on a five-year plan. Take time to huddle up your tribe, take time to communicate and know your power. Take time to heal. It has more fury and a faster cadence. It is like a taut hip-hop verse. Combs wants to model what loving oneself can do for collective Black action. He jumps up during his recitation on Black love to retrieve a small journal. The unlined pages have quotes written on them in large block letters.

Combs flips to the first page. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. Growing up for Combs has meant coming back to God. The wind catches the pages to reveal that most of them are blank, as if he has only started to figure this thing out. Have I really found my purpose? Belafonte used his celebrity status to raise money for civil rights actions and organizations. Belafonte and Jay-Z have since reconciled their public differences. The critique could just have easily been lobbed at Combs.

Or, rather, at Puff Daddy and Diddy. That is, in part, why Combs called Belafonte when God spoke to him about his purpose. Combs says Belafonte was a model for the kind of activism he envisions for this next stage of his public life.

Coming from where we were having a position of power, being celebrities, and I was wondering, how did [Belafonte] get so dug into [social action]? And really dedicating his life. In that excavation he saw the makings of someone destined to save his people. I believe Combs. If they like it, then I love it. Still, if I could ask the women in church one thing, it would be the same thing I tried to ask Combs with little success: I believe God told you that you have been chosen…but did he tell everyone else?

He is a not-so-young man whose legitimacy as a cultural icon hinges on his power to gate-keep youth culture. The influencer culture has taken the prototypes that Combs helped innovate and mixed commerce with social consciousness.

It is no longer enough to look slick or create the newest dance. Combs is also a girl dad. He has six children, three of whom are year-old girls at the time we speak. He wants his daughters to inherit the keys to his kingdom in equal parts with his three sons.

Raising a trio of girl bosses tunes a dad into the MeToo movement. Combs is looking back at the international playboy of his youth and a near future where his daughters become young women.

And above all, Combs is trying to do the brand iteration that made him successful in a climate that is openly hostile to what his brand represents. And, if you have not noticed, a lot of people have labeled capitalism as enemy number one. It is a cultural high wire perhaps too thin for a diddy bop. He launched a diversity training program with the powerful Endeavor this summer.

It comes at a time when the entertainment agency model has come under fire for its lack of racial diversity. But his understanding of what constitutes good may be at odds with the communities from whom he draws some of his inspiration.