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What does P. Diddy actually do?
Posted by Mondo on 21 April 2009 - 1:36pm.
One should have gone to Specsavers
He may be the champ of stone faced frowners, and the James Bond of bling..but how did P.Diddy make his estimated fortune of $346 million (2006)- by doing what?
I remember his mumblings and mutterings backed by Every Breath you Take, have seen him prancing around as a guest in endless by-the-numbers music vid's, and pouting in adverts - but what does he actually do aside from that..
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Whatever the answer
there seems to be a heck of a lot of that 'flicking the V's sideways' stuff around at the moment. Never done by Brits, of course, and all the more amusing for it.
Who's that between Diddy and Kanye?
It looks like Prince Harry. Anyway...
He's CEO of Bad Boy Entertainment I believe which has a fair number of artists on its roster. Other than that, off the top of my head, there's his clothing label (Sean John) and he's probably in the process of counting the dough from the recent Notorious BIG biopic.
He's a tool of the highest order though, clearly. It seems he's got enough cash money (as I believe the young people say) to mean Farnsworth the butler doesn't have to fear the economic crash just yet.
It is P. Harry
Which is probaby why he's wearing the Diana tribute T-shirt..
P Diddy
He just personifies much of what I find unappealing about music these days. He is a brand first, a brand second and a brand third and somewhere near the bottom of that numerical list he is apparently an "artist". He is the Tommy Hilfiger of music: produces nothing in house, buys it all in cheap and then puts his name on it with a 500% mark-up.
Where's Ken Dodd anyway?
You hit the nail on the button there. Totally agree.
But that could be said of any sucessful artist/band
if you've not heard of them until they are super-famous.
The money he made from his music has enabled him to become a 'brand first, brand second and brand third' - but it's the music he made in the early days that got him there.
I thought the same about the Rolling Stones until I got round to hearing their earlier stuff. To me (as a relative youngun), I had always seen them as total 'brands' who just want lots of money.
In short
diddly
But remember, all that 'me, me, me' stuff...
...he got from his great-grand-uncle, the recently deceased master of self-in-song Bo Diddy...
I think Ken Dodd should sue...
... for the 'Diddy' rights. Though given Ken's legal history, maybe not.
There is one thing he does well...
And no I'm not being ironic. Remember that overpraised Oscar-fisher Monster's Ball? He had a small but substantial role as Hallé Berry's deathrow-languishing ex, and he was very good, in fact rather touching. He was as good as Berry, to these eyes. Perhaps tellingly, he was billed simply as Sean Combs, a touch which suggests that there's a bit of humility lurking beneath the posturing.
You're right
I saw him acting in something or other, and he did a great turn.
Is there
some secret prize fund for being the world's greatest tit? Is that where he got his wedge?
He must have a hidden talent...
but I can't bloody find it.
As mentioned above he is a brand
and apparently spends a ridiculous amount of time styling himself. So much so that he doesn't even have time to tend to his gold-plated, jewel encrusted ipod & employs a lackey to do just that (true). Their sole responsibility in life is to carry it round & make sure it's loaded with all the "hot" tunes of the moment