Diddy Talks about his Stint As An "Unsuccessful" Drug Dealer

Via: hiphopwired.com



For Diddy it may have been all about the Benjamins but it wasn't by any means necessary. In his interview with Playboy, he revealed how almost getting popped made him reconsider his “Frank White” and King Of New York dreams.

"Some of my friends were selling drugs in the Maryland and (Washington) D.C. area. I remember them having all this jewelry and new BMWs. I was eating ramen noodles, stealing from the 7-Eleven to get some food. I thought, 'I need to get some money like y'all have.' So I go out on the block, the strip where they're selling drugs, and my man says, 'OK, I'm going to give you this. You wait there. They'll come up to you.'

I'm out there five minutes when three cop cars pull up and officers jump out and start chasing me. I ran and got away. We reconvene in the same place two hours later. This time it's dark, and all of a sudden a van pulls up. Cops jump out and start chasing me again. There's a helicopter overhead with a light following me through the woods.”

Rest of the story at the link above the pic.

Sean “Diddy” Combs - Unauthorized Biography

Say what you wanna say about dude...his business mind is stellar.

Diddy turns 40 (alot of people don't know that he used to manage LL Cool J way back in the day)

Other comments...

“Some people start at 19, [by] 26 they’re done. He’s 40. He’s better than he’s ever been,” Russell Simmons marveled. “He’s hotter now than ever. I just watch him. He keeps getting better. He never changes with the hustle. He branches out in different areas, opens new doors. He’s an inspiration.”

“It’s 4-0. You just get better,” actress Regina King said. “Forty is the new 30; it’s elegant. He wants everybody to be beautiful [at the party]. So the photographs, when he looks back on it 20 years from now, he’ll say, ‘Look how beautiful we were.’ It’s an opportunity to get pretty and throw on pretty dresses.

“I love the way [Diddy]’s evolved,” she added. “I’m glad he’s grown up. Whether he likes it or not, he’s still a role model. You can be a good role model or a bad role model. He’s grown up in a lot of people’s eyes. Those kids who want to be like him, they’re gonna pull up their pants and look to be [in multiple businesses] as opposed to just the rapper.”

So do the industry icons who’ve already past this milestone age have advice to give Mr. Combs?

“The great thing is, he has done so much in 40 years. There’s a lot of advice he can give to other people,” Grammy winner Herbie Hancock said. “There’s so much he’s learned. I hope he continues to do that, continues to grow. I see this path he’s set for himself to expand and continue to grow in various directions. That’s a great inspiration to others.”

Diddy - Diddy Bop ft Yung Joc & Xplicit

P Diddy is P Twitty: using that Twitter for self promotion, he's a master at it.

For those of you who have that BITCHASSNESS in them...lol



REPEL...BITCHASSNESS!!! in that neon green...lol

Cassie: Shaves off half of her head (Pictures)

Cassie - Re-invented...





Wow...what do you all think???

Puff Daddy: A master at work in promotion of his new fragrance

I see diddy as a true master at what he does...as crazy as this guy can be sometimes, it doesn't matter because he will get on shows like this one and just execute with flamboyant precision.

It was actually a funny interview...

The Black Bond...Master Teacher Diddy!!!

Branding for Sean John's new Fragrance
I AM KING



Diddy will appeal to aspiring men with this new fragrance, images of power and grandeur couldn't have been more vivid with images of Combs on his 178-foot superyacht floating in the French Riviera. In the next scene he's cuddling with supermodels Bar Rafael and Ana Paula while dressed in a tuxedo. He parts the azure waters of the Mediterranean on a Jet Ski. He rides in a Helicopter and then shows up to the craps table in Monte Carlo’s Casino de Paris. The video above was a reported $750,000 dollar venture project, the destinations, the people hired etc.



The images in the video depict P. Diddy as “the ultimate man of power" and the narration by Diddy conveys in an almost inspirational video kind of way. I thought the promotional video (above) was well put together. The new scent is expected to gross a near $100 million, a follow up to his previous popular fragrance, Unforgivable.

I Am King will hit Macy’s department stores in December and is set to go worldwide in February. Diddy is also planning for the ladies’ version of the fragrance called I Am Queen in 2009. The Mogul says: “If I say, ‘I am not going to succeed, I’m a loser,’ then that’s what I am going to be,” said Diddy about the names of the scents. “If we say we’re kings and we say we’re queens, that’s what we’re going to be. It has nothing to do with being arrogant.”

I believe...therefore I am...

I AM KING...