that vacuum was there for a while. it was like, okay, what are we going to do. i ll be missing you was diddy s song about big. sudden it s like, damn, puffy s going to be legitimate solo act. and enters the next phase of hip-hop. every breath i take there s sampling and then there s sampling. to take the every breath you take and rap over it, puff daddy appeals to young listeners and their parents. everybody wants to party. ain t nothing wrong with partying at all. puff daddy built an empire off of it. it wasn t conscious anymore. the sound shifted, and the use of samples exploded. a diana ross sample that an older crowd could hear and say,