Diddy is usually the proud host of one of New Year’s Eve’s biggest parties, but COVID-19 concerns forced him to cancel the annual event for 2020. Despite not throwing a party, the Hip Hop mogul is still in good spirits and giving friends the chance to celebrate to the fullest in the comfort of their own homes.
D-Nice was one of just 20 people to have a portable Ciroc and Deleon Tequila bar delivered to his home from Diddy. The Boogie Down Productions veteran took to Instagram on Wednesday (December 30) to show the bar being wheeled onto his driveway and into his house as Diddy-Dirty Money’s “Angels” featuring The Notorious B.I.G. and Rick Ross played in the background.
T-Pain has long been considered one of the innovators of bringing Auto-Tune to the mainstream in the late 2000s, leading rappers like Kanye West and Lil Wayne to use it prominently in their music.
According to Diddy’s engineer Matt Testa, the Hip Hop mogul saw T-Pain as the architect of the movement and even asked for his permission to use Auto-Tune. After receiving the green light, T-Pain ended up getting royalties without contributing anything other than his influence. In a new interview with
Revolt, Testa told the story and explained how the sound at that time shaped Diddy-Dirty Money’s
Diddy is celebrating the 10th anniversary of his genre-blending Last Train To Parisalbum on Monday (December 14). The Bad Boy boss went to the vault to share unreleased footage from studio sessions working on the project with the likes of Kid Cudi, Busta Rhymes, Jay Electronica and more.
In the clip featuring Cudi, the Man on the Moon extraordinaire can be heard humming along “now or never” while trying to catch the beat booming in the strobe light-filled studio. Unfortunately, a neophyte Cudi, Busta and Jay Elec didn’t make appearances on the album.
Diddy attempted to reinvent the sounds of R&B and Hip Hop as the culture knew it with the album that “broke his heart” while crafting. Busta is blown away in the studio after hearing Biggie’s “Angels” verse alongside Rick Ross, to the point he agrees that the 2010 album’s sonic is definitely from the “future.”