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Sean “Diddy” Combs is making sure his fans have the fastest access to his spirits. On Tuesday (May 23), the Hip-Hop mogul announced Diddy Direct, a platform aimed at helping consumers, and retailers, have access to his brands like DeLeón, Ciroc and more.
The launch features a digital ad campaign that features DJ Khaled, of course. In a digital short, Diddy and Khaled are seen on the links playing golf, and while clubs and carts are seen, the focus is more on the reveal of Diddy Direct. The platform allows access for consumers and retailers to find out about or purchase the Combs Spirits portfolio that includes CÎROC Vodkas, CÎROC Spritz, CÎROC VS & DeLeón Tequila varieties. Most recently launched is the limited edition Cîroc Honey Melon, which Diddy Direct makes easy to pinpoint yourself a bottle.
“This platform is a game-changer for the spirits industry, and we’re proud to offer consumers (all you lushes out there) and retailers (nightclubs, restaurants, and liquor stores) direct access to our portfolio of premium spirits,” said Combs, Chairman of Combs Global, in a statement. “With Diddy Direct, we’re setting a new standard for direct to retailer & direct-to-consumer experiences and bringing the best of Combs Spirits directly to anyone, anywhere in the country.”
The idea is that you can be out of town and Diddy Direct’s search functionality will allow to locate a bar, club or restaurant that serves your favorite DeLeón Tequila, for example.
Diddy Direct is available now, if you’re over 21, and you can get more information right here: www.diddydirect.com. Watch the hilarious campaign spot featuring Diddy and DJ Khaled below. Looks like Diddy’s golf game needs work, respectfully.
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A former nanny who performed services for Diddy is accusing the business mogul of wrongfully terminating their business arrangement, prompting a lawsuit in the process. According to new reports, Diddy is hoping to get the lawsuit dismissed in court.
As reported exclusively by Radar Online, Raven Wales-Walden, the nanny in question, filed the lawsuit last year after Diddy hired her to help care for his children with the late Kim Porter. The outlet adds that Wales-Walden claims she’s a relative of Porter, although that has yet to be confirmed.
Wales-Walden says in her lawsuit that the superstar born Sean Combs hired her in 2018 after Porter passed away to assist him with the twins they shared as parents. Wales-Walden says she moved into the home of Diddy to administer the care but became pregnant in 2020 and she requested maternity leave. According to Wales-Walden, the connection with the Combs family became strained and she was reportedly fired.
Adding to this, Wales-Walden says a third party allegedly told her that she was fired because of her being pregnant without being married and setting a bad example for his girls.
The amount of damages Raven Wales-Walden seeks has not been made available to the public.
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Verzuz will reportedly make its return to Madison Square Garden in late summer where Jermaine Dupri and Sean “Diddy’ Combs will face off. Diddy confirmed the showdown with Busta Rhymes according to video footage, and Verzuz co-founder Swizz Beatz confirmed the news via social media.
Verzuz, now in its third season reportedly, which last took place in July 2022, is still one of the most anticipated music events of its sort. Dupri and Diddy were long positioned to square off with one another and the two mega-producers have both egged on the battle with some lighthearted chatter.
It would be a fitting battle to witness considering both men have dozens upon dozens of hits between them and have worked with some of the biggest names in the business on the production front. They’ve also been front-facing artists and are no strangers to performing in front of a large crowd.
With the Verzuz happening at MSG, it isn’t exactly neutral ground as Diddy was raised just up the way in Mount Vernon, N.Y. That said, Dupri made his mark early on as a background dancer for the legendary Hip-Hop trio, Whodini, and isn’t the type to back down from a challenge.
According to Diddy and Swizz, the battle will take place on Sept. 8 but more details are certain to emerge as the months roll on.
The only question that remains is, who will you be rooting for? Sound off in the comments section.
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After years of competitive banter and cold feet, a date has reportedly been set for the epic Verzuz battle between music legends Diddy and Jermaine Dupri.
In a video shared over the weekend, Diddy confirms to Busta Rhymes that the show will take place on Sept. 8, at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. “We gon’ have you out the rafters flying out the sky,” he excitedly added.
While fans have been murmuring about a potential battle between the Atlanta mainstay and Bad Boy CEO since 2020, the two legends joined the conversation in 2021, after Dupri challenged Diddy in a tweet. Initially, Diddy turned his proposition down, declaring that Dupri didn’t have enough hits. “I’ll smash you with just Biggie n Mary [J. Blige]. But I do have the utmost respect on you as a musical legend,” he said, adding, “[Dr.] Dre the only one can get in the ring w me.”
The two even playfully argued during an Instagram Live with Fat Joe and Snoop Dogg about who would win, but in 2022 they said they’d go head-to-head in a “non-Verzuz” battle, after co-founders Swizz Beatz and Timbaland filed a $28 million lawsuit against Verzuz parent company Triller. “We’re not f—ing with Triller until they take care of Timb and Swizz,” Diddy said in a now-deleted video. In September 2022, Swizz and Tim settled their lawsuit with Triller, now owning a larger share of the company.
While neither Timbaland nor Verzuz have yet to comment on the scheduled date, Swizz shared a number of posts to his Instagram Story confirming the battle. A number of memorable Verzuz battles have already taken place at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden, including The LOX vs. Dipset and Ja Rule vs. Fat Joe.
While many fans think Diddy will come out on top, others note that Dupri’s pen is untouchable, and that the So So Def founder is individually responsible for a number of diamond hits, while Diddy often collaborated with a team. Come September, all that will matter is the court of public opinion, as Verzuz does not declare an official winner to their battles.
Dupri has reached RIAA-certified diamond success thanks to his work on Usher’s Confessions and has achieved 11 career Hot 100 No. 1 records. Diddy boasts his own set of impressive achievements as a producer and artist, playing a pivotal role in the careers of icons including Mary J Blige and Biggie Smalls.
Diddy and City Girls‘ Yung Miami stepped onto the iconic Met Gala steps together on Monday night (May 1), and music’s new it couple shared a behind-the-scenes look of their getting ready process with Vogue.
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In the clip shared on Wednesday (May 3), Diddy is getting his hair done while he muses on his relationship with the “Act Up” rapper (real name Caresha Brownlee). “Me and Caresha, we’re dating and we’re just enjoying ourselves,” the hip-hop mogul explains. “This is what comes with dating me. Sometimes we gotta hit the red carpet. I’m just happy for her because it’s her first one. This night is really about her, and I’m there as her arm candy.”
The scene then goes to Miami picking up a FaceTime call from Diddy while getting glam. “What’s up, baby?” Diddy is heard sweetly saying when she picks up. “It’s game time! You getting ready?”
He continued, “I just wanted to thank you and tell you how excited I am as your date. I haven’t been on a red carpet with a woman in so long.”
Miami later says that she loves Diddy’s big personality. “He gon’ bring the energy,” she shared. “I love that for us. Just two Black, beautiful souls gracing the Met Gala. I felt like I can’t do it with nobody but him.”
Watch the duo get ready for the Met Gala below.
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Not much can make Diddy lose his cool, except when he gets pressed about his status with Yung Miami.
You would think Diddy was sweating bullets under his custom all-black Sean John couture fit cause it was definitely on the heavy side, and it looked pretty hot as hell underneath that custom trench. But, a question from La La Anthony brought some rare sweat out of Sean Combs.
Diddy surprised everyone when he showed up on the 2023 Met Gala carpet holding hands with none other than Yung Miami. It was a shocker because recently, the rapper/budding podcaster said in a recent interview she is single and that she and Diddy are no longer an item giving the impression they were no longer doing couple-ish things together.
Resurrecting her MTV TRL days, La La Anthony asked the million-dollar question, “Do y’all officially go together real bad?”
As expected, brother Love broke out in a mean sweat as he Diddy-bopped around the question with a word salad of an answer, seemingly confirming they still mess around but are “best friends.:
“We definitely go together real bad!” he told La La. “She’s my date for the night. … We don’t put titles on it. Everybody wants us to put a title on it. We don’t put titles. This like my best friend in the world, one of the most beautiful people God has blessed me with. And I’m blessed that she’s my date tonight.”
“Yeah, it’s just a good date night,” Yung Miami added.
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Diddy and Yung Miami’s Met Gala date night didn’t last too long because “best friends” left early because “he didn’t like his seat behind a pole at dinner,” according to Entertainment Tonight.”
Yung Miami did step out for some after-party shenanigans, specifically Diddy’s Met Gala after party where sure Mr. Combs was not too far behind and date night continued.
In the gallery below, you can see more reactions to Diddy explaining his relationship status with Yung Miami.
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French Montana’s story will finally be told. Drake and Diddy are serving as the executive producers to his forthcoming documentary.
As spotted on Variety Magazine the South Bronx, New York talent is set to premiere For Khadija, a film detailing his life story, this summer at the Tribeca Film Festival. To hear the Coke Boy tell it, he has been working on this since 2017. The press releases bills the project as a narrative that will follow “the unlikely rise of Moroccan-born, multi-platinum recording artist French Montana, as his single mother she sacrifices everything to raise her three young sons in the Bronx, after being abandoned by their father and left destitute”.
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It is also set to explore how his hopes to make it in the United States directly correlated to his Rap career. “The film spans the globe as it depicts the family’s unique immigrant journey, a son’s perseverance in the face of insurmountable obstacles, and a mother’s unwavering faith — all in pursuit of the American dream.” Along with having Drake and Diddy as executive producers the project was directed by Mandon Lovett of RapCaviar Presents fame. Additionally, at the June 16 premiere French will perform live along with Ugandan group Triplets Ghetto Kids.
You can see the official trailer for French Montana’s project below.
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It appears that the rumors were true that Yung Miami is officially back on the market as she and Diddy are kaput.
According to Page Six, Yung Miami confirmed that after a year and change of apparent golden showers and Diddy allegedly fathering children with another woman, the two are no longer an item.
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“We’re still friends! We’re still good friends!” the “Ex For A Reason” hitmaker told The Cut. “But we’re single. That’s not my man.”
Can’t say we saw that one coming, but at the same time, we’re not surprised. Though the two had gone public back in the summer of 2022, the two never gave off that “couple”‘s vibe as Diddy continued to move like a bachelor living his best life while Yung Miami had to handle news of Diddy fathering a child with another woman in December of the same year.
Still, Yung Miami said their relationship was strong regardless of what people might’ve felt and doesn’t seem to have any regrets about their relationship.
“We were f–king with each other hard. We were together every day at one point,” she said. “He supported me, I supported him. I’ll let the internet call it whatever they want to call it.”
While the two did go public in the summer of 2022, a few months later Yung Miami told XXL that the two basically had an open relationship saying that, “[Diddy] see other people outside of me, and I see people outside of him.”
That explains why he didn’t have a problem putting a bun in someone else’s oven. Still, Diddy took issue with everyone clowning Miami as a “side chick” and took to Twitter to clarify that she is not his second option.
The Grammy winner tweeted, “She’s very important and special to me, and I don’t play about my Shawty Wop. I don’t discuss things on the internet and I will not start today.”
“Know that if you do something to hurt mine, I’m gonna to come to your house and we’re gonna talk about it like human beings,” he concluded. “LOVE.”
She may not have been Diddy’s side chick, but now she’s nowhere near him.
Now we patiently await a tweet from Diddy explaining their relationship status which will no doubt be filled with love and positivity because that’s what Diddy does.
What do y’all think about Yung Miami saying she and Diddy are done? Let us know in the comment section below.
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A social media post by Diddy concerning alleging that he paid daily – and hefty – royalty payments to Sting had many people buzzing until he walked it back.
The entertainment mogul initially became a topic of discussion after a viral video showed the British singer-songwriter stating that he was receiving $2,000 a day in royalty payments due to Diddy not obtaining permission to use a sample from his hit song with The Police, “Every Breath You Take”. Diddy had quote-tweeted the video on Friday (April 7th) and said “Nope. 5k a day. Love to my brother @OfficialSting,” adding more speculation to the mix. But that would be short-lived.
Later that day, Diddy returned to his Twitter account to discount everything. “I want y’all to understand I was joking! It’s called being Facetious! Me and @OfficialSting have been friends for a long time! He never charged me $3K or $5K a day for Missing You. He probably makes more than $5K a day from one of the biggest songs in history. LOVE.”, he wrote with a smiling face emoji.
The sample in question was used for Diddy’s smash hit “I’ll Be Missing You”, released in 1997 in tribute to The Notorious B.I.G. after his death two months earlier that year in Los Angeles. The song would go on to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that year. Diddy hadn’t contacted Sting for the usage of the sample, resulting in his being sued in 2002. In the viral clip from a 2018 appearance on The Breakfast Club, when asked about the veracity of getting royalties for Diddy, Sting said it was true and that it was “for the rest of his life.”
The “Fields Of Gold” singer has mentioned that he won royalties from Diddy in a past 2003 Rolling Stone Q&A and that they “were good friends still”. He even joked about it when asked about his legacy: “All the songs can live on. Hey! P. Diddy’s grandchildren can rerecord “Every Breath You Take.” However, there isn’t anything on public record that contains accurate details on what the ruling amount actually was. Many speculated that if the alleged $5,000 payment was real, it would mean that Sting got close to $50 million since the song’s 1997 publication.
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The cost of a sample from one of British singer Sting’s most popular hits is costing Diddy $5,000 a day, the mogul recently revealed online in response to a viral video.
A clip from the singer-songwriter’s appearance on The Breakfast Club in 2018 resurfaced and went viral, in which Charlemagne Tha God asked Sting if Diddy shells out $2,000 a day to him for sampling “Every Breath You Take” from The Police without permission. “Yeah,” Sting replied. “For the rest of his life.” The Bad Boy Records founder saw the clip on Wednesday (April 5th) and corrected the record by quote-tweeting it and saying: “Nope. 5K a day. Love to my brother @OfficialSting!”
Diddy’s declaration surprised many online, but much of the background behind it is well-established. The sample was heavily used in “I’ll Be Missing You,” a tribute song for his friend and Bad Boy Records artist The Notorious B.I.G. who was shot and killed in Los Angeles in 1997. The song, which featured Biggie’s widow Faith Evans and 112, would go on to win a Grammy Award and be number one on Billboard’s Hot 100. Sting would even join Diddy, Fatih and 112
Diddy would be sued by Sting for not seeking clearance in 2002, and the singer would go on to win 100% of the royalties. In the interview with The Breakfast Club, Sting would say that Diddy eventually asked for permission “after the fact” and stated: “We’re very good friends now.” By some estimates, the daily amount would total a payment of $1,825,000 a year and $47,325,000 to date since the publication date of May 7th, 1997. Sting has since sold his songwriting catalog to the Universal Music Group in a deal estimated at $300 million which took place last February, which does include “Every Breath You Take,” meaning that the group would potentially receive most of the royalty payment going forward.
Sting had previously spoken about the situation in a Rolling Stone interview in 2003. “Those guys just take your s–t, put it on a record, and deal with the legality later,” he said. “Elton John told me, “You gotta hear [“I’ll Be Missing You”], you’re gonna be a millionaire!” I said, “I am a millionaire!” He said, “You’re gonna be a millionaire twice over!”