Maybach Music meets Bad Boy on the remix to Wale’s “Slight Work” featuring French Montana, Meek Mill, Diddy, and even Mase, who hints at a possible affiliation with Rick Ross’ crew.
“Think they mad with my past/ Wait till they see my future/ Only dude from the Unit, MMG recruited,” raps the former Bad Boy.
Sean “Diddy” Combs finds himself in a familiar spot. The Bad Boy mogul reigns at No. 1 on the Forbes Five, a short list of hip-hop’s top-earning artists, edging out his peers including Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and Birdman.
Diddy donned a hoodie in remembrance of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old who was shot to death by a neighborhood watch captain in Florida last month. The shooting has sparked a nationwide uproar over race and justice, with even President Obama weighing in.
Thousands of people participated in the Million Hoodies March in cities across the country to seek justice for Martin, who was wearing a hoodie when he was killed.
“I didn’t know wearing a hoodie made me a target,” tweeted the Bad Boy mogul, while Swizz Beatz wrote, “Had to Hoodie up for Trayvon. What a sad situation! Blessing to his fam.”
Many celebrities voiced their support via social media, while Keyshia Cole, Ludacris, Jamie Foxx, Frank Ocean, Nelly, The-Dream, and players from the Miami Heat sported hoodies in a showing of solidarity. See them band together below.
The stars came out to support Kanye West at his second womenswear show at Paris Fashion Week. From G.O.O.D. Music’s Big Sean to chic couple Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz and Bad Boy’s Diddy and Cassie, the front row was a who’s who in entertainment and fashion. Other star sightings included Katy Perry, Common, Shyne, Rosario Dawson, and Teyana Taylor.
Kim Kardashian strutted in the $5800 knit heels that Kanye designed with Giuseppe Zanotti and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour returned to show her support. “I’m very fond of Kanye,” she told the WSJ.
Following the runway presentation, Azealia Banks, Waka Flocka Flame, Mos Def, and DJ A-Trak performed for the fashionable crowd, who went go-karting in their designer duds. “That was the most fun I’ve had this year!” tweeted Banks.
Just days before he presents his new womenswear line to the fashion world, Kanye West was front row at the Givenchy show at Paris Fashion Week. Yeezy sported a studded white sweater with stars as he soaked up some inspiration alongside Alicia Keys, who looked saintly in a white blouse and blazer with a cross hanging from her neck.
Kanye is good friends with Givenchy’s creative director Riccardo Tisci, who designed the packaging and wardrobe for the Watch the Throne album and tour. Tisci even gave the first T-shirt from Givenchy’s children’s line to Alicia and Swizz Beatz’ son Egypt.
The reunited Diddy and Shyne met up with ‘Ye outside the show and Cassie posed for portraits in all black at the after-party.
It was a Bad Boy reunion at Paris Fashion Week. Sean “Diddy” Combs linked up with his former signee Shyne at the Kenzo show on Sunday. “Me and Shyne Po front row at Kenzo,” wrote Diddy. Shyne, who is an Orthodox Jew, was dressed in his traditional Hasidic garb as he sat alongside the hip-hop mogul and later headed to dinner with the Bad Boy crew including Cassie.
The two have reconciled after Shyne took the rap for the infamous Club New York shooting in 1999. He served a nine-year prison sentence after being convicted of assault and gun possession, while Diddy was acquitted.
“As far as Puff is concerned, that’s been a long time coming,” Shyne recently told MTV News. “He had reached out to me twice while I was in the pen, but I just wasn’t ready for it.”
Cassie and Diddy pulled into Paris for Fashion Week on Saturday. The Bad Boy superstars caused a frenzy on the streets upon arriving in the fashion capital. Fans swarmed their vehicles and the paparazzi clamored to get a shot as they made their way to trendy boutique Colette.
“Badboy crew shut down the streets of Paris- 3000 people outside of Colette!” tweeted Diddy, who plans to document his week-long trip attending the designer runway shows.
Check out more pics from their fashionable arrival below.
Sean “Diddy” Combs stopped by the “Today” show on Friday to promote the Oscar-winning documentary Undefeated and his new music network Revolt.
The music mogul cleared up the confusion over his Oscar win, confirming that he did not receive the award for Best Documentary Feature, which only goes to the film’s directors and producers. Diddy is an executive producer (“I’m like the Martin Scorsese, Jr.”).
He shared how his grandmother motivated him to pursue his dreams, just like the coach in Undefeated, which opens in major cities across the U.S. today.
And he didn’t leave before plugging his new network Revolt, set to launch in 2013. “It will be the #1 name in music,” proclaimed Diddy. “We will play what the others are afraid to play. We’re bringing the soul back to music.”
