Newsweek

Puff Daddy Is Puff Daddy Again, and Drops a New Track at BET Awards

Last March, Sean Combs released a fur coat-heavy teaser of a song he'd recorded with Rick Ross and French Montana called "Big Homie." It looked promising, but what stood out the most were the opening ...
Jezebel

Why Puff Daddy's 'Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down' Was the Most Important Rap Song of 1997

The most important rap song of 1997 was “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down,” by Puff Daddy. Let me explain. It’s nearly impossible to discuss Puff Daddy without mentioning one of three things, and most of the ...
American Songwriter

4 Songs You Didn’t Know Puff Daddy Wrote for Other Artists

In the 1990s, Sean Combs—aka Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy, and other monikers—had his hand in just about every pie in the musical world. First a concert promoter, then a dancer, producer, collaborator ...
Stereogum

The Number Ones: Puff Daddy’s “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down” (Feat. Mase)

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Pop epochs ...
Stereogum

The Number Ones: The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Mo Money Mo Problems” (Feat. Puff Daddy & Mase)

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. When the World's ...