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P DIDDY PARTIES WITH ARCTIC MONKEYS DIDDY JOINS BAND VIDEO

Rap mogul Sean "P Diddy" Combs has joined the popular British rock band The Arctic Monkeys. The band members leaked their video diary which included a tour of Diddy's Miami mansion. The hip-hop star also offers the rock stars a Bad Boy record deal despite the fact that his current group Danity Kane broke up and Day 26 is on the verge of disbanding.  Did the Arctic Monkeys ever watch the insightful commentary about every artist who attempted to have a career under Sean "Diddy" Combs? 

Maybe the Arctic Monkeys should watch Maronzio Vance's rant about Puffy and how he has poisoned everyone's career around him.  Don't get blinded by the Grammy Awards guys!  Click here to watch Puffy is Poison if you missed it.

“Everybody that Puffy comes into contact with are either dead, in jail or we don’t know where the f**k they at - or their careers have fallen out. [source]

It’s amazing to see Helders being shown around P Diddy’s extensive Miami mansion by… none other than P Diddy himself. Not only does the hip hop artist and producer know who Helders is, he also seems to love Arctic Monkeys.

After the whole P Diddy episode comes to an end, with Ford having passed out due to what must have been one hell of am all-nighter, there is a tiny (30 seconds) segment where he see Helders and lead singer Alex Turner harmonizing.[BRIT MUSIC SCENE]

Diddy has announced that he has joined Arctic Monkeys as a non-instrument-playing member of the band.

The rapper met up with the Sheffield group's drummer Matt Helders for the filming of an online video diary.

Diddy said: "Yo, what's up? It's your boy Diddy. I am the newest member of the Arctic Monkeys.

"Now I'm not going to be singing. I'm not going to be playing any instruments, but I am part of the crew. I'm part of the entourage."

He added: "So if y'all f**k with the Arctic Monkeys then y'all got to f**k with me. A lot of people probably don't know this, but I am probably the biggest Arctic Monkeys fan.

"So when I met this guy it was like a dream come true and he's the biggest Puff Daddy fan in the world. We having a bromance."

The Bad Boy Records founder also claimed that he would sign the rock group to his label in America in a move that would be "the future of the Monkeys". [source]

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DIDDY CIROC VODKA CASTING SCANDAL CONTROVERSIAL LIGHT-SKINNED "BEYONCE TYPE" AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN CASTING CALL

Rapper/hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has alot of explaining to do after a controversial Ciroc casting call went viral. The Florida Courier is reporting that an agency hired to acquire ethnic models for the shoot posted an ad looking for "light-skinned African-American Beyonce-types" to respond to the ad. Of course the African-American community responded to the open call which excluded dark complexion African-American women from representing the high end vodka company.

Ad Age explains that Diddy and Ciroc are trying their best to do damage control on their images after the casting scandal which is definitely not a good look.

Diddy presented links to his myspace and twitter page to defend himself, however, some of the previous Ciroc ads appear to feature more lighter complexioned African-American and Latina women than darker complexioned women. We're waiting for the Diddy blog on this one. Remember how Diddy got defensive on Ellen about his role in orchestrating Rihanna & Chris Brown's reunion in Miami after her assault?

Behind the scenes of Diddy's Ciroc Commercial II

Diddy also shot previous Ciroc ads with his babies mama Kim Porter.

According to an article in The Florida Courier, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Ciroc vodka and a modeling agency are in full damage-control spin after a casting-call ad looking for "white, hispanic or light skinned African-American" women caused a bit of a firestorm on the web. Diddy, Ciroc and their agency, Blue Flame, claim they didn't commission the ad and had, instead, tapped black-owned talent agency Tysum Agency. Tysum, in turn, turned to Ethnicity Models.

For the record, Diddy pushed back pretty hard both on Twitter and MySpace. Ciroc also released a statement calling the ad offensive. Oddly enough, no one seems quite willing to outright blame anyone else in this instance.

At any rate, read the entire Courier piece. It's a good read. And it certainly brings up questions of where casting-call ads fit in the legal spectrum and questions about beauty and race even within companies presided over by members of the same race.

An extremely sensitive subject ... and one that is an everyday reality in the consumer-facing side of the ad industry. Feel free to sound off in the comments. [AD AGE]

An Internet ad copied from an email, then uploaded to a Miami-based modeling web site, set off a legal and ethical firestorm on Tuesday, forcing hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy’’ Combs and his organization into full-scale damage control to prevent the Internet from taking down a prestige liquor brand.

The ad, which appeared on Miami-based Ethnicity Modeling’s ethnicitytalent.com web site, read as follows: “Ciroc Promotion. Ciroc promo is this Friday, March 27, 2009. Time: 3:00pm – 7:00pm and 12:00am – 3:00am Requirements: Race: White, hispanic or light skinned african american. Height: At least 5’6 or taller. Size 7 or smaller. This is a cash @ wrap job and the booking will be thru our partner. Please submit asap.  Talent will only be contacted if the client is interested in booking you!!! Compensation: $35.00 per hour.”

The problem: The promotion solicitation was clearly illegal under various anti-discrimination laws, but it didn’t originate from either Ethnicity Modeling or from Diddy. Neither Diddy nor his in-house advertising agency Blue Flame, which is responsible for all of Ciroc’s advertising and marketing, authorized it.

Ciroc is an ultrapremium French vodka manufactured by Diageo, one of the world’s leading premium drink companies. Diageo also owns Smirnoff, Baileys, Tanqueray, Johnny Walker, J&B, Cuervo, and Captain Morgan, among other alcoholic beverage brands.

In 2007, Diageo entered into “a groundbreaking strategic alliance” with Combs to oversee and manage all branding and marketing initiatives for CÎROC Vodka,” according to Ciroc’s official web site.

What happened?
Dia Simms is general manager of Blue Flame. She says that a Miami-based talent company, the Tysom Agency, was given instruction to find “gorgeous girls” for a Circoc promotion in Miami. Tysom is Black-owned.

“The (Tysom) agency came up with its own criteria, and without our knowledge or consent, sent an e-mail to Ethnicity Modeling requesting White, Hispanic or light-skinned African-Americans,” Simms told the Florida Courier.

Ethnicity is a well-known and respected Miami-based modeling agency owned by LaShawnna Stanley. It specializes in supplying ethnic models to other agencies and media and for videos, films and events. (The Florida Courier uses Ethnicity models for its ‘Florida’s Finest’ page.)

Tysom and Ethnicity have developed a close working relationship over the years. Stanley’s agency cut and pasted the information in the e-mail from Tysom and posted it to the casting call page on the ethnicitytalent.com web site.

Atlanta-based Imperative Talent Management, a company that searches the Internet daily for modeling jobs, copied the Ethnicity listing and sent it out in an e-mail blast to its clients, including “Kiana,” a Black model in the Atlanta area.

Ad went viral
Kiana, a reader of celebrity blogger Sandra Rose’s web site, sandrarose.com, went to Rose’s site and castigated Combs and Ciroc.

“I became outraged and appalled as I saw that I had been excluded from the job because I am not a ‘light-skinned’ African-American woman,” Kiana wrote. “…Sean Combs and Kim Porter [Combs’ longtime girlfriend] are themselves what is considered ‘dark-skinned’ African-American people. What image does this promote? One of self loathing?… I am very disappointed in this company and in Puff Daddy. This is a sham and a disgrace. I will no longer support him, this company or any other of his business endeavors. I will forward this email to every African-American person that I know and convince them of the same.”

Rose then went ballistic on her blogsite. In an entry entitled, “Ciroc doesn’t like dark skinned African Americans,” she wrote, “This is not imagined, it is very real and it’s been going on within the industry for far too long! Please forward Kiana’s email (or this post) to all your friends to inform them that Ciroc doesn’t value them as customers due to the melanin in their skin!”

Eventually, the e-mail and links got into the inbox of lawyers like David Honig. [FL COURIER]

P. DIDDY ON ELLEN TALKS ABOUT RIHANNA AND CHRIS BROWN VIDEO

Diddy tries to explain on Ellen why he made his Miami home available to Rihanna and Chris Brown for their reconciliation. Diddy says that it's his home so who can say anything when friends like Ike Turner Chris Brown ask to use your spot. This is pretty ridiculous folks because Chris Brown gave Rihanna a serious beatdown and he was partying, smiling and jetskiing at the Diddy mansion. This was not a good look for the R&B singer whose image is getting tarnished everyday. Watch the clip and see if you can figure out why Diddy is clowning/dancing around.

As everyone knows by now, Chris Brown and Rihanna re-united after the infamous incident the night of the Grammy Awards, by spending a weekend at Diddy’s Miami Beach home. On Tuesday (3/10) Diddy appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and appeared uncomfortable when Ellen asked about this subject. “It was a dark time for them, and I was there as more of a support,” he said.”I’m not immersed in [the proceedings]. I’m not going to pass judgment on it. I’m going to be there as a friend.” Diddy says he made his place available for “two people to sit down and talk about a situation they’re in.”Diddy continued to defend his actions saying “It’s my house, and I’m allowed to give my house to whoever I want to give my house to,” he said to DeGeneres. “I don’t cast a stone, cast judgment on anybody. So if friends ask me for a favor, then I’m going to be there for a favor as long as I know the energy of the favor is positive.” [DREW REPORTS]

DIDDY BLOG #35 - DIDDY BLACK JAMES BOND AUDITION - I AM KING MINI MOVIE

Sean "Diddy" is about to prove to the world that he is the Black James Bond. Watch Diddy's new fragrance launch with a special "I Am King" mini movie.  Diddy explains that the movie is his Hollywood audition tape for the role as special agent 007. Anything is possible since Barack Obama was the first African-American to be elected as president.

Look for a cameo from Leonardo Di Caprio's former boo model Bar Raffaelli as one of the Diddy girls. We think the swimsuit wearing Diddy/Bond girls look alot like Mariah Carey did after she got her Diddy makeover in her Honey music video. There were rumors at that time that Mariah was dating Diddy but she always denied it until Mimi accused Jennifer" JLo" Lopez of copying her swag before the infamous TRL nervous breakdown incident.

DIDDY BLOG P DIDDY SAYS "JOHN MCCAIN CALLS BARACK OBAMA 'THAT ONE' HE SCARES ME MORE THAN SARAH PALIN!!!"

Rapper and mogul Diddy took to his blog to speak candidly about the moment John McCain called Barack Obama "that one" during the debate. Diddy says that John McCain is scarier than Sarah Palin.  Diddy says. "This is 2008 and not 1962..He referred to a grown man as 'that one'." Watch the clip and 2nd debate video if you missed it.

It was a moment that stood out in a presidential debate void of many pithy sound bites: "That one," Republican John McCain said contemptuously of Barack Obama, pointing in the general direction of his Democratic rival while discussing energy policies. Those two small words didn't just leave many pundits cringing, but more significantly, they caused some in the African-American community to accuse McCain of racism in his dismissive treatment of the man aiming to be the first black president in U.S. history. "It speaks to the fundamental belief of racism: despite all evidence to the contrary, you are inherently beneath me simply by virtue of the melanin content of your skin," Ciji McBride, a 33-year-old sales professional in Los Angeles, said Wednesday. Don Hammonds of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette also took offence. "Regardless of intent, it showed Senator McCain to be culturally ignorant, and completely unaware of the implications of what his off-the-cuff statement meant to people of colour," he wrote. "Whether Senator McCain meant it that way or not, if you are a person of colour, and someone trots out the 'that one' remark, you instantly take it as racist. I know that I did." source

SARAH PALIN SCARES ME - DIDDY BLOG VIDEO

Diddy has released a new video blog about Sarah Palin. Diddy admits that Sarah Palin scares him in this dramatic re-enactment of "The Sixth Sense."  Do we see Oscars in Sean Diddy Combs' future based on this performance?  P.Diddy created another video saying John McCain was "bugging the f**k out" by choosing Alaska hockey mon Sarah Palin as his running mate.

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