DIDDY, COMMON AND 50 CENT STOP BY MTV TRL
Common, P.Diddy and 50 Cent stopped by MTV TRL to promote their albums and talk about the presidential election and Barack Obama's historic win.
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Diddy has released a statement that he is not engaged to Bad Boy artist Cassie despite the rumors and a recent article in Star Magazine.
Cassie denied rumors that they were even dating at DJ Cassidy’s birthday party in the NYC, We are not together, but we are definitely friends.” She also said, “We work hard together, so it makes a good combo.” source
Sean "Diddy" Combs is giving marriage a chance.
The bachelor father of six is quietly telling close friends and family that he and singer Cassandra "Cassie" Ventura are heading to the chapel.
"He told everyone to keep it extremely quiet because he didn't want it to get out, but you could tell he was excited," says a source. "Diddy said they hadn't set a date yet, but he wanted his family to hear the news first."
Diddy revealed his engagement to the Connecticut native at his son Justin's eighth-grade graduation ceremony in Riverdale, N.Y., on June 5. The hip-hop megastar met 17-years-younger Cassie after signing her up to his label, Bad Boy Records, in 2006.
Diddy ended his 10-year relationship with model Kim Porter last July. source
UPDATED :Rap mogul P Diddy has alot to say about Will Smith's new movie Hancock which opens today.
Diddy attended the movie premiere with Will Smith in Hollywood.
Click here to download iPod Video Edition of the Hancock trailer. He wants everyone to know that he is happy to finally see Will Smith play a Black Superhero in a Hollywood movie.
We just wonder why Will Smith is playing a belligerent drunk loser superhero who fits the African-American stereotypes and ends up in jail. Watch the Spillz Hancock movie review to see the comparison between Hancock and comedian Dave Chapelle's idiotic crackhead Tyrone Biggums.
Diddy Blog #7: Diddy & Lil Wayne Give Secrets To Success
Diddy and Lil Wayne gave the secrets to success on the Diddy Blog. Diddy is really getting the hang of this blogging.
Kanye West sent a congrats message to his friend Lil Wayne via Kanye blog.
CONGRATS TO MY HOMIE WAYNE. I'M HAPPY 2 KNOW THIS GUY!!! BOW IN THE PRESENCE OF A TRUE LIVING LEGEND IN HIP HOP... LIL WAYNE THE GOD!!!
Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III sold more than a million copies in it's first week. Congras again Lil Wayne!
We were channel surfing over the weekend and caught a feature on hip hop mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs. The segment was great and it just proves that Diddy is a natural salesman who can sell people the phone book. At around the 4:48 minute mark he describes the importance of his Sean John Fashion line. Diddy tells the interviewer, "Sean John is fashion Viagra. I've had 40 year old men tell me that once they started wearing Sean John everything has changed for them. Their sex life...Everything." Diddy has definitely done it again.
He's been spotted on the red carpet on the French Riviera at the Cannes Film Festival with hip hop mogul Andre Harrell.
Today, I was checking out a segment on CBS about the Sean John brand and it was very educational. I never really thought about how many ways Diddy (P.Diddy, Puffy, Puff Daddy, Sean John, Sean Combs...pick the one you like) has infected my life. Music, TV, fashion, food, drinks, perfume and anything else you can think of. Really he is everywhere. He will probably be in my dream tonight dancing around and telling me to go get him some cheesecake. Take that, Take that! Anyway, in the clip below Diddy referred to his clothes as "Fashion Viagra." Uh...yeah. Don't ask me I just post this stuff. source
Guess which rap mogul was spotted hugged up with his protege Cassie in Central Park?
That's rapper/entrepreneur Sean "Diddy" Combs who was all over Cassie and it's clear to see that she's his new boo. Cassie better watch out for Kim Porter because she's messing up her celebrity swag. Kim Porter has four three kids for Diddy and she appeared on a special Mother's Day Edition of Jet Magazine with Diddy's twins , D'Lila Star and Jessie James. The headline on the cover was pretty interesting because it says,"Kim Porter, more than a mother, model/actress makes her own life".
We've never knew about Kim P ever having any other profession than being Diddy's baby mama. Kim Porter was standing by her man on May 2nd when P.Diddy received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Kim looked like she was hoping she would be the future Mrs. Combs. Guess the mystery is solved about how beautiful Cassie got her Bad Boy record deal. Cassie has no apparent singing ability or stage presence. Check out Cassie's vocals to see how she carries a tune. Shout out to G Style Magazine for the Cassie & Diddy photos.
Cassie Long Way 2 Go
Time: 2:19pm, Location: Central Park. While we here would have figured Diddy would be somewhere with mother of his toddler twin girls Kim Porter, but here he is spotted here in Central park with another young woman. What were they doing at this point in time? Watching a couple of street dancers entertain a crowd of tourists below. Now in case you wasn’t sure you can pretty much without a doubt tell that this is indeed Diddy. We do have another angle for you so you can see this mystery lady. photos source
The L.A. Times has issued an apology to Sean 'P.Diddy ' Combs after they published a false story linking Combs to a 1994 shooting ambush on Tupac Shakur who was murdered in 1996.
'In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job,'' reporter Chuck Philips said in a statement on Wednesday. ''I'm sorry.'' Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin said: ''We should not have let ourselves be fooled. That we were is as much my fault as Chuck's. I deeply regret that we let our readers down.' source
P. Diddy issued the following statement after the article was published on March 17th.
"The story is a lie," the hip-hop mogul said in a statement. "It is beyond ridiculous and completely false. Neither (the late rapper Notorious B.I.G.) nor I had any knowledge of any attack before, during or after it happened. ... I am shocked that the Los Angeles Times would be so irresponsible as to publish such a baseless and completely untrue story." The story said that talent manager James Rosemond and promoter James Sabatino arranged the assault. They and Combs declined to be interviewed for the story, which appeared on the Los Angeles Times Web site but not in its paper publication. Rosemond called the story a "libelous piece of garbage." "In the past 14 years, I have not even been questioned by law enforcement with regard to the assault of Tupac Shakur, let alone brought up on charges," he said in a statement. "Chuck Philips, the writer ... has reached a new low by employing fourth-hand information from desperate jailhouse informants along with ancient FBI reports to create this fabrication. I simply ask for all rap fans and fans of Tupac to analyze this fiction for what it is."
The story, written by Chuck Philips, was the first investigative report published as a Web exclusive, said Meredith Artley, editor of LATimes.com."This piece was perfect for the Web," Artley said. "The Web audience skews younger. We had all these great multimedia elements, and we said we really don't need to wait to fit this in the paper." A "smaller version" of the story may still run in the paper, she said. source
Click here to read an excerpt from the article.
Now, newly discovered information, including interviews with people who were at the studio that night, lends credence to Shakur's insistence that associates of rap impresario Sean "Diddy" Combs were behind the assault. Their alleged motives: to punish Shakur for disrespecting them and rejecting their business overtures and, not incidentally, to curry favor with Combs.
The L.A. Times issued their apology after Editor Russ Stanton announced he was launching an internal investigation to determine the authenticity of the documents cited in the article. After the L.A. Times was forced to retract their story a TSG investigation revealed that the FBI documents the L.A Times obtained to prove their allegations against Sean Combs were forged. The Smoking Gun website noted that some of the clues these documents appeared fake was they were typed on a typewriter instead of a computer and riddled with grammatical errors.
For example, the reports contain the acronyms "TNU," which apparently is short for "true name unknown," and "NFI," short for "no further information." Two ex-FBI agents said that they had never seen those acronyms in bureau reports. Both men also alerted to how the reports were dated, with month, day, and year set off with periods, instead of the customary slashes.
Rap mogul Sean 'P.Diddy" Combs' lawyer lashed out at the L.A. Times. In response, Combs' attorney Howard Weitzman issued a statement today (March 27) saying the "apology is, at best, a first step, but it doesn't undo the false and defamatory nature of the story, or the suspicion and innuendo that Mr. Combs has had to endure due to these untruthful allegations and the irresponsible conduct of this particular reporter." The lawyer for Jimmy Rosemond, chief executive officer of Czar Entertainment who was also was linked to the attack by the LA Times, issued a statement saying, "their apology does not go far enough," reports Reuters. source
The Times appears to have been hoaxed by an imprisoned con man and accomplished document forger, an audacious swindler who has created a fantasy world in which he managed hip-hop luminaries, conducted business with Combs, Shakur, Busta Rhymes, and The Notorious B.I.G., and even served as Combs's trusted emissary to Death Row Records boss Marion "Suge" Knight during the outset of hostilities in the bloody East Coast-West Coast rap feud. In addition to the documents posted on the Times site, a third purported FBI interview report was included by Sabatino in court papers he filed four months ago in U.S. District Court in Miami. In that civil case, Sabatino is suing Combs for $16 million over an alleged soured business deal from nearly a decade ago. According to Sabatino's complaint, which he prepared and filed himself from the Allenwood federal penitentiary in White Deer, Pennsylvania, Combs stiffed him on a $175,000 payment for audio and video recordings Sabatino made in 1994 of The Notorious B.I.G. (real name: Christopher Wallace).
But those FBI reports, dubbed "302s" due to the numbered government form on which they are prepared, are nowhere to be found in the bureau's computerized Automated Case Support database, TSG has learned. The ACS system allows investigators to search various bureau indices to determine whether particular individuals, groups, or topics have been referred to in FBI "302" reports or various other bureau documents.
The L.A. Times posted a staff message explaining their apology on the Tupac Shakur investigative piece called "A Conversation on Newsroom Practices and Standards."
Most of you have no doubt seen today’s front page report that a Times story about the 1994 attack on Tupac Shakur was based on fake documents provided to us by a source for
the story. Simply stated, we got duped, and we have apologized. Here’s a link to this
morning’s story: www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-me-tupac27mar27,0,2043351.story.
Situations like this are thankfully very rare, but they do happen. And when they do, the most important thing is to understand what happened, own up to it, and try to make things right as soon as possible. That’s what we have been doing over the last two days.
You may also be interested in the statement Russ made “We published this story with the sincere belief that the documents were genuine, but our good intentions are beside the point. The bottom line is that the documents we relied on should not have been used. We apologize both to our readers and to those referenced in the documents and, as a result, in the story. We are continuing to investigate this matter and will fulfill our journalistic responsibility for critical self-examination."
David Hiller
Russ Stanton
The L.A. Times explained their newsroom practices and reporter Chuck Philips issued an apology . However some people may wonder if an ulterior motive was to blame for the poor investigative journalism. Was Chuck Philips who is a pulitzer prize winning journalist really duped by a con man? Or was the L.A. Times just anxious to attract younger readers to their website by publishing an article about the unsolved murder of two rap icons? According to the Associated Press the controversial March 17 story and related features on latimes.com attracted nearly 1 million hits — more viewers than any other story on latimes.com this year, the newspaper said.
Here is an excerpt from the apology article posted on the L.A. Times website.
Reporter Chuck Philips and his supervisor, Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin, issued statements of apology Wednesday afternoon. The statements came after The Times took withering criticism for the Shakur article, which appeared on latimes.com last week and two days later in the paper's Calendar section.
The criticism came first from The Smoking Gun website, which said the newspaper had been the victim of a hoax, and then from subjects of the story, who said they had been defamed.
"In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job," Philips said in a statement Wednesday. "I'm sorry."
In his statement, Duvoisin added: "We should not have let ourselves be fooled. That we were is as much my fault as Chuck's. I deeply regret that we let our readers down."
Times Editor Russ Stanton announced that the newspaper would launch an internal review of the documents and the reporting surrounding the story. Stanton said he took the criticisms of the March 17 report "very seriously."
"We published this story with the sincere belief that the documents were genuine, but our good intentions are beside the point," Stanton said in a statement.
"The bottom line is that the documents we relied on should not have been used. We apologize both to our readers and to those referenced in the documents and, as a result, in the story. We are continuing to investigate this matter and will fulfill our journalistic responsibility for critical self-examination."
The story provoked vehement denials from lawyers for Combs and Rosemond, both before and after publication.
Rosemond said in a statement Wednesday that the Times article created "a potentially violent climate in the hip-hop community." His attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, added: "I would suggest to Mr. Philips and his editors that they immediately print an apology and take out their checkbooks -- or brace themselves for an epic lawsuit."
Although The Times has not identified the source of the purported FBI reports, The Smoking Gun (www.the smokinggun.com) asserted that the documents were forged by Sabatino. The website identified him as a convicted con man with a history of elaborate fantasies designed to exaggerate his place in the rap music firmament. He is currently in federal prison on fraud charges.
"The Times appears to have been hoaxed by an imprisoned con man and accomplished document forger, an audacious swindler who has created a fantasy world in which he managed hip-hop luminaries," the Smoking Gun reported.
Combs' lawyer Howard Weitzman, in a letter to Times Publisher David Hiller, called the story inaccurate. He expanded an earlier demand for a retraction and said he believed that The Times' conduct met the legal standard for "actual malice," which would allow a public figure such as Combs to obtain damages in a libel suit.
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