Pi Diddy's ex-lover and mother of his children is found dead in her own home.

Now he has suspended his musical activity, preferring the career of an actor.

Childhood and youth

Puff Daddy's real name is Sean John Combs. His biography begins on November 4, 1969 in the African-American quarter of New York - Harlem. Mother Jennis (née Smalls) is a model and teacher's assistant, and father Melvin Earl Combs served in the United States Air Force helping Frank Lucas, a convicted drug dealer, to transport heroin during the Vietnam War. When Sean was 2 years old, Melvin was shot dead in a parking lot in Central Park.

Raised in the Roman Catholic faith, Combs graduated from St. Michael's Roman Catholic Academy in 1987. Later, in 2008, the rapper said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph that he does not adhere to a particular religion:

“I separate the good from the bad, but I can pray in a synagogue, a mosque or a church. I believe there is only one God."

The nickname Puff Sean was given as a child, because he puffed when he was angry (eng. puff - “puff”).

Combs went to business school at Howard University in Washington, where he became famous as the "king of the parties": on some days, a thousand teenagers filled his house. The young man left after the 2nd course. In 2014, he resumed his studies, receiving an honorary doctorate in the humanities.

Music

Combs began working with Uptown Records as a talent director while a student. It was he who promoted the R'n'B quartet Jodeci and the singer Mary J. Blige. In 1993, Uptown Records fired Sean for his self-confidence, and the young man founded his own label, Bad Boy Entertainment, under Arista Records. The first performer that Combs managed to get on stage on his own was The Notorious B.I.G. This was followed by contracts with, Lil "Kim, and others.

In 1997, Sean realized that he had to make his own music. I saw the light in February debut single rapper "Can" t Nobody Hold Me Down", who spent 28 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Months later, in July, Puff Daddy's first album "No Way Out" was released, which won a Grammy Award in 1998 for best rap album.

The track "I" ll Be Missing You, dedicated to the murdered The Notorious B.I.G., lasted 11 weeks on the first line of the Billboard Hot 100 and brought Pi Diddy his second Grammy award for best performance. And the video for the song "Victory" went down in history as one of the most expensive (as of 2018, it ranks 9th) - $ 2.7 million was spent on filming.

The album was also supposed to include the track "Come with Me" - a duet of Puff Daddy with, but the world heard it in 1998 as the soundtrack to the movie "Godzilla". In 1999, the rapper's discography was replenished with the Forever compilation, which hit number two on the Billboard 200 and went platinum in the US. Critics, however, did not appreciate the music: the magazine "Q" in 2006 brought "Forever" in the list of "50 worst albums of all time".

Two years later, Bad Boy Entertainment got out of control of Arista Records, and Combs' The Saga Continues... was his last. joint project. It did not receive high critical acclaim. In 2002, the rapper, who changed his pseudonym to P.Diddu, went on tour with "N Sync", giving concerts as an opening act.

In 2005, Sean Combs once again changed his stage name to Diddi. The reason for this was a lawsuit from DJ Richard Dearlove, who has been performing under the pseudonym Diddy since 1992. The London High Court banned Combs from using the Diddy name in the US and also fined him £110,000 in favor of the DJ.

A year later, Sean released the album "Press Play", which featured ("Come to Me"), ("Tell Me"), Keisha Cole ("Last Night"). The collection topped the Billboard 200, selling 173,000 copies in its first week.

In 2010, the fifth saw the light studio album Combs' "Last Train to Paris", which describes the journey of Diddy's alter ego from London to Paris to return lost love. The recording featured Sean's R'n'B band Dirty Money, consisting of dancer Dawn Richard and singer Kalenna Harper. According to critics, the duo successfully diluted Diddy's music.

The planned album "No Way Out 2" was released as a mixtape in November 2015 under the name "MMM (Money Making Mitch)". It includes 16 tracks. A year later, Sean Combs announced his intention to leave music industry and focus on an acting career.

Movies

As an actor, Sean Combs made his debut in 2001 in two projects at once: the crime drama All Under Control! with, and starring in "Monster's Ball" with and. Puff Daddy performed on Broadway in 2004 playing Walter Lee Younger in A Raisin in the Sun. 4 years later, a television version of the play was released, in which Combs also participated in the filming.

In 2005, the rapper's filmography was replenished with the action movie "Carlito's Way 2: Rise to Power" about life in Harlem in the 1960s. Three inmates, Earl, Rocco and Carlito, are released from prison and want to take over the drug trade in Harlem.

Deliveries are already controlled by the Italian Bottolot family and African American gangsters led by Nikki Hollywood (played by Sean Combs). Men understand that the only way to survive in Harlem - stick to your friends and respect the laws of the streets.

In 2008, Combs played lawyer Derek Powell in two episodes of CSI: Miami Crime Scene Investigation (season 7, episodes 15 and 16), in 2011 he appeared in Hawaii 5.0 as a police detective New York, a year later he starred in an episode of the sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Season 8, Episode 5).

Personal life

Sean Combs is the father of six children born to different mothers. The first child, Justin, was born in 1993 from school love rapper, designer Misa Hilton-Brim. From 1994 to 2007, Puff Daddy dated and broke up with Kimberly Porter. Together they raised Quincy (1991), the son of Kimberly and her previous partner, producer Al B. Sure. Their son Christian was born in 1998, and daughters Delilah Star and Jesse James were born in 2006.

5 days before the birth of the twins ex girlfriend Shauna Sarah Chapman gave birth to a girl named Chaines. At first, Combs refused to acknowledge paternity, but a DNA test confirmed the family ties.

IN different times frank, compromising photos of Diddy with Jennifer Lopez appeared in the press. However, none of the lovers never became the rapper's wife.

Sean has been in trouble with the law on numerous occasions. In April 1999, a man attacked Steve Stout, the manager of the Nas rapper. Diddy starred in the video for the Nas song "Hate Me Now", and the video used the image of the musicians crucified on the cross. Combs asked that these blasphemous scenes be cut, but Stout did not listen, and Sean put up a fight. The rapper was charged with causing moderate bodily harm and robbery, and was sent to anger management courses.

In December of that year, Combs and rapper Shyne staged a shooting in Manhattan. The court found Sean not guilty, and Shane was sentenced to 10 years in prison. In 2008, the Los Angeles Times accused The Notorious B.I.G. and Diddy in Murder (2Pac). Later, the publication admitted that the information was fabricated.

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There is no news that Sean Combs will return to music in the near future, as well as information about upcoming film projects with the participation of the rapper. Although he moved away from music, in

Sean Combs (more precisely - Sean Combs) (eng. Sean Combs; November 4, 1970, Harlem, New York) is an American rapper and producer who, during his career, used stage names Puff Daddy, P. Diddy and just Diddy. According to Forbes and Time magazines, he is one of the most influential and wealthy figures in the world of hip-hop.

Born November 4, 1970 in Harlem. Two years later, his father was shot dead in a street "showdown", and the family moved to another area of ​​New York. In the late 1980s, Combs took a job with Uptown Records, where he was responsible for finding and signing up-and-coming hip-hop artists, including Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil Kim, and many other today's stars.

In 1993, Combs founded his own label, Bad Boy Records, which released records based on a very wide sampling. famous hits past years - which caused irritation music critics and many competing rappers. A notable example of this is Come with Me, Combs' recorded theme to the 1998 film Godzilla, which was based on the classic hit Led Zeppelin Kashmir (Jimmy Page himself took part in the re-recording).

In 1997, Combs spearheaded hip-hop's breakthrough into the musical mainstream following the murder of fellow rapper Notorious B.I.G., collaborating with the deceased's wife, Faith Evans, to release I'll Be Missing You, a 'funeral' track almost entirely quoting The Police's old hit. Every Breath You Take and a Grammy Award for "Best Rap Duo Performance".

On December 27, 1999, Combs and his girlfriend Jennifer Lopez were in a nightclub where a serious shootout took place, and a stolen gun was found by the police during a search of their car. Over the next few years, Combs was involved in incessant litigation, in particular, on charges of illegal possession of weapons.

Competing labels and music critics often accuse Combs of the total commercialization of hip-hop, in addition to musical activity he develops a clothing line and a chain of restaurants.

In 2002, Bad Boy Entertainment released a hit collection with the pathetic title “We Invented the Remix” (“We invented a remix”), which included previously unreleased remixes of compositions by famous rap and R&B artists such as Mary J Blige, Missy Elliott, Notorious B.I.G. and Ashanti. P.Diddy's tracks "I Need A Girl Part I" (together with Usher and Loon) and "I Need A Girl Part II" (together with Ginuwine and Mario Winans) were at the top of the charts.

In 2006, the album "Press Play" was released. On the album's biggest hits, was filmed whole line video, with the participation of the hyped stars of the musical sky. Diddy keeps flickering on again music channels and summaries of musical news, each time reminding us of ourselves and our talent.

Sean Combs is so engrossed in changing aliases that he can't stop. The New York Post tabloid assures that the oligarch, actor and occasional rapper now demands to be called Sean John.

Sean explains this change with his constant desire evolve. And reminds everyone new stage He always started with a change of skin. The name Sean John is already familiar to us from the clothing line, now we will also have to call its owner.

Whatever his name - Sean "Puffy" Combs, Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy or Sean John - nothing changes from this: he continues to work as a performer, producer, head of the expanded Bad Boy Entertainment empire and discoverer of new names. And, as a rule, his projects are successful.

Discography:

under the pseudonym Puff Daddy:
1997 - No Way Out
1999 - Forever

as P. Diddy:
2001 - Thank You (Unreleased)
2001 - The Saga Continues…
2002 - We Invented The Remix Vol. 1
2003 - Let's Get Ill

being Diddy:
2006 - Press Play

Styles to which the performer can be attributed:Pop, Electronic, Hip-hop, Dance, Hip-hop, Techno, House, Hip-hop, Male vocals, Soul, R&B, Hip-hop, Male vocalist, R&B, Rhythm and B Blues, Gunksta, Urban, Smooth

Diddy needs no introduction. The Greatest Impresario hip hop 90s. Creator of the multi-million dollar entertainment business for "bad boys" - Bad Boy Entertainment. Winner of the title "Composer of the Year". Original author, successful producer and television star.

Born in 1970 in Harlem, Combs spent his entire childhood with his mother in New York State and then went on to study at Howard University in Washington. During his studies, Sean convinced his "childhood friend", rapper Heavy D, to work with Uptown Records, with which he himself collaborated. Back in 1990-91, Father MC, Jodeci and Mary J. Blige albums were released there, and Puff Daddy was listed as an A&R Executive. After Heavy D did release his Blue Funk album on Uptown, Puff Daddy was fired from the label.
In 1993, he founded his own record company Bad Boy, initially without even an office and employees. A year of hard work has paid off and Puff Daddy has finally signed his first artists, The Notorious B.I.G. and rapper Craig Mack. In 1994, Craig Mack hit the Top Ten with "Flava In Ya Ear" (feat. LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, Rampage) and got Bad Boy's first platinum.
Further, the "office" of Puff Daddy and company breaks into the market due to the double "platinum" debut album of Notorious B.I.G. Ready To Die. Next, Sean Combs began working with Faith Evans, the wife of Notorious B.I.G., who had her first album released already in 1995, as well as with the female trio Total, the young guys from the group 112, a 20-year-old rapper nicknamed Mase and The LOX.
In the mid-nineties, Puff Daddy and Notorious B.I.G began to show off their relationship with Death Row, Suge Knight and 2PAC. Soon 2PAC was shot - and a year later, Notorious.
In 1997, Puff Daddy recorded his first debut album “No Way Out”, which went platinum seven (!) times and received a Grammy for “Best Rap Album”, in addition to this, the Grammy also received the dedication song Notorious'y “I'll Be Missing You".
In 1999, Puff Daddy released their second album, Forever, which turned out to be not very successful, which was associated with an affair with the super-beauty Jennifer Lopez. The pathetic pop rapper's relationship with the ambitious actress and singer was overshadowed by a criminal shooting incident in a nightclub, because of which Puff Daddy subsequently got into big trouble with the law. Jlo pissed off rich Puffy in 2001 on Valentine's Eve. After that, he changed his creative pseudonym on P.Diddy.
The following years saw the release of the albums "Thank You" and "The Saga Continues", followed by several more commercial "washcloth" discs under the "Bad Boy" label.
Arista in 2002 refused to distribute Bad Boy products, the contract was terminated, 112 and Faith Evans left the label. Diddy is now working with Universal.
In 2006, the Press Play album was released, on which there are many duets with Nicole Scherzinger, Christina Aguilera, Keisha Cole and others.
He starred in several TV movies about famous rappers: "Biggie and Tupac", "Tupac: Resurrection" and others. In 2003, the turn came to his immodest person: the TV movie Diddy Runs the City was released, which he directed independently. P. Diddy's new production and directing projects are also related to television.