Sean Combs

Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), also known professionally as Diddy (formerly Puff Daddy and P. Diddy), is an American former rapper, record producer, record executive, and actor. He is credited with the discovery and development of musical artists such as the Notorious B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, and Usher, among others.

Quotes

• I was brought up by my mother and my grandmother. My father was killed when I was three,
• And one day, I had, you know, asked my mother for a pair of sneakers. And the look on her face that she couldn’t afford it – it just made me realize that I needed to step up as a man.
• I used to clean bathrooms in gas stations. And I took a lot of pride in it because I know all the other bathrooms were filthy. And I was just like, I wanted to have people walk into a clean bathroom – pristine. And I wanted to watch their face when they came out and ask, like, you know, ‘Who did that bathroom?’ And I felt proud.
• Yes. I just believe that you have to think out of the box. You have to be one of the crazy ones,
• I wanted to integrate hip hop into R&B. We just made it more authentic to what was coming out and more disruptive. I was one of the early adapters of how to move it forward and how to own the music and own the culture and the lifestyle. So I saw the demand and how hip hop was becoming this billion-dollar business.
  • Hip hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs on his move from "me" to "we";By CBS News on September 29, 2016

• You have these record companies that are making so much money off our culture, our art form, but they’re not investing or even believing in us
• For all the billions of dollars that these black executives have been able to make them, [there’s still hesitation] to put them in the top-level positions. They’ll go and they’ll recruit cats from oversea
• because we live in 2018, and it’s the first time that the film industry gave us a fair playing field on a worldwide blockbuster, and the hundreds of millions it takes to make it.
• You can’t do anything without that money, without resources. But when we do get the resources, we over-deliver. When Adidas invests in Kanye and it’s done properly, you have the right results. When Live Nation invests in artists and puts them in arenas the same way U2 would be, you have the right results. ‘Black Panther,’ ‘Black-ish,’ fashion; it’s all about access. If you’re blocked out of the resources, you can’t compete. And that’s my whole thing — to be able to come and compete
  • Sean Combs Slams Industry’s Lack of Investment in Black Enterprise, Previews Next Moves;By Andrew Barker on Jul 10, 2018