

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. That’s important.”Ĭopyright 2023 The Associated Press. Laugh, dance, cry, make love, eat, chill and do it all over again. “Turn off your phone and lock in with a significant other. “It was important to make an album that people can make love to, baby-making music, for them to dance and go off the grid for 48 hours,” he said. I thank God, nobody told me ‘No.’”ĭiddy said he wanted to tell a story on the album that mirrored his fun-filled love life. “Everybody was calling to be a part of the ‘Love Album.’ Nobody made me wait more than 30 seconds for an answer if they wanted to do it.

He imagined how Motown Records founder Berry Gordy must’ve felt when stars like The Temptations and Marvin Gaye recorded at the Hitsville U.S.A. This is my blessing.”ĭiddy said the most rewarding part during the recording process was working with all the artists, producers and writers. But this right here, it’s like a kid in a candy store. I need to be making music and living life and spreading this frequency of love. But I can’t be in no meeting for three or four hours no more. “I had to have self-love and choose what I really love to do. He recently donated $1 million each to the Jackson State University football team and the Earn Your Leisure fund, which is expected to be used toward financial literacy investments. Making music is my love," said Diddy, who received the Global Icon Award at the MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday. He's in a dispute with spirits giant Diageo after he sued the company over allegation of racism over how they handle his liquor brands. Reassigning the publishing was simply the right thing to do.”ĭiddy was one of the popular suitors looking to purchase BET Media Group until Paramount Global decided against selling the majority stake of the network. “If I speak about change, I am committed to being an active participant in that change. “I am passionate about driving progress in all industries,” he told The Associated Press after the interview. The move came after some over the years criticized him for mistreating his artists. This month, Diddy reassigned his Bad Boy publishing rights back to artists and songwriters.
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Diddy had lots to delegate: He's the head of his widely-popular label Bad Boy Records, Revolt TV and its focus on music, the fashion clothing line Sean John and Empower Global, a curated marketplace featuring Black-owned brands that launched in July. From that second on, I jumped headfirst into this project.”īut first, he had to offload his business responsibilities. "'What has helped you to have a positive effect on the world? That would be music.’ But I wasn’t doing music. All dates are below."'What would bring you joy?' That would be music.' Void of Vision, thrown, and Aviana will serve as support. The tour kicks off at House of Blues in Dallas on September 22 and runs through October 23 in Phoenix. The band will return the road in September on a Fall 2023 headline run. When this happens to me, I find that a playlist of sleeping songs really does help me.

We wanted to try our best to wrap everything up into one song as a sort of 'end credits,' so to speak. Here’s a picture: It’s midnight you’ve been tossing and turning for hours, but you can’t fall asleep. Going into the lyrics, Marcus, too, wrote a song that defined Heavener for him, since it's not necessarily one idea or thing. Caleb had the idea to make a song titled 'Heavener' after the record was done and I got to work trying to make a song that seemed like it encompassed the feeling of the album as a whole. We actually had a few 'B sides' sitting around but we're really stubborn in thinking that the next thing we write will always be better than the thing before. A lot of love and pain goes into the work of showing the one closest to you that only they can create their own internal heaven, as they are their own 'Heavener.' The song 'Heavener' is about reassurance, it's about trying to convince your closest person that you see and hear them in their internal and helpless drift. I want to be able to stay awake for my music, not fall asleep half way through an album. In a time of internal panic, having a person that constantly reminds you that they have a place of home, can be crucial when trying to bring someone down to earth again. My stuff: Aful Performer 8, Etymotic ER4SR.
