Diddy is one among hip-hop’s most profitable, iconic, and influential moguls. Whereas he’s all the time been in conversations surrounding the sport, he’s not too long ago began to turn out to be extra of a notable pressure within the music world as soon as extra. He launched the profitable “Gotta Transfer On” with Bryson Tiller, which even obtained its personal remix EP, and launched a biggest hits-style compilation this June. He’s simply dropped a video for a freestyle titled “Diddy Freestyle” that options Yung Miami, his rumored companion however self-affirmed greatest good friend.
The video opens at 5AM in New York Metropolis, and whereas the brilliant lights and skyscrapers match the Huge Apple vibe, the tune actually doesn’t. It makes use of the identical pattern from Dre and Snoop’s iconic West Coast traditional, “Nuthin’ However A G Thang,” and it’s bizarre to see Diddy flaunt round New York with a beat synonymous with Compton palm timber. Nonetheless, the beat works in some conventional East Coast claps and shimmering synth pads to carry the observe again to blunger-out metropolis streets. However what’s attention-grabbing about this new music video is that it’s for a four-year-old tune.
This “freestyle” video is definitely Diddy’s verse on the observe “Unhealthy Boy Watcha Gon’ Do? Dre Day,” which additionally options Rick Ross and the legendary Biggie Smalls. So, you could be asking, what actually makes this new and what makes it a freestyle? Properly, it’s unclear whether or not Diddy’s unique verse on “Unhealthy Boy…” was off the highest, however regardless of the misnomer, it’s nonetheless a reasonably cool video. It was truly shot in between takes for his “Gotta Transfer On” Queens remix visuals.
Mr. Combs, who simply turned hip-hop’s third billionaire, spits bars strolling on NYC streets with a puffy coat, switching between a fast tempo by way of storefronts or simply sitting subsequent to his coupe. He additionally rides across the metropolis in it with none aside from Yung Miami of Metropolis Women, with whom Puff Daddy has a really shut relationship. Fling rumors have dogged them for months, however there’s nonetheless not a lot exhausting proof for followers to work it. It’s mainly a kind of unstated truths that everybody’s simply ready for affirmation on.
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