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Sean Love Combs (born Sean John Combs m November 4, 1969), known variously as Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Puffy, and Brother Love, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur.

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Sean Love Combs (born Sean John Combs m Combs, November 4, 1969), known variously as Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Puffy, and Brother Love, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur.
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Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), known variously as Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Puffy, and Brother Love, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur.

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Sean Love Combs (born Sean John Combs (born m November 4, 1969), known variously as Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Puffy, and Brother Love, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur.
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Growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, he got his start interning at Creator/UptownRecords. After being fired, he established his own record label, [[Creator/BadBoyRecords Bad Boy Entertainment]], which would go on to feature big names like Music/TheNotoriousBIG, Music/CraigMack, and Music/BoyzIIMen. In 1997, he released his debut album, ''No Way Out'', which was in part a tribute to Biggie, who had been killed that same year. It produced the chart-topping singles "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" and "I'll Be Missing You", the latter of which held the Billboard Hot 100's #1 spot for eleven straight weeks, while the album itself was certified seven times platinum.

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Growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, he got his start interning at Creator/UptownRecords. Creator/UptownRecords, before quickly rising up the label's ranks; eventually becoming the youngest vice-president of A&R in the music business at just 19 years old. After being fired, fired in 1993, he established his own record label, [[Creator/BadBoyRecords Bad Boy Entertainment]], which would go on to feature big names like Music/TheNotoriousBIG, Music/CraigMack, and Music/BoyzIIMen. In 1997, he released his debut album, ''No Way Out'', which was in part a tribute to Biggie, who had been killed that same year. It produced the chart-topping singles "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" and "I'll Be Missing You", the latter of which held the Billboard Hot 100's #1 spot for eleven straight weeks, while the album itself was certified seven times platinum.

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!!!Solo Albums



* ''Last Train to Paris'' (2010)

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* ''The Love Album: Off the Grid'' (2023)

!!Collaborations
* ''Last Train to Paris'' (2010)Paris'', a collaboration with Dirty Money (2010)

!!Mixtapes



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* RepetitiveName: Sean, his first name, happens to be the Irish equivalent of the Anglophone name John, his middle name.
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* ''Film/ImStillHere'' (2010) as himself

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Growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, he got his start interning at Creator/UptownRecords. After being fired, he established his own record label, [[Creator/BadBoyRecords Bad Boy Entertainment]], which would go on to feature big names like Music/TheNotoriousBIG, Music/CraigMack, and Music/BoyzIIMen. In 1997, he released his debut album, ''No Way Out'', which was in part a tribute to Biggie, who had been killed that same year. One of the album's singles, "I'll Be Missing You", topped the Billboard chart for eleven weeks, while the album itself was certified platinum multiple times.

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Growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, he got his start interning at Creator/UptownRecords. After being fired, he established his own record label, [[Creator/BadBoyRecords Bad Boy Entertainment]], which would go on to feature big names like Music/TheNotoriousBIG, Music/CraigMack, and Music/BoyzIIMen. In 1997, he released his debut album, ''No Way Out'', which was in part a tribute to Biggie, who had been killed that same year. One of It produced the album's singles, chart-topping singles "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" and "I'll Be Missing You", topped the latter of which held the Billboard chart Hot 100's #1 spot for eleven straight weeks, while the album itself was certified platinum multiple times.
seven times platinum.



* CoolShades: A constant trademark of his throughout the decades.
* GlamRap: One of the biggest public faces of it, especially in the late '90's, when, after the East-West beef claimed Biggie and 2Pac's lives, Puff consciously steered his and his labelmates' output away from its more violent aspects to instead emphasize the partying, girls, and lavish lifestyles.



* MidVidSkit: "Bad Boy for Life" video features a short skit midway through in which neighbour Ben Stiller visits and unsuccessfully tries to intimidate him. This despite Mr Diddy's first name being "[[FluffyTheTerrible Puff]]".
* RatedGForGangsta: Started as "Puff Daddy", a pot-loving rapper. Now, he owns a clothing line. Sure, he was never actually ''badass'', but still, he went from advocating use of a illegal substance, to, well, whatever he is now.

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* MeaningfulName: His original stage name, Puff Daddy. "Puff" was his childhood nickname, after how he would huff and puff when he got mad; he added "Daddy" later on to emphasize his authority as a record producer and executive.
** MeaningfulRename: The tweak to P. Diddy came in the early 2000s to help him rebrand his image and weather a storm of bad PR, including multiple lawsuits and his involvement in a nightclub shooting.
* MidVidSkit: "Bad Boy for Life" video features a short skit midway through in which neighbour neighbor Ben Stiller visits and unsuccessfully tries to intimidate him. This despite Mr Diddy's first name being "[[FluffyTheTerrible Puff]]".
** Puff loves these so much that he even does them in ''other'' people's videos, like when he played a newscaster in Ma$e's vid for "Welcome Back".
* RatedGForGangsta: Started as "Puff Daddy", a pot-loving rapper.producer-turned-rapper. Now, he owns a clothing line. Sure, he was never actually ''badass'', but still, he went from advocating use of a illegal substance, rapping about toting guns and gangsta excess, to, well, whatever he is now.
* TheRichHaveWhiteStuff: Often wears white in his videos, and in real life, he throws annual parties where everyone is expected to dress in all-white.
* SelfMadeMan: Dropped out of college to become an intern at Uptown Records when he was just 20 years old, and from there, he worked his way up to become the mogul he is now.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]], especially in his heyday. From the moment Bad Boy launched, Puffy made sure to always put himself right next to the artists he produced for, often peppering his beats with ad-libs and appearing in the music videos. This only continued once he started rapping and became his own biggest star after Biggie's death, and while it certainly helped him reach where he is now, it came at the cost of alienating many of his Bad Boy signees, who came to resent Combs for hogging the limelight and pocketing the profits, and was an active point of attack for his detractors--most notably [[Creator/DeathRowRecords Suge Knight]] in his infamous "Come to Death Row" speech at the 1995 Source Awards.
* StepUpToTheMic: Became a rapper himself at the encouragement of Biggie Smalls shortly before Smalls's murder--though, like his West Coast counterpart Music/DrDre, Diddy often relies on collaborators to write verses for him and has openly called himself a "[[InsistentTerminology vibe creator]]" rather than a full-fledged MC.
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* MidVidSkit: "Bad Boy for Life" video features a short skit midway through in which neighbour Ben Stiller visits and unsuccessfully tries to intimidate him. This despite Mr Diddy's first name being "[[FluffyTheTerrible Puff]]".
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!!Contains examples of:
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Coming Home"
-->''What am I s'posed to do when the club lights come on?\\
It's easy to be Puff but it's harder to be Sean\\
What if my twins ask why I ain't marry their mom?\\
Damn... how do I respond?\\
What if my son stares with a face like my own\\
And says he wants to be like me when he's grown?\\
Shit... but I ain't finished growing!''
* IHaveManyNames: As the description pointed out, Combs has been referred to by various stage names.
* LyricalDissonance: "I'll Be Missing You" takes a sample of the downbeat [[Music/ThePolice "Every Breath You Take"]] and yet spins everything into a sunny upbeat melody, when it's a GriefSong serving as a tribute to the late [[Music/TheNotoriousBIG Biggie Smalls]].
* RatedGForGangsta: Started as "Puff Daddy", a pot-loving rapper. Now, he owns a clothing line. Sure, he was never actually ''badass'', but still, he went from advocating use of a illegal substance, to, well, whatever he is now.
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Growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, he got his start interning at Uptown Records. After being fired, he established his own record label, [[Creator/BadBoyRecords Bad Boy Entertainment]], which would go on to feature big names like Music/TheNotoriousBIG, Music/CraigMack, and Music/BoyzIIMen. In 1997, he released his debut album, ''No Way Out'', which was in part a tribute to Biggie, who had been killed that same year. One of the album's singles, "I'll Be Missing You", topped the Billboard chart for eleven weeks, while the album itself was certified platinum multiple times.

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Growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, he got his start interning at Uptown Records.Creator/UptownRecords. After being fired, he established his own record label, [[Creator/BadBoyRecords Bad Boy Entertainment]], which would go on to feature big names like Music/TheNotoriousBIG, Music/CraigMack, and Music/BoyzIIMen. In 1997, he released his debut album, ''No Way Out'', which was in part a tribute to Biggie, who had been killed that same year. One of the album's singles, "I'll Be Missing You", topped the Billboard chart for eleven weeks, while the album itself was certified platinum multiple times.
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Growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, he got his start interning at Uptown Records. After being fired, he established his own record label, Bad Boy Entertainment, which would go on to feature big names like Music/TheNotoriousBIG, Music/CraigMack, and Music/BoyzIIMen. In 1997, he released his debut album, ''No Way Out'', which was in part a tribute to Biggie, who had been killed that same year. One of the album's singles, "I'll Be Missing You", topped the Billboard chart for eleven weeks, while the album itself was certified platinum multiple times.

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Growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, he got his start interning at Uptown Records. After being fired, he established his own record label, [[Creator/BadBoyRecords Bad Boy Entertainment, Entertainment]], which would go on to feature big names like Music/TheNotoriousBIG, Music/CraigMack, and Music/BoyzIIMen. In 1997, he released his debut album, ''No Way Out'', which was in part a tribute to Biggie, who had been killed that same year. One of the album's singles, "I'll Be Missing You", topped the Billboard chart for eleven weeks, while the album itself was certified platinum multiple times.
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Growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, he got his start interning at Uptown Records. After being fired, he established his own record label, Bad Boy Entertainment, which would go on to feature big names like Music/TheNotoriousBig, Music/CraigMack, and Music/BoyzIIMen. In 1997, he released his debut album, ''No Way Out'', which was in part a tribute to Biggie, who had been killed that same year. One of the album's singles, "I'll Be Missing You", topped the Billboard chart for eleven weeks, while the album itself was certified platinum multiple times.

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Growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, he got his start interning at Uptown Records. After being fired, he established his own record label, Bad Boy Entertainment, which would go on to feature big names like Music/TheNotoriousBig, Music/TheNotoriousBIG, Music/CraigMack, and Music/BoyzIIMen. In 1997, he released his debut album, ''No Way Out'', which was in part a tribute to Biggie, who had been killed that same year. One of the album's singles, "I'll Be Missing You", topped the Billboard chart for eleven weeks, while the album itself was certified platinum multiple times.
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* ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' (2014) as himself

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!!Notable film appearances

* ''Film/{{Made}}'' (2001) as Ruiz
* ''Film/MonstersBall'' (2001) as Lawrence Musgrove
* ''Theatre/ARaisinInTheSun'' (2008) as Walter Lee Younger
* ''Film/GetHimToTheGreek'' (2010) as Sergio Roma
* ''Film/DraftDay'' (2014) as Chris Crawford
* ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' (2014) as himself
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* ''MMM (Money Making Mitch)'' (2015)

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* ''MMM (Money Making Mitch)'' (2015)(2015)
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* '''No Way Out''' (1997)
* '''Forever''' (1999)
* '''The Saga Continues...''' (2001)
* '''Press Play''' (2006)
* '''Last Train to Paris''' (2010)
* '''MMM (Money Making Mitch)''' (2015)

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* '''No ''No Way Out''' Out'' (1997)
* '''Forever''' ''Forever'' (1999)
* '''The ''The Saga Continues...''' '' (2001)
* '''Press Play''' ''Press Play'' (2006)
* '''Last ''Last Train to Paris''' Paris'' (2010)
* '''MMM ''MMM (Money Making Mitch)''' Mitch)'' (2015)
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After getting into some legal problems in the late 1990s/early 2000s, he continued to release music, with successful albums like ''Forever'', ''The Saga Continues...'', and ''Press Play''.

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After getting into some legal problems in the late 1990s/early 2000s, he continued to release music, with successful albums like ''Forever'', ''The Saga Continues...'', '', and ''Press Play''.
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Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), known variously as Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Puffy, and Brother Love, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur.

Growing up in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, he got his start interning at Uptown Records. After being fired, he established his own record label, Bad Boy Entertainment, which would go on to feature big names like Music/TheNotoriousBig, Music/CraigMack, and Music/BoyzIIMen. In 1997, he released his debut album, ''No Way Out'', which was in part a tribute to Biggie, who had been killed that same year. One of the album's singles, "I'll Be Missing You", topped the Billboard chart for eleven weeks, while the album itself was certified platinum multiple times.

After getting into some legal problems in the late 1990s/early 2000s, he continued to release music, with successful albums like ''Forever'', ''The Saga Continues...'', and ''Press Play''.

Combs has won three [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward Grammies]] and two MTV music awards. Worth over $820 million, he is also the second richest hip-hop artist in the world, after Music/JayZ.

!!Discography

* '''No Way Out''' (1997)
* '''Forever''' (1999)
* '''The Saga Continues...''' (2001)
* '''Press Play''' (2006)
* '''Last Train to Paris''' (2010)
* '''MMM (Money Making Mitch)''' (2015)

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