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Best of shopping Premium Membership. In the know quiz. Bianca Mastroianni. More from celebrity photos. Join the conversation. His mentor and friend Andre Harrell died in Combs describes Porter as the love of his life. His daughters want him to settle down and get out of these streets. He knows what you are thinking, but he says there is no reason to expect a redux of the Diddy-Lopez romance. He and J. Lo are just friends. Of the social media post that set tongues wagging over the summer, he says that it was just a throwback post from a great time in his life.

I push him gently on this because the streets want to know. As private traumas brought Combs closer to God, the public traumas that define the s—police brutality, civil disobedience, and political retrenchment—forced him to take a hard look at his legacy. And people out there that are tired of it. Combs sees MeToo as a qualified sign of progress and evidence that celebrities can change the world.

What Combs wants now is for that maximum change to come for his tribe. Enter the Love era. It is easy to be glib about the rebranding. But this is Sean Combs we are talking about. He does not ask his people to bring us snacks. What does he have planned for the Love era? Oh, just a little justice and a lot of Black capitalism. For Love, those are one and the same.

Combs is on a mission to lead a five-year takeover of…something. Perhaps of everything? The details are, shall we say, a little murky, but the passion is there. But besides that, we—the world—is different.

We have the internet, we have the power, we have a culture, I have us on a five-year plan. Take time to huddle up your tribe, take time to communicate and know your power. Take time to heal. It has more fury and a faster cadence. It is like a taut hip-hop verse. Combs wants to model what loving oneself can do for collective Black action. He jumps up during his recitation on Black love to retrieve a small journal. The unlined pages have quotes written on them in large block letters.

Combs flips to the first page. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. Growing up for Combs has meant coming back to God. The wind catches the pages to reveal that most of them are blank, as if he has only started to figure this thing out. Have I really found my purpose?

Belafonte used his celebrity status to raise money for civil rights actions and organizations. Belafonte and Jay-Z have since reconciled their public differences. The critique could just have easily been lobbed at Combs. Or, rather, at Puff Daddy and Diddy. That is, in part, why Combs called Belafonte when God spoke to him about his purpose. Combs says Belafonte was a model for the kind of activism he envisions for this next stage of his public life. Coming from where we were having a position of power, being celebrities, and I was wondering, how did [Belafonte] get so dug into [social action]?

And really dedicating his life. In that excavation he saw the makings of someone destined to save his people. Combs rapidly rose to the level of vice president and had success producing several key artists for Uptown, but left the company in the early s. Blige, Faith Evans and Biggie Smalls. After his friend, Biggie Smalls, was murdered in , Combs recorded the tribute "I'll be Missing You," which topped the Billboard singles chart for eleven weeks and launched Combs' first album, No Way Out , to platinum status.

Combs released his second album, Forever , in That same year, his recently launched clothing line, Sean John, debuted in America. In December , Combs and his then-girlfriend, actress and singer Jennifer Lopez , were allegedly involved in a shooting incident at a New York City nightclub, where three people were injured.

His trial began in late January The Hits in He was nicknamed Puffy when he was a child because he would huff and puff when he was upset. Started his career as an intern for the now-defunct Uptown Records. While he was at Uptown, he was responsible for discovering and signing Father M. Attended the prestigious historically black college Howard University and majored in Business, but he dropped out. His mother, Janice Combs , was a model.

Has 6 children: son, Justin Dior Combs b. June 4, , son, Christian Casey Combs b. December 21, with 3rd ex-girlfriend, Kim Porter and daughter, Chance Combs b. July 20, with 5th ex-girlfriend, Sarah Chapman.

Owns his own urban clothing line called Sean John, named after his given first and middle names. Successfully ran the New York City Marathon on November 2, , two days before his 34th birthday, despite a bum knee, cramps, and minimal training.

Founded Bad Boy Records in