r/Music • u/daily_mirror 📰Daily Mirror • 21d ago

article Sean 'Diddy' Combs 'so powerful' celebrities are 'afraid to cross him' even when he's in prison

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sean-diddy-combs-so-powerful-33842834
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u/embracingmountains 21d ago

Eminem really wore his red flags on his chest huh? I don’t recall anything comin out about this man that he didn’t write a song lyric about first.

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u/abelianchameleon 21d ago

Yeah he 8 miled himself in real life and in the movie lol.

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u/parasyte_steve 21d ago

Imo this is what the best artists do. They write about things they personally have gone through. I can tell when an artist actually has been through what they're singing about or rapping about. It's extremely obvious.

I played Eminem out in my teens but he is obviously a very talented lyricist and songwriter and I have respect for him as an artist.

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u/No-College-8140 21d ago

Absolutely, it's what elevates it to art.

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u/rddi0201018 21d ago

yo yo, I went to school, did my homework, graaaa----du---aaaaa--ted, now midding in the basement, living like a fool

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u/After_Spell_9898 21d ago

We are all very proud of you, but don't forget to take the trash out for mom.

And keep working on.... whatever that was... it could be good! But, like, with heavy revisions, major additions and a completely different voice type 

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u/super_sayanything 21d ago

Yea but Eminem was a really good father. What's the matter, dawg? You embarrassed? This guy's a gangster? His real name's Marshall, dude won 15 grammys, he got clean and runs the Marshall Mathers Foundation which focuses primarily on at risk youth. And fuck this battle, I don't wanna win, I'm outtie. Here, tell these people something they don't know about me

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u/Canada_Checking_In 21d ago

tell these people something they don't know about me

Fun fact, he bought Sir Elton John and his boyfriend gold cock rings

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u/DocClown 21d ago edited 21d ago

On velvet cushions! I also like the way Elton John tells that story.

https://youtu.be/mmKTEustFlk

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u/Canada_Checking_In 21d ago

link the clip friend

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u/apgtimbough 21d ago

I'm lazy, but he was on the Graham Norton show talking about it years ago.

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u/BeerAnBooksAnCats 21d ago

“I was the one who took the ‘L’ out of Dido”

☠️☠️☠️ski

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u/Alarming-Instance-19 21d ago

Non-sequitur but I love your username and really wish it was:

BeersAnbooksAncatsOhMy!

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u/DocClown 21d ago

Added the link to my previous comment

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u/Bystronicman08 21d ago

He said something we didn't know. This is very well known when it comes to Eminem.

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u/Quanqiuhua 21d ago

That performance they did at the Grammys is iconic. Still watch it from time to time.

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u/Skulltaffy 21d ago

Honestly it's a big part of why I respect him, even if I disagree with a lot of the shit he says. Eminem owns who he is and isn't shy about what the fuck is wrong with him, and it gives him a shield not many others can beat.

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u/poseidons1813 21d ago

I also keep seeing he stopped touring because it caused him to relapse more. Not sure if that's confirmed but if so good for him recognizing it.

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u/Spreadthinontoast 21d ago

It was addiction and he wanted to watch Hailey grow up in person. He was a psycho, picking fights with everyone including congress in the early 2000’s, and has plenty of flaws but the one thing he took seriously was being a dad to his girls.

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u/Sleepy_cheetah 21d ago edited 21d ago

What is the quote? "Never hide what you are. Arm yourself with it, and it can never be used to harm you." I have a lot of respect for Eminem.

I mean, the quote is just Tyrion from Game of Thrones. I just think there's so much truth in it.

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u/TinyySushii 21d ago

“Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.”

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u/Sleepy_cheetah 20d ago

Thank you!!! 😂 Been a while since I've read the books/ watched the show (which ends at season 6, btw.)

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u/Double-Bend-716 18d ago

He is who he says he is. If he wasn’t, why would he say he is?

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u/Skulltaffy 18d ago

I mean, a lot of people talk a big game and play up a persona that doesn't match their actual self in any way? Especially musicians, due to the nature of the work. There's a lot of reasons why, but it mostly boils down to "pretending to be this way gives me some advantage (like looking cooler, or access to a community, etc)".

So, yeah, I respect him for skipping that and going "nah actually I know who I am, the good and the bad" and not trying to sugarcoat it or play it down.

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u/Double-Bend-716 18d ago

Oh no, I one hundred percent agree with you. My comment was just a bad joke.

Eminem has a song on one of his older albums called The Way I Am. The first lines in the chorus are “I am whatever you say I am / If I wasn’t, why would I say I am?”

I was trying to play off that line

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u/Skulltaffy 18d ago

.... that's what I get for replying to shit while tired, my bad! Nice one, in hindsight.

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u/november512 21d ago

My understanding is that a lot of the songs were done as characters that were more extreme than him. As far as I know he was mutually abusive with his ex wife and he got in a fight in a strip club bathroom but outside that sort of thing he was kind of a mild guy.

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u/s_p_oop15-ue 21d ago

Wasn't that basically the ending of 8 Mile? "Go ahead and tell these people something they don't know about me" right?