It’s been a long time since 1997, and Sean Combs is feeling a little puffy.
The rap impresario wants us to call him “Puff Daddy” once again, effectively circling back to the moniker he bore when his debut album, No Way Out, streaked to No. 1 on the Billboard charts some 17 years ago. Maybe that's his good-luck name?
The announcement comes as Puff Daddy (hmm, that'll take some getting used to) teases a new album on Vimeo, his first since 2010, when he was going by P. Diddy. Or maybe it was just Diddy by then? This is hard!
There’s no release date for the new record, which Radio.com reports will be called MMM. But there is this one-minute “trailer” (watch it below) for a single to be called Big Homie. A full trailer is due March 31.
Puff Daddy (nope, still not used to it) used the name during his producer days in the early 1990s, but also went by Sean “Puffy” Combs. He first used “P. Diddy” in 2001 for The Saga Continues, shortening it to “Diddy” for his 2006 album Press Play.