You don't actually have to call Diddy 'Brother Love'—turns out, he was joking the whole time

"Today I've come to the conclusion that you cannot play with the internet."
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If you have a hard time keeping up with the shifting names of rappers and music moguls these days (there have been a lot of changes over the years!), don't worry about Diddy's announcement this past weekend.

It turns out, when he announced he was changing his name to "Love" or "Brother Love" on Saturday, he was just fooling us all.

"Today I've come to the conclusion that you cannot play with the internet," Diddy said in a video posted on Monday.

"Due to the overwhelming response from the media out there, and just due to there not wanting to be any confusion…I was only joking. Okay?” he explained. “I didn’t change my name. It’s just part of one of my alter egos. One of my alter egos is Love.”

"But to set the record straight, because I have a lot of press to do in the next couple of weeks, you can address me by any of my older name," he said. "But, if you still wanna call me Love, you can call me Love, baby. But, I was only playing," he continued before laughing.

Nice one, Diddy.

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