Sean “Diddy” Combs has delivered a message forewarning the loss of Hip Hop culture if more ownership by the ones who built it aren’t put in place.
He used a clip of a bunch of white kids sitting atop a parked car, emulating a rap music video with wads of cash and parroting dance moves often seen in those same visuals to St. Louis rapper AMR Dee Huncho’s 2017 cut “Body Bags & Bricks.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1xb9s_INac&feature=youtu.be
“Our culture is a global resource,” Diddy captions under the clip on Instagram. “Let’s not play ourselves and wake up one day and not own our own culture. Tighten up on your contracts, tighten up on your deals. Demand ownership. Demand equity. Protect your culture. IT’S FOR EVERYONE TO ENJOY BUT FOR US TO OWN!”
As history has shown, music genres such as rock and jazz were co-opted by white Americans in the past and Diddy is encouraging for black Americans to not let that happen with Hip Hop by demanding ownership and equity.
Hip Hop is currently the #1 listened to genre in the world and its impact on cultures across the globe cannot be denied. However, it’s the creators of the music, style of dress, slang and dance that get the short stick when it comes to receiving the proper credit and compensation deserved. Historically, it’s been older, White male executives who profit off the culture and who then resell it back to the culture’s creators at a premium price.
Though some feel as though this is a memorandum to exclude non-Black people from Hip Hop, Diddy, who champions the thought of Black Excellence, just wants his people to get their fair share of the pie through ownership.
The Hip Hop pioneer and mogul isn’t one to just talk, he’s shown through action that he means what he says. He’s the founder of minority-owned REVOLT TV, founded Harlem’s Capital Preparatory School and recently pledged $1 million for Capital Prep’s Bronx site.
Two points come to mind. 1. Why such an insecurity complex???? 2. Why he signed MGK then?
History shows him that we live in an unbalanced world and therefore has a right to warn everyone as it is everyone’s responsibility regardless or background to ensure the creators get their credit and not treated unfairly. I have seen Canibus who is lyrically light years ahead of any rapper be marginalised in favour of Eminem who is skill wise not on his level.
To your other point, he is an owner and businessman and wants to make money. He also shows his security by signing anyone he wishes because he is comfortable in his own skin
You lost me at Canibus……….. #ForFucksSake
Sorry to say but your intellectual ability does not appear to allow you to appreciate the depth of Canibus rhymes bruh. Consistency was not his game but when he was on point he was infinitely better than all rappers skills. Do your Googles. People probably only catching up with things he did 20 years ago
Canibus-ass nut hugger.
LMAO @ “nut hugger”. I can’t stop HOWLING, Bro.
Canibis was nice but you’re severely overating him, he had a good momentum coming out, nice verses but then proved he was just a flash in the pan by being incapable of making a good album, he was exposed, battle rapper only good in features, i know he impressed you by using big words but unfortunately his music was nothing special
Having top rappers killed doesn’t help
Fuck him he sold out years ago.
Je.vv.ish people own the labels and make all the decisions.
Its not a black white thing its a mainstream thing. Who helped bring hip hop into the mainstream puff?
We liked it better when it was underground mehn.
Diddy has a point but bias wouldn’t let people see. Definitely other races are part of the reason hip hop is what it is today as well.
Yeah thats racist. I dont hear white people warn of Black People in the NBA, Sneaker Culture or Comic Books. Diddy is a black supremacist.
For the record hip hop might have been created in New York buts it’s owned by Hebrew folk. Distribution, Radio stations, Streaming Platforms, Your Favourite Artists catalogue and even AMAs and the Grammys it’s Hebrew owned puff can say whatever he wants but anyone with any sort of working mind knows that the music business is owned and tight ranks are kept around who enters it’s upper echelons. Puff, Dre and Jay aren’t bosses in the music business, shxt even Lucian Grange isn’t a real boss! They all employed ass high level management within the industry.
Constantly whining about racism while being and anti-semite and racist at the same time. Hip Hop in a nutshell
While I agree with a bit of this I have to come back to the fact that HipHop today has genuinely been destroyed by mostly young black men. The culture took a massive shift after the rise of music from the south in the 2000’s. Eventually giving us the stupid ass trap music sound we have today with every song having to be autotuned to the max with gay choruses and the same lame Future/Migos style of flow in every track. I’m not saying there isn’t great music and artists that came from the south, but this trash we have today is their legacy.
Well actually a white culture vulture, lyor cohen, has a lot to do with all that bs
Anyone who uses the term culture vulture is a lil bitch. People SHARE culture. We all share food, music, ect. Hiphop wouldn’t even be as large as it is without white people. Are black people culture vultures for speaking English instead of african? Or for playing the piano? Hell no. Shut up with all of this racist BS, and let everyone enjoy art. Culture is to be shared and enjoyed, bit controlled and owned.
Should’ve thought of that before they let industry plant Post Malone in.
I see the BEASTIE BOYS they did’t just love Hip Hop Music they loved the Hip Hop Culture .
Racist!
We allowed rap music to be dumbed down to such a degree that anybody with a laptop and dreads can do it. Rap used to require high levels of skill, thought, and originality. Now it is mostly about finding that next song or dance to go viral! Who can’t do that???? Just grow dreads and become a rapper lol.
Diddy is too concerned with bending over guys to care about the culture.
This is all stupidity to divide the races, it’s only disguised as good intentions.
Uncool when Kanye wanted to be partners and have some ownership in the fashion industry but it’s cool for Diddy to promote the same behavior. Discrimination is only discrimination when it happens to black people I guess.
Racism disguised as pride, if white people said this about rock or country. People would be pissed
Diddy need to shut his fuckin ass up. He came out with them shiny suits, pushin BIG to go pop with them wack ass adlibs thru every god damn song he on or isnt on. What about them glasses Diddy? We all know what you did last summer. And that hit on Pac wasnt a good deal for Hip Hop either. Bitch ass muthafucka.
I have no problem with whites enjoying hip-hop. But blacks should have taken ownership from the start. It’s too late now. Whites have made billions off hip-hop. Diddy, Russell, JayZ need to educate rappers. Problem is these rappers too dumb to think about ownership
While I hate corny white rappers like the next man, blacks need to quit this our culture shit. You don’t see any other race complaining about having minorities or any other race for that matter in different musical genres. Fuck diddy, that’s why cassie left your ass because you’re a BITCH.
You’re not looking close enough then.
Diddy is a BITCH
Create your own distribution channels and own your masters
Master P and Suge (love or hate him) are bosses
Diddy is a BITCH
Mod- Lets play
racism isnt racism as long as you are not white. smfh. if a white guy said this, he would be ripped apart.
Amen!!
isn’t this the guy that signed MGK? Pretty sure he should be on that car with them other white kids?
Yes puff you are so right right first rock n roll, then country music now this keep it up black man
Boo hoo! I’m tired of blacks always saying how whites take this and that from them! How about blacks take back there rap and leave the singing to the white people then. Lets make black women stop straightening and coloring there hair since straight hair is what blacks took from us. We all know black people hair brown or black hair but dye it white peoples color! Everyone steals from everyone races it not just white people and that is the facts!! Anymore that’s all you keep hearing about is blacks boo hooing over every damn thing, enough is enough!
Those white children be the only ones still purchasing this music thang. He the one who killed biggie pac / sold out shyne. oh yea uh suck my mutha fuckin dick.
U don’t own shit
black people are the only ones to complain about culture. wheres the asian and latino rage?
Rap music is not a representation of Black Culture or African American culture or heritage rather it is an embarrassment to the black race to the African American culture it has done nothing to contribute to the advancement of the black man or Black Culture or African Americans in America I am a black man speaking this the truth has to be told rap is something that promotes evil Behavior gangster mentalities there’s nothing about culture about a woman shaking her behind someone selling drugs or talking about guns who’s really listening to this and who’s really exploiting the black man he’s being exploited left to right up and down by white male Executives who don’t even listen to their music remember the Beastie Boys Eminem and Vanilla Ice we are human race no particular race or culture has ownership of anything we have to live at human beings as one and not differentiate ourselves and not spew hate I love everyone no matter the race culture skin tone anything if you’re a good human being I love you but if not I don’t so we need to stop dividing ourselves Diddy you have the power and money to help your own people you have the power to help the university that you attended Howard University go build a building there.
You’re definitely a black man. One who absolutely HATES punctuation. I guess grammar never did any thing for the black man either. Hahaha
He said Hip Hop culture not rap. There is a difference between the two. Hip Hop represents social and culture movement. Rap/Gangsta Rap/POP has been lumped with Hip Hop which doesn’t represent Hip Hop’s initial purpose which artist like Cole, Kendrick, Lupe and others have tried to push but isn’t seen as appealing. While rap music has done its share of damage to the black community, so has government policies, the media and white people (Tulsa bombing, Philly bombing, NC Wilmington “Race Riot”, all the bombings of black businesses thru the south) and black people (well-off) who supported policies deterimental to the community. Also, to say no one has ownership of anything is a joke cause I don’t see any black people who own cruise/shipping lines, airlines, ISPs, etc. Only one group does which is considered the minority on a global level. So yeah, Hip Hop does belong to black people everyone else are just guests.
diddy one of the main ones who watered down hip-hop for the white folk so how you gone complain now?
Diddy, how about u drop mgk, he is one of the reasons these white kids are “stealing” your culture.. Oh and your non-lyrical son should also be thrown out, for bein untalanted and ruining your culture with bs lyrics
You don’t own your culture and be you never will dumbass. It isn’t “yours” to begin with. Much like rock and roll, without those kids on the car imitating ya these fucktards, no one would have a paycheck. How are all those black run labels going? Death Row, YMCMB? 15% of the U.S. populous isn’t enough to catapult a music genre to #1 in the U.S.. dummy. Mighty racist of you. You should say the same shit to all the blathletes out there and show a bunch of white ball players fumbling etc. jackass.
Whitesplaining, sounds about white ???
Every example of explaining would be “whitesplaining”, you soy boy, beta cuck. The Webster dictionary wasn’t written in Wakanda or Nárnia. Jackass. Without the white man puffy would be working in a mail room. Period. “Whutesplaining” doesn’t exist. Nice try though.
Hahahahahahahahaha this is such a joke on so many levels ! How much they pay you diddy???? Hahahahaha
Your a grown man wearing a fur coat. Just shut the fuck up already
What’s wrong with a grown man wearing a gut coat? I really don’t get it? Are you aware of how cold NYC is this time of year ?
HipHop culture is Black culture.
He’s right, nothing lame ass white folks say changes it.
Hahahaha. Right. Black culture. Exploited by white and Hebrew execs, get 1/10th of your money, buy cars, homes etc you can’t afford, dress like a gay pirate and die broke. Very black culture. Drive around smoking weed with a gun in a 200K car and yell racism when the cops pull you over. Glorify slanging cocaine to fill prisons, but $1000 jeans and $30,000 watches. Very black indeed. Hahahaha. Who owned all the labels, car companies, watch companies etc? Sambo is still tap dancing, and happy to do so. How’s many rappers were murdered this year alone? Be proud there, Wakandan. Hahahaha. Make that money for whitey.
This fool is still emotional over what Em aid to him about Pac Can’t you guys see that some of the guys in hip hop talking shit are someof the most sensitive, insecure people (50 Cent, Diddy, Joe Budden, etc). Problem is you pushed the culture towards the white audience to make a profit. You wanted to make it more Pop so you had more radio play. Justin Bieber, Eminem, etc. These are guys you glorified because of the audience they have captured. And then, the hypocrite that you are, you go ahead and contract pimp some of these “black” rappers out of their money that they are trying to earn. You never owned the culture Diddy, so please stop. You only did things to push it further form the street and into suburban neighborhoods for YOUR profit.
You nailed it my man!!!
You can’t be a part of the problem, then bitch about it years later…kind of a joke.
P Diddy is a piece of shit… STFU diddy! Hip Hop is for everyone!
…but that’s what he said
You big dummy lol. He is not saying hip hop isn’t for everyone. What he said was don’t wake-up one day the genre of the cultrual style music dress and sound is no longer yours you don’t have nothing to show for it. Basically own your masters & publishing etc… Yes hip hop is for everyone to listen to but was invented by black for black people. It’s blew up and most enjoyed it..However, black people created the genre of music complete other facts. Same thing with jazz.. country which they no longer have control over.. I get it!! Its postive message we call all enjoy it. They’re the actual creators..
i guess blacks should invent something that not everyone can copy?
First Sentence you say hip hop is for everyone and second sentence you talk about sound that is no longer “yours”. So what is it now? “Yours” or “everyones”?
so then Diddiy should sign and promote some real hiphop acts. 2018 Biggie & Craig Mack steez. But he won’t cuz he’s a faker.
Diddy was the old white guy to The LOX in the 90s.. take that take that take that!
Diddy was the old white guy to the Christopher Wallace estate.. Biggie Duets? Really?
Cool. You can keep hip hop. But now you can’t use microphones, air conditioning, antibiotics, modern medicine, democracy, the Internet, or airplanes. Fair trade
Haha I’ve never seen someone so proud to be a parasite. Regardless, enjoy all the shit we built, feel free to use it without restrictions and without guilt. Fuck as many white women as you can. I’ve fucked a few black girls and don’t blame you for preferring ours. Just don’t pretend like your life would be half as good without us.
Oh just relax, ffs. It’s not that serious. It’s a fucking P.Diddy article.
The irony of taking time to post how unimportant something is. Breathtaking retardation!
Lol the “white race” is a parasitic culture. Y’all took all the African American slave parents, ancient Egyptian spiritual works and created this American society we live in today and said you are the originators of everything.
So frankly put, the only proud parasites are the so called white race sucking the planet dry of her resources.
This the game y’all people’s created don’t hate when others recognize and treat you the same way lol.
Name one majority Black Country you would rather live in than the US. I’ll wait. Why don’t you complain to Arabs about the Muslim slave trade? Also…. here’s a BIG FACT- Egyptians aren’t black!
Cool. You can keep hip hop. But now you can’t use microphones, air conditioning, antibiotics, modern medicine, democracy, the Internet, or airplanes. Fair trade
Puff the master manipulator….
Yeah Diddy. The white man Ian fucking EVERYTHING. up. The way they made you rich buying your shit in a free market has to em stopped. We need to be more like Nigeria or Lagos, Liberia etc. the black folks there have it down perfectly. Jackass.
You can tell who black n who white on this page. Blacks don’t give a fuck about this and the whites are offended.
They get mad and ignore the fact that he said its for everybody when you hear Ted Nugent say some dope shit like that? Or any country artist or rock artist say they shit is for everyone? Hip Hop is the dopest because it is ever evolving and all inclusive, sure you have your haters who think someone who isn’t black starting off rapping is questionable, but if they spit flames then them haters get scorched. Period. No other genre grows changes and evolves like Hip Hop.
If white people would stop buying Racist rappers albums this noise would quit. Oh and does this mean white should tell black people to stop playing basketball?
Didn’t mad Eminems better.
Should we be concerned for the cultural slippage IN GENERAL? I understand the white kids taking this too far, but the same should be said about RAP CULTURE in general. Besides money, is this the culture and behavior you want your kids to follow? If they don’t rap, where will that lead them? Take race out of this article and focus on how WACK rap culture has become with these face tats, pill poppin, lean sippin, weird clothes wearin, non-lyrical, watersprinkler trap-beatin, etc…I know this is all subjective, and I’m always down for EVERYONE getting money, but take a step back and look at the value and worth of pop-rap, aka trap rap.
What’s about the cultural slippage from you misusing biggies legacy to further your own career? What about the cultural slippage from you using classic songs and remaking them into trash? What about the cultural slippage from you having a hand in raps most influential artist’s murder?
If you care so much about the culture, why are garbage artists like migos and drake the faces of it? Where was your fear of cultural slippage when these guys made hip hop a joke? White people have always been integral to the business side of hip hop (from rick Rubin and the lyor Cohen to jimmy iovine) and they have been far better caretakers than your money hungry @$$ could ever be.
Wow, tell them why your mad son ! Your a hater., classics into garbage , Drake is garbage … Migos maybe ..Really …The hell with what happened in the past , what Diddy is saying is correct ….
No, Diddy is not correct. The culture needs people who are invested in its future whatever color they are not a bunch of coked out fuckboys all saying the exact same thing.
What?!?!? Diddy was literally a key figure in selling hiphop out to corporate America….dude, this is your fucking fault! I was there, I was alive and fully invested in hiphop in your day…you fucking sold hiphop out. This makes me laugh tho, cuz at this point hiphop literally dies if you push white people away from it.
Uhh, Bad Boy records has literally 2 artists besides Puff; a WHITE guy (MGK) and an INDIAN guy (French Montana). Puff, you have literally shafted blacks from your label. Let’s also not forget how many black artists careers went down the crap can when they signed with Bay Boy because of lack of promotion or effort on their albums by PUFF. This dude was just looking for some attention on a Thursday after a few too many drinks of Ciroc…
If the culture is for everyone then stop bitching some of these voices in the culture try to dictate it in a fascist manner and claim to fight racism but god forbid if your white or something other then the right color they don’t want you in their culture which is bullshit live and let live if someone wants to rap why try to stop them you should be glad that the rap is inclusive not exclusive cause I can’t tell you how many mumble rappers who are the right color and supposedly from this culture shit on the tradition and are only in it for money and promote terrible ideas yet nobody wants to say anything they literally abuse the genre and contribute nothing yet somehow that’s acceptable
I’m white and 100 percent agree wjth Diddy.
Some of yall are taking Diddy’s comments way out of context and getting it twisted. All he’s saying is that black artist’s, especially the one’s coming up today, should take financial ownership of their work, so that they can control it instead of some outsider who has no interest in the culture other than to profit off of it. When that happens it leaves the artists broke and the culture becomes distorted by outsiders who abuse it simply to make money. He’s not saying “white people need to stay out of hip hop” which is how a lot of yall are taking it (and you sound kind of butthurt in the process). He’s saying artists need to think about owning their shit before the vultures swoop in and take if for themselves and f**k it all up.