“This is the year–2009–when Sean John Combs turns 40. Forty is the new ’21’: its the age when we become adults emotionally, because from 20-37, we are still teenagers with bills, maybe some children, and a whole lot of unfocused energy. It’s only until we hit 38, 39, 40–if we are Blessed to live that long–that most of us understand how precious, fleeting, and serious life really is. The Sean John Combs I interviewed back in March, is not the same Puffy, Puff Daddy, P.Diddy, of the past. No more, ‘take-that, take-that’: this is a man who looks sobered by both success and tragedy, and anchored into the reality of what had often been interpreted by the public, as a curiously surreal existence.” -Barry Michael Cooper
