Diddy is not supposed to sound this good. God bless Auto-Tune, his new chick sidekicks, and his nasty producer Rob Holladay. “hip hop, electro, soul, funk” they call it. Well, it’s something – whatever it is, and i’ll take it. The beats are so good I don’t care that it’s diddy or what he’s saying. Then sometimes, Auto-tune just works.. It made me able to say I love a Kanye West album. Now we can say that Puffy sounds like Seal? It’s blasphemy, but (in the chorus) true.
(The radio version featuring biggie is obviously better. I just get a kick out of this video because I was in the same hotel while they filmed the Miami scenes.)
I wish I was stronger than this pitch correcting plugin that is over saturating our pop-hop audio culture, but i’m not always. I can’t get enough of it, when it’s done well.
I don’t understand why Puff is on Jay’s jock though? It took a couple listens but – this song is sampling one of my favorite Jay-Z songs “Where I’m From”. (Which was a biggie song before that.) The first single off this album featured another Jay sample from “Izzo (H.O.V.A.)” I’m sure that’s got to be it on the upcoming album sampling Jay – just to release two songs that lend credit to Jay-Z, as your first two album singles, in a row, kinda tuff. Maybe I’m the only one who noticed.. Since both the tracks are guilty pleasure bangers or top 40 to people.. Probably no one cares. I just feel like I should announce the silly shit I notice in a public medium when I can..
