Diddy on How Losing Ex Kim Porter Inspired New Track on ‘The Love Album_ Off the

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00:00 I don't think I've seen you since the Met Gala

00:02 when you told me, I said,

00:03 "Why are you sneaking out of here so early?"

00:04 And you said, "Well, Anna Wintour,

00:06 she sat me behind a pole."

00:07 - Yeah.

00:08 - How dare, Anna?

00:10 You say that you were in your love era.

00:12 (upbeat music)

00:14 This is the first time we're hearing music from you

00:16 in what, 13 years?

00:19 - Yes.

00:19 - Why was now the right time?

00:21 "Last Train to Paris" was your last album.

00:23 Now we've got the "Love" album off the grid.

00:25 Why was now the right time?

00:26 - I mean, I just think that, you know,

00:28 we all go through life's journeys

00:29 and I kind of put my creativity and my music on hold.

00:32 You know, I had a moment in my life where I was like,

00:35 you know, what do you want to do that makes you happy?

00:37 And number one thing I love to do is make music.

00:39 And so, it's been 13 years

00:42 and it's been like really like cooking and marinating.

00:47 It doesn't sound like 13 years though.

00:49 It sounds fresh and new.

00:51 So it just sounds like a new era.

00:53 Why am I doing this?

00:55 You know what I'm saying?

00:56 Especially with the success that I've had.

00:59 How stressful and treacherous this music industry is.

01:02 My heart has been broken.

01:06 I still got that question of like,

01:08 am I going to love again?

01:10 - And I want to talk about the trailer for the album.

01:12 In the trailer, you ask, why am I doing this?

01:14 Then you go on to say that your heart has been broken

01:17 and you're wondering if you'll ever love again.

01:20 So how did this help you heal that broken heart of yours?

01:24 - Ah man, I always said that I can't make a hit record

01:28 unless my heart is broken.

01:29 It's just like a feeling.

01:31 It's just like a vulnerable state that you're in.

01:33 And so, you know, when I lost Kim,

01:35 like it broke my heart forever.

01:37 So then I was just like, you know,

01:40 I just wanted to turn it into something positive.

01:43 You know what I'm saying?

01:44 You got to watch what you ask for.

01:45 - How does she still inspire your music?

01:47 You have a track on this album titled Kim Porter.

01:50 Babyface, John Legend, lend themselves

01:53 and their talents for this track.

01:54 So how is she continuing to inspire your music

01:57 and her memory?

01:58 - I mean, I had always made music for her, you know,

02:02 and always embraced her love to like kind of,

02:06 you know, make my music.

02:07 And so when I put a song on here and I was thinking

02:10 about her, it was really thinking about before

02:12 there was the internet and how long like I would wait

02:15 when she would break up with me,

02:17 how long like I would have to wait like seven days.

02:19 Like she would just go completely off the grid.

02:21 There was no way like to track your girlfriend or nothing.

02:24 You know what I'm saying?

02:24 And I'm just sitting by the phone and calling her mother.

02:27 - Kim, come on.

02:28 - Her mother's like,

02:29 "I don't know what you're talking about, Sean.

02:30 "I don't know where she's at."

02:31 And she's probably right there.

02:33 And so I got with Babyface and John Legend.

02:35 I said, I told him the story.

02:36 And so Babyface wrote, you know,

02:39 "Six days, seven nights waiting for your sound."

02:43 And that's the way I love.

02:45 - So what's the answer to that question?

02:48 Will you ever find love again?

02:49 Do you think you'll be able to find love again?

02:51 Are you in love again?

02:53 - Um, I ask myself that question every day,

02:56 but I still believe that I will.

02:58 I'm not like looking at it in a negative way.

03:00 I just don't know.

03:01 I don't know what the future holds, you know?

03:03 And so I could,

03:05 I gotta be happy for the love that I felt.

03:07 I can't chase the love that I had, you know?

03:09 And so it's just like a real question,

03:12 you know what I'm saying?

03:12 Am I gonna find that level of love again?

03:16 And, you know,

03:18 and that's what the future holds, you know?

03:21 - Well, so give it to me straight though, Diddy.

03:23 What kind of love is Diddy looking for these days?

03:26 - I really don't know.

03:27 - You don't know even after going through this?

03:29 - Yeah, after going, no,

03:30 after going through that, it's a new type of love.

03:32 I can't bring my past love life

03:35 into somebody that I would meet new,

03:38 you know what I'm saying?

03:38 So, I mean, whatever the love is,

03:41 it's gonna be a new experience, you know?

03:43 - Well, tell me this, Diddy.

03:44 Are you single?

03:45 - Yes, I'm single.

03:46 ♪ Na na na na na na ♪

03:48 - Wherever you at, stay there, go higher.

03:50 Vulnerability, emotion, melody, let's go.

03:53 ♪ I can see it in your eyes, in your eyes ♪

03:55 - Touch they souls, move they soul.

03:58 - You've got so many collaborations on this album.

04:01 Justin Bieber to Mary J. Blige, Busta Rhymes, The Weeknd.

04:06 How did you determine who to reach out to for this album

04:10 and who was the first person you asked?

04:12 - The first person I asked was The Weeknd.

04:14 ♪ Another one of me won't come around no more, girl ♪

04:18 And we did that song eight years ago.

04:21 And everybody that's on the album

04:22 was just like a dream come true for me.

04:24 If I had to pick an actor or an actress

04:27 to be able to like, kind of play me.

04:29 So everybody's singing the way that I would sing a song,

04:32 saying the words that I would say in this, you know,

04:36 in this R&B movie.

04:38 And so everybody that I wanted to work with,

04:40 you know, everybody said yes.

04:42 - When Diddy calls, everybody says yes.

04:44 - I literally popped out for you.

04:46 - Everybody that I worked with,

04:48 I worked with because I loved their voice.

04:49 I didn't love it, I didn't work with them

04:51 because how many followers they had,

04:53 or you know what I'm saying?

04:54 Or if it would be a streaming thing.

04:57 It was more just like, I just loved their voice.

04:59 - That song with Jazmine Sullivan.

05:00 - Yes. - Oh my gosh.

05:01 - Crazy, right Jaz? - Love it, love it, love it.

05:03 - Imagine this.

05:05 Imagine a studio filled to top,

05:09 producers and writers in the game.

05:12 Hall of Famers, future Hall of Famers,

05:17 all together under one roof.

05:19 Collaborating, unifying,

05:23 making the music for the black revolution.

05:28 - This is a new vibe that fans are gonna get from you.

05:30 What are you excited for them to discover about you

05:33 in this new chapter of your music?

05:35 - Number one is just, I don't know,

05:37 a lot of people know my history about producing R&B,

05:40 so it's really being able to really kinda connect

05:42 with R&B and that genre of music.

05:44 But also, as far as just like, this is my love story.

05:48 So, you know, I love just the way you love,

05:51 and so it's like we have that relatability.

05:53 And then also, just the fans taking the time

05:56 to really go off the grid.

05:57 Off the grid is about no phones, no wifi,

06:00 just me and you, and we just locked in

06:03 in 48 hours of love.

06:04 - Off the grid.

06:05 Now tell me about that off the grid,

06:06 'cause you went to a private island,

06:09 you isolated yourself, no phones, no work.

06:12 You said you needed to go off the grid for this.

06:14 So, exactly what did you find out about yourself

06:17 in that time of isolation on a private island?

06:20 - Oh no, off the grid is something I do like,

06:22 at least once a month.

06:25 - Seriously?

06:26 - Seriously.

06:27 (hip hop music)

06:28 - Off the grid.

06:29 - No phones allowed.

06:30 I had to go off the grid, me and my significant other,

06:34 just some music, the love album,

06:39 and just some one-on-one time.

06:41 - How did that inspire this album, going off the grid?

06:45 - I mean, just that time was the overall inspiration,

06:47 just taking that time out to really connect.

06:49 But also going off the grid and realizing

06:51 that I didn't really have no good baby-making R&B music.

06:55 - Woo!

06:56 - I didn't really have no--

06:57 - Okay, I see you smiling,

06:58 you got people smiling in the room.

07:00 - Yeah, we had to bring back that baby-making R&B music,

07:03 that R&B music that makes you dance.

07:05 So I had to actually make a soundtrack for my experience,

07:08 and also the experience that a lot of people are into,

07:11 and a lot of people do, you know what I'm saying?

07:14 That time has to be sacred, I feel,

07:16 when you're with your significant other.

07:18 You have to make time for that.

07:19 So it's like a next-level date night.

07:23 That's what off the grid is, a next level,

07:25 that's like, you know, we're going away for 48 hours,

07:27 just me and you, baby.

07:28 - Uh-oh, we don't have a baby boom after this album comes out.

07:32 - Yeah, we gonna definitely have a baby boom.

07:34 And we just gonna have,

07:35 we gonna get back in our pocket of just

07:37 the way it feels to dance with your man or your woman.

07:40 - I love it.

07:41 - You know, and we don't have that out here right now,

07:42 but we do now.

07:43 You know, the frequency been a little low, baby girl.

07:47 Yeah, it's been low.

07:48 Daddy gotta raise it up.

07:49 Yeah, the bop is back, baby.

07:51 You ready for the love era?

07:53 It's called a love album.

07:54 I need the whole album after you.

07:55 - I've gotta mention your daughter, Love.

07:57 She is as lovely as can be.

07:59 How is she inspiring your music?

08:01 - Oh man, like Love has,

08:03 man, if you could like give me,

08:07 if I could tell you where the fountain of youth was,

08:11 for me, it's been baby Love.

08:15 Because just watching her and being present, you know,

08:20 and watching her just like look around and discover things.

08:23 It has me like rediscovered things.

08:25 Like, yeah, I've been on my phone.

08:26 I forgot that that was a,

08:28 oh, that's a tree.

08:28 You looking at a tree?

08:30 Oh, look at that bird.

08:32 You know what I'm saying?

08:32 It's just the simple things that has really just,

08:35 you know, given me like a reset

08:37 and just a true blessing from God.

08:39 (upbeat music)

08:42 (upbeat music)

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