Everything is all love for Puff Daddy right now, with this weekend's Bad Boy Family Reunion festivities in Brooklyn essentially starting up a five month retirement party for the 46-year-old mogul, who recently announced the tour would be a last hurrah for his twenty-six years in the music biz. And he had nothing but love to share from the outset, taking to radio as a guest on The Breakfast Club Friday morning (May 22), and putting a positive spin on recent rumors coming out of the Bad Boy camp. Puff addressed continued talk about the turbulent relationship between B.I.G protege Lil Kim and widow Faith Evans, and responded to Fat Joe's outing of the late Anthony Mason per Biggie's famous reference to having held a gun to one of the 1990's New York Knicks.
Earlier in the week a video clip that Puff let out via Snapchat drew up emotions from many who've followed the legendary clique over the years, showing Evans and Kim dancing and rapping gleefully with one another during a rehearsal. There had been a sour history between the two, backed by slander tossed back and forth in the press, that was long speculated to have roots in their shared love for the Notorious one; innuendo that was dramatized in his 2009 biopic. When asked about the moving footage Puff acknowledged the past, but not without helping their progress along by inferring that it might have been blown out of proportion, saying, "I think there was just such a huge misconception because everything was under a magnifying glass, that everybody had so much beef with each other. We've had our little problems and glitches here and there, who hasn't when you've been together for twenty-something years?"
"We've been just having fun and dancing and smiling, hugging and kissing, and I feel it's going to last because it's coming from a genuine place," he said before later dismissing a rumored altercation between Bad Boy family members D-Rock and James Cruz in lead up to Friday's big show. "Not at all. It's a love fest. You know, you're going to have, you know, all of your regular territorial type of things in the future, but as far as to me where my life is right now, I don't rock with anything that's not on the super positive. Every day I work on removing any of that out of the equation. So, no, we've been having nothing but a love fest," said Puff of any kind of in-house conflict.
Before completing his promo for a weekend [that wound up including performances from the likes of Kim, Faith, Mary J. Blige, Ma$e, 112, Total, the Lox, Carl Thomas, Black Rob, Mario Winans, Lil Cease, Ty Dolla $ign, Rick Ross, Jay-Z, Nas, Usher, French Montana, Desiigner, DMX, Swizz Beatz, and Shyne via satellite; and ended each show with the classic "I'll Be Missing You" homage to BIG], Diddy was asked to name his all-time favorite Biggie song. After a brief struggle to settle on any given one, he compromised that for the sake of the mood he was in he'd request "Story to Tell". The curious choice provided a segway for Charlamagne to inquire about whether there was any validity to Fat Joe's confirmation.
"It's out?" he laughed. "All I know about is the love yall. I told yall, all I know about is the love baby, that's all I know ... That story is true. I can confirm that. I can confirm that with love."
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