Rapper Ma$e Signing With Rick Ross?

DJ Funkmaster Flex debuted a remix of Wale's "Slight Work" on his WQHT (Hot 97) New York radio show. The remix, of Wale's fourth charting single from sophomore album "Ambition," features Maybach rapper Meek Mill, Sean " Diddy" Combs," French Montana and Ma$e, marking the first appearance of the Harlem rapper born Mason Betha on record since 2009. Speaking to Flex during an on-air call following the remix's debut, Ma$e didn't address rumors about him possibly signing with Warner Bros. imprint Maybach.

According to French Montana, Ma$e is serving as an A&R representative on Montana's forthcoming Bad Boy debut, "Excuse My French," as well as appearing on the remix of Montana's "Everything's a Go." "I'm not sure what kind of decisions he's going to make," Montana says, "[but] I would love to see him in my camp."

TOP 5 RICHEST HIP HOP ARTISTS

#5 50 Cent

$110 million

#4 Brian “Baby” “Birdman” “Stunna” Williams

$125 million

#3 Dr.Dre

$270 million

#2 Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter

$460 million

#1 Diddy

$550 million

Rapper Shyne & Diddy Attend Fashion Show

Shyne (aka Moshe Levi Ben-David) and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs pose for a photo at the Kenzo Ready-To-Wear Fall/Winter 2012 show as part of Paris Fashion Week.

They also attended the Givenchy Ready-To-Wear Fall/Winter 2012 show with rapper/designer Kanye West

As you all may know, Shyne served 9 years in prison for his involvement in the 1999 New York club shooting that injured 3 people. He was rumored to be the fall guy for Diddy because the mogul was acquitted of all charges and the shooting played a major role in the ending of Diddy’s relationship with then pop star Jennifer Lopez.


In early 2006 he changed his name from Jamal Michael Barrow to Moshe Levi Ben-David to reflect his grandmother’s Jewish heritage. He is now a practicing Orthodox Jew hence his new appearance and living in Jerusalem after being extradited out of the U.S. to his home country of Belize in 2009. He is also reportedly working on new music and a comeback.

Sean "Diddy" Combs Wins Oscar Award

Sean "Diddy" Combs hit the Academy Awards and came out winning an Oscar in the Best Documentary category for the film Undefeated. The documentary is about a high-school football team in Memphis and the Hip-Hop mogul was one of its executive producers.

"God is the greatest!!!! Thank you! #undefeated !!!!," he tweeted after the win. "I am buggin."

Congrats

Diddy Hospitalized

Diddy was hospitalized this morning for an extreme migraine.

The mogul hosted a post-Grammy party at the Playboy Mansion Sunday night. After the party, Diddy went home and got a massive headache.

Diddy's entourage drove him to the UCLA  emergency room.

Diddy was treated and is back at home feeling a lot better.

Get well

Diddy Adds Baltimore MC Los To Bad Boy Roster

Diddy is pretty excited about his new Bad Boy Records roster, but the music mogul isn't done adding new talent to the storied label.

"It's time for a whole new generation; it's time for a whole new movement. So we got Machine Gun Kelly, French Montana, Red Café, & Cassie,"
We're trying to put that young, youthful energy out in the air and do it the only way that Bad Boy can do it."

The Baltimore MC then signed to Bad Boy, through local label Bloc Incorporated around 2005 after he auditioned for Puff with a 10-minute freestyle. Bloc Incorporated would eventual disband and Los wound up losing his deal with Bad Boy in 2008 before he was able to drop any material.

Since 2008 Los has dropped a number of mixtapes. His latest, "The Crown Ain't Safe", was released in December and featured contributions from DMX and Twista.

Whether or not Los will get that #1 spot remains to be seen, but one thing is for sure: He is on the right team. "It's definitely reinvention time; it's rebuilding time," Diddy told Sway of his new Bad Boy team. "When you've been doing it for as long as we've been doing it, we the last ones standing from when we were doing it. And that's not taking shots at nobody, that's just a fact."

Diddy's Grammy After Party $50,000 Per Ticket

Do you want to party with Diddy at the Playboy Mansion, his Grammy after party costs $50,000 to get in.

The cheapest ticket is a slightly more affordable $1,500 and they go up from there depending on what services you may require at the black tie affair.

$50,000 gets you 2 cabanas, VIP admission for 20 people, buffet dinner, open bar, free bottle service and 15 dedicated female promotional models.

The party's proceeds will go to benefit the Angelwish Foundation for children afflicted by HIV/AIDS.

French Montana On Why He Rejected Kanye West

French Montana is proud to call himself a Bad Boy, but he was this close to signing with another powerhouse label. 

He revealed that he almost inked with Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music roster. “I met up with him one time and then I met up with him again,” French said of Kanye. “There were things that I was used to ’cause I was already moving. I’m like a money train.”

One thing that French certainly wasn't "used to" was the fact that Yeezy is infamously hard to get in touch with. “Kanye doesn’t have a phone. If you need to get in contact with Kanye, you have to email him,” Montana explained. “You can’t tell me how to do that. I don’t know how to use an email, so I guess me and you is never gonna talk, and I’ma put my career in your hands?”

No word yet if French has since taken some computer classes, but he did say that he doesn't hold any grudges toward Mr. West. “He’s definitely talented, and I felt like if I went there, we would have definitely made history.”

Instead of joining John Legend, Big Sean, Pusha T and others on Kanye's team, French signed with Diddy's Bad Boy, and he's tapped Rick Ross as a mentor as well. "When I met up with Puff, everything he promised me came through," French said. "And Rozay was definitely there for me too.”

French Montana is currently busy readying his major label debut, which will be executive produced by Diddy and Rawse, but you can check him out now on his hit single "Shot Caller" and Rick Ross and Drake's "Stay Schemin'." 

Diddy To Launch His Own Music TV Network

Diddy is planning to launch a music-themed cable network called Revolt and is aiming to launch the network before the end of the year on December 12, 2012, reports Broadcast & Cable.

The channel is being described as a music and music news outlet with an urban demographic. A source said Time Warner Cable (TWC) will also be involved in Revolt distribution, which the source noted would mean around 18 million households, between Comcast and TWC.

Congrats!!

Shyne And Diddy Reconcile Over The Phone

Shyne did a nine year prison bid after being convicted of assault and gun possession in the now infamous Club New York shooting in 1999.

Now, Shyne has buried the hatchet with Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was also charged in the incident but was acquitted. In a Skype call from Paris with MTV News Shyne revealed that he and Diddy recently talked over the phone and plan to meet in the coming weeks.

"As far as Puff is concerned, that's been a long time coming," Shyne exclusively told MTV News of the conversation he and the Bad Boy CEO had earlier this month. "He had reached out to me twice while I was in the pen, but I just wasn't ready for it."

Shyne legally changed his name to Moses Levi while he was in prison and has practiced Judaism for a number of years. He often criticized Diddy calling him a snitch.

"I felt how I felt, I said what I said. In retrospect, when you looked at the way he handled it, he held it down, he wore it," Shyne said of Diddy. "

Shyne wouldn't elaborate on the details of his and Combs' conversation, but he did walk away from the call in a much more positive place. He did reveal that the two plan to have a second conversation, this time in person.

What do you think about them meeting?

News: Diddy's Son Justin To Play For UCLA

Justin Dior Combs announced that he has chosen to attend the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), where he will be awarded a full scholarship to play football at the Division I school. He is 5-foot-9, 175-pound cornerback from Iona Prep, chose to play for the Bruins.

Combs, carries a 3.75 GPA and is the Head of the African American Society at his school, he will enroll in UCLA this fall and will major in Business Finance. Combs said he felt the combination of academic excellence and winning tradition at UCLA made his decision clear.

JUSTIN COMBS STATEMENT: “Today I am truly blessed and thankful to accept my scholarship and give my full commitment to UCLA. Playing division I football was a life long dream of mine, and through hard work I was able to achieve it. I am a living testament that with a strong relationship with God, family, and hard work dreams do come true.”

DIDDY'S STATEMENT: “As a parent, today is one of the proudest moments of my life. This is everything a father could want for his son, for him to excel at what he loves to do and is truly passionate about. Justin is a shining example of what hard work, determination and a strong mentality can achieve. I am honored to call him my son and am happy that he is fulfilling his dream.”

News: Diddy's Sex Tape & Credit Card Stolen

Diddy is on a mission to find the person who stole the numbers to his personal American Express Black Card and posted them on a web site this week TMZ reported.

Someone who clearly has a beef with Diddy, posted copies of the rap mogul's super exclusive credit card on a website, along with his passport and private phone numbers.

As well as sex tapes of Diddy and Cassie, and nude pics of other celebrities are soon to follow.

The website where the info is posted seems to make a vague reference to the ridiculous rumors that Diddy is a member of the illuminati a secret society rumored to run the world.

Sources close to Diddy tell us he is aware of the situation and has launched an internal investigation to find the person responsible.

A rep for Diddy had no comment, this illuminati stuff is getting out of hand

News: Diddy Saves "Boys And Girls Club"

 "Diddy" saved the Boys and Girls Club of Harlem in New York City. They will remain open during financial hardships. When Combs learned that his hometown's organization was on the verge of shutting down due to a lack of federal, state, and private funding, he came to the rescue.

"Mr. Combs' contribution comes at a time when we were faced with the possibility of eliminating existing programs and/or club sites," says Willie C. Bentley, Jr., board member and resource development chair of The Boys and Girls Club of Harlem.

"One hundred percent of Mr. Combs' contribution will go directly to the young people, and provide educational, recreational and social enrichment programs programs allowing us to move forward as a club, uninterrupted."

Why do positive stories never get the love.

News: Diddy's Apology

Diddy claims he "backslid and regressed" when he shouted racial and homophobic slurs at a clubgoer in Atlanta this weekend and now the rap mogul is begging for forgiveness.

Diddy went to his Twitter page a few hours ago and issued an apology to his fans for the way he acted inside Compound nightclub Saturday night when he threw ice at a clubgoer, threatened to fight the guy and then called him a "nigga" and a "faggot."

Diddy explained, "I'm sorry for the ignorant way I repesented myself I have backslid and regressed. Forgive me for my ignorance. Pray for me pls. I know better and I am better."

He added, "I have a responibility that I promise I will live up to. And I'm more dissapointed in myself than you know. I will humble myself and learn."

TMZ spoke to the man on the receiving end of the slurs, Ricky Parker, who tells us he felt "humiliated and disrespected" by Diddy and claims he will no longer support the hip hop icon.

Parker tells us he couldn't believe that Diddy would attack him so ferociously, simply because he was drinking Grey Goose vodka that night and NOT Ciroc vodka, which Diddy serves as a spokesperson for.

Parker tells us, "You won't ever hear me support him from this moment forward."

What do you think?

News: Diddy & Suge Knight Named In Tupac & Biggie Murder Plots

Fingers keep pointing in the same direction in the cases of the unsolved murders of rap stars Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. However, former Los Angeles Police Department detective Greg Kading claims to know exactly who the people behind the murders are but even more surprisingly, he claims that the LAPD has all of the evidence under lock and key.

Kading, an LAPD detective who was on the Tupac and Biggie investigation teams, says that he made copies of all audio recordings acquired during the investigation including alleged confessions from the key witnesses. According to LA Weekly, Kading will reveal in his upcoming book Murder Rap, that Keffe D, confessed in 2008 that he witnessed his nephew, the now-deceased Orlando Anderson, kill Shakur on orders from Sean "Diddy" Combs. Keffe went on record in order to receive clemency in pending cases against him, which was granted on the condition that none of his statements turned out to be false- including the one about Shakur's murder.

Kading also uses the alias "Theresa Swann" in his book, as a moniker for a close business associate and former longtime lover of Suge Knight's who admits that the Death Row leader commissioned the death of Biggie as a revenge killing.

Diddy, who sued the LA Times after they were forced to recant a 2008 story implicating him in the murder of Tupac Shakur, predictably dismissed Kading's claims. "This story is pure fiction and completely ridiculous," he told LA Weekly in an e-mail. Knight has yet to respond.

Murder Rap is due in stores on October 4

News: Diddy Releasing Book About Booty

Sean "Diddy" Combs is so into asses that he's decided to release a book entirely devoted to booty. The rapper has teamed up with Interscope Records chairman Jimmy Iovine and fashion photographer Raphael Mazzucco for the 240-page "CULO by Mazzucco." The book will be a photo collection of women's butts from around the world.

"Raphael is a true artist," Diddy says. "He relies on instinct capturing a raw, natural sense of beauty through his lens in 'CULO by Mazzucco' that celebrates the female form. His work is passionate and powerful."
 "We at Interscope put projects out with anyone we believe has a great idea and is a true talent, whether it's a musician, photographer, software developer, or technology innovator," Jimmy Iovine says. "Raphael fits perfectly into what we do. Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to them swiftly. The impetus for this book is a little of both."
"CULO by Mazzucco" will be available November 22th

News: Jennifer Lopez & Diddy Back Together Again

After announcing her split from husband Marc Anthony, Lopez has fallen back into the arms of music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs. A source close to Diddy tells BET.com that Jennifer is "the love of his life" and he's so excited to be back with his "fantasy girl." Not everyone in Diddy's circle is happy about the reunion, though. Our source is worried that he will end up hurt, especially since she wasn't there for Diddy when he "needed Jennifer the most."

They had an intense love affair in the '90s that ended shortly after the 1999 shooting at Club New York that left Diddy on trial for weapons charges (he was found not guilty). Lopez discussed her romance with Diddy on VHI's Behind the Music. "It was very fast," she said, "but we did have a connection. We did fall in love and we were very close.”

Now that Jennifer and Diddy are spending time together again, our source wouldn't be surprised if they show up on a red carpet together very soon.

NYC Celebrity Sighting - Sean Combs

On my way home from work tonight I saw Sean "Puff Daddy P Diddy Doo Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Doo" Combs with his son. I was standing on the corner across from my apartment on 9th Avenue when I heard a loud but weirdly familiar voice. I looked over, and there was Diddy and his son Christian (age 11 - with his dad above) - talking and eating vanilla ice cream cones in a convertible (with the top down). Diddy was driving, his son was in the passenger seat, and two huge Escalades (his security team) were following him closely. I was so close I could have walked over and shook PuffDiddyDoodieDoo's hand, but I'm sure the Escalade guys would have stopped me pretty quickly.

I've seen Diddy before (at a few events YEARS ago), and I must say - he has aged well. Combs is by no means gorgeous, but he is more handsome than I remember. Besides, I am a total sucker for a man hanging out with his kids - there is just something just so adorable about that for me. And Diddy looked like he was having a great time talking to his son, eating ice cream, and driving through Hell's Kitchen.

I tried to get my cellphone out to take a picture, but I was carrying bags from the Veggie Market and JCPenneys, so I couldn't get my act together before the light turned green and Diddy drove down the avenue...