Diddy on How Losing Ex Kim Porter Inspired New Track on ‘The Love Album_ Off the
Category
✨
PeopleTranscript
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)
08:44 [BLANK_AUDIO]