The latest project by Sean Combs with Arista who supported Bad Boy in the distribution since the beginning, is called "We Invented the Remix": it's a remix album, the latest to carry the moniker P. Diddy.
The joke behind the title comes from, you know: Puffy loved doing remixes when he was an executive at Uptown, he seemed to be born to do remixes, whatever [rnb] came off the label, he remixed it and the songs hit the charts. The production is made by The Hitmen (P. Diddy, Mario Winans, D-Dot, Joe Hooker), EZ Elpee, Buckwild, Megahertz, 7 Aurelius, Ayinde, Daron Jones and Irv Gotti. The performers are Faith Evans, Missy Elliott, Lil Kim, P. Diddy, The Notorious BIG, Craig Make, Ghostface Killah, Keith Murray, G.Dep, Loon, Ginuwine, Mario Winans, Busta Rhymes, MOP, Snoop Dogg, Usher, Carl Thomas, Ashanti, 112, Beanie Sigel, Ludacris, Mary J. Blige, Cheri Dennis, and Black Rob. It's not a good remix album, because very trivially, the music is poor, simplistic, cheap, despite the quality of some rappers and singers. The ideas are there (f.e., the Eurythmics sample in the last song), but their execution is dull, hasty and coarse. The end result is a product that is never needed: after five years, P. Diddy returns first on the Billboard 200 (second in the rap chart), certified platinum in just over a month. 3/10.
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