Oprah: What did your mother tell you about your father? But the neighborhood was multicultural, so that broadened my horizons. In Harlem there was no Little League, no front yard with grass. I remember the simple things about Mount Vernon: grass, trees, and being able to play baseball. But my grandmother lived in Harlem, so I went back and forth. That was Mom's way of getting us out of the inner city after my father was killed. Oprah: What is your favorite childhood memory? Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did. At an early age, I started my own paper route. Sean: My mother worked three jobs and my grandmother worked two. Oprah: Where does your strong work ethic come from? It was incredible and definitely a blessing. As I looked out over the crowd, I was bugging out. I said to myself, "One day I'm going to be on that stage." The first night I played at the Garden, I could hear people chanting my name. That's how powerful hip-hop was -it made everyone want to wear Adidas. Onstage, Run said, "This is my house, and I want everybody in my house to take off their Adidas and put 'em in the air!" Everybody did. I once went to a Run-DMC concert at Madison Square Garden. Oprah: The first time a crowd roared for you, did you remember Yankee Stadium? I wanted to know: "What would make somebody roar like that?" I was always looking at the hustle and bustle of people working. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium-I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd. I want to be an inspiration, to show people what can be done. Sean: I can't say that I've fully achieved my dream yet. Oprah: How does this reality-as we sit here in your East Hampton house-compare with your dream? That's when I think, "I didn't know it would be like this." Or when I perform at Madison Square Garden. Or when I got a standing ovation on Broadway for my role in A Raisin in the Sun. Like when I drive through Times Square and see my billboard. Sean: I always felt that I would be somebody, but it still surprises me. Oprah: When you were a boy, did you dream that the life you're living now was possible? This interview appeared in the November 2006 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine.
Start reading Oprah's interview with Sean Combs Diddy-and now Diddy-is simply Sean with me. For the next hour, the man who's gone by Puffy, Puff Daddy, P. I would ask him what he experienced at Mecca that so completely changed his life."Ī moment later, the catchy refrain of Yung Joc's "I Know You See It" is piped in, and we're both snapping our fingers.
"Billie Holiday, Coretta Scott King," he finally says. He leans forward in his rocking chair before venturing an answer. "If you could invite any person-dead or alive-to a dinner party, who would it be?" I ask. It's also the place where he hosts some of his famously spectacular bashes.
Blige), fashion mogul (his Sean John label's flagship store is on Fifth Avenue), restaurateur (he owns Justin's, a soul food–Caribbean eatery in Manhattan and Atlanta), and rapper-writer (his debut album, No Way Out, won a Grammy in 1998). It's a place of peace and quiet for the 37-year-old record producer (of such huge talents as Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, and Mary J.
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Sean's Hamptons retreat is resplendent in white: bleached wood floors, cream-colored chaises, ivory orchids in full bloom. On the back porch of his East Hampton house, Sean Combs beams as he tells me his news: Just weeks after his first album in five years, Press Play, hits stores, he'll become the proud father of twin girls, with his longtime girlfriend, Kim Porter. The multitalented, bling-studded mogul opens up about his life: his murdered father, the women he's loved-from his fierce mother to J.Lo to the one who's The One-and argues rap lyrics and the N word with Oprah.