Sincere question: are there other Black people who feel like dude was the ambassador for Black cool? If you are not Black, I'm not asking for third hand accounts of what your Black friends think.
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I grew up in Los Angeles in the 90s (with detours to KY) and I don't remember anyone thinking this dude was cool. He was just peripheral if that makes sense. I never tried to intentionally engage with anything he created and I never pictured him as a trend setter.
jul 27, 2025, 10:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Nope
jul 27, 2025, 12:16 am • 0 0 • view
Nah, the 70s brothers were usually the cool dudes
jul 26, 2025, 7:57 pm • 0 1 • view
I’m old enough to remember people making fun of him because them big ass teeth prevented him from closing his mouth. Puffy wasn’t considered cool until he started killing the people who overshadowed him. Oops did I say that? 🫢
jul 27, 2025, 3:56 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't recall anybody Black (myself included) in my social circles or even in media deeming him the ambassador for Black cool. Only thing I remember ppl admiring him for or aspiring to is his success.
jul 26, 2025, 7:55 pm • 7 0 • view
Black cool? Fuck no. Dude was an artist career killer and doesn't have many, if any at all, hits that he produced without using someone else's music track. Never liked Sean Combs and never will.
jul 26, 2025, 8:14 pm • 2 0 • view
I feel like he gave not-so-cool people hope that they didn't have to stay stuck in social circles with other uncool folks but I always felt like they just let him stick around because he would do their math homework for them or whatever the equivalent would be in their world. He's never been cool.
jul 26, 2025, 11:42 pm • 0 0 • view
thought never even occurred to me
jul 27, 2025, 12:33 pm • 0 0 • view
They are talking about white people. 💀
jul 26, 2025, 7:57 pm • 12 0 • view
That nigga been a creep since the 90s. I think at the time most people who found him “cool” wanted to have the same access he did while also being facially challenged.
jul 26, 2025, 8:52 pm • 7 2 • view
🤣🤣🤣🤣
jul 26, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely not.
jul 26, 2025, 7:56 pm • 2 0 • view
I never thought he was *that* cool, as much as he knew what it was and *tried* to be it. He also surrounded himself with naturally cool people of all types. I remember him saying on TRL that he copied what “hip teens” were doing and tried to elevate it, and this was around the Vote or Die era.
jul 26, 2025, 7:46 pm • 1 1 • view
I knew he was a creep from the very first time I saw his face on my television. He does not or ever represent Black Excellence in my world. The industry loved him, not me.
jul 26, 2025, 9:00 pm • 0 0 • view
🤢🤮 Absolutely not
jul 26, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
no.
jul 26, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Nope
jul 26, 2025, 8:36 pm • 1 0 • view
if there are other Black folks who feel this way, i probably don't want to know them
jul 26, 2025, 7:53 pm • 5 1 • view
I remember we would clown him cause he couldn’t close his mouth.
jul 26, 2025, 11:34 pm • 7 1 • view
He had a good machine behind him- especially Clive Davis’s. All the magazine covers, photos about his Hampton’s parties, and this idea of a “New Renaissance,” is what they hoped made Diddy cool. Never heard anyone revere him, want to be like him. “Making the Band” made him cornier.
jul 26, 2025, 9:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Always felt like he was a dweeb with power and money. He never gave off an aura of cool as much as he gave me the impression he was trying to be cool. Very similar to Drake
jul 26, 2025, 7:42 pm • 31 4 • view
I didn't. Felt like he used others to get himself seen.
jul 26, 2025, 8:03 pm • 12 0 • view
I think he was always seen as a weird ass, temperamental “man behind the curtain.” But only “cool” by association. Chappelle nailed it with his Making the Band skit.
jul 26, 2025, 8:32 pm • 13 1 • view
shiny-suit man even tried to lame out The Lox. eff no 🙂↔️
jul 26, 2025, 8:17 pm • 1 0 • view
I felt like he was riding other people's waves in an attempt to look cool.
jul 26, 2025, 8:00 pm • 11 0 • view
O hell no. I thought he was a sadist for what he did to the band members on his reality show. Anyway, my house growing up was old school. Grew up with Quincy Jones, Sidney Poitier and Lou Rawls as the measurement of cool in my mom's house lol. Diddy wasn't even close to that.
jul 26, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
No, in fact there was a time we thought of him as “Mr. Doing to Much.” But we always appreciated his drive and eye for talent. But he never embodied “cool” the way his contemporaries like Jay once did.
jul 26, 2025, 10:11 pm • 4 0 • view
If by "dude" you mean Denzel, then sure
jul 26, 2025, 8:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Not gonna give him that big pedestal but not gon front like he was just some herb either. Money had his spot for better or worse.
jul 26, 2025, 8:45 pm • 6 0 • view
No. Always gave corn ball energy to me.
jul 26, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view