＂Diddy Runs to the Light＂ - Scott Storch BREAKS DOWN Diddy’s STRATEGY To Being Hip-Hops POWER Player
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, the brother and sister duo of the sit down and discuss the life and career of Diddy. They discuss his rise to the top of the rap game, his early days in the music business, and his relationship with producer Jimmy Iovine.
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I remember Diddy telling me, like, when we were talking about, like, what's your secret?
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And he was, like, because, you know, you have all the success.
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And what he meant by that is, like, whoever's hot, he's going up near that shit.
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Like, whoever's fucking blowing up at the time, you're going to see that motherfucker
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I know people, like, would use his ears to see if some shit was legit or see if that was
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the single to help pick the one out of the bunch that's the one.
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You ever seen the video when he's on a call and he gets what he wants and he says, I get
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At the end of Vacation, the movie, like, it's Sid Caesar and he won the fucking...
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You booked that for, like, the weekend of the 14th when the soundtrack comes out?
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I'm not saying any names that just are able to capture your attention by screaming and
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like really not being part of the creative process of the music and just like selling
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What is that one guy's name who Connie had issues with and he ended up...
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He was a tough guy, but like, you know, he would think outside the box and, you know,
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they figured out a formula on how to sell records.
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He used to come over and bring me Joe's Stonecraft of Indian Creek Island.
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What was he doing with TVT, Steve Gottlieb, and it was like a big lawsuit.
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The rule, cash money click, initial defendant was ordered to pay $132 million in compensatory
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punitive damages with $56 million due personally from Cohen.
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Unappealed, that figure was substantially reduced.
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I heard some story about him dancing on his desk after something with that lawsuit, like
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Okay, so he's got a little bit of a ditty in him.
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No, like hip-hop, like mainstream shit before these kind of guys.
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There was also Joe and Phil Niccolo, Rough House Records.
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So, Scott, these days, I mean, you said famously that the coach lasts longer than the players.
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That's actually a Steve LaBelle, We Working original, but I've adopted it.
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Who, you know, there's hot guys these days, you know, obviously Drake's doing this thing.
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Listen, these people have made such an amazing amount of music of such high quality and like
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some of the beats, like you'll notice, like Snoop picks the greatest fucking beats, man.
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He's like, but like, he don't have to do jack shit.
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Like me personally, like if anybody, oh, he's watched da-da-da-da or something.
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I don't have to do another beat for the rest of my life.
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And my like name and my legacy is like, even though I don't like to rest on my laurels and
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I'm still making shit because the passion is still there.
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And my son doing music, like, yeah, I'll still do it.
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But quietly, I'm making some fucking fire shit.
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Like, who do you think is going to last a test of time?
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Who do you actually respect that's new these days?
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There's people that are more artistic than others.
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One of my favorite people is this guy named Russ.
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About going on the road and some of these amazing places that he would get to travel to.
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And he's like, I'm not going to bring something, like, you know, broad with me.
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And he would bring his mom, like, to these great places.
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And he was so, like, excited to, like, give back to her.
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Like, so many people, like, in, like, you know, these, like, whatever.
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Having an opinion that actually he stands behind.
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Who else would you put in that category these days?
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You don't seem too thrilled with the current state of hip-hop.
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Like, that was, like, you know, Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, you know, Ben Zeppelin.
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Just some of these amazing, man, I didn't do nothing good.
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I still feel like I didn't, like, I made some pretty impressive shit, I think.
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But it still is nothing compared to the amount of integrity that went into, like, some of the shit before me.
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Now, every generation says that the generation before that, you know, they don't get it.
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They have gotten, so because it's so easy to become a music producer, anybody can go to Guitar Center now, and it's so cheap.
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Before, we had to have reel-to-reel tape recorders that were, like, $200 a tape to store two songs.
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Now you can store 1,000 songs on a little disc that cost you 40 bucks.
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So the quality just got lower and lower, and the bar was set lower and lower.
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You'll find some guys that are, like, sort of good, like some, you know, the artists, the better ones, like, you know, the Travis Scotts, the Trippie Reds, the, you know, this and that.
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I'm Scott Storch, and you might have seen me on the PBD podcast, and you might have some questions you want to ask me.
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I'm available on the Minette app, and you can ask me about pretty much anything, music, industry stuff, you know, my life and my history, or, you know, anything, technical questions with music, equipment, whatever, production techniques.
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