Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs on How Loss and ‘Matters of the Heart’ Inspired His Star-Studded ‘Super Bowl of R&B,’ ‘The Love Album’

It’s been 17 years since Sean “Puff Daddy/ Diddy/ Love” Combs made a solo album, and he’s more than made up for lost time with “The Love Album: Off the Grid.” In the conversation below, he describes the album as a “Super Bowl of R&B,” and the

It’s just a place that I feel is necessary for us to all go to really be able to connect to the present, to lock in. I think it’s important to take that — that no phone time, and to be able to just really connect with your significant other. When music is made with intention — to make you dance, to make love — the way it should be enjoyed is when you have that time. We wanted to give some real R&B for when you’re off the grid and turn your phone off.

It’s just evolution, evolving how you communicate, how you lead. It’s an important pivot for me, or any person, to be able to get to that. I would say it’s a higher level of life.I mean, to be honest, when you when you lose everything… that’s all I had left. Really, I had [done] everything else, I had exhausted everything else, every other personality every other name. I guess God wanted my goal to end up as love, so that’s why I changed my name to Love. It wasn’t a gimmick or anything.

It’s really just my sound, you know? I think where producers and artists go wrong is when you try to cater your sound to what’s going on — it’s not modernizing your sound, it’s really compromising it, instead of going deeper into yourself. So what you’re hearing and feeling is reminiscent of my classic stuff, because that’s where I’ve arrived back to.

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