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Diddy was just joking about changing his name to Love (but you can still call him Love)

By | Published on Tuesday 7 November 2017

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Hey, you probably read somewhere in the last few days that Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy, aka P Diddy, aka Diddy, aka Puffy, aka Slappy The Wonderhorse, had changed his name again. Not here. We didn’t think it was very interesting. But somewhere. However, it turns out that he hasn’t changed his name after all. And somehow, that seems more newsworthy.

In a tweet over the weekend, Combs said that he was changing his name to “Love, aka Brother Love”. In a video attached to the tweet, he added: “I have some very serious, serious news. I know it’s risky because it could come off as corny to some people, [but] I decided to change my name again”.

He went on: “I’m just not who I [was] before. I’m something different. So my new name is Love, aka Brother Love. I will not be answering to Puffy, Diddy, Puff Daddy, or any of my other monikers but Love or Brother Love”.

News of this spread throughout the world. “Diddy is called Love now”, they shouted across crowded train stations and whispered in the backs of libraries. “He’s just called Love now. Or Brother Love” everyone murmured to themselves. And in the corridors of power, a stone mason had been ordered to update the official wall of rapper names.

But they were wrong. They were all wrong. He’s not changing his name to Love. Well, you can call him that if you want. If you insist. But he’ll still answer to Diddy. Or Puffy. Or Slappy. He was joking when he said you couldn’t call him Slappy anymore.

“Well, ladies and gentlemen, today I’ve come to the conclusion that you cannot play around with the internet”, he said in an Instagram post over night. “Due to an overwhelming response from the media out there and just due to there not wanting to be any confusion, I was only joking. I didn’t change my name”.

Continuing, he explained: “It’s just part of one of my alter-egos, and one of my alter-egos is Love. But to set the record straight, because I have a lot of press to do in the next couple weeks, you can address me by any of my older names. And if you want to still call me Love, you can call me Love baby, but I was only playing”.

So that’s all clear now. It was silly that everyone believed that a man known for changing his name on a whim and insisting that everyone use the new name had changed his name on a whim and was insisting that everyone use the new name. Clearly he was joking.

So, to conclude, he’s not changing his name to Love. But you can still call him Love, if you want. It would kinda be funny if we all insisted on doing that now.



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