P. Diddy Album: “We Invented the Remix”

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs is the master of the remix true, but he definetly didn't invent it. This album is missing a great deal of the infamous remixes that Diddy has recorded over the years, including a number one hit (Mariah Carey's "Honey" remix), current radio hits ("Lights Camera Action"), classics ("Only You") and others that he recorded with artists like MC Lyte, Gina Thompson, Total, Dream and so forth, that put them on the map. Though some of these are old school songs, It would be great to hear them again, and they wouldn't be out of place on an album with some old school Biggie.

The album's best track is easily "Special Delivery", where G-Dep, Ghostface Killah, Keith Murray & Craig Mack invent themselves a hip hop classic, because they absolutley KILL this track. P. Diddy's "I Need a Girl Part 2" is hot as all hell, and is easily better then the original radio hit. Faith Evans "You Gets No Love" is fantastic and so is "Thats Crazy", Black Rob's answer to "Whoa".

The album may have these smashes, but the rest of the album lacks. The highly over played "I Need A Girl Part 1" is on here (a track I never liked), and the same can be said for the highly out of place "Unfoolish" by Ashanti. The 112 remixes on the album are conjoined, which is terrible because "Dance With Me" is one of the best remixes of all time and its only Sigel's verse and then cuts immediatley into "Peaches and Cream". Cheri Dennis' track "So Complete" doesn't change at all except a verse from Diddy, "No More Drama" is a discrace to the tear jerking original & "Bad Boy For Life" is just plain stupid.

This album is missing the remix of "Lets Get It" with the new Bad Boy rappers, anything by Total, Ma$e, Dream, and Shyne, yet includes remixes by non-Bad Boy artists like Ashanti & Mary J. Blige. I was expecting a little bit more out of this album, but hopefully the second edition will be better. Diddy is one [heck] of a remix master, but this album does little to nothing to reflect that.

OK,I'll give Diddy his props,he did RE-INVENT the remix but this

scatterdash remix compliation isn't the correct display for Diddy's superior remixes.

Some of the hot ones on here are "Special Delivery" and "You Gets No Love" but the [bad] Ashanti remix along with the listless ones that Diddy re-crafted in latter years don't amount to much.As do the dry,sleepy mixes of "I Need A Girl".

Where are all the classic Mary J. mixes?For Pete's sake,where are all the B.I.G. remixes!! Craig Mack? Total's "No one Else" mix? Come on now,Diddy,a guy with an ego as a big as yours should've known better!!!

Man this is just a buncha old diddy songs wit new background music and new artists, sounds the same as all the original songs. Nothing great they just threw this together in probably an hour. I wouldn't suggest it.

Productions-wise, Mr. Combs has been on top of the game for the past decade. Original LPs by Mary J. Blige, Biggie, Jodeci, etc. have shown his talent, but the one thing that was different was that they were all pretty much original beats. Then came the Mase era (ya they had some hot party jams), but on the flip-side, the creativity was lost and after a while they got played as the albums like 'Ready to Die', 'What's the 411' are still being played as we speak. As for this new remix LP, Puff's lyrics kill the album. Listen to his lyrics on 'I need a girl 1', I mean come on now. The problem is that he's trying to do too much (produce and rap), like JD and it really hampers the entire package rather than if he'd just stick to producing. Best songs on the album, Ashanti remix is hot, only because they mixed in Biggie, Mary J. Blige, and the surprise of the album, Peaches'n'Cream even though I don't like 112. The beat is ill. For you real hip hop fans, look out for Sound Bombing III from Rawkus Records (Mos Def, Talib, Q-Tip, Pharoah), June 4.

I USE TO LIKE P DIDDY BUT I DONT LIKE THE WAY HES CHANGED. BUT IF U LIKE HIM THEN U WOULD LIKE THIS CD.