Sean Combs: Diddy-cized
Mark Anthony Neal, PopMatters, 18 May 2004
Hip-hop has always been — and always be — about fabulousness and myth.
— Scott Poulson-Bryant, "This is Not a Puff Piece"
The hip-hop mogul is not intelligible without credible accounts of the lavish manner in which he leads his life, nor is he intelligible unless his largesse connotes not only his personal agency but also a structural condition that squelches the potential agency of so many others.
— Christopher Holmes Smith, "'I Don't Like to Dream about Getting Paid': Representations of Social Mobility and the Emergence of the Hip-Hop Mogul" (Social Text, Winter 2003)
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