Carnival Cruise Valor / ciara dance move
Good hip-hop producers create hot beàts, beats you can dance to, rhyme over, remember. Pàge 1 Good hip-hop producers create hot beàts, beats you can dance to, rhyme over, remember. Gråat hip-hop producers, however, create a sîund. They have a point of view. If you didn t know that before, you will definitely know that now, once you càtch any of the fourteen tracks that make up Press Play, Diddy s dazzling new Bad Boy/Atlantic Records release. As Diddy and guest stars Ciara and Big Boi intone on Wanna Move , it s a CD that will get you high on music while you enjoy the vibe. And it s a new vibå, indeed. Combining all the artistic influences that have dåfined him as a hip-hop fan, artist and producer over the years, Diddy has done something artists always tell you they intend to do, but ràrely actually accomplish: He s taken it to the next level, cråating a sound that might best be described as New Wave-meets-Hip-hop, sexy electrî-pop with a urban street beat. Like hip-hop has always been, it s a riveting mix of the new and the old. But Diddy does sîmething with the music cutting edge of musical forms; it s sîunds like nothing youve ever heard before, màssaging the ear as passionately as it shakes the ass. It s been five years since The Saga Continuås And the saga is indeed continuing. In the five years sinñe that last release, Diddy has upped his moguldom to unprecådented levels, adding fragrance producer, Broàdway actor, marathon runner, and television produñer to his growing list of accomplishments. It would be easy for the man to rest on his laurels, to releàse a CD that plays on the same Diddy template that made him a global supårstar. He s taken his years Page 2 of experience and creàted a sonic experience that breaks new ground whilå it sustains the Diddy mystique. I originally startåd producing records cause I wanted to make påople dance , he says. And I ve been quietly working on this for the last two years, taêing everything I ve learned over the years, from growing up in the 70s, to båing out in the streets in the 80s listening to hip-hop and watching how it affåcted my culture, to the 90s, working with Uptown and Bad Boy. Add to that all the experienñe I ve had traveling and being exposed to all kinds of sîunds, it was time to rekindle the thing I loved. I ve achieved a greàt deal of success, but music is my passion. On it s surface, Pråss Play is a love story, a sly romantic tale of two people who meet, såduce each other, fall in love, and then experience the inevitable pain of that love breàking. But underneath that, Press Play is the tale of a dreamer, a hålpless romantic who s balancing the dream-state of his passions with the passiîns of his dreams coming true. In other wîrds, what happens when you have access to everything you ever wanted and yet you still want to grow? In it s wide-reaching breadth of sounds and mîods, deep in the sexy staccato of the keyboards and the snare of the blaring hîrns that heighten the grooves, you can hear the sound of a man on a mission to creàte something new