As I’m sure you’ll recall, Sean Combs has been through a lot of stage names by this point in his career.
In 2001, the hits kept coming, and Combs decided that P. Diddy was the better stage name, as he began to expand his career to acting roles.
Then, just four years later, he revealed that he was changing again, this time to Diddy, while admitting that fans didn’t quite know what to call him.
Because he first came to prominence as a record executive and producer, he was known by his given name until releasing his debut as a rapper in 1997, the hit single “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down,” when he started going by Puff Daddy.