Sean “Diddy” Combs, the entrepreneur, government, Bad Boy Records founder and artist, is about to obtain the Global Icon Award and carry out at MTV’s 2023 VMAs, airing stay from New Jersey’s Prudential Center on Tuesday, September 12 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Diddy, whose new album “The Love Album: Off the Grid,” will even carry out on the occasion, marking his first VMAs efficiency since 2005. Doja Cat, Anitta, Lil Wayne, Kelsea Ballerini, Tomorrow X Together, Demi Lovato, Karol G, Måneskin and Stray Kids will even carry out.
In addition to receiving the Global Icon Award, Diddy can be nominated for 4 different awards this 12 months for his work on “Creepin” (Remix) and “Gotta Move On.” His nominations embody 2 for “Best Collaboration,” in addition to Best Rap and Best R&B.
The Global Icon Award, initially from MTV’s Europe Music Awards (EMAs), celebrates an artist or band whose unparalleled profession and continued affect have achieved a singular degree of worldwide success in music and past. Diddy additionally hosted MTV Europe Music Award 2002 on the Palazzo Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain.
This set can be Diddy’s first solo album since he launched “Press Play” in 2006 however follows a current slate of singles from the hitmaker. In the final 12 months, he recruited Bryson Tiller for “Gotta Move On” — which obtained remixes from Ashanti, Yung Miami, Tory Lanez and extra — together with the PartyNextDoor-featuring “Sex within the Porsche.” He most just lately launched “Act Bad” with the City Girls and Fabolous and likewise dropped a remix of Metro Boomin’s “Creepin’.
On Monday, in a uncommon transfer apparently themed for Labor Day, sources informed Variety that Diddy has “determined to reassign his Bad Boy publishing rights again to all Bad Boy artists and writers who helped construct Bad Boy into the powerhouse it’s right now.” The artists in query embody the Notorious B.I.G.’s property, Faith Evans, Ma$e, the Lox, 112 and “many extra” unspecified creators. Specific particulars weren’t instantly accessible however the belongings are stated to be value a whole lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars}.
