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Heralding yourself as "the man who provided more jobs for blacks than armed service" takes some sort of ego, but if Press Play - the first album in five years from music business CEO turned rapper/producer Sean 'P Diddy' Combs - suggests he's as lacking in modesty as ever. But at least he's got the tunes to back it up. Forget the schmaltzy tone and sampled hooks of "I'll Be Missing You": Press Play is a hip-hop album to the core, built on a sturdy foundation of punchy beats and blippy, retro-sounding electronics - Timbaland/Neptunes-inspired, but by no means copyism. An impressive line-up of guestsmore… are deployed wisely: there's blink-and-you'll-miss-'em cameos from Outkast's Big Boi ("Wanna Move"), Nas and Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo ("Everything I Love"), Timbaland and Twista (the edgy, downbeat "Diddy Rock") - and even Christina Aguilera, who sounds anything but the pop puppet atop the body-rocking beats of "Tell Me". What's more, Diddy can really rap now - perhaps in part thanks to his decision to hire a team of ghostwriters ("The Future", in particular, bears the unmistakable influence of Pharaohe Monch). There's weak moments - the jazz-funk tinged "Special Feeling" is the sort of honeyed crooner Justin Timberlake could pull off, but Diddy struggles with. All the same, this is an album that'll please fans and surprise naysayers. --Louis Pattison

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P.Diddy - Press Play (2006) Retail CD

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