Monday, March 17,
2025
Time: 7:50 PM
Song: I’ll Be Missing You
Artist: Puff Daddy, Faith Evans, 112
Mode of Consumption: Playing in Kohls while I was trying on jeans.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/3QHONiXGMGU3z68mQInncF?si=724557918ac447df
Monday was a rare night for the Woessners. Instead of a
quiet evening at home tinkering on our own projects, we went out.
We attended a craft workshop at the Sterling library where
we learned how to create wall art from old magazines and newspapers. We
followed that with a meal out, going to a local sandwich establishment “Arturs.”
We capped that with stops at Farm & Fleet and Kohls.
The last stop was to buy some new jeans. I was trying on the
jeans in a dressing room when this jam came on, and thought it was some weird
irony to hear a Diddy song with my pants down in a public place.
I always considered Diddy to be a little bit of a joke. I
think it was the constant name changing, and that the names always seemed
silly. Puffy. Puff Daddy. P-Diddy. Diddy.
Plus, when this song hit the airwaves, I automatically
disliked the idea of another rap song sampling a classic rock song. I realize now
that it was a shrewd tactic by the rap industry to reach a wider audience, and
thus, make more money.
In the grand scheme of things, I believe this song is probably
the swan song for the infamous East-West Rap Wars of the 1990s that claimed the
lives of 2-Pac and Notorious BIG (whom the song is dedicated), among others.
And now, Diddy isn’t considered a joke because of his silly
names. He’s joked about for what appears to be a long history of sex crimes.
No comments:
Post a Comment