Rap mogul Diddy has come forward to point out the recent emergence of swagger jackers who emulate his personal style and business moves.
According to Puff, he is responsible for inspiring artists to change up how they dress and take on business ventures outside of hip-hop.
“To be honest, there’s a lot of people that have emulated my style,” Diddy told radio personality Tim Westwood. “And that’s a positive thing, you’re supposed to inspire people. But there’s also a lot of cats that emulate the style and they not even really connecting in their head who they got it from. Anything they’re doing right now as far as in the game, I started the jets, I started the yachts, I started owning the companies, I started the liquor, I started getting money, I started hiring us, empowering us, I started the whole vote campaign, anything that wasn’t cool, anything that wasn’t traveling, artists traveling overseas, getting that up, I mean, that’s what I do, my style and my flavor and my swag is really unstoppable and second to none, and it’s a lot of people that invented the style so when I come back in June, they gotta give me my sh*t back, because the official has returned. I let them live for a minute and that’s all good — a lot of cats are out there with my haircut, they try to dress [like me], they try to wear shades and they messing up the suit game because they don’t have the Italian cut, they got like a Steve Harvey cut on their suit…I’m definitely one of the baddest motherf*ckers to ever touch the face of the earth.” (Tim Westwood TV)
