Sean “Puff Daddy, Puffy, P.Diddy, Diddy, Sean John, Swag” Combs and I don’t have much in common. Most of our differences involve bank accounts, talent and quantity of boats owned. But we aren’t totally diametrically opposed – for instance, we’re the same age. Something else we share? Frequent name-changes. I have so many nicknames that someone recently referred to me by my given name and it didn’t register they were talking about me. But where I answer to all of my appellations, He Who was Formally Diddy will now only respond to “Love” or “Brother Love.” For his birthday, Brother Love decided to gift himself with a new moniker:
I decided to change my name again!
My new name is LOVE aka Brother Love. #TakeDat pic.twitter.com/gArAXusygG
— Sean Diddy Combs (@diddy) November 4, 2017
What he said in his announcement was:
“Hey what’s up y’all. I have some very serious, serious news. I’ve been praying on this and I decided – I know it’s risky because it could come off as corny to some people like ‘yo’ – I decided to change my name again. I’m just not who I am before. I’m something different. So my new name is Love, a.k.a. Brother Love. I will not be answering to Puffy, Diddy, Puff Daddy, or any of my other monikers but Love or Brother Love. Okay? It’s my birthday. I feel good. God is the greatest, I give all glory and I thank my mommy and daddy.”
Okay, so that’s that. When Brother Love – can I jump ahead and call him B. Love? It seems like the natural progression – when B. Love changes his name, it is traditionally in name only, legally he remains Sean Combs. This not only allows him to change it frequently, in some cases it allows him to fall back on former identities:
For the record, I did not change my name. I always have been and always will be PUFF DADDY! 🙂 Be cool Man lol #MMM #BigHomie RT!!!!
— Sean Diddy Combs (@diddy) March 25, 2014
And Puff Daddy isn’t the only name he’s revisited, just this past summer he told Today that he was returning to a “Sean” phase because, “I’m in search for the person that I lost through the different personalities and nicknames.” Apparently, Sean was still on vacation and he found Brother Love instead. Unfortunately, finding Brother Love is tricky. His Twitter and Instagram are (as of this writing) still @diddy and when I searched sources online, next to Sean Combs, Puff Daddy gets the most hits.
I’m having a laugh about the name switches but B. Love (I know it’s not on the approved list but it’s fun to say) has a good sense of humor about it too. He joked, “Google can’t keep up.” Also, I have a few friends who were former addicts who legally changed their names – sometimes just their first name, sometimes both – so they could be completely rid of the person they were while addicted. Hell, I’ve secretly assigned some personality to each nickname I wear. I mean, I’m no Sasha Fierce but if you mess with Hecate, you may meet H-Cat, youknowwhatImean?
Besides, generally when Brother Love changes his name, new music or a new business is next. So Brother Love may not know what to call himself but he definitely knows what he’s doing.
Update by Celebitchy: Diddy or B.Love or whoever this is has posted an Instagram video claiming this was a joke. Really? He’s changed his name so many times of course he knew that it would get picked up by the press and taken seriously. He says in the video below “I’ve come to the conclusion that you cannot play around with the internet. Due to overwhelming response from the media out there, and just due to there not wanting to be any confusion, I was only joking. OK, I didn’t change my name. It’s just part of one my alter egos. One of my alter egos is Love…If you still want to call me Love, you can call me Love, Baby.” He was also in some kind of beef with a WWE character, real name Bruce Prichard, who goes by the name of Brother Love professionally.
Photo credit: WENN Photos, Twitter and Instagram
Perhaps we could say “B Lov(iator)”?
This guy is evil. He’s complicit in what Justin Bieber said about the music industry. He’s NO brother love at all. Far from it. Disgusting.
It reminds me of that Neil Diamond song “Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show”. I loved that song!
I’ll go back to the ’70’s now. They’re probably wondering where I wandered off to 🙂
Yeah, he accidentally revealed his child abuser alter ego. “Oops. Just a joke! Haha!!”
😒 Not buying it, Diddy. (Or Whoever tf you are)
Heavy sigh.
I guess this would be of interest to me if it was 1995….
Eh whatevs this is part of how he is as a performer. I’ll be waiting for this to change to B Love soon lol
He posted that this was a joke yesterday.Lol
So, ,now he’s ‘BroLo’…whatever..
If J-Lo yelled “Puffy!” from across a parking lot he’d still come running. Bet.
Hahahahahaha!!!! This made me laugh really hard! I can actually see J-Lo doing this and B-Love whipping his head around so fast he would get whiplash!!
Exactly! 😂
LOL!
you just reminded me of that song/video he made! bahahaha
He’s still around? Brother Has Been? Bro Love? Biggy’s Bro?
Don’t know him or his music. This sounds stupid and childish.
I think he is bored with life at the moment. Anytime he is in the news, it feels like a ghost from the past popped up out of nowhere.
Just come out of the closet already.
Brother Love feels so seventies, I expect a pornstache from him.
This guy is almost 50, and still changing his name?
Oh Brother.
Who cares? Dude, you’re middle age. Please stop.
Oh yes, let’s all recast this violent a** as Brother Love. If his “love” is from the abuser school of thought that because he’s violent it just means “I Love You” then sure…BLove it is.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/diddys-crazy-rap-sheet-from-attacking-a-record-exec-to-his-alleged-kettlebell-assault
Silly.
I love EVERYTHING about this post!
Good Lord.
Somehow, it didn’t seem so silly when Prince did it.
Did Prince do it a million times like Brother Love has? No.
Puke!
I.D.I.O.T works too.
The twitter beef is actually a BIG part of this story IMO. Taking off my Gossip Hat to put on my Wrestling Fan one – I would bet money Diddy received a cease and desist letter from the WWE lawyers in regards to the name. Character names are trademarked by WWE and it would be infringement if Puff attempted to use it or profit off it in any way.
WWE is so serious about it’s ring name trademarks that a year ago when a wrestler who went by his own damn name was released by WWE, they sent him a C&D when he attempted to go on another promotion using the same name. He can’t wrestle under his own name because they own it. So I say again, I’d bet money it was only a joke AFTER he got a call from Vincent Kennedy McMahon.
He changed his name yesterday and changed it back today.
Is this what people do to try to remain relevant these days? Sheesh I haven’t thought of him in ages. Remember when he ran a marathon?
1. He’s on weed 2. There’s only one love -Questlove.