Diddy says only his mom and Jay-Z are allowed to call him by his birth name: 'We call each other Sean'
- Diddy has revealed the very short list of people allowed to call him by his birth name, Sean.
- It comprises only his mom and fellow rapper Jay-Z.
Diddy has been known by many names over the years — Puffy, Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, and, most recently, Love.
One name he rarely goes by, however, is his birth name, Sean Combs.
That's because only his mom and fellow rapper Jay-Z are allowed to address him as such.
"I was born Puffy and then I become P. Diddy," the 53-year-old star told James Corden during his recent appearance on "Carpool Karaoke," after "The Late Late Show" host had asked how he should address him.
"Then they called me Diddy because I was so pretty," he said. "And then Puff Daddy and then I became who I am now, which is Love."
Quizzed by Corden why he failed to list Sean among his names, Diddy replied: "Sean is typically used by, you know, my mother. I don't know, when you're in trouble," adding that Corden wasn't "approved" to call him Sean.
Corden then asked if there was anybody in the entertainment industry that is allowed to call him Sean.
"There's only one person, and I call him Shawn, that's Jay-Z," said Diddy. Jay-Z's real name is Shawn Carter.
"We call each other Sean," he added. "Nobody else is allowed to call me Sean. There's not a single person, outside of my mother, that should be calling me Sean."
In other Diddy news, the music mogul recently tricked Twitter into believing that he has to pay Sting $5,000 per day for sampling The Police's song "Every Breath You Take," which Sting wrote.
Diddy sampled the song on his 1997 tribute to The Notorious B.I.G. with Faith Evans, "I'll Be Missing You."
In a 2018 interview with The Breakfast Club, Sting confirmed Diddy did not seek his permission to sample his song and as such has to pay him $2,000 per day for the "rest of his life."
Earlier in April, Diddy shared footage of the interview on his Twitter but corrected Sting's figure, writing: "Nope. 5K a day."
He later revealed he was only joking.
"It's called being Facetious! Me and @OfficialSting have been friends for a long time!" he tweeted. "He never charged me $3K or $5K a day for Missing You. He probably makes more than $5K a day from one of the biggest songs in history."