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Diddy – Dirty Money Last Train To Paris

Rating: NNNN


When Sean Combs first dipped his toe into the world of house music, it provoked more cringing than dancing. He kept at it, though, and when we heard his bizarre stream-of-consciousness spoken-word contribution on DJ Hell’s techno track The DJ, it seemed plausible that the hip-hop pop star might manage to integrate underground dance music into his own chart-topping sound.

Dirty Money is officially a trio featuring Danity Kane’s Dawn Richards and singer/songwriter Kelenna Harper alongside Diddy himself. While it’s clear that Last Train’s combination of electro and house with hip-hop and R&B is Combs’s baby, it’s the group format that makes it work as an album. By splitting the focus, the plethora of additional guests involved make the experience feel more like a party than jarring and disjointed. And when the cameos include everyone from Lil Wayne and Grace Jones to fashion icons Anna Wintour and André Leon Talley, making the whole mess work as a concept album is a major victory.

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