Before you knew him as Diddy, you knew Sean Combs as Puff Daddy.It was the name he went by in the golden years of Bad Boy Records and one he continued to use as he branched out from a producer to ...

But a year later, in 2006, Combs had to go back to using P. Diddy again after British DJ Richard “Diddy” Dearlove sued him ...

However, by 2001, Diddy switched from "Puff Daddy" to "P. Diddy," as he sought a fresh name following his acquittal in a court case in which he had been charged with gun possession and bribery.

Back in the late ‘90s, Diddy went by the stage name Puff Daddy or Puffy for short. He changed his alias to P. Diddy in 2001 and eventually dropped the P in 2005.

He went by P. Diddy in 2001 and then Diddy in 2005, but he was also briefly just Puffy. Then in 2014, he went back to his original moniker, Puff Daddy . At the time of this post he's still "Sean ...

A fixture of the rap scene ever since he first founded Bad Boy Records in 1993, the 44-year-old performer originally went by Puff Daddy until 2001, when he changed his stage name to P. Diddy, or ...

P. Diddy (2005) was Puff Daddy (2001) was Sean Combs (1969). On his 48th birthday, the music industry’s human catchall announced he’s changing his name yet again.

Before he was Diddy or P. Diddy, ... Then known as “Puff Daddy,” Combs is seen here as a young rap impresario in 1995. Getty Images. The two reconciled after Combs paid Stoute $500,000.

Stopping by The Breakfast Club to chop it up with Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God and Angela Yee, Puff Daddy a.k.a P. Diddy a.k.a Diddy a.k.a Love, speaks on different aspects of his career and ...