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Sean 'Puff Daddy' Combs' Evolution

Madeline Boardman

July 1, 2016 at 5:01 PM

Puff Daddy Through the Years

Sean "Puffy" Combs in 1990

Sean "Puffy" Combs With Clive Davis and His Mother Janice Combs on September 29, 1993

Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs With Notorious B.I.G. and Lil' Kim at the 1995 Billboard Music Awards on December 6, 1995

Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs With Mariah Carey and His Mother Janice Combs on November 4, 1996

Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs With Notorious B.I.G. at the 11th Annual Soul Train Music Awards on March 7, 1997

Sean "Puffy" Combs in New York on July 14, 1997

Sean "Puffy" Combs With Will Smith at the 40th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 25, 1998

Sean "Puffy" Combs With Janice Combs on August 15, 1998

Sean "Puffy" Combs at The Source Hip-Hop Music Awards on August 20, 1999

Sean "Puffy" Combs With Then-Girlfriend Jennifer Lopez at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 9, 1999

Sean "Puffy" Combs With Then-Girlfriend Jennifer Lopez at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards on February 23, 2000

Sean "Puffy" Combs With Then-Girlfriend Jennifer Lopez at Radio City Music Hall on September 7, 2000

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs With Tommy Lee at the 2001 MTV Movie Awards on June 2, 2001

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs With David Bowie in 2001

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards on August 29, 2002

Sean "P.Diddy" at Heidi Klum's Third Annual Halloween Party on November 1, 2002

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs With Ashton Kutcher and Jamie Foxx at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards After-Party on May 31, 2003

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs Running the ING New York City Marathon on Nov. 2. 2003

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs With Then-U.S. Senate Candidate Barack Obama on July 29, 2004

Sean "P.Diddy" Combs With Mary J. Blige in New York City on October 28, 2004

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs With Donald Trump and Melania Trump on March 11, 2005

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs on October 27, 2005

Sean "Diddy" Combs With Tina Knowles and Beyonce Knowles in Las Vegas on August 27, 2007

Sean "Diddy" Combs in New York City on April 3, 2008

Sean "Diddy" Combs in Beverly Hills on May 1, 2008

Sean "P.Diddy" Combs With Jay-Z in New York City on September 30, 2008

Sean "Diddy" Combs and Busta Rhymes at the 2010 BET Awards on June 27, 2010

Sean "Diddy" Combs in Dallas on February 5, 2011

Sean "Diddy" Combs in New York City on March 1, 2012

Sean "Diddy" Combs at the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 22, 2012

Sean "Diddy" Combs at the the BET Hip-Hop Awards on September 28, 2013

Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs at Howard University's 146th Commencement on May 10, 2014

Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs With Cassie at the Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015

Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs at the the 2015 BET Awards on June 28, 2015

Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs with Chris Rock, French Montana, and Tobey Maguire at the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on February 28, 2016

Puff Daddy Through the Years

The 2016 Essence Festival is getting a little D-I-D-D-Y, with Sean "Puffy" Combs set to take the stage in New Orleans on Saturday night. Joined at the three-day event by performers like Maxwell, Tyrese, Mariah Carey, Kendrick Lamar, and Ciara, Combs adds the gig to his famed decades-long career. See the evolution of the rapper from Sean Combs to Puff Daddy to P. Diddy to Diddy and back again, ahead.

See Diddy through the years before he hits the Essence Festival this weekend

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