Sean Combs is a music mogul and founder of Bad Boy Records and occasionally he puts his musical goggles on   becomes "Diddy" or whatever his name is at the time and puts a album together with the best artists in the game. He's returned to his artistic side with Press Play, a 20 track LP with artists from Pop, R&B and Hip Hop joining him.

Combs has an appreachiation for different types of music and it shows on this album but it doesn't flow the way I think he wanted to do because he's still more of the guy behind the booth not in it.

Of course there is hits like "Come To Me" with Nicole Scherzinger, "Last Night" (a Prince soundalike) with Keyshia Cole, and "Tell Me" with Christine Aguilera but there is also songs where he gets in the way like "After Love" with Keri, a fast paced summer groove, "Making It Hard" featuring Mary J. Blige and "Everything I Love" featuring Nas & Cee-Lo.

Songs that have good concepts get messed up because of Diddy's insistence on being on the track and he's only as good as the person writing his verses (and I heard that varies). Grab the radio singles and enjoy the collaborations but you'll probably want to skip Diddy's part on most of the songs.

I'll give it 2 GeoGlobes because at least you can hear a lot of excellent talent on the same LP but it's borderline. Would Diddy have even done this if he didn't think his success in the other realms of music and fashion wouldn't have bailed him out in a worst case scenario?

I think not!