Veteran writer and sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom called her mother after leaving the most stage-managed interview she’d ever conducted – with none other than Sean Combs, formerly known as Puff Daddy, formerly known as Diddy, then trying to be known as Love.
“I remember saying to my mom that he sounded like a child,” Cottom tells The Independent of the rapper she was profiling for Vanity Fair’s September 2021 issue.
