{"id":15852,"date":"2016-05-03T09:43:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T13:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=15852"},"modified":"2016-05-03T09:43:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T13:43:24","slug":"diddy-to-retire-from-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=15852","title":{"rendered":"Diddy To Retire From Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/diddy_run.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/diddy_run.jpg?resize=250%2C251\" alt=\"diddy_run\" width=\"250\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/diddy_run.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/diddy_run.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>After releasing his final album,<strong> No Way Out 2<\/strong>, Diddy has announced that he will retire from music to focus on acting.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to put out my last album and devote 100 percent of my time to doing films \u2026 I want to stop at a great place,\u201d he tells Cigar Aficionado magazine. &#8220;And a final album is a great place to stop. I want to take a victory lap, to do a world tour and really enjoy it once last time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Diddy &#8212; who is on the cover of the magazine\u2019s June issue (hitting newsstands today May 3) &#8212; added: \u201cWhen I&#8217;m gone, only the songs will survive. I know I&#8217;m making music that will live on. I don&#8217;t go into the studio just to be hot or to hear myself on the radio. Michael Jackson, Tupac, Biggie &#8212; part of them lives on in their music, even though they&#8217;re not here anymore. That&#8217;s really deep, man. The only thing like that is religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The album is expected to drop some time this year. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>After releasing his final album, No Way Out 2, Diddy has announced that he will retire from music to focus on acting.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[336,807],"class_list":["post-15852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-diddy","tag-matrix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-47G","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/diddy_run.jpg?fit=250%2C251&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}