The Love Album: Off the Grid

Combs signed with the record label Motown in late 2022 to release its bonus tracks, "Gotta Move On" and "In the Porsche", and in 2023, the album's only single, "Another One of Me". The album itself was released independently by Combs's Love Records; it marks his first project to not be released by Bad Boy Records.^[1][2] It includes guest appearances from The-Dream, Herb Alpert, Nova Wav, Busta Rhymes, Dawn Richard, Kalenna, Nija, Jozzy, Jacquees, Fabolous, Swae Lee, Summer Walker, the Weeknd, French Montana, 21 Savage, Justin Bieber, Jazmine Sullivan, Ty Dolla Sign, Kehlani, Coco Jones, Kalan.FrFr, K-Ci, Jeremih, Mary J. Blige, Teyana Taylor, Burna Boy, Babyface, John Legend, and H.E.R.^[3] The extended version was released five days later and contains additional guest appearances from Bryson Tiller, PartyNextDoor, and Metro Boomin. Production was handled by a variety of record producers, such as Diddy, Nova Wav, Ty Dolla Sign, and Metro Boomin themselves, alongside Stevie J, Timbaland, London on da Track, J Dilla, D'Mile, OZ, the Stereotypes, Mick Schultz, and DaHeala, among others.


It is Combs's first solo album since 2006's Press Play, his first album as Diddy since the 2010 collaborative album Last Train to Paris, and his first project following the 2015 mixtape MMM (Money Making Mitch), which was credited to Puff Daddy.^[4] Two months following its release, he was subjected to numerous allegations of sexual misconduct, which overshadowed the album's promotion.^[5]

Background[edit]

Diddy released a four-minute trailer for the album on August 22, 2023, which included the names of some of the featured artists, such as Justin Bieber, Swae Lee, Mary J. Blige, Babyface, Jozzy, Yung Miami, French Montana, DJ Khaled, Teyana Taylor, The Weeknd and 21 Savage, among others.^[6] A press release called the album "a journey of retreating from the craziness of the world with a partner by shutting out all the distractions to just love on one another".^[7] Diddy also proclaimed that the "era of love is here" and "R&B is back" alongside the announcement, and touted the album as containing the "last collab" of Canadian singer the Weeknd's career on "Another One of Me", due to the singer stating that he would no longer feature on other artists' songs.^[3] This proved untrue when in 2024 the Weeknd appeared on multiple tracks released by Future and Metro Boomin. The song is also a collaboration with Moroccan-American rapper French Montana and features Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage and was released as the lead and only single from the album on the same date as its release.^[8]