Sean Combs

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• Born: 4 November 1969
• Birthplace: New York, New York
• Best Known As: Rapper known as Puff Daddy, then P. Diddy, then Diddy, then P. Diddy again

Sean "Puffy" Combs, also known as P. Diddy or Diddy, is a hip-hop performer, producer and businessman known for hit records, a clothing line, movie roles and occasional gossip column appearances. He had early training working for record companies, then set off on his own with Bad Boy Entertainment. Together with the late rapper Notorious B.I.G., Combs (performing as Puff Daddy) popularized the east coast sound of American hip-hop. In 1997 Puff Daddy sampled the Police song "Every Breath You Take" for his song "Missing You" (a tribute to the Notorious B.I.G.) and the crossover hit made him a household name. His solo album No Way Out was a Grammy-winning success, and Combs earned a reputation as an astute workhorse and jack-of-all-trades in the recording industry. His list of musical collaborations includes a who's who of top artists such as Mariah Carey, Usher, Missy Elliott and David Bowie. As an actor, Combs has appeared in the feature film Monster's Ball (2001, with Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton) and the Broadway play A Raisin in the Sun (2004, remade as a TV movie in 2008).

In 2001 Combs announced that he was changing his nickname from Puff Daddy to P. Diddy, earning him comparisons to fellow name-changing musician Prince... His romance with singer/actress Jennifer Lopez was closely followed in gossip columns; the two broke up in 2001. That same year Combs went on trial for weapons charges stemming from a 1999 Manhattan nightclub shooting in which three people were injured; at trial's end he was acquitted of all charges... In 2005 Combs announced that he was again changing his name, settling on simply Diddy. In 2006 he was prompted to change his name following a lawsuit filed by English music producer Richard "Diddy" Dearlove; Combs settled out of court and agreed to release his 2006 album Press Play under the name Diddy in the U.S., but under P. Diddy in the U.K.

• Born: November 04, 1969, Harlem, New York, NY
• Active: '90s, 2000s
• Genres: Rap
• Instrument: Vocals, Producer
• Representative Albums: "No Way Out," "We Invented the Remix," "Press Play"
• Representative Songs: "It's All About the Benjamins," "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down," "I'll Be Missing You"

Biography

The biggest hip-hop impresario of the mid-'90s, Sean Combs -- known as Puff Daddy both here and in the world of rap until his professional name change to P. Diddy, then just Diddy -- created a multi-million-dollar industry around Bad Boy Entertainment, with recordings by the Notorious B.I.G., Craig Mack, Faith Evans, 112, and Total all produced and masterminded by Combs himself. Responsible for over $100 million in total record sales and named ASCAP's 1996 Songwriter of the Year, Combs was, on the other hand, criticized by many in the hip-hop community for watering down the sound of the underground and also for a perceived over-reliance on samples as practically the sole basis for many of his hits. A very successful A&R executive at Uptown Records during the early '90s responsible for sizeable hit records by Father MC, Mary J. Blige, and Jodeci, Combs formed his own Bad Boy label, signed B.I.G., Evans, and Mack, and earned enough hits to cement an alliance with Arista Records. A highly publicized feud with Death Row Records (in which Tupac Shakur and label head Suge Knight served as West Coast/Dark Side equivalents to the Notorious B.I.G. and Combs) was summarily ended in late 1996, when Shakur was murdered and Knight jailed. Six months later, the Notorious B.I.G. was dead as well, and after Combs mourned his friend's death, he hit the pop charts in a big way during his biggest year, 1997.

Born in Harlem in 1969, Sean Combs spent much of his childhood in nearby Mt. Vernon, NY. Already a shrewd businessman through his two paper routes, Combs applied to Howard University in Washington, D.C., and while attending, convinced childhood friend Heavy D to sign him up as an intern at the label for which he recorded, Uptown Records. Several months later, he was an A&R executive with his sights set on the vice presidency, serving as the executive producer for Father MC's 1990 album Father's Day, which became a hit. Successful albums followed for Mary J. Blige (What's the 411?) and Heavy D & the Boyz (Blue Funk) during 1992, though Combs was fired from Uptown by the following year (probably because he was a bit too ambitious).

He worked as a remixer during 1993 and set up Bad Boy Entertainment as his own venture, running the label out of his apartment during long hours with only several employees. After more than a year of hard work, he finally signed two hit artists: former EPMD roadie Craig Mack and the Notorious B.I.G. Mack hit the big time in mid-1994, when a remix of his "Flava in Ya Ear" single (featuring LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, Rampage, and the Notorious B.I.G.) hit the Top Ten and became the first platinum record for Bad Boy. At the beginning of 1995, B.I.G. notched the second, when his own second hit, "Big Poppa," reached number six on the pop charts. Mack's album Project: Funk da World eventually went gold and the Notorious B.I.G.'s Ready to Die was certified double platinum.

Sean "Puffy" Combs began branching out Bad Boy during 1995, adding platinum R&B acts Faith Evans and Total (both of whom were connected to B.I.G., Evans as his wife and Total as his former backing vocal group) plus another platinum seller, 112, in 1996. He also produced for many outside artists (including Aretha Franklin, Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey, TLC, SWV, and Lil' Kim) and added two straight-ahead hip-hop acts, Mase and the LOX. By that time, however, Combs and B.I.G. were embroiled in a feud with Death Row Records' head, Suge Knight, and star, Tupac Shakur. Shakur accused Combs of involvement in his 1994 shooting, mocked B.I.G. by saying he had slept with Faith Evans, and threatened the two in the lyrics to his hit song "Hit 'Em Up." (The video for the track featured two characters, P.I.G. and Buffy, who are humiliated in various ways.)

In September 1996, however, Shakur was shot and killed by unknown assailants; just six months later, in March of 1997, B.I.G. himself was killed in the same fashion. Just three weeks later, his second album debuted at number one and was eventually certified six times platinum. The single "Hypnotize" also hit number one and stayed on the charts for months after B.I.G. was killed. Though Combs had been preparing his own solo debut, under the name Puff Daddy, he quit working for several months out of grief for his longtime friend. When he returned in mid-1997, it was with a vengeance, as the single "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" held the top spot on the singles charts for almost two months. Following quickly behind was another monster number one hit, "I'll Be Missing You," a tender tribute to B.I.G. with Evans providing background vocals.

Combs' subsequent LP as Puff Daddy, No Way Out, shot straight to number one and was certified platinum several times over; in 1998 it won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and "I'll Be Missing You" won the award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. Forever followed in 1999, but the rushed release and lack of any new ideas disappointed fans and dampened sales. On top of that, on April 15 of that year he was accused of severely beating Interscope Records exec Steve Stoute and was brought to court for the incident. Puffy managed to get his sentence trimmed down to second-degree harassment when he finally reached the courts in September, much to his detractors' dismay.

More controversy started brewing when his relationship with singer/actress Jennifer Lopez was made public around the same time. Engagement rumors haunted them for a few months, but the real problems began when they were present at a shooting in a New York City club that December. The couple was brought in for questioning and eventually both faced charges for illegal possession of a firearm. Meanwhile, rapper Shyne was indicted for the incident, but Puffy was not dismissed because of the weapons charge. His trial date for the club shooting was finally set, while October found two new lawsuits facing the rapper. First, his driver sued for three million dollars due to personal injury and stress, followed by a $1.8 million suit from the club owner stemming from poor business following the shooting. Though Lopez initially supported Puffy, she broke off their relationship on Valentine's Day 2001.

A planned gospel album was pushed back to a summer release during the mess, but by March some good news finally hit the Bad Boy camp. Puffy was acquitted of all charges stemming from the club incident, which also snuffed out the civil suits also revolving around his involvement in the club situation. In a move sure to spark comparisons with Prince (and not the good kind of comparisons), he announced that he was changing his professional name to P. Diddy at the end of the month, and also predicted a new direction for himself and his label. He recorded a gospel album, Thank You, as well as a new solo album, The Saga Continues, but the former was never released. "Bad Boy for Life" became his biggest hit in years late in the summer, and a collaboration with David Bowie appeared on the Training Day movie soundtrack.

Combs took a serious blow in the spring of 2002 when Arista stopped distributing Bad Boy and took Evans with them. A collection of Bad Boy remixes entitled We Invented the Remix became his last album for Arista. 112 attempted to also jump ship to Def Jam, but a restraining order was filed before the group could make a clean break. Diddy celebrated a new distribution partnership with Universal by releasing an overview of his label, Bad Boy's 10th Anniversary... The Hits, in March 2004. His slumping label was revived during the summer of 2006 through the success of both Yung Joc's "It's Going Down" and Cassie's "Me&U," which helped set the stage for his own star-studded Press Play, released that October. ~ John Bush & Bradley Torreano, All Music Guide

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• Born: Nov 04, 1969
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: 2000s
• Major Genres: Music, Comedy
• Career Highlights: Monster's Ball, A Raisin in the Sun, Notorious
• First Major Screen Credit: The Show (1995)

Biography

Initially rising to fame thanks to his skillful rhymes and savvy business skills, rapper-turned-actor Sean Combs surprised audiences who may have doubted his dramatic abilities by turning in a moving and unforgettable appearance as a death-row inmate whose wife seeks solace in the arms of the man who executed him in Marc Foster's acclaimed 2001 drama Monster's Ball. Though subsequent roles in the 2003 musical comedy Death of a Dynasty and the 2004 made-for-television drama Love in Vain give testament that Combs' Hollywood aspirations are still very much in tact, he continues to hold on to his status as one of hip-hop's most powerful players thanks to a series of hit albums and collaborations, as well as a successful clothing line which bears his namesake. Born to a working class couple in Harlem, NY, the murder of Combs' father when the future superstar was a mere two years old prompted his mother to relocate to Mount Vernon to provide a safer environment for young Sean and his sister, Keisha.

Combs' skills for paying the bills was evident early on when the entrepreneurial youngster landed a paper route at 12, and not long after that the aspiring businessman was receiving his higher education at the esteemed Howard University. An internship at Uptown Entertainment found Combs' connections expanding and real-world experience growing, with Combs achieving the status of director of A&R for the company by the age of just nineteen. In the years that followed, Combs would not only shape the careers of such popular artists as Mary J. Blige and Jodeci, but also build a successful career as a recording artist himself with such albums as his debut No Way Out and the follow-up Forever. Combs' performance in Monster's Ball opposite Halle Berry may have been the first feature performance that brought him widespread recognition in film, though to that point, the multifaceted rapper had made numerous cameos and personal appearances on multiple talk shows and awards programs. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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rap musician; music producer; media executive; fashion designer; entrepreneur

Personal Information

Born Sean J. Combs on November 4, 1969, in New York, NY; son of Janice and Melvin Earl Combs; divorced; children: Justin and Christian Combs
Education: Attended Howard University, 1988-90.
Memberships: American Federation of Television & Radio Artists; American Federation of Musicians; Daddy's House Programs; Sean "Puffy" Combs and Janice Combs Endowed Scholarship Fund, founder.

Career

Uptown Records, New York, intern, 1990-91, director of artists and repertory, 1991, vice president, 1991-93; record producer, 1994-; Bad Boy Entertainment, founder and chief executive officer, 1994-; rap musician, 1997-; Sean John clothing line, founder and chief executive officer, 1998-; actor, 2001-; television producer, 2002-; Broadway debut in Raisin in the Sun, 2004.

Life's Work

Very few people can follow popular culture today without knowing the name of Sean Combs, whether it is as Puff Daddy, the rapper of the mid-nineties, as P. Diddy, the rapper/actor/entertainer of the new millennium, or as Sean Combs, the mind behind Bad Boy Entertainment, the Sean John clothing line, and the producer with sure-fire hit making instincts. While he has had monstrous success, Combs has had his share of rough times in the past decade. But, no matter where critics stand on Sean Combs the man, it is true that Combs's name is synonymous with the rise of the hip-hop culture in America.

Combs has had a prolific presence in the media. He has grown from producing albums for other artists to being the artist featured on his own albums. He has moved from the music world to acting in movies like the 2001 acclaimed Monster's Ball. His entrepreneurial exploits have allowed him also to depart from the entertainment industry to found a successful urban clothing line, Sean John. In 1997, he had a number one single "I'll Be Missing You". This single was replaced as number one on the Billboard Top 100 by a hit single by Notorious B.I.G., featuring Combs, "Mo Money, Mo Problems". This feat was previously met only by Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and Boyz II Men.

Started Early in Music Business

Sean Combs was born in New York City on November 4, 1969, to Janice and Melvin Earl Combs. Combs grew up believing his father was killed in a car accident when Combs was three, but found out at age 14, through research at a public library, that his father had been a small time hustler who was shot in the head on Central Park West. His widowed mother worked three jobs, including as a teacher and a model, in order to scrape money together, to buy a house in suburban Mount Vernon, New York.

"At first I thought nobody would accept me as a rap artist," Combs later told Chuck Phillips of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. "After all, it's not like I came from the 'hood," he added. But his mother maintained the family's ties to New York's Harlem, and it was there that young Sean Combs obtained a remarkable cultural education, soaking up the creations of the founders of rap music: Grandmaster Flash, Run D.M.C., KRS-One, and more. "I would be 12 years old, and sometimes I'd be out until 3, 4 in the morning, seeing the music. I had to sneak out to do it, but I was doing it," he told Rolling Stone's Mikal Gilmore. He obtained the nickname "Puffy" from a childhood friend. "Whenever I got mad as a kid, I used to huff and puff.... That's why my friend started calling me Puffy," he told Jet.

Combs enrolled at Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1988. Although he spent much of his time promoting rap-music events, he managed to remain at Howard for at least two years. Recommended by rapper Heavy D., Combs parlayed his musical activities into an internship at New York's Uptown Records in 1990. After just three months, he attracted the attention of label head and former rap artist Andre Harrell, who named his young protegé director of artists and repertoire, a position of extraordinary influence for a twenty-year-old with a keen understanding of the city's flourishing rap scene. Within a year Combs became vice president. He quickly became an accomplished producer, working on such successful Uptown releases as Jodeci's Forever My Lady and Mary J. Blige's What's the 411?.

Started Bad Boy and Recording Career

Things took a turn for the worse at a disastrous celebrity basketball event that Combs promoted at New York's City College in December of 1991. Nine people were killed in a stampede at the gates. In the aftermath, Combs received some blame for the deaths, but was successfully defended in court by renowned attorney William Kunstler. In 1993 Combs was fired from Uptown Records. The split with Harrell was difficult for him. "It was like the old sensei [teacher] rejecting the student," Combs told Rolling Stone.

A scant two weeks later, however, Combs finalized a deal with the large music conglomerate Arista to distribute the musical output of his new company, Bad Boy Entertainment. Bad Boy succeeded from the start and over the first four years of its existence posted skyrocketing sales; estimates of total sales over the period 1993 to 1997 range from $100 million to $200 million. Arista rewarded Combs with a $6 million cash advance when he renegotiated his relationship with the label in 1997.

Although Combs has produced top-chart-level recordings by Bad Boy artists Mase, Craig Mack, and others, and has worked with outside artists of the magnitude of Aretha Franklin and Sting, his greatest success at the helm of Bad Boy came with the recordings of New York rapper Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls, who recorded under the name of the Notorious B.I.G. Smalls was Combs's first major project at Bad Boy. "He saw things so vivid," Combs recalled in a 1997 interview with Rolling Stone. "If you sat and listened to a Biggie Smalls record in the dark, you see a whole movie in front of you." The first Notorious B.I.G. album, Ready to Die, attracted widespread attention; the second, the prophetically named Life After Death, was one of 1997's top sellers, spawning an unprecedented two Number One singles after Wallace's murder in March of that year. Combs had earlier moved in the direction of mainstream R&B and was credited by some with founding a hybrid named hip-hop soul; as executive producer of the Notorious B.I.G. recordings, he proved himself master of the hardcore gangsta' rap style during its period of maximum sales.

Combs was to achieve even greater success on his own, recording with various other Bad Boy artists under the name Puff Daddy & the Family. The No Way Out album, released in July 1997, included "I'll Be Missing You"; the album took the theme of a tribute or a requiem for the murdered Smalls. Musically, the album was marked by wholesale adoption of the melodies and rhythm tracks of familiar pieces of R&B and rock from the 1970s and 1980s. Writer Sean Piccoli of the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel dubbed the practice "stapling," as opposed to the "sampling" present on earlier rap recordings, where only short snippets of music would be borrowed from earlier sources. "I'll Be Missing You" was directly based on the 1983 Police hit, "Every Breath You Take."

Combs has taken criticism for this practice, both from other hip-hop artists and from fans of the artists whose work he borrows. Yet Combs was not the inventor of such wholesale borrowing; as he was putting the finishing touches on the No Way Out disc, movie star/rapper Will Smith recycled Patrice Rushen's 1982 hit "Forget Me Nots" on the soundtrack of the film Men in Black. The style dated back at least to MC Hammer's 1990 "U Can't Touch This" (based on Rick James's "Super Freak" of a decade earlier). Furthermore, those who claimed that Combs in "I'll Be Missing You" was coasting along on the strength of the Police recording mostly failed to notice the other quotation contained in the song: the early twentieth-century Protestant hymn "I'll Fly Away," and, on the album, the classical orchestral work "Adagio for Strings," composed in 1915 by Samuel Barber. Clearly, for millions of listeners, the works blended into a convincing expression of Combs's grief over his friend's death.

Success Hampered by Court Cases

The end of the 1990s saw a rise in Combs's presence in various courtrooms throughout the country as well as a rise in Combs's presence in the business and philanthropic world. Daddy's House Social Programs began in 1995. This charity organization, guided by both Combs and Executive Director Sister Souljah, seeks to promote the positive influence of parents, teachers and mentors for urban youth. Daddy's House has spearheaded programs in academic tutoring, promoting higher education, and international travel for students. The charity even runs summer camping programs in upstate New York.

In 1997 Combs opened up Justin's, a fine dining restaurant in New York and another in Atlanta in 1999, with plans to expand to new locations. In 1998 Combs made his run at a clothing line, Sean John. Designed with urban male youth in mind, the clothing line became an almost immediate success and has been nominated for a CFDA fashion award every year since its inception. In 2000 Combs appeared on his own reality show on ABC, called Making The Band. The series ran for two seasons on ABC, but moved to MTV under the name Making The Band 2 for its third season. Combs made his Broadway debut in a 2004 revival of Raisin In The Sun , and received excellent reviews for the effort.

In 1999 Combs was brought up on charges of assaulting record executive Steve Stoute. Stoute was one of the executives who allowed the airing of a video on MTV that pictured Combs nailed to a cross. Combs was upset at the disrespect he believed the video showed to God. After a public apology to Stoute, the charges were dropped. In 2000 Combs was charged with criminal possession of a weapon stemming from an incident at a New York nightclub on December 27, 1999. Combs was at the club with then girlfriend singer-actress Jennifer Lopez. A jury, in March of 2001, found Combs not guilty of all charges. On May 24, 2000, Combs settled the lawsuit that was a result of the 1991 New York City College tragedy. He received further vindication on June 1, 2004 when the North Carolina Court of Appeals reversed a $450,000 judgment against him for allegedly having a man beaten.

All of Combs's legal and personal problems culminated in a public persona name change. In 2001, Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs made an announcement that the entertainment world would now know him by the name "P. Diddy." The name change stemmed from the legal issues, but that was not the only reason. Combs believed that he was not given the respect and admiration he deserved for his entertainment work. He looked at himself as a person who, for the most part, stayed out of the east coast/west coast rap wars, looked to better the quality of hip-hop entertainment, and tried to become a role model and leader for people of his race. A name change would allow him to wipe the slate clean and start anew. However, Combs found that even as P. Diddy, his past still haunted him and his respectability was still in question. On New Year's Eve 2003, according to Villa, Combs announced at a party, "First they called me Puff Daddy, then they called me P. Diddy. But now I'm just Sean Combs."

Combs increased his focus on philanthropic causes in the early 2000s, making headlines on November 2, 2003 by completing the New York Marathon and raising $2 million for children's charities in the process. On July 20, 2004, he unveiled plans for Citizen Change, a nonpartisan campaign to mobilize youth and minority voters to participate in the presidential election that year. Earlier, on February 4, he was named to receive the Patrick Lippert Award for his ongoing work with a similar nonpartisan organization, Rock the Vote.

Legal and political involvements notwithstanding, his entertainment career thrived also. Later that month he shared his second Grammy Award for best rap performance by a duo or group--his third Grammy overall--for "Shake Ya Tailfeather,", recorded with Murphy Lee and Nelly. After announcing his pending retirement from solo recording in March of that year, he made his Broadway acting debut in a revival of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun, at the Royale Theater, and received admirable reviews for the effort. In other 2004 honors, on June 7 Combs was named the top men's wear designer of 2004, by the Council of Fashion Designers. Less than two weeks later, on June 19, he carried the Olympic torch for one lap, through the streets of New York City.

It is clear that with the success Combs has had through repeated name changes, the next few years will prove to be both exciting and profitable for Sean Combs.

Awards

3M, Visionary Award for Producing, 1994; Impace, Award of Merit for Creative Excellence, 1994; ASCAP, Rhythm & Soul Award for "Juicy", 1995; Gavin, Rap Indie (Dist. by a Major) of the Year, 1995; Grammy Awards for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, with Faith Evans and 112, and for Best Rap Album, 1998; Howard University, Alumni Award for Distinguished Postgraduate Achievement, 1999; Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, with Murphy Lee and Nelly, for "Shake Ya Tailfeather," 2003.

Works

Selected works

Discography

• No Way Out, Bad Boy, 1997.
• Forever, Bad Boy, 1999.
• The Saga Continues, Bad Boy, 2001.

Film

• Made, 2001.
• Monster's Ball, 2001.

Record production

• Britney Spears, In The Zone, BMG International, 2003.
• Faith Evans, Faith, Bad Boy, 1995.
• L. L. Cool J, Phenomenon, Def Jam, 1997.
• Lil' Kim, Notorious K.I.M. , Atlantic, 2000.
• Mary J. Blige, Love & Life, Geffen, 2003.
• The Notorious B.I.G., Ready to Die, Bad Boy, 1994.
• The Notorious B.I.G., Life After Death, Bad Boy, 1997.
• The Notorious B.I.G., Born Again, Bad Boy, 1999.

Other

• Combs has also produced recordings by Bad Boy artists Total, 112, the Lox, and others; he has produced recordings for artists associated with other labels, including Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Keith Sweat, and the Police. He has worked in remixing on a number of albums by artists like Janet Jackson and even the 1999 tribute album to Princess Diana. He also appears in his own reality show, called Making the Band.

Further Reading

Periodicals

• Billboard, August 30, 1997.
• Black Enterprise, December 1, 1999.
• Entertainment Weekly, October 31, 1997.
• Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, October 19, 1997.
• Hip-hop News, January 13, 2004.
• Jet, January 12, 1998; February 21, 2001; April 16, 2001; January 12, 2004.
• Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 26, 1997.
• New York Times, January 1, 1998.
• Rolling Stone, April 20, 1995; August 7, 1997.
• Source, May 1997.
• Time, December 20, 2004.
• USA Today, July 22, 1997.
• Vibe, December 1997/January 1998.

On-line

• ABCNews.com, www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/ap20031103_241.html?cmp=EM333 (November 3, 2003).
• E! Online, www.eonline.com (June 8, 2004).
• "46th Grammy Awards," Grammys.com, www.grammys.com/awards/grammy/46winners.aspx (February 8, 2004).
• New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2004/06/18/sports/basketball/18marbury.html (June 20, 2004).
• P. Diddy & the Bad Boy Family, www.p-diddy.com (February 2, 2004).
• USA Today, www.usatoday.com/life/people/2004-06-02-pdiddy-lawsuit_x.htm (June 3, 2004).

— James M. Manhiem and Adam R. Hazlett

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