Next, glide through a conspicuously undisturbed dining room, where Jeanneret chairs are lined up like sentries on either side of a long table, step out into the backyard and head left, past the generous pool, into one of the secondary structures on the property. Upstairs there one Tuesday afternoon last month, Combs was pacing a tasteful, lounge-like room and chatting on speakerphone to FunkFlex, the longstanding master of ceremonies for New York's Hot 97 radio station, spreading the good word about his return to music.
Combs and associates, including Stevie J, part of the original Bad Boy Hitmen production team, were working through the medley Combs would perform Tuesday night on the MTV Video Music Awards, a couple of days before he releases The Love Album: Off the Grid, his first solo studio album in 17 years. He asked someone on his team to think about ways to generate excitement around the album cover, maybe
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