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10 NFL Team Diddy Should Consider Owning - Diddy wants a stake in a football team. But not the way celebs typically do it by buying into a small percentage and then donning the jersey as proof. He doesn't even want to do it the way Jay Z did, rebranding a team and then flipping his share to build a sports agency. No, Diddy wants majority ownership; as a Black man, he's personally invested in the dream. "I think it's time for that. A majority of players that are in the NFL are African-American, but there are no African-American owners," he said. He promises to be the first, and we'd like to do our part to get him in the zone. Click on for 10 teams that'd be a good fit for Mr. Combs.(Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
Jay Z on why he waited to comment about a racial profiling incident at Barneys New York:  - "I move and speak based on facts and not emotion. I haven’t made any comments because I am waiting on facts and the outcome of a meeting between community leaders and Barneys."(Photo: Lionel Urman / Splash News)
Bryan "Baby" Williams - Bryan "Baby" Williams, aka Birdman, has helped take the label he cofounded, Cash Money Records, to unforeseen heights. After launching in 1991, the label cashed in building regional buzz for an unprecendented $30 million deal with Universal Music Group, which led to the stardom of Juvenile, Lil Wayne and, later on, Drake and Nicki Minaj.(Photo: John Ricard / BET)
Dr. Dre: February 18 - The Cali rapper and super-producer turns 49 years old. (Photo: Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Coachella)“Pete’s Interlude” - On this skit, Nick encounters Pete, a white dude who’s informing him about his arsenal of crass rhymes about, well, doin’ the do… with everybody.  (Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

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Jay Z - "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business man!" Jay Z said it himself and it's been proven true. With seventeen Grammy's under his belt, stake in both the Barclay's center and the beauty brand Carol's Daughter as well as launching his own sports management company, Roc Nation Sports.(Photo: Lionel Urman / Splash News)

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