| March 10, 2007 |
| Snoop, Diddy launch hip-hop peace tour |
U.S. rap stars Sean "Diddy" Combs and Snoop Dogg, who were bitter rivals in a notorious feud between East and West Coast hip-hop in the 1990s, said on Friday they had buried the hatchet once and for all.
At a news conference in Helsinki to launch a joint European tour, they said they had "moved on" from the days when members of the two music scenes clashed rather than collaborated.
"That was a time in history," Combs told reporters ahead of the tour's opening concert. Snoop Dogg's Web site lists 22 gigs, ending in Nottingham, England, on April 2.
"We want to entertain, we want to make music, we want to make people feel good," said Combs, 37. "We ain't no gangsters. We are men first, we are fathers.
"Everybody has a past; everybody grows up, matures and moves on. And right now our mission is to make people dance and feel good."
During the 1990s feud, Combs represented the east, as head of the New York-based Bad Boy Entertainment, while Snoop Dogg was the top act for rival Death Row Records in Los Angeles, California.
The battle was fought largely through public pronouncements and antagonistic lyrics, but it did occasionally spill into violence. |
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