Last Train to Paris, Diddy Dirty Money's debut album, is one of the most underrated albums of all time. It's truly the jam, full of moody, melodic, weird R&B, and Diddy's super-sick billion dollar production, it's like all the pop Diddy sometimes gets maligned for melted away and became an raw, honest diary of heartbreak and yearning. He flanked himself with the ultra-talented songwriting wrecking crew of Kalenna Harper and Dawn Richard (who previously was in Diddy's Making the Band girl group Danity Kane), and a slew of collaborators-only-Diddy-could-pull including Grace Jones, Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown, Drake, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, T.I., Bilal, Swizz Beatz, Wiz Khalifa, Anna Wintour, Andre Leon Talley, Marc Jacobs, Zac Posen, Tommy Hilfiger, and Isaac Mizrahi. Phew. Then Diddy made the suavest, most cinematic, complete album that came out last year. It's a concept album. Who puts those out anymore!? Who put those out in the first place? Prog-rock bands? Kate Bush?

Enough gushing about Diddy and his exceeding our already high expectations; there is a purpose to this post. See, the most recent Diddy Dirty Money MYMAG release is curated by the-man-of-a-thousand-monikers himself and features yours truly, Flaunt Magazine. Those classy ladies in Dirty Money hand-picked our interview with the late legend Alexander McQueen from Flaunt Issue 95, as well as a fashion story featuring Mr. McQueen's Fall 2009 collection from our Issue 106. Moreover, they lead the section off with an image of our Issue 97 cover, by the artist Amie Dicke. Thanks for all the love, ladies.



MYMAG basically puts the editorship in the hands of a different person of note every issue, and Diddy Dirty Money do a bang-up job. Diddy's selections offer up a view of rare snapshots from his life, the first ever article written on Diddy from Vibe Magazine's September 1993 issue, articles on Rick Ross, Biggie, Mary J. Blige, and The Rat Pack. Harper starts off with an interview in which she reveals she has an alpaca farm, and goes on to give us a selection of iconic Grace Jones images, while Richard submits a surprisingly wordy digest that includes a reprinting of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," a William Blake poem, and an issue of the Tank Girl comic. To top it all off, there are features on Marylin Manson, David Bowie, Muhammad Ali, and Diddy's mixing engineer Jaycen Joshua. Plus, the cover is in 3D. MyMag? More like MySwag.