I guess the story would have been much to do about nothing had it been Puffy's personal ride. However, since I guess the interviewer along with many of us were taken aback when we learned it was for a kid, this story created a buzz.
Now while I've shied away from gossipy celebrity topics, which really has no effect on my earnings (or for that matter the earnings of the general population as a whole), since amicably parting ways a year ago from AOL's BlackVoices. I decided I would stay true to my brand and focus on car-buying education for minorities, as opposed to automotive celebrity topics, which I despised covering. Yet, this is one topic worth having my say, since I was actually glued to the TV at the time this news program aired.
While I never thought much of the question or the interview, until I read recently on a reliable entertainment blog, that Puffy was now referring to the interviewer, Martin Bushir, as asking a racist question, as it relates to buying his teen son a Maybach. Now I thought this comment by Puffy was out of line.
While I am proud of Puffy's ability to hustle and to constantly recreate himself, some of his decisions are questionable. If Puffy really wants to be a trend-setter as opposed to a follower, he should strongly consider mimicking self-made investment billionaire Warren Buffet, who invested over $200 million in a Chinese automotive company two years ago, building green vehicles. (Now according to a number of auto industry experts, their predicting by the year 2030, at least half of the vehicles on the road will be powered by electric batteries.)
