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13 November 2008 1:06 AM, PST | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

Rap personality, Sean Combs also known as P. Diddy, will make a cameo on television soon. The Grammy and MTV Video Music Awards winner has been picked up to guest star on CBS's hit police drama series, "CSI: Miami".

Moreover, it has been reported that P. Diddy has signed a deal with CBS for two episodes' appearance on the series, scheduling to air in early next year. In the episodes, the rapper reportedly will be featured as a federal prosecutor opposite Horatio Caine, played by David Caruso, and other regular characters.

Acting is nothing new for this American top rapper because he has appeared in Jon Favreau's 2001 film, "Made", as Ruiz. He also won a starring role in Broadway play "A Raisin In The Sun".

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13 May 2008 9:03 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

When it was announced that a man professionally known as Diddy would be starring on Broadway in A Raisin In The Sun, it felt like a bad joke or the sort of comically preposterous project that would be name-dropped in a showbiz satire to spoof our culture's weakness for cheap gimmicks and the cult of celebrity. But Sean "Diddy" Combs has made a career out of proving skeptics wrong through hard work, savvy, chutzpah, and persistence. So it's an enormously pleasant surprise that Combs holds his own opposite a cast studded with Tony Award nominees in the TV movie adaptation of the Broadway production. It's even more surprising how well Lorraine Hansberry's venerable fixture holds up. Sure, it's corny, dated, preachy, stagy, and didactic, but it's also powerful, soulful, and graced with fine performances, even from superstars better known for prancing around in shiny suits than for delivering stirring monologues.

Nathan Rabin

2 articles from 2008