1. This question was put to him by (among others) Michael Spector in "I Am Fashion: Guess Who Puff Daddy Wants to Be?"New Yorker, September 9, 2002, hardly an unsophisticated source. Combs's reply provides the epigraph of this paper.
2. Stan Godlovitch,Musical Performance: A Philosophical Study(London: Routledge, 1998).
3. Saying, Singing, or Semiotics: "Prima la Musica e poi le Parole" Revisited
4. Race, Ethnicity, Expressive Authenticity: Can White People Sing the Blues?
5. Art infraction: Goodman, rap, pragmatism