Editing Sean Combs (section)

===1999–2000: ''Forever''===
[[File:P Diddy 2000.jpg|thumb|upright=.85|Combs at the 2000 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]]
In April 1999, Combs was charged with assaulting [[Steve Stoute]] of [[Interscope Records]]. Stoute was the manager for [[Nas]], with whom Combs had filmed a video earlier that year for the song "[[Hate Me Now]]". Combs was concerned that the video, which featured a shot of Nas and Combs being crucified, was blasphemous.<ref name="Sinclair 1999">{{Cite magazine |last=Sinclair |first=Tom |date=April 30, 1999 |title=Rough Daddy |url=https://ew.com/article/1999/04/30/sean-combs-charged-assault/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123060602/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,273202,00.html |archive-date=November 23, 2012 |access-date=May 22, 2012 |url-status=live |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> He asked for his scenes on the cross to be pulled, but after the video aired unedited on MTV on April 15, Combs visited Stoute's offices and injured Stoute.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wartofsky |first=Alona |date=April 17, 1999 |title='Puffy' Combs Arrested In Assault |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/04/17/puffy-combs-arrested-in-assault/a882ce92-67d1-40a7-bffa-e72e3c719621/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828022638/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/04/17/puffy-combs-arrested-in-assault/a882ce92-67d1-40a7-bffa-e72e3c719621/ |archive-date=August 28, 2017 |access-date=November 17, 2023 |newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref>

''[[Forever (Puff Daddy album)|Forever]]'', Combs's second solo studio album, was released by Bad Boy Records on August 24, 1999, in North America, and in the UK on the following day. It reached number two on the ''Billboard'' 200 and number one on the [[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums]] chart,<ref name="Billboard: Forever" /> before being ousted the following week by Mary J. Blige's fourth album, ''[[Mary (Mary J. Blige album)|Mary]]''. The album received positive to mixed reviews from music critics and spawned three singles that have charted on the [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']] charts. It peaked at number four on the [[Canadian Albums Chart]], Combs's highest-charting album in that country.<ref name="Billboard: Forever" />