Don’t expect Sean Combs to respond to any of his former monikers – Diddy, P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Puff, etc. 
 
 On Saturday, the media mogul announced he’ll be going by Love or Brother Love moving forward. 
 
 “I decided to change my name again,” he said on Twitter from a seaside location. “I’m just not who I am before. I’m something different. So, my new name is Love, aka Brother Love.” 
 
 “I’ve been praying on this…,” he explained. “I know it’s risky. It could come off as corny to some people.” 
 
 The announcement came on his 48th birthday. ||||| If you have a hard time keeping up with the shifting names of rappers and music moguls these days (there have been a lot of changes over the years!), don't worry about Diddy's announcement this past weekend. 
 
 It turns out, when he announced he was changing his name to "Love" or "Brother Love" on Saturday, he was just fooling us all. 
 
 "Today I've come to the conclusion that you cannot play with the internet," Diddy said in a video posted on Monday. 
 
 "Due to the overwhelming response from the media out there, and just due to there not wanting to be any confusion…I was only joking. Okay?” he explained. “I didn’t change my name. It’s just part of one of my alter egos. One of my alter egos is Love.” 
 
 I see you can't play with the internet 😎❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ be calm. Spread LOVE. A post shared by Diddy (@diddy) on Nov 6, 2017 at 4:22pm PST 
 
 "But to set the record straight, because I have a lot of press to do in the next couple of weeks, you can address me by any of my older name," he said. "But, if you still wanna call me Love, you can call me Love, baby. But, I was only playing," he continued before laughing. 
 
 Nice one, Diddy. ||||| Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs was awarded an honorary doctorate from Howard University on Saturday morning during a ceremony where the hip-hop mogul delivered the commencement address. 
 
 Watch Puff Daddy Enlist Your Favorite Rapper for ‘Big Homie’ Video 
 
 “Ain’t no homecoming like a Howard homecoming,” Combs told the crowd, according to Billboard. Combs had attended Howard as a business major for two years before dropping out in 1990, and he spoke to the crowd of new graduates about the impact his time at the Washington, DC university made on his life. “Howard University didn’t just change my life – it entered my soul, my heart, my being and my spirit,” he said as he received his honorary degree in humanities. “Nobody is going to invite you to the front of the line, you got to push your way to the front of the line.” 
 
 Combs was recognized by the university on Saturday alongside CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, surgeon Clive Callender, jazz saxophonist Benny Golson and PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi. 
 
 “We are honored to have Mr. Combs serve as our speaker,” Howard’s interim President Wayne Frederick said in a statement. “He sat in classrooms where our students sit, walked ‘The Yard,’ and like many students, his entrepreneurial spirit was sparked at Howard.” 
 
 The Bad Boy Records founder and entrepreneur has put out music under a host of names, including Puffy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Puff Daddy and his own real name. He announced in March that he was going back to Puff Daddy, just before releasing his new single, “Big Homie.” “You could go to any hood / Bet they know me,” he declares on the track. Perhaps from now on, they’ll know him as Dr. Combs.
– The artist who has been known as Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Puffy, Diddy, and so forth appeared to have given himself yet another name change for his 48th birthday—but he's since revealed it was just a joke. The rapper and media mogul, who was born Sean Combs, tweeted Saturday that his "new name is LOVE aka Brother Love," Page Six reports. "I'm just not who I am before. I'm something different," he said, per the New York Daily News. He said he had been "praying" on the "very serious decision," which he admitted "could come off as corny to some people." He added: "I will not be answering to Puffy, Diddy, Puff Daddy, or any of my other monikers but Love or Brother Love." But after what Diddy calls an "overwhelming response from the media" to his announcement, the rapper clarified in a video Sunday that he was not actually being serious, Mashable reports. "Today I've come to the conclusion that you cannot play with the internet," he said. "Just due to there not wanting to be any confusion ... I was only joking. OK? I didn’t change my name. It’s just part of one of my alter egos. One of my alter egos is Love.” But, he assured fans, "You can address me by any of my older name. But, if you still wanna call me Love, you can call me Love, baby." (Vodka helped make Brother Love the highest-paid celebrity of 2017.)