"I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage"
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The subtext, though, is about power and proximity. These aren’t just gifts; they’re forms of access that fans manufacture when the usual channels are closed. The voicemail serenade collapses distance. The flashing and lingerie offerings turn the stage into a marketplace where intimacy is the currency and the artist is the bank. Puff’s delivery frames it as anecdotal comedy, a “can you believe this?” montage, but it also normalizes a set of boundary violations that the culture around male rap stardom has often treated as proof of virility rather than as something to question.
Context matters: this is late-90s/early-2000s celebrity logic, when fan devotion was measured in spectacle and an artist’s aura was built on excess. The bras and underwear are old rock-star mythology, imported into hip-hop’s own empire-building era. Puff Daddy positions himself not just as a musician but as a magnet for projection, where fans don’t merely listen; they perform their devotion publicly. The brag is the point, and the unease is the aftertaste.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Daddy, Puff. (2026, January 15). I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-had-fans-make-me-the-big-picture-collages-168308/
Chicago Style
Daddy, Puff. "I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-had-fans-make-me-the-big-picture-collages-168308/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-had-fans-make-me-the-big-picture-collages-168308/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.


