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. ||||| 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. ||||| "I have some very serious news," he said in a video uploaded to Twitter. "I've been praying on this and… I knew it was risky, 'cause it could come off as corny to some people, (but) I decided to change my name again."
– 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.)