#TBT: That Time Making The Band Served A Giant Slice Of Humble Pie

Way back in 2002, Making the Musical group 2 was hardly a cakewalk…or, more accurately, a cheesecake walk.


As fans of the show will remember, Da Musical group — made up of Sara Stokes, Dylan Dilinjah, Frederick “Freddy P” Watson, Rodney “Chopper” Hill, Lloyd “Ness” Mathis, and Lynese “Babs” Wiley — thought that winning the show’s competition and earning a record contract meant there was smooth celeb-sailing ahead. Big bossman Diddy, though, rapidly cut them down to size, and in the #TBT clip below, he decides he’s famished for a little bit cheesecake -- and chooses his five hip-hop proteges as his makeshift waitstaff.


In the video, Diddy challenges the order to walk all of the way from Midtown Manhattan to Brooklyn’s famed Junior’s, renowned for its cheesecake (according to Google Maps, it’s no much less than a five-mile trip, complete with a trek over the Manhattan Bridge). And while Diddy’s task seems cold (literally speaking, also, because the segment was filmed as winter in New York approached), he insisted there was a lesson worth learning.


“It’s not about me attempting to do a mean-spirited initiation hazing act,” Diddy says in the clip below. “There’s a bigger picture to it. In the world of music, I have to get up daily and do a bunch of sh*t I don’t wanna do.”


But Da Musical group hardly takes kindly to the task, with some members threatening to jump ship.


“If I’m going to Brooklyn, I’m going the f*ck home,” Babs says, tears streaming down her face. “That’s where the f*ck I live!”


The order proceeds to put up a fight, insisting to Diddy that the mission is just a punitive process of humiliation. However the Bad Boy boss makes things very clear: Any protests are signs of the group’s ego taking over, and if they determine against the walk, they’ll be dismissed from the label immediately.


and thus, there’s a little more crying, complaining as well as a couple of incredulous smiles. Finally, though, the sort goes — for hours and hours — up until the cheesecake is procured.


And just once it seems like the horror is over, Babs drops a slice onto the sidewalk, leaving the crust crumbled and the filling spilling out into the container.


By then, Junior’s is closed, and all hope seems lost. However a benevolent Junior’s manager reopens the door, a substitute slice is secured, and all is beneficial with the world again.


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