Long before he was shoveling musical manure down the collective throat of the world, Diddy enjoyed Amish summers where he got to practice with the real thing. Here is part of Contact Music's report:

Rap mogul SEAN COMBS spent his childhood summers with an Amish family, shovelling horse manure every morning. The 37-year-old New Yorker's mother enrolled him in the Fresh Air Fund, an organisation for inner-city kids to spend time in rural communities, each year.