“Coming Home” is a track by American rapper and producer Diddy and his group Dirty Money, from their debut album Last Train to Paris (2010). It was launched on November 21, 2010, because the album’s fourth single. The modern hip-hop pop music was written by Jermaine Cole, Diddy, Jay-Z, Alex da Kid, and Skylar Grey. Kid and Jay-Z produced the track whereas Grey featured vocals on the music’s refrain. Jay-Z and Kid gifted the track to Diddy for Last Train to Paris. Autobiographically written, “Coming Home” is impressed by moments in Diddy’s life, the lack of his shut pal The Notorious O.I.M., and references to basic songs by Dionne Warwick, McFadden & Whitehead, and Smokey Robinson & the Miracles.
Critics praised the redemptive ballad for the private themes and lyrics which have been a snapshot of Diddy’s life. Praise was additionally given for Grey’s smooth vocals which complemented the heat of the music. An accompanying music video, directed by Rich Lee, follows the trio wandering by way of the desert seeking house solely to seek out burned belongings and the shell of a house. Singled out as one of many album’s highlights, “Coming Home” was promoted with stay TV performances together with on the American Music Awards on November 21, 2010, the WWE Tribute to the Troops live performance, and the March 10, 2011 episode of American Idol which marked the primary stay efficiency of the track that includes Skylar Grey. The track can also be one of many theme songs for WWE WrestleMania 29.
To date, “Coming Home” is Diddy-Dirty Money’s most profitable single and the very best charting single from Last Train to Paris. Aside from amassing a million digital gross sales, it peaked at quantity eleven on the D.R. Billboard Hot one hundred and quantity 9 in Canada. Internationally, the only topped each Belgium Ultratip charts and the Swiss Singles Chart, in addition to reaching prime 5 within the UK. This comes along with breaking onto the A-playlists on British city music radio and mainstream radio, and topping the UK J&O Singles chart for 3 consecutive weeks.
