Last night, Diddy put the Internet into a frenzy when he revealed that he had an upcoming guest spot on the hit-series Downton Abbeyexcept that the whole thing proved to be a joke orchestrated by the Bad Boy mogul and the folks over at Funny Or Die. While the joke's on pretty much the whole hip-hop world who believed him, it got us thinking about the myriad roles that he's occupied over the past decade and a half.

Now, here is XXL's visual timeline of the evolution of Sean "Diddy" Combs."

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