I wonder if Diddy’s goal in doing Making the Band was to make a successful, multiplatinum band or just make a band. I know that the show is called “Making the Band,” but Diddy has a reputation of putting bands together and leaving them out to dry after they make an album or two.

Most of the albums are successful, going gold and even platinum, but somehow most of the groups seem to dissolve before our eyes.

I guess that even if the group is successful, he will make his money and disband the group if he sees any problems, which is his job as the CEO of Bad Boy Records. Let’s just look at the evidence; in 2002, the first season of the MTV series Making The Band 2 premiered with Diddy starting his own talent search for rappers and singers. He made the hip-hop group, which consisted of rappers Babs, Ness, Frederick, Chopper aka Young City, singer Sara Stokes and reggae artist Dylan John.

Their career was effectively ended after just one album, when Diddy dissolved the group during the season finale.

Even though their debut album, Too Hot For TV, was released in September of 2003, and was certified gold selling 600,000 copies, Diddy felt the need to dissolve the group for business reasons.

The latest example of Diddy’s “make a band to break a band” reputation is with perhaps his most successful group to date, Danity Kane.

On the season finale of Making the Band 3, Diddy had a meeting with the group to discuss the future of the group. He ended up kicking Aubrey O’Day out of the group and another member, D. Woods, left the group.

The two were close friends and had become known as “Ebony and Ivory”, which formed into a cliqué in the group.

Diddy asked what problems were holding the group back, and that seemed to be the biggest one. Am I the only one that thinks that Diddy did the right thing by kicking Aubrey out of the group? She was just getting to be too much for me with all of the big hair, too much make-up, and overtly sexual behavior.

If you go back and watch the first episode of Making the Band 3, when she was unknown, she was still outspoken but grounded at the same time. Put a before and an after picture together, you will think that there were two different people.

I think that Diddy gave her one too many compliments in the beginning and the group’s newfound fame made her bigheaded, especially since she was the first one picked for the group.

I don’t think that Diddy intended to kick her and D. Woods out of the group at their meeting. When he came into the room, he just wanted to voice concerns about the vision and image of the group, which was mainly because of Aubrey.

However, she just started questioning Diddy about Dawn’s impending solo career, like he was her friend or something and not her boss.

It is just hypocritical how she could call out Dawn for pursuing a solo career and she was starring in Hairspray on Broadway.

She was not being introduced as “Aubrey O’Day of Danity Kane,” but just Aubrey O’Day. Even if they were planning a solo career for Dawn, which she knew nothing about at the time, Diddy did not have to discuss it with her.

She was just jealous that Bad Boy executives were talking about pursuing Dawn’s solo career, as if she was not on that path herself being on Broadway.

• laporsha lowry