You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to catch P. Diddy kicking off his day - but luckily, we just happened to be up!

We caught the hip-hop/fashion/skin care magnate leaving the Beverly Hills Hotel early Monday morning.

Think he might have been heading off for the gym? After all, Diddy did just tell Parade that he's been "reading a lot of scripts", and that he wants to hit the weight room to get ready!

“I’m reading a lot of scripts," Diddy told the mag, "and there may be a scene where I have to jump out the window of a burning building with my shirt off. I want to look right.”

Sounds like we'll be seeing Diddy around town a lot more in the near future!