Twenty years ago this month, on September 13, 1994, Puff Daddy’s Bad Boy Records released its first album, The Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die. Twenty years after this introductory project, Puff Daddy, who continues to drive the Bad Boy ship, spoke with GQ about his start.
“I got an opportunity one night when [mega-successful R&B producer] Teddy Riley didn’t show up to the studio,” Puff Daddy says. “He had a session at Chung King, this famous studio downtown. So I said, ‘I’m just gonna utilize this time.’ I had this idea, which was influenced by the mixtapes of Brucie B. and Kid Capri: They would blend Hip Hop beats with R&B a cappellas. I took one of Jodeci’s a cappellas and put an EPMD beat underneath it, and it was the first record I produced: ‘Come and Talk to Me,’ the remix.”
After this, Puff went on to launch Bad Boy, signing several acts, including Biggie, Ma$e and The LOX. Jadakiss, who signed as a member of the L.O.X. crew, says he was thrilled when he signed with the imprint.
“Getting on Bad Boy was like being the top pick in the draft,” he says, “Going to play with the Bulls when Mike was there. It put the battery in our back.”
Russell Simmons, who’s had his own long-running success in Hip Hop, says he’s watched Puff succeed through adversity.
“It looked like Puffy was finished a hundred times,” he says in the GQ piece. “It don’t make no difference. No matter how many times you stab him, Puff ain’t gonna lay down. He’s a survivor. He’ll reinvent himself.”
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bad boy!!! take that take that
i thought craig mack was the first release
And the first one on the label to go Gold….then Platinum…
pretty crazy if u think that biggie’s first album dropped Sept. 13th, and 2 years later Pac died that same date, “ready to die”?
From Biggie to French Montana? lol
What’s wrong with French Montana? He’s an amazing and talented lyricist.
Macks was released a week later.
it’s ALL ’bout BIGGIE’s “LIFE AFTER DEATH” ting, to me.
Puffy still owns biggies publishing he stole millions from the LOX had shyne do 10 years to save his own ass and nearly every other artist he has signed is fucked over robbed left struggling or career is dead . He a piece of shit for real hope he dances his ass in front a speeding truck
100% true!!! Fuck Diddy!!
Biggie’s momma won his publishlng from Puff a couple of years ago dumbass.
she won it? he was supposed to be biggie best friend he should of handed it over to his moms or put the royalty money in a trust fund for biggies kids as soon as he died. How many millions you think puffy made in 18 years off that shit
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Brief Breakdown Of Lives Sean Combs Has Destroyed
1991-Nine students at City College of New York killed during stampede from overbooked event
1995-Jake Robles killed in Atlanta at the Platinum House (Allegedly by Anthony Wolf Jones Puffs right hand man)
1996-2Pac allegedly killed by Southside Crips as revenge for a beating that was revenge for a Death Row chain being snatched for a Sean Combs bounty
1997-Notorious B.I.G. killed in Los Angeles as revenge for murders of Pac and Jake Robles
1998-After penning and recording several multi platinum hits attempts to pay The Lox with fresh pairs of matching Air Force 1s
1999-Steve Stoute brutally attacked with champagne bottles and turned from a stand up man into Mr. Scarf Hands
1999-Ma$e leaves label at peak of his popularity after repeated alleged homosexual advances and becomes a bootleg T.D. Jakes
2000-Multiple shooting at Club New York in Manhattan after throwing money in the face of gangsters. Black woman loses eye.
2001-Jamal Shyne Barrow sentenced to 10 years in prison for saving Puffys life. Would later be deported.
2002- MTV Making Da Band. The list of tragedies probably deserve its own thread *see Chopper Suit.
2003-Anthony Wolf Jones finally murdered in an Atlanta club, allegedly by members of BMF on orders from Big Meech for multiple transgressions (including being shot in the azz by Wolf) Forever changing the landscape of one Atlantas most affluent and diverse party districts.
2004-Co-Creates a Rap The Vote campaign to get c000ns to support John Kerry the weakest democratic candidate since Walter Mondale. Loses to George W. Bush. Months later Katrina happens.
2005-Loon departs Bad Boy records in dispute over unpaid royalties. Turns Muslim.
2006-Black Rob forced to turn back into a life of crime and become a jewel thief after being refused royalties for platinum smash Whoa. Sentenced to 7 years in prison.
2007-Partners with Ciroc, causing single mothers to neglect their children and Black men to skip child support p@yments in an endless chase to cop his high-priced Kool Aid
2008-Puffy stars as the lead in Raisin In The Sun, destroying the credibility of co-stars Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald and director Kenny Leon
2010-Broke and addicted to drugs G-Dep confesses to a murder he committed in 1993. sentenced to 15 years to life.
2011-Signs Machine Gun Kelley
2013-Muslim Loon convicted of drug trafficking in Germany. Sentenced to 14 years in prison
2014-One wounded, prominent DJ arrested after shooting at The Velvet Room in Atlanta following a Puffy Combs Rick Ross album release party.
2014 (yeah again)-Two shot and wounded at a crowded hotel party thrown by Sean Puffy Combs in Charlotte, NC following the CIAA Tournament . The shooting occurred in the gated off VIP area. Rumor has it Ciroc was flowing in abundance prior to shootings..
classic as always fuck MGK he the biggest attention seeking fake wigger poser around I have never seen a rapper try so hard at faking it and been so see thru his fans are the fucking emo’s of rap as well
dont forget all the cheap posthoumous biggie albums/cash grabs, disrespecting the dead man who put him on for money he doesnt need, all while denying the family royalties. id also add plugging ciroc on the ferguson “dont shoot” song. I mean really?