In Fighting at Bad Boy?

When the Hoodfellaz released their mixtape dissing Da Band, the newest group on the Bad Boy label, they were expecting P.Diddy to take notice. They got what they wished for. But as the saying goes “Be careful what you wish for”. The Hoodlfellaz, who signed to the label in 2001, feels it may be time to part ways with the label if they can’t get a chance to put out their music. Their anger at being put on the back burner of the label grew even more when Da Band released their album within six months of signing with the label. “A lot of tension is building,” the Hoodfellaz’s member, 21-year-old Don Morock, told MTV. “I just think it’s time to part ways. We’re hurt. We wanted to rock with him … we thought he wanted to rock with us. Now this is how we’re showing our anger.”

“He’s talking about how he’s running the New York Marathon ‘for the kids,’ ” 18-year-old Blassy said. “I got a kid, Morock got a kid, what about our kids?” The group has said they recorded an entire catalog of songs since they have been signed that hasn’t been released. For them, no single equals no money. “On the real, we ain’t eating over there,” 19-year-old Sim said. “They’re not paying bills over there. We with the richest man in hip-hop and we gotta do our own thing to get paper.” Although they feel a single from them would be a sure hit, P. Diddy disagrees.

After Hoodfellaz told him they would release a diss record against DA Band, Diddy told them it wasn’t smart. “I said that it wasn’t really the right move,” Diddy said. “The record wasn’t that hot … anyway. If you’re gonna put out a dis record, you better make somebody go to church. Get them meditating and praying for forgiveness if you gonna make a dis record. When you do something on Bad Boy, do it all the way or don’t do it at all. At Bad Boy, we don’t go against the grain of each other. We move in silence, we don’t make dis records. That was a mistake that they made. They’re young and as the father of Bad Boy, I will handle everything with them. They’ll learn from this mistake. I just [want to] make sure that Da Band stays focused on what they have to do. And then when I have time after the marathon, I’ll sit down and I’ll talk to the Hoodfellaz. And I’ll handle it like the way we handle family problems — handle it in a positive way and move on.”