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Bad Boy Entertainment, doing business as Bad Boy Records, is an American record label founded in 1993 by Sean "Puffy" Combs. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] During the mid-1990s, the label signed hip hop and contemporary R&B artists, beginning with the Notorious B.I.G.
Sean John Combs was born on November 4, 1969, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.Raised in Mount Vernon, New York, [21] his mother Janice Combs (née Smalls) was a model and teacher's assistant, [22] and his father, Melvin Earl Combs, served in the U.S. Air Force and was an associate of convicted New York drug dealer Frank Lucas.
Combs, also known as “Puff Daddy,” didn’t pretend to be a choir boy, branding his business Bad Boy Entertainment. There were run-ins with police (one famously involving his then girlfriend ...
He is best known for his work with Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Records. [1] Pierre was born in New York City to Haitian parents. [2] [3] He was the first staffer of Bad Boy Records upon its launch in 1993, and promptly left Uptown Records to join the label following Puff Daddy's departure.
Puff Daddy & The Family are set to perform on May 20, the day before Notorious B.I.G.'s birthday, to celebrate 20 years of Bad Boy Entertainment.
After Life After Death, Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Records continued to bring pop and gangsta rap closer together: the references to violence and drug dealing remained, as did the "gangsta" rhetoric, but the previously dark production changed to a cleaner, sample-heavy, more upbeat sound that was fashioned for the pop charts, as seen in the single ...
It has been 25 years since Diddy's first White Party, which was held Sept. 7, 1998, over Labor Day weekend. The annual tradition began when Sean Combs (currently known as Diddy but variously known ...
The Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour was a joint concert tour headlined by Puff Daddy and featured various past and present artists from Bad Boy Entertainment. [1] The tour earned $117.5 million from 19 shows, selling 1,208,508 tickets.