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Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G., the two main figures of the East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry, prior to the conflict in 1993 in Los Angeles. In 1993, fledgling A&R executive and record producer Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs founded the New York-centered hip-hop label, Bad Boy Records.
The song was released for digital download on March 24, [88] and two days later the trailer for the music video was released. The full version of the music video was released on March 31. Combs used his former stage name Puff Daddy for the album. [89] MMM was released as a free mixtape album of 12 tracks on November 4, 2015. [90]
Death Row Records is an American record label that was founded in 1991 by The D.O.C., Dr. Dre, Suge Knight, and Dick Griffey. [8] The label became a sensation by releasing multi-platinum hip-hop albums by West Coast-based artists such as Dr. Dre (The Chronic), Snoop Dogg and 2Pac (All Eyez on Me) during the 1990s.
Sean “Diddy” Combs casts a long shadow over the history of hip hop. One of the industry’s first moguls, his work as an A&R executive, label boss, rapper and producer made him both ...
Diddy managed Tupac’s rival the Notorious B.I.G., who was also murdered in a drive-by shooting in the early hours of March 9, 1997, in Los Angeles at age 24. Diddy has long fended off internet ...
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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 ...
However, Tupac was imprisoned at the time of the 1995 Source Awards, and (despite some prior tension) conflict was not particularly expected at the show. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first hour was mostly celebratory, featuring long medleys from both Bad Boy and Death Row, although one notable disturbance was the reception given to OutKast by the mostly pro ...