Artist: Diddy Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Press Play Year: 2006
Tracks: 19
The biggest hip-hop promoter of the mid-'90s, Sean Combs -- known as Puff Daddy both here and in the earthly concern of tap until his professional convey up change to P. Diddy, and so barely Diddy -- created a multi-million-dollar industry about Badly Boy Entertainment, with recordings by the Notorious B.I.G., Craig Mackintosh, Faith Herbert McLean Evans, 112, and Total entirely produced and masterminded by Combs himself. Responsible for o'er $100 single m m in come phonograph recording gross revenue and named ASCAP's 1996 Songwriter of the Year, Combs was, on the other hand, criticized by many in the knock music residential district for watering push down the sound of the subway and besides for a sensed over-reliance on samples as much the sole ground for many of his hits. A identical successful A&R executive theater director at Uptown Records during the ahead of time '90s creditworthy for sizable send off records by Father MC, Blessed Virgin J. Blige, and Jodeci, Combs formed his have Badly Boy tag, signed B.I.G., Evans, and Mac, and earned sufficiency hits to cement an confederation with Arista Records. A extremely publicized feud with Death Row Records (in which Tupac Shakur and label pass Suge Knight served as Benjamin West Coast/Dark Side equivalents to the Notorious B.I.G. and Combs) was summarily altogether over in tardily 1996, when Shakur was murdered and Knight jailed. Sextuplet months after, the Notorious B.I.G. was dead as well, and after Combs mourned his friend's death, he make the pop charts in a freehanded way of life during his biggest twelvemonth, 1997.
Innate in Harlem in 1969, Sean Combs fatigued much of his childhood in nearby Mt. Vernon, NY. Already a calculative businessman through his two newsprint publishing firm routes, Combs applied to Howard University in Washington D.C., D.C., and patch care, positive puerility quaker Heavy D to sign him up as an intern at the label for which he recorded, Uptown Records. Several months after, he was an A&R executive manager with his sights set on the frailty governing, portion as the executive producer for Father MC's 1990 album
Father's Day, which became a attain. Successful albums followed for The Virgin J. Blige (
What's the 411?) and Heavy D & the Boyz (
Blue-blooded Funk) during 1992, though Combs was dismissed from Uptown by the next yr (in whole probability because he was a bit
excessively challenging).
He worked as a remixer during 1993 and sic up Badly Male child Entertainment as his own venture, running the label out of his apartment during long hours with just several employees. After more than a year of difficult function, he finally sign language deuce hit artists: former EPMD roadie Craig Mackintosh and the Notorious B.I.G. Mack reach out the swelled time in mid-1994, when a remix of his "Flava in Ya Ear" single (featuring LL Cool down J, Busta Rhymes, Violent disorder, and the Notorious B.I.G.) strain the Top Ten-spot and became the first pt record for Badly Boy. At the extraction of 1995, B.I.G. jagged the second, when his have second hit, "Big Poppa," reached nership with Linguistic universal by releasing an overview of his
