Genres: Urban, East Coast Rap, Pop-Rap, Pop Active: 90's, 2000's Born: November 4, 1969 in New York, NY [Harlem]
Lil' Kim, Black Rob, The LOX, Timbaland, Junior M.A.F.I.A., Faith Evans, Jermaine Dupri, Craig Mack, Nas, Domino, Foxy Brown, AZ Fabolous, Cam'ron, Milano, Faith Evans, Yung Joc, Hector el Father, T-Pain, Chris Brown, Boyz N da Hood, Murphy Lee, Don Omar, Akon, Joe Budden, Tyga, Shaquille O'Neal, Donnie Klang |  |
The biggest hip-hop impresario of the mid-'90s, Sean Combs -- known as Puff Daddy both here and in the world of rap until his professional name change to P. Diddy, then just Diddy -- created a multi-million-dollar industry around Bad Boy Entertainment, with recordings by the Notorious B.I.G., Craig Mack, Faith Evans, 112, and Total all produced and masterminded by Combs himself. Responsible for over $100 million in total record sales and named ASCAP's 1996 Songwriter of the Year, Combs was, on the other hand, criticized by many in the hip-hop community for watering down the sound of the underground and also for a perceived over-reliance on samples as practically the sole basis for many of his hits. A very successful A&R executive at Uptown Records during the early '90s responsible for sizeable hit records by Father MC, Mary J. Blige, and Jodeci, Combs formed his own Bad Boy label, signed B.I.G., Evans, and Mack, and earned enough hits to cement an alliance with Arista Records.
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Release: March 30, 2010
Label: Interscope
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Release: 2010
Label: Interscope
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