Then, after a chance encounter and pure hustle, Puffy finally found his way to Clive Davis’s Arista where he got the deal of a lifetime and a chance to start his fledgling company, Bad Boy Entertainment. Little did they know that the guy from “Party And Bullshit” was a bona fide star who’d combine the storytelling of Rakim with the quips and charisma of LL Cool J mixed in with the hardcore edge of N.W.A. for free from Uptown/MCA as the coffer seemed full of surefire talents the likes of Mary J Blige, Jodeci, and Heavy D and The Boyz. Like the Europeans that robbed the sliver of land that would eventually become Manhattan, Puffy practically got B.I.G. But his most recent acquisition, a cherubic super-emcee by the name of The Notorious B.I.G., was still signed to the label that Andre Harrell built though they obviously did not know what they had. Puff had just come off being fired from Uptown/MCA since, it seemed, he was only in the service of his own ego. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s been two full decades since Biggie kicked in the door of the Hip Hop landscape with Ready To Die simultaneously changing the East Coast Rap game while creating two megastars out of the aforementioned and Sean “Puffy” Combs.
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