Bad Boy Records

That was Bonnie and Shine.

And then Bad Boys.

Notorious

B.I.G.' 's Bad Boys?

Yes.

Yes, yes, yes.

When I hear Bad Boys, that's all I think.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Stevie J was born in 1971, R&B producer and songwriter.

He produced late 90s classics for Bad Boy Records, including for artists like The Notorious B.I.G., Nelly was born in 1974, a rapper who dominated the early 2000s music charts with Hot in Here and Dilemma.

Prodigy was born in 1974, real name Albert Johnson.

He was a rapper who is one half of the East Coast hip-hop duo Mobb Deep.

This led Mottola to give her a management deal, and this led to the release of her first single, Me and You, which then was heard by Diddy.

who liked it so much that he partnered his Bad Boy Records with Leslie's company to release Cassie's debut album.

He also ended up dating her for just over a decade.

Unfortunately for Cassie.

Bad performance and a dodgy performing single, you can't really recover from that.

And in some ways, Cassie never did.

Bad Boy Records had to deny rumours in mid-2007 that they had dropped Cassie, at the time saying she was working with some of the biggest producers of the time like Kanye West and Pharrell Williams.

for her second album, although that second album has never materialised.

And the context to all of this, Neil, is this huge feud and rivalry going on in the hip-hop world.

The two biggest stars at the time, Tupac, who was with Death Row Records, and Biggie Smalls, who was with Bad Boy Records.

That was run by Puff Daddy or P. Diddy or whatever he's called now.

So this was all...

Well, it started out with Suge Knight and Death Row Records.

As Suge was founding Death Row Records and developing its image and its reputation, he was from Compton, California, and there was a gang in that neighborhood that was established known as the Pirus, the Mob Piru.

And so when Suge was developing... gang rap music at his label he wanted to also have that type of imagery and reputation so he began to recruit friends from the neighborhood to be members of his entourage and be members and employees at death row records so he began to hire these blood gang members Once the rivalry started out between Sean Combs and Suge Knight, Death Row Records and Bad Boy Records, it was incumbent upon Sean Combs to begin to think about his own security and safety when he came to Los Angeles.

So he then began to recruit the enemies of Suge's blood gang, which was a gang called the Southside Crips, also from Compton.

Mr. Shooter, who worked for Diddy from 2002 to 2004, said Mr. Combs was a pivotal moment in his career when he started working for the rapper.

Mr. Combs had founded Bad Boy Records in 1993, a label that represented some of the biggest names in hip-hop, including artists like Notorious B.I.G. and Usher.

In 1998, he created the Sean John clothing line that later became a cultural phenomenon.

From there, he dipped into fragrances, alcohol, and even set up a media company, becoming the host of multiple reality shows where he would discover new talent and make people stars.

bad boy he's a bad bad boy here comes the money bad boy comedy and i'll be bad things have gotten so nasty i'm the bad boy because i'm so damn wholesome

yeah i just got on bad boy records uh but all the news tells me it's a really bad deal what

They're calling me an indentured

servant.

They signed TLC, Tony Braxton, Usher, Outkast, and Pink.

In 1994, after Diddy was fired from Uptown Records, he, with the help of Arista Records, created Bad Boy Records.

This was a 50-50 venture between Arista and Diddy.

They signed artists like Notorious B.I.G., Faith Evans, Mase, and eventually Diddy also started creating music.

We know, according to his book and his Wikipedia page, that Clive was in a relationship with a man from about 1990 to 2004.

That was the first of two long-term relationships that he had with men.

He never revealed who his lover was, but it's not crazy to think it was Diddy, especially because during that time, Bad Boy Records was created and thrived.

Diddy's life really changed during this time, and he was with women, but never for a long time.

But it's really, yeah.

Once we start to get into like 92, 93, the emergence of like Death Row Records, Bad Boy Records.

You know, you have other artists like, you know, you know, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg blowing up, Tupac is blowing up, Notorious B.I.G. is blowing up.

And the industry just sort of shifts, you know, its center of gravity towards artists.

If it's not the Disney person that's cooked, it's their partner that's cooked.

Nah, Disney's worse than Bad Boy Records.

Holy...

Not even Empire.

Was there a fight? Was there not a fight? Did somebody slip getting off the massage table? Now Diddy's reportedly been transferred to another prison.

This man went from Bad Boy Records to Bad Boy Relocations.

And I've got one last question.

If Diddy starts a record label in prison, does every album come with a free phone call? Ladies and gentlemen, you can't make this up.