He produced multi-platinum albums for Jodeci and for soul-sensation Mary J. The fallout from the event didn't keep Puffy down for long.
Those close to Puffy said that he was devastated, and that it was then that he learned how to demonstrate resilience in the face of tragedy-a trait he would come to rely on heavily in the future. Nine people died in the melee, and Puffy's poor organization and failure to provide a security force were cited by authorities as the causes of the incident. A charity celebrity basketball game he organized at New York's City College came to a violent and untimely conclusion when the overcrowded and impatient audience broke into a stampede. On December 28 of that same year, 1991, Puffy had his first bitter taste of tragedy. Within a year, Harrell had crowned his intern Vice President of Promotion. In time, Puffy's promotional skills had eclipsed whole Uptown departments, and his contributions to hit singles by groups like Jodeci made him even more invaluable to the company. In fact, Harrell was so fond of Puffy that he gave him room and board, in addition to a small intern's salary. The also unproven Puffy's youthful enthusiasm thus seemed the perfect fit for Uptown, and it wasn't long before he had struck up a father-son bond with Harrell. Uptown's talent roster was mostly composed of young, unproven R&B singers, in addition to rappers like Heavy D. Hyde-and he saw in Puffy the same burning desire to get ahead that he had when he was a young man. Jeckyll half of the mid-eighties rap duo Dr. Harrell was himself an aspiring musician-he was the Mr. He dropped out, but quickly succeeded in convincing Andre Harrell, the head of Uptown Records in New York, to give him an internship. Two years at Howard were enough for Puffy to realize that it was time to move on to something bigger and better. He started out promoting house parties and campus concerts he also reportedly nurtured a lucrative side business selling term papers and old exams. In 1988, Puffy entered Howard University, where his entrepreneurial drive immediately kicked into high gear. Legend has it that he earned his nickname at the school: as a member of the football team, he apparently "puffed" out his chest to make himself look stronger than he actually was-hence the name Puffy. When he was twelve, his mother relocated the family to the suburbs of Mount Vernon, New York, where Sean attended an all-male private school called Mount St. From block parties to b-boy battles in the park, the seeds of his dream of becoming an entertainer were being sown. For the next ten years, the family continued to live in Harlem, where Sean witnessed firsthand the prime years of hip-hop's explosive evolution. Janice was an aspiring model, while Melvin was a notorious street hustler whose lifestyle caught up with him when he was shot dead in Central Park-Sean was only three at the time. Sean Combs was born in 1969 in Harlem, the first of Melvin and Janice Combs' two children. Combs set up his own label, Bad Boy Records, and soon signed Craig Mack and the Notorious B.I.G. Blige 1992), and Blue Funk ( Heavy D & the Boyz 1992) before being fired in 1993.
Blige in short order, he became vice president of Uptown Records, and not much later, he founded his own label, Bad Boy Entertainment. Only a few months later, Combs was an A&R executive, and helped produce Father's Day (Father MC 1990), What's the 411? (Mary J. Puffy, or "Puff Daddy," as he is alternately known, was barely into his twenties when he first started exercising his Midas touch by producing multi-platinum albums for such artists as Jodeci and Mary J. In just a few years, Sean "Puffy" Combs transformed himself from a streetwise party promoter and record company intern into one of the most commercially successful producer-entrepreneurs in music history. Condition: Sehr gut, Condition: There are a couple of cracks on the back of the jewel case (see scan)., Artist: P."To everyone calling me for a loan today, I do not have that money today."īest known as: Rapper known as Puff Daddy, then P. This last half-hour of the album, with the exception of a couple instances where Diddy could've left everything in the hands of the vocalists, teeters on the edge of brilliance. Peculiarly enough, Diddy's practically the opening act on his own album. Item: 403265691804 Diddy Presse spielen auf 2 CD + Get off von Sean Combs P Puff Daddy Puffy Rap.