Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Bad Boy label took off when he signed Christopher Wallace, who is better known as the Notorious B.I.G.
The new label was soon signing major acts, but Biggie was one of the biggest names they had. According to another Bad Boy rapper, though, Biggie didn’t see much of the money he made for the label. The artist claimed that Diddy tried to conceal this after Biggie’s death.
A Bad Boy rapper said Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs exploited the Notorious B.I.G.
In 1997, Mark Curry signed with Bad Boy. According to him, Diddy pressured him into signing a contract that forced him to give up half his publishing rights. “Other than Puff, no one else has prospered off the label,” Curry wrote in his book Dancing With the Devil: How Puff Burned the Bad Boys of Hiphop (via Salon ) Curry alleged that Diddy did the same thing to Biggie .
“I was in the same spot as Biggie when he signed with Bad Boy,” Curry wrote. “After Biggie signed the contracts that Puff forced on him, for example, he walked away with only $25,000.” According to Curry, Diddy tried to cover this up after Biggie’s death in 1997 by giving his family money.
“To avoid people finding out just how broke Biggie was when he was killed, Puff announced that he was giving the fallen star’s family several million dollars.” The Notorious B.I.
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