Expose on Sean Diddy Combs reveal most former Bad Boy artists are either broke or in jail.
While Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs proudly sits atop the Forbes list of the world's richest hip hop stars, spare a though for his countless musical proteges from over the years, many of whom are currently residing in the big house.
Diddy is estimated to have a personal fortune of $580million thanks in part to his record label, Bad Boy Records, but also due to clever business ventures including Ciroc vodka, his Sean John and Enyce clothing lines and his marketing firm Blue.
Combs may be enjoying the high life with countless homes and a private jet, but it’s a very different story for many of the artists to have recorded for Bad Boy Records over the years.
Bad Boy rapper Shyne first gained notoriety for his alleged involvement in the December 1999 New York nightclub shooting that at one time threatened to cast a shadow over Diddy and his then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez.
While the incident did give Shyne a certain degree of controversy and therefore in hip hop terms credibility, his spell in the limelight was cut short when he was sentenced to almost a decade in prison within the year.
Released from prison in 2009 Shyne was deported to his native Belize. Having converting to Orthodox Judaism while in prison, he now lives in Jerusalem as Moses Michael Levi.
In 2000 one of the rising stars of the Bad Boy stable was Black Rob, he even appeared on several Diddy tracks including ‘Bad Boy 4 Life’.
But his career got sidelined, first by illness and then in 2004 he served six months for failing to pay child support.
That wasn’t the end of his prison time, in 2006 he got seven years for grand larceny, but was released in 2006.
Another protege who enjoyed an all too brief spell in the limelight was G-Dep. His best days were long behind him in 2010 when he turned himself in over the 1993 shooting of a man.
Currently sentenced to serve the minimum 15 years for murder, G-Dep is looking to appeal, reports The Village Voice.
At one time big things were also predicted of rapper Loon, but it didn’t pan out and he was arrested in Belgium in 2011 for a three-year-old drug trafficking charge for allegedly distributing heroin in North Carolina.
Loon was extradited to the United States last summer and is currently in prison with a trial set for July.
Others Bad Boy artists including Ma$e and Craig Mack haven’t gone on to have careers to rival their former boss, but at least have managed to stay out of the slammer.
On Sunday April 28, Bad Boy Records presents its Becoming King tour in New York with current signings King Los and Hi-R, who hopefully will fare better than some of their predecessors.
There is no suggestion with any of these sad stories and the misfortune of the people involved is in any way related to Diddy.
As an astute businessman he is far too smart to get involved in anything untoward, but it certainly shows just what a tough business the record industry can be for those hoping to seek fame and fortune.Jacked from The Daily Mail
7 comments:
Unfortunately, the current culture of hip hop seems to promote,and glorify thuggery, criminality,and boorish hoodrat mentality. True talented diamonds in the rough are pushed aside in favor of ignorant, misogynistic, mental midgets and scallywags with greedy appetites, no home training to speak of,to be easily used, led astray, ripped off, and dumped into society prison industrial complex where TPTB planned to make billions and trillions off the modern day slaves.
Diddy may not be responisble for where a lot of these rogues end up, but he selects them for his roster of artists. The talented ones that work hard and try to make it in the business under his guidance, he uses and toss aside, or ties them up with his slave contracts so they can't go anywhere else and lets their careers starve and stagnate and their dreams break with disillusionment, while he continues to bask in the limelight of success. He is one of Satan's evil representatives in the industry.
diddy ain't dumb. let them drown in too much, sweep 'em off, bring in a fresh batch. meanwhile every breath they take he gets 20%.
@9:45
Cosign! Satan is real!!
Don't forget the one that died, B.I.G
It looks like this scorpion devil king is about to reap what he has been sowing, I would not want to be in his shoes, sadly when he dies his children will have to live with the karmic debts he wracked up, a root doctor couldn't save this shady ho.
R in NYC says:
Diddy can't take any of that wealth with him so he better get right before judgement day. He has done so many artists wrong. Shine took that charge for him and look how he did him. Diddy has no conscience when it comes to stealing his artists' money. What profits a man to gain the world but lose his soul?
i cant wait for the expose on that little slut kim porter
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