6/22/2016 "Ain't Nothing Shine Brighter Than That Bad Boy" The Inside Story of Hip-Hop's Most Notorious LabelRead NowAn oral history of how Puff Daddy, Biggie Smalls, an army of rappers, and an ocean of champagne changed hip-hop forever
Jadakiss (rapper, the Lox): Getting on Bad Boy was like being the top pick in the draft, going to play with the Bulls when Mike was there. It put the battery in our back. Janelle Monáe (singer, Bad Boy artist): Bad Boy was proof that the American Dream was real for hardworking young black artists in the ’90s, just like it had been real for Berry Gordy and all my soul and funk heroes at Motown in the ’60s and ’70s. When I graduated high school, I headed straight to New York. That’s where Broadway was. That’s where Puff was. Russell Simmons (co-founder of Def Jam): Everything Puffy touched was golden. He just made hit after hit after hit. Read more here BY CRAIGH BARBOZA
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