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Bad Boy Records
Bad Boy Entertainment, doing business as Bad Boy Records, is an American record label founded by Sean Combs in 1993. The label's first signee, the Notorious B.I.G., gained significant commercial success following the release of his 1994 single "Juicy". Following this, the label signed other hip-hop and R&B acts, including Faith Evans, Mase, 112, Total, the Lox, Shyne, and Carl Thomas. At its peak in 1997, Bad Boy was worth an estimated US$100 million. During the 2000s, Bad Boy Records signed several notable artists, including French Montana, Machine Gun Kelly, Janelle Monáe, and Cassie Ventura.
In 2023, Combs founded a successor label titled Love Records. This venture was created to independently release his fifth studio album, The Love Album: Off the Grid, in September of that year.
After his climb from a non-paid internship to becoming an artists and repertoire executive at Uptown Records, Sean Combs was fired in 1993 by Andre Harrell and founded his own label, Bad Boy Records, shortly after. The label's first release was "Flava in Ya Ear" by Craig Mack, followed quickly by Mack's debut album, Project Funk da World in 1994. On the heels of these releases came "Juicy" and Ready to Die, the lead single and debut album from the Notorious B.I.G., released the same year. While Mack's album went Gold, Ready to Die achieved multi-platinum success. Dominating the charts in 1995, the Notorious B.I.G. became one of the genre's biggest names of the day and Bad Boy's premier star. Also in 1995, the label continued its success with platinum releases by Total and Faith Evans. Bad Boy, meanwhile, staffed a bevy of in-house writer/producers, including: Easy Mo Bee, Chucky Thompson and D-Dot—each of whom are credited on a bulk of Bad Boy's releases during this time.
The rapid success of the Notorious B.I.G., and Bad Boy as a company, raised some tensions, especially with the Beverly Hills, California-based Death Row Records. For three years leading up to 1995, West Coast hip-hop, dominated by labels such as Death Row, had been preeminent in mainstream rap. Suge Knight, CEO of Death Row, held Combs responsible for the shooting death of his friend Jake Robles, allegedly at the hands of Combs' bodyguard Anthony "Wolf" Jones. Tensions were heightened when Death Row signed Tupac Shakur, who alleged that Bad Boy, notably the Notorious B.I.G. and Combs, had been complicit in his November 1994 shooting in Quad Studios in Times Square.
After the June 1996 release of 2Pac's "Hit 'Em Up", smearing Bad Boy, tensions escalated. Shakur was shot in Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 7, 1996, and died September 13. Bad Boy issued a statement of condolences. On March 9, 1997, while Bad Boy was preparing the release of the Notorious B.I.G.'s double album Life After Death, he was killed in Los Angeles, California. Their deaths left many to speculate if the coastal hostility had been responsible for their deaths. The police investigations were criticized by public and judicial sources. Both cases remain officially unsolved.
Posthumously, Biggie's Life After Death reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart. Its first two singles, "Hypnotize" and "Mo Money, Mo Problems" also topped the singles charts. The album eventually sold over ten million copies in the U.S. alone, and is one of the highest-selling rap albums ever in the United States
In 1996, Combs had begun recording his own solo debut album. The first single, "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down", peaked at number one on the hip-hop, R&B, and pop charts that spring. In response to the Notorious B.I.G.'s death, the label rush-released a Combs' tribute song, "I'll Be Missing You", which features Biggie's widow, Faith Evans, and Bad Boy's R&B singing group 112. The single topped the charts for eleven weeks and became the hasty second single from Combs's album, No Way Out, which was released in July 1997. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart with over 560,000 copies sold in its first week alone, and sold seven million copies in Apthr U.S. It features appearances from Mase, the Lox, Carl Thomas, and introduced Bad Boy signee Black Rob.
Mase, Combs's newest protégé, in the meantime was immediately thrust into the void that the Notorious B.I.G. left. His own debut album, Harlem World, also released the same year, would go quadruple platinum. Due to the successive successes of Life After Death, No Way Out and Harlem World, by the end of 1997, Bad Boy as a label and brand name had hit a commercial peak. During this time, the label began to promote its latest signing, the hip-hop group the Lox, who had been prominently featured on various Bad Boy releases that year.
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Bad Boy Records
Bad Boy Entertainment, doing business as Bad Boy Records, is an American record label founded by Sean Combs in 1993. The label's first signee, the Notorious B.I.G., gained significant commercial success following the release of his 1994 single "Juicy". Following this, the label signed other hip-hop and R&B acts, including Faith Evans, Mase, 112, Total, the Lox, Shyne, and Carl Thomas. At its peak in 1997, Bad Boy was worth an estimated US$100 million. During the 2000s, Bad Boy Records signed several notable artists, including French Montana, Machine Gun Kelly, Janelle Monáe, and Cassie Ventura.
In 2023, Combs founded a successor label titled Love Records. This venture was created to independently release his fifth studio album, The Love Album: Off the Grid, in September of that year.
After his climb from a non-paid internship to becoming an artists and repertoire executive at Uptown Records, Sean Combs was fired in 1993 by Andre Harrell and founded his own label, Bad Boy Records, shortly after. The label's first release was "Flava in Ya Ear" by Craig Mack, followed quickly by Mack's debut album, Project Funk da World in 1994. On the heels of these releases came "Juicy" and Ready to Die, the lead single and debut album from the Notorious B.I.G., released the same year. While Mack's album went Gold, Ready to Die achieved multi-platinum success. Dominating the charts in 1995, the Notorious B.I.G. became one of the genre's biggest names of the day and Bad Boy's premier star. Also in 1995, the label continued its success with platinum releases by Total and Faith Evans. Bad Boy, meanwhile, staffed a bevy of in-house writer/producers, including: Easy Mo Bee, Chucky Thompson and D-Dot—each of whom are credited on a bulk of Bad Boy's releases during this time.
The rapid success of the Notorious B.I.G., and Bad Boy as a company, raised some tensions, especially with the Beverly Hills, California-based Death Row Records. For three years leading up to 1995, West Coast hip-hop, dominated by labels such as Death Row, had been preeminent in mainstream rap. Suge Knight, CEO of Death Row, held Combs responsible for the shooting death of his friend Jake Robles, allegedly at the hands of Combs' bodyguard Anthony "Wolf" Jones. Tensions were heightened when Death Row signed Tupac Shakur, who alleged that Bad Boy, notably the Notorious B.I.G. and Combs, had been complicit in his November 1994 shooting in Quad Studios in Times Square.
After the June 1996 release of 2Pac's "Hit 'Em Up", smearing Bad Boy, tensions escalated. Shakur was shot in Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 7, 1996, and died September 13. Bad Boy issued a statement of condolences. On March 9, 1997, while Bad Boy was preparing the release of the Notorious B.I.G.'s double album Life After Death, he was killed in Los Angeles, California. Their deaths left many to speculate if the coastal hostility had been responsible for their deaths. The police investigations were criticized by public and judicial sources. Both cases remain officially unsolved.
Posthumously, Biggie's Life After Death reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart. Its first two singles, "Hypnotize" and "Mo Money, Mo Problems" also topped the singles charts. The album eventually sold over ten million copies in the U.S. alone, and is one of the highest-selling rap albums ever in the United States
In 1996, Combs had begun recording his own solo debut album. The first single, "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down", peaked at number one on the hip-hop, R&B, and pop charts that spring. In response to the Notorious B.I.G.'s death, the label rush-released a Combs' tribute song, "I'll Be Missing You", which features Biggie's widow, Faith Evans, and Bad Boy's R&B singing group 112. The single topped the charts for eleven weeks and became the hasty second single from Combs's album, No Way Out, which was released in July 1997. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart with over 560,000 copies sold in its first week alone, and sold seven million copies in Apthr U.S. It features appearances from Mase, the Lox, Carl Thomas, and introduced Bad Boy signee Black Rob.
Mase, Combs's newest protégé, in the meantime was immediately thrust into the void that the Notorious B.I.G. left. His own debut album, Harlem World, also released the same year, would go quadruple platinum. Due to the successive successes of Life After Death, No Way Out and Harlem World, by the end of 1997, Bad Boy as a label and brand name had hit a commercial peak. During this time, the label began to promote its latest signing, the hip-hop group the Lox, who had been prominently featured on various Bad Boy releases that year.