Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace, Bad Boy Records’ biggest star, is murdered in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, six months after Tupac Shakur’s similar death. The murder, which remains officially unsolved, occurs at the height of the East Coast-West Coast hip-hop …
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Sean Combs establishes Bad Boy Records after being fired from Uptown Records, securing a $1.5 million investment from Arista Records under Clive Davis’s leadership. The label quickly became a dominant force in hip-hop, with Combs negotiating a 50% ownership stake by 1996 and signing landmark …
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