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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Sean “Diddy” Combs joins Uptown Records as an intern and rapidly rises to executive position under Andre Harrell’s mentorship. This marks the beginning of Combs’ unprecedented ascent in the music industry, which investigators later compare to Epstein’s unexplained rise …
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