Filed under: Bad Boy Entertainment

CLASSIC VIDEO: Bad Boy Records (Puff Daddy, Notorious B.I.G., Total & Lil Kim) Live @ 1995 Source Awards

 Man I miss the Puff Daddy Dance lol.  This was at the same awards show that Suge Knight made his infamous "Come to Death Row" speech.  One of my favorite hip-hop memories is seeing Big perform One More Chance while they hold up the plaques to represent that New York was back.  Remember the West Coast had dominated with gangsta rap.  And Big was the one who made all these rappers start claiming to be King. And Lil Kim's Hardcore is the only female rap album that I can actually bump like a dude's album.

CLASSIC VIDEO: Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear (Remix) feat The Notorious B.I.G., Rampage, LL Cool J and Busta Rhymes (1994)

"Don't be bad, UPS is hiring"

This is up there with Luniz's "I Got 5 On It" as the best posse remix of the 90s.  Seems like every remix video since has copied the white screen and has failed to match either because the artists don't have near the personality displayed here.  I'm not even gonna try to name all the cameos.  Big came in and rocked it so hard that they could have hummed the rest and it still woulda been a classic. 

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THA BIZ VIDEO: Puffy is Poison

"Day 26? What's that? How many days they ain't get paid? Day 26 and Puff ain't paid us"

Super funny bit of comedian Maronzio Vance discussing what happened to all the artists that ever signed to Bad Boy. They get one or, if they're lucky, two good albums and then just fall clean off the face of the Earth.  While I admit Puffy is a great promoter, the problem is he really only promotes himself.  This video is funny and truthful at the same time. When is the last time you saw Puff actually promote an album hard that wasn't his? Makes you realized that signing a record deal isn't all that.