Bad Boy Records (originally Bad Boy Entertainment) is an East Coast record label, dealing largely in Hip-Hop/R&B; music, founded by producer/rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs in 1993. Today it operates as a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, and is distributed by Atlantic Records.
After his climb from a non-paying internship to becoming an A&R; executive at Uptown Records, Sean ("Diddy") Combs was abruptly terminated in 1993 by then CEO Andre Harrell—repo...
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Bad Boy Records (originally Bad Boy Entertainment) is an East Coast record label, dealing largely in Hip-Hop/R&B; music, founded by producer/rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs in 1993. Today it operates as a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, and is distributed by Atlantic Records.
After his climb from a non-paying internship to becoming an A&R; executive at Uptown Records, Sean ("Diddy") Combs was abruptly terminated in 1993 by then CEO Andre Harrell—reportedly due to his own difficulty to work with. Upon his firing, Arista Records chief Clive Davis took advantage of Combs' free agent status and agreed to bankroll him his own vanity label to be operated through Arista and its BMG parent. A handful of the acts who had been signed to Uptown via Combs just prior to his dismissal were dropped from the label; among them were Christopher Wallace (aka The Notorious B.I.G.) and Craig Mack, both of whom Combs would take with him to his new company.
The label’s first release was "Flava In Ya Ear" by...
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