Puff Daddy
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Puff Daddy and The Family: No Way Out (Arista 17 tks/78 mins)
Review by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 2 August 1997
THE ART OF FLATULENCE The single, you'll know. It's the sound of the Police. PUFF DADDY's album is here, and to be honest, it's the ...
Puff Daddy & The Family: Sound Republic, London
Live Review by Andy Crysell, Muzik, December 1998
Is this the greatest showman on earth? ...
Essay by Miles Marshall Lewis, L.A. Weekly, 2 April 1998
Hip-hop: The need, not the greed ...
Puff Daddy & Family: No Way Out (Puff Daddy/Arista 78612 73012, £11.99)
Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 25 July 1997
Elegy for a rapper ...
Notorious (dir. George Tillman Jr.)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, January 2009
Despite some excellent acting and drama, Notorious biopic whitewashes Biggie Small’s gangsta life and death ...
Suge Knight Linked to Notorious B.I.G. Murder
Report by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 27 May 1999
LOS ANGELES homicide detectives have reportedly identified jailed Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight as a prime suspect in the murder of rap star Notorious ...
Puff Daddy, Faith Evans, 112, Total: Sound Republic, London
Live Review by Paul Sexton, The Times, 19 October 1998
King of the bad boys ...
Interview by Frank Broughton, i-D, May 1995
A multi-platinum music mogul at just twenty four, Sean "Puffy" Combs is the face of future hip hop. meet a Bad Boy made good. ...
Biggie, Tupac et al: Hollywood or Bust-up
Report and Interview by William Shaw, The Observer, 7 July 1996
New York can lay claim to having invented rap, but LA has violently rewritten the rules. William Shaw charts an increasingly bitter rivalry ...
Report by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 1998
Rap hasn't merely survived the shocking deaths of hip-hop leaders Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. It's thriving now, thanks to a fresh infusion from today's ...
Puff Daddy: It Isn't Easy Being a Superman
Comment by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 10 October 1999
A FEW SONGS into Forever, the recently released second album by the rapper-producer-entrepreneur Puff Daddy, there is a skit about people phoning the Player-Haters Anonymous ...
Puff Daddy & The Family: No Way Out (Bad Boy Records)
Review by Michael A. Gonzales, Vibe, October 1997
That nigga that you see in the videos/That nigga with the jewels and the jiggy hoes/That nigga that'll die for his main man/That nigga with ...
Overview by Mark Anthony Neal, PopMatters, 18 May 2004
Hip-hop has always been — and always be — about fabulousness and myth. — Scott Poulson-Bryant, "This is Not a Puff Piece" The hip-hop ...
Bentley Rhythm Not So Ace: Puff Daddy: Forever (Arista)
Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 28 August 1999
HIS DAD was a hustler, his mother a model, he went to private school and he drives a Bentley convertible. If he were British, Sean ...
Smalls Wonder: Puff Daddy & The Family: No Way Out (Bad Boy Records)
Review by Angus Batey, New Musical Express, 26 July 1997
IN LIFE, only death is certain. For the religious, the prospect of paradise beyond the great divide provides an energising, vital motivation. For the cynics, ...
Puff Daddy's New CD, Forever, Means A Chance For Promotion
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 24 August 1999
THE SWITCH is flipped and the thin figure dressed in white, wearing a cap and dark glasses, sporting thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry and ...
Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Vibe, September 1996
The VIBE Q: CLIVE DAVIS, ARISTA RECORDS' LEGENDARY PRESIDENT AND CEO, IS TRULY RUNNING THINGS. THINK NOT? ASK WHITNEY HOUSTON, PUFFY COMBS, TLC, THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G., OR L.A. AND ...
Overview by David Bennun, Hot Air, 1999
A LITTLE over two minutes into The Fugees' 1996 hit 'Ready Or Not', the voice of Lauryn Hill is thrown into relief by a brief ...
Sean 'Puffy' Combs: Multi-Million Dollar Man
Profile and Interview by Sonia Poulton, Muzik, January 1997
At 26, SEAN 'PUFFY' COMBS is reputed to be worth some $170 million. But that's not all the East Coast hip hop mogul has a ...
Review by Eric Weisbard, The Village Voice, 1 September 1999
The first thing I asked him to do was get me a tape from the studio. He came back with it in five minutes. The ...
Interview by Frank Broughton, i-D, 1994
"IT'S ALL GOOD."Puffy’s conversation is peppered with this little nugget of current street-talk. ...
see also P. Diddy
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