Why is Diddy held to a standard different from other label heads?

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

so he's supposed to be the godparent to your kids?

Is he supposed to know the know how much money you have?

i mean you can't say all these artists never dropped projects, cause they did, or that they never got major looks, because they did, or they never made money...because they did.

 

[Lord Mecca]

 

[Zero]

 

[kingstl]

Im sure they made money but i've heard stories how he makes money OFF of them making money

Danity Kane - he told them "you gotta have a Bentley in the video" then he put his in there and charged them a $2000 rental fee. Then told them u gotta have Day 26 in the video, then charged them for using his artists for promo. Then charged Day 26 for their promo.

But i still respect his hustle

 

[Harry B]

I don't think he does anything wrong, dudes are sensitive bytches when they lose their heat. What he has done that's fukked up though was signing kids like The Lox, by using that "I'm not like those cacs they'll fukk you in the ass, this is a fellowship", just to do the same thing.

As long as it's grown ups, who cares. But teenagers, that's wild. But then again Jada and them had contacts in the industry at the time they signed. It's not his fault that young poor people are impressed by short term solutions. In any business transaction, whether it's crack or music, one wants to charge as much as possible and one wants to pay as little as possible. For all we know Jadakiss and them might've flopped and turned out to be low level freestyle artists.

 

[CrimsonTider]

This is a real thread

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

Uhh maybe because he is NOT a label head

And actually runs an imprint which Is subordinate to the majors

But exploits artists in a major label kind of way

 

[L&HH]

I think the biggest issue is how disposable he is with his artists. Pretty much a one album and your done kind of thing. Also the all in the videos. Bicycle bell for producer credit.

The only person's fam I think Diddy's beholden to is Bigs. Maybe not for life but at least until the kids graduate college and use is connects to get them decent jobs. Bigs estate has to still be pulling in some nice checks.

 

[Trajan]

Danity Kane - he told them "you gotta have a Bentley in the video" then he put his in there and charged them a $2000 rental fee. Then told them u gotta have Day 26 in the video, then charged them for using his artists for promo. Then charged Day 26 for their promo.

the Bentley also served another purpose: it was leased by the co as an expense to bring taxes down.

That was Mark Curry tho

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Im sure they made money but i've heard stories how he makes money OFF of them making money

Danity Kane - he told them "you gotta have a Bentley in the video" then he put his in there and charged them a $2000 rental fee. Then told them u gotta have Day 26 in the video, then charged them for using his artists for promo. Then charged Day 26 for their promo.

But i still respect his hustle

bruh, most labels do this, cause the risk-to-return ratio is so high.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I think the biggest issue is how disposable he is with his artists. Pretty much a one album and your done kind of thing. Also the all in the videos. Bicycle bell for producer credit.

The only person's fam I think Diddy's beholden to is Bigs. Maybe not for life but at least until the kids graduate college and use is connects to get them decent jobs. Bigs estate has to still be pulling in some nice checks.

I hear you, but he's given dozens of artists a shot...and in this game, you can't say the majors would have done that.

 

[backbreaker65]

Perception. He gave the perception that these are not employees, they are his friends, brothers and sisters. And, soon as they hits dry up they become employees. At, least Jay Z signs you let you put in your own work and if you get hot, he will stand next to you so he can use your hotness.

 

[hex]

I hear you, but he's given dozens of artists a shot...and in this game, you can't say the majors would have done that.

Majors have been doing that since day 1.

You're acting like him giving artists a shot is some kinda charity. Dude is a leech, which is why his "label" has mostly been a revolving door since BIG died. He stops giving new artists a shot, he fades into the back ground. And he's never been content in the back ground.

Never mind the fact that most of his artists leave his label and run directly to God. I don't know what's going on over there at Bad Boy, and honestly I don't want to know.

Fred.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Aside from the majority of his artists having religious epiphanies, dying or going to jail cause they went broke...

What artists has Puff really worked on long-term and developed?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Majors have been doing that since day 1.

You're acting like him giving artists a shot is some kinda charity. Dude is a leech, which is why his "label" has mostly been a revolving door since BIG died. He stops giving new artists a shot, he fades into the back ground. And he's never been content in the back ground.

Never mind the fact that most of his artists leave his label and run directly to God. I don't know what's going on over there at Bad Boy, and honestly I don't want to know.

Fred.

I mean, a lot of the most "core" black artists that people say influenced them, came from Bad Boy in the last 20 years years.