With Bad Boy Records, only “Dead Rappers Get Better Promotion”
Has anybody noticed this?
You last saw him on Youtube running off at the mouth about Mase being “confused.” Now, former Bad Boy rep Loon is back with his new album No Friends, which is pressed through his own label, Boss Up Entertainment. Good look, son. Like Wendy Williams once said after her bitter brawl with Diddy, “There is life after Puff.”
Aight so check it. It’s no secret that Mase embodies the epitome of dishonor, shame, disgrace, and all of those other synonyms. Now Babs is in trouble with the law. Whatever happened with her and Diddy anyways?
So with that being said, what I want to address is why all of these Bad Boy artists either get used as a tax write-off—banished to the mannequin case as a dysfunctional artist forced to sit on the roster and make no money—or end up sitting around looking stupid?
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The making of Da Band appeared to be a pointless (and profitless studio-wise) effort that was only a hit on TV. The all-female hit “Making The Band” was, well, another way for Diddy to make that small screen guap…and nothing else. I doubt they’ll get very far and even if they do, they’ll probably end up getting frozen stiff on the label anyways. After all, that’s what Bad Boy is known for.
Speaking of girl groups, the foursome Dream was left somewhere in a musical nightmare. “It was all a dream” for these chicks, until they woke up broke. And what happened to the boy band B5? They didn’t sell enough records for Diddy to keep his faith in them? That’s sad. How far is Ness going to go? What is taking Boyz N Da Hood so long to come back? What happened to all of their “solo projects” that were supposed to follow Young Jeezy’s?
Young Joc is doing fine so far, so he won’t have to worry about becoming the next Lox, who went on Hot 97 and said on air that they were not going to release anymore albums until Diddy gave in and passed over their publishing rights, and rumor has it that the trio Total is still trapped on Diddy’s roster; he won’t let them move. I don’t know how true that is, but that's really messed up if it possesses any accuracy. Good luck Cheri Dennis… better push those units or you’re next.
Thinking about Diddy’s platinum plaque for Biggie’s Duets album, I can only say that Jadakiss was right: “Dead rappers get better promotion.”
