Sean “Puff Daddy/Diddy” Combs’ decision to give artists and songwriters the publishing rights that he owns on songs from his 1990s powerhouse label Bad Boy, confirmed last week, was surprising, to …
about his mentor, the late Uptown Records founder Andre Harrell, Combs — a famously tough businessman — said, “I always used to lead with tough love, but from missing Andre and taking everything I learned from him, now I’m leading more with love.”
“Um… I don’t know — I didn’t get to that point!,” he laughed. “I was just going for the actions, so I wasn’t even thinking about how everybody was going to take it. It was more [about] leading with action. That’s where I’m at in my life: Don’t worry about what nobody’s saying. Don’t talk the talk; walk the walk. Be accountable. That’s it.”
A wild card in this move is Ma$e, one of Bad Boy’s most popular artists, who appeared frequently with Combs’ songs and videos. Hein 2020, saying he’d offered his former mentor $2 million for the rights to his publishing and was rebuffed. In the since-deleted, loosely worded post, he alleged, “u still got my publishing from 24 years ago in which u gave me $20k.” However, “Everything’s cool and good now,” Combs toldrecently. “You know, we’re brothers and brothers fight.
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