
A little belated, I know. But here's an article that Dream Hampton has written for Bad Boy's chapter in Vibe's History Of Hip Hop. A bit long, but I don't care, its worth it. Click on the post, its there entirely...
Bad Boy
From The Vibe History of Hip Hop, Three Rivers Press, 1999
December 30, 1991
Uptown Records Conference Room
Lawyers are here. Puff’s mentor and boss Andre Harrell is here. As president and founder of Uptown Records, Andre has a lot invested in Sean “Puffy” Combs; he recently gave Puff the high-profile, high-pressure job of shepherding the embryonic careers of Jodeci and Mary J. Blige. Heavy D, Uptown’s only bonafide star, is here because he and Puff are friends – Hev put Puff on as an intern at Uptown, they’re both from Mount Vernon, and they co-sponsored the celebrity basketball two days earlier where nine people were trampled to death.