DIDDY AND THE BAD BOY FAMILY: 'The Saga Continues. It's greatness with a lot of mediocrity in the later years. Regardless, when we talk the 90s? The Bad Boy discography is really hard to beat. I mean, you can see clearly why I stopped covering the albums after 2006. After 2006, Bad Boy brought back Mase AGAIN, signed the horrid Machine Gun Kelly, worked with the slurred sound raps of French Montana, the moderately successful Gorilla Zoe, gave sophomore albums to Boyz N The Hood, Danity Kane, and brought the group Day 26 to the forefront along with a new Diddy album alongside a female duo called Dirty Money.

You might notice there are maybe two albums missing here, that being a New Edition album and B5 (I will never acknowledge them), but that's expected. A decent effort but we could have all done without it. Production on the album was solid, but no one really wants to hear Diddy rap or awkwardly sing. Regardless, the album features a few good songs, mostly for the guest appearances like the Nas and Cee-Lo assisted 'Everything I Love', the Keyshia Cole assisted 'Last Night', and the Ciara and Big Boi featured 'Wanna Move'.

I never knew why Puffy kept making albums because he does nothing with them creatively. The final album I'll cover is really a strange project. Regardless, the album was unnecessary and only done to revive the brand and put Bad Boy back on the forefront. The Eminem assisted 'Dead Wrong' was sick and twisted yet entertaining, the Cash Money assisted and Mannie Fresh produced 'Hope You Niggas Sleep' is my favorite song here, and the 'If I Should Die Before I Wake' track with Black Rob, Ice Cube, and Beanie Sigel was pretty dope. Musically, the album was a bit scattered all over, as the infusion of some unheard and a few reused Biggie verses slapped on a track with a ton of guest appearances worked at times and didn't work. Selling nearly 500,000 the first week, Born Again would revive the brand in a way, finishing with well over 3 million copies sold, the biggest win for the label since Mase dropped his debut in 1997. This time a posthumous project that was unnecessary. When the Bad Boy had their doubts, they went with a Biggie album. If this release made you sick, you're not alone. The project was certified platinum, which is still a victory overall, but considering the album he previously released did 7 million, this has to be seen as a huge disappointment. Puffy let his ego grow too high and this album is a result. Still, there are a few good songs here, mainly because of the guest appearances, like 'Journey Through The Life' with Beanie Sigel, Nas, Lil Kim and Joe Hooker, 'Reverse' with Shyne, G-Dep, Sauce Money, Busta Rhymes, and Cee-Lo, and the strange yet dope 'Angels With Dirty Faces' with Bizzy Bone. At a time when DMX was selling 6 million copies twice, Jay-Z was taking his street brand to 5 million, Juvenile was turning southern hip hop on its head with the 5 million selling 400 Degreez, Puff was still in that older mentality of commercialization via the music. Unfortunately, with the seeming decline of Bad Boy, this would be yet another failure in the long line of failures for the label over the years. This era of Bad Boy wouldn't be complete without a Puffy album. *The Notorious B.I.G.- Ready to Die (1994) So today, our job is to discuss the albums released over the 12 year period, both the good and the bad. After 2006, things changed and Bad Boy would be relatively irrelevant or lacking in attention after that year. Today, we look back at the discography of the label and the albums released over the 12 year period of prominence.

From the Black Robs to the G Deps to the Loons to many more, Bad Boy have had a large amount of artists on their roster. Over the years, Puff Daddy would bring in many artists, some who would release albums, some who wouldn't. and Craig Mack, R&B groups Total and 112, and the lone songstress Faith Evans. Calling the company Bad Boy Records, he would certainly come into the industry with a bang, arming himself with artists like rappers The Notorious B.I.G. After his job working with Uptown Records, Sean Combs set out to make history with his own record label. well, as clichГ© as that may have been, it was a mantra employed for years by Puff Daddy, the Bad Boy Records family, and the parent companies that helped to distribute Bad Boy over the years.

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