Notorious B.I.G reportedly wanted to leave Diddy’s Bad Boy Records before death
nme.comNotorious B.I.G wanted to leave Diddy‘s Bad Boy Records before his untimely death in 1997.In a new exposé by Rolling Stone, several people corroborated the long-standing rumour that the Brooklyn rapper wanted to leave the label.
At the time, Diddy – real name Sean Combs – was in a legal battle with the rapper’s lawyers over the publishing rights to Biggie Smalls’ music.“I will never give it up until I’m dead and my bones are crushed into powder,” Combs told the lawyers, according the book The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop.
Diddy started the process of returning the publishing rights to all Bad Boy artists last September.’90s hip-hop photographer Monique Bunn told Rolling Stone: “[Biggie] was absolutely about to leave Puff.
I know for a fact [because] he told me that.”Another unnamed source added: “Everybody wanted to leave Puffy. Everybody leaves him.”Rolling Stone further accused Combs of “capitalising on the shock and sorrow” of Smalls death after he was murdered in a drive-by shooting in March 1997.
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