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Title: Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean ""Puffy"" Combs on the Music Industry by Ronin Ro, Ro Ronin ISBN: 0-7434-2823-4 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Objective but depressing
Comment: I enjoy reading about entrepreneur and learning about how they built their particular business into a success. If you are looking for the same thing in this book you will be very disappointed. The book goes through a blow-by-blow account of P Diddy's problems and ultimately questions his ethics. I believe the book is written objectively, but very few pages are are actually dedicated to expalining how he actually made the leap from intern to a CEO of a multi-million dollar company. That was the story I really wanted to read about. Unfortunately, I learned more about Puffy's legal trial than I did about how he built his empire. If you want an entrepreneurial focused book buy Russell Simmons' Life and Def instead.
Rating: 5
Summary: This Book Is Incredible
Comment: Many people might not know about this book since it was released in early September of 2001. But Ronin Ro's Bad Boy is a must-read work. Instead of rehashing details about the coastal rap rivalry he already covered in Have Gun Will Travel, Ro presents an entirely different tale, in an intriguing new voice, but with the same eye for the telling detail. For the first time, a book details every stage of Puffy's career--Ro describes his days as an ambitious aspiring music executive, his first steps at R&B/rap label Uptown and his apprenticeship under Andre Harrell, his contributions to the rap remix format, his rise in the industry(precipitated by well-placed acquaintances at various rap magazines), and his relationship with the late rapper Notorious BIG (covered through a mix of Big's lesser-known interviews and compelling and exciting interviews with label insiders, associates and more). Bad Boy also reveals the creative process behind the label's string of hit albums during the 1990s, how Puffy marketed and--in some cases--watered down his artists' music and how he scrambled to save face after some, including The Lox and Mase, abruptly left the label and the man who claimed to have made them famous. Anyone expecting another book-length retread of the Bad Boy Death Row beef might want another book. Bad Boy is more than that. For a balanced look at Sean "Puffy" Combs and the empire he tried to build, the most in-depth portrait of Biggie Smalls ever offered, and a gripping account of Puffy's 2001 criminal trial, read this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: It's the P, the I, the D, the D, the Y, it's PIDDY
Comment: Album in stores in February. T Piddy and the GK family present HELLA. Go cop that.
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Title: Life and Def : Sex, Drugs, Money, and God by Russell Simmons ISBN: 0609807153 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Men Behind Def Jam: The Radical Rise of Russell Simmons And Rick Rubin by Alex Ogg ISBN: 0711988730 Publisher: Omnibus Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Have Gun Will Travel by Ronin Ro ISBN: 0385491352 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 16 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Revelations : There's a Light After the Lime by Pastor Mason Betha ISBN: 0743434188 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: All You Need to Know About the Music Business : Revised and Updated for the 21st Century by Donald S. Passman ISBN: 0684870649 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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