Fluff Daddy Made It Big
The streets and its limit pushing culture of hip hop has a way of attracting those who seek an identity with more of an impact of their own.
The hip hop culture was so influential that it attracted a black kid from an upper middle class community who went to school with kids with upper middle class and upper class white kids.
The black kid was born in a slum or ghetto, but his mother wanted more for him, so she moved him to the suburbs so that he could have a better chance at making it in the world outside of the inner city of Harlem, NY.
The black kid was still surrounded by people who lived the culture of Africans, turned African Americans, which involves music and dancing, so he became very interested in music and dancing and the opportunities to express himself performing available in New York City.
The suburban black kid, however, never really fit in. He was not seen as a true part of the inner city culture that he tried hard to make his own.
It was not until a rapper named Heavy D helped the teenager get a job as an intern working at independent record label Uptown Records in New York of which Heavy D later became President. The teenager did not have a college degree or any of the experiences that most corporations look for in an intern, but he was still hired.
Only in New York is a teenager GIVEN a job that should be GIVEN to a more experienced adult.
The internship lead to a chance for the teenager to become a promotional executive. There he scheduled a rap, or hip hop, concert in New York that ended in a deadly shooting.
Deadly shootings are common in the hip hop, or dangerous, street culture, but the shooting got New York media attention which gave the boy local celebrity status for scheduling a murder.
The teenaged executive became known as Puffy, or Puff Daddy, though he was born Sean Combs which is the name he prefers as an adult.
Puffy was not a strong street thug who lived the dangerous street culture, nor did he have the street smarts to survive in the streets. He spent most of his teen or developmental years in school with suburban rich kids sheltered from the dangers of the streets.
Puffy became a producer of demos for urban r&b and hip hop music after being exposed to some of the best music producers in the music business in the urban music genre. His music was usually a combination of sampled beats from computer programs, bass lines, and clever melodies throughout the songs.
Puffy's upper class materialistic influences, or teen life, spilled over into his music. HE bragged of having a lot of money and being able to enjoy the lavish life that having money makes available in his songs.
As a producer New York’s Billboard Magazine once called Puffy the most creative music producer of the year for his sampling of the originally produced, or created, music of others with original rap or hip hop lyrics sung over the looped sampled music.
Only in New York can a hip hop sample producer be called a better producer than a true composer, but that’s New York. Their people are better than everyone else.
Puffy did a music video where he danced with gorgeous Latina dancer Jennifer Lopez. Later Puffy later turned the dance into a relationship that ended after she was scared out of the relationship after a shooting at a night club by one of Puffy’s clients where she was arrested by the New York Police Department and questioned.
Again the New York news media made a media giant out of Puffy for doing something that was not very bright, but got him attention; like working with a criminal named Shine who shot into a crown at the club. Shine was leter jailed for years.
Puffy, or Puff Daddy, then changed his name to P.Diddy.
The first time Puff Daddy was seen on stage by the viewing public, he started a performance by praying on his knees and asking God to forgive him for being a bad boy. That performance introduced his record label Bad Boy Records to the public by the label owner. The record label drew every hot hip hop music artist, and Diddy, who was trained to be a record executive at Uptown Records as a teenager, signed every hit he got, which made him a very rich man.
The thing is, however, thugs from the streets don’t pray on tv. The praying made P.Diddy look like a person who knew nothing about street or urban culture, but New York praised him.
As you know; New Yorkers think their kids are better than everyone else.
P.Diddy started a clothing line called Sean Jean, his birth first and middle name, and now Sean is one of the wealthiest men in the entertainment business.
One hell of a story don’t you think.
How a kid that real hip hoppers considered to be gay or weak, which lead to nicknames like Fluffy, got a chance to be a part of a culture that he never would have survived in the real world;
Things like this only happen in childish New York.
Back to the real world; has anyone seen the Fluff lately.