0:00

And they were always signing these really

0:02

young guys and women

0:04

too. Like, I mean

0:06

teenagers, you know? Cause they're all just fucking

0:09

kids rapping and shit. Famous

0:11

case with Shine, who's the one who

0:13

fucking did time for the shooting with

0:16

J.Lo that you mentioned, right? And

0:18

who fucking puffed out he threw under the bus

0:20

super hard? Yeah, I mean,

0:23

yeah. I

0:25

think so. Oh, and Shine thinks so.

0:27

Yeah, and then he got fucking deported

0:29

back to police after. But

0:32

like, he,

0:34

like, you know, him, I

0:37

know that like Faith Evans had said this

0:39

before, like there's rumors that, you know, before

0:41

Biggie was shot, he was gonna leave, he

0:43

was trying to leave bad boy because all

0:46

of them were like, what the fuck? Like

0:48

we were kids, we didn't understand how like

0:50

record deals work, right? And like, we didn't

0:52

understand that when we signed away publishing rights,

0:54

we didn't even know what publishing rights mean

0:56

because it would get presented like, oh, you

0:58

own the music, you own whatever. Like this

1:00

is you, we're a family, this is bad

1:03

boy. You know, I got your back, like

1:05

I'm in your videos. I'm literally

1:07

in, I contractually, I have to

1:09

be in all of your videos. You live

1:11

with me. You live with me. We're on

1:13

making the band, like whatever the fuck Puffy

1:15

was doing, right? Like, and

1:18

these people would be like, what the fuck?

1:20

So I'm not even actually getting paid for

1:22

anything. Like they were like making no money.

1:25

Like that's why Mace left. Like

1:27

there was like, ah, fuck. There was like so

1:29

many stories of people on bad boy records that

1:31

like fucking died homeless

1:34

after one record or

1:36

like were so broke they couldn't

1:38

do anything. Like it was really,

1:40

this is something that is like haunted

1:43

Puffy, like his entire career.

1:46

And it's like, it's one of the reasons why

1:48

he's a fucking billionaire, right? Like, cause all of

1:50

these people were broke.

1:52

Yeah. And he made all this money. And

1:55

I don't know, it's like,

1:58

you see that kind of also in, You

2:00

see that with Cassie's, right? With that he had

2:02

all of this control, he had all of this.

2:04

You see that with like Lil Rod when he's

2:06

like dangling this shit about like,

2:08

oh, you know, look, this

2:11

is what CVJ did, like, oh, you want

2:13

a Grammy? Oh, you want to do this?

2:15

Like it's all the fucking same MO. It's

2:17

just, it's a difference of degrees, not kind.

2:21

And it seems very clear from

2:23

both Cassie's lawsuit and whatever you

2:25

want to take away from Lil

2:27

Rod's lawsuit, but also what everyone

2:29

has said in between that fucking

2:32

UMG and Warner before that fucking

2:35

knew about all this shit. It's

2:37

so much of this, like even just

2:40

pulling back a little bit, like this

2:42

stuff is so common in entertainment industry

2:44

in general, right? Like everything that we

2:46

hear about like Puff

2:48

Daddy in these lawsuits, I mean, especially the

2:50

Cassie one is like shit that you hear

2:53

about lawsuits about fucking, you know, like movie

2:55

executives or other label owners or fucking Vince

2:57

McMahon or all these people at the top

2:59

of these companies use this sort of like

3:01

same MO. Yeah. I

3:04

mean, yeah. It's a fucking feature, not

3:06

a bug. I haven't said that one in

3:08

a long time, but it's true. This is

3:10

how the fucking music industry is run by

3:12

people like this. It's

3:14

just fucking business.