“Dancing with the Devil” Former Bad Boy Rapper Exposes Diddy’s Shady Dealings

“Welcome to Bad Boy, where dreams come true,” Sean Combs said as we shook hands over lunch in March 1997. The record producer spent the next hour telling me how impressive my rapping skills were, how soon he planned to release my debut album, and that my personal wealth would soon be in the seven-figure range. Talk about smoke and mirrors.

Today, after years of writing hit records for Combs, I am no closer to having my first album released by Bad Boy Entertainment than I was when we signed the contract. Combs cajoled, hoodwinked and bamboozled me for nearly a decade. In the end, which for me came in 2005, I realized that I had to leave the label and its illusions of wealth in order to save my career, my marriage, my mind and my soul.

Dancing with the Devil reveals startling new details about key events in the fast-paced, controversial, and sometimes deadly world of hip-hop music.  In revealing the dark side of the industry, Curry hopes to provide a road map for reforms needed before more artist end up in poverty, in prison, or in the grave

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Interesting Book. I haven’t ready it yet, but it’s funny cuz the otha week I was askin  myself of certain artists that were under bad boy and saying, “Damn what happened to them?”  Like Carl Thomas, Mario Winans Etc …  Not to mention the other things I’ve heard from people who work for sean john as far as pay n what not. Making the Band need I say anything more and to think all these years Diddy went thru artists like water just to have a new season of makin the band to exploit perhaps and make profits off the ratings and whatever other products he can milk it for. Hmmm. What ya think?