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The Bad Boy Records YouTube account posted video from The Source Awards when Diddy performed with Hurricane G, Lil' Cease and Nas. They preformed "P.E. 2000" and "Hate Me Now." Watch it below.
Last night at the VMAs, Hype Williams was honored with the Video Vanguard award. It was cool because when they started to air a sort of montage of videos that he has directed, the first 3 that they displayed had Diddy in them (and he was shown in the screen). They were "Big Poppa," "Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)" and "Hate Me Now." Then there were two videos without Diddy and then there was another one in "Mo Money Mo Problems."
When you consider how far back that goes and how those videos helped propel both Hype Williams and Bad Boy, it was strange that he didn't thank Diddy, but did thank Jay-Z, Nas, Kelis, Beyonce, Busta, Missy and others. The last two were understandable, given that they were part of a bringing the videos life thing where Busta performed "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" and Missy performed "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" with Timbaland, both of which were cool to see. Still, it was strange given the number of Bad Boy videos has done. I don't like to read into things, so I'll guess that it was just an omission.
Congrats to Chamillionaire as he is the winner of Best Rap Video, beating out our own Yung Joc. Too bad.
According to a video posted on Danity Kane's MySpace.com page, Danity Kane will be at the NFL kickoff concert along with Diddy (headliner), Cassie and Yung Joc. It sounds like it is truly going to be a Bad Boy affair.
From The Jamaica Observer:
And this just in: Highly placed sources have revealed that VP Records and Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment have reached an agreement, which will handle the marketing and international distribution of Elephant Man's forthcoming release. The deal, according to sources, will see the release of Elephant's new album (the first in a multi-album deal) sometime in 2007.
I just noticed that Yung Joc was featured on the Step Up soundtrack. He's got a song called "'Bout It" which features 3LW.
Bad Boy's got 2 in the top 10 again. "Me & U" fell 1 spot from #6 to #7 while "Show Stopper" jumped up 8 spots, moving from 17 up to 8. "I Know You See It" fell from #19 to #20 and "It's Goin' Down" went from #20 to #26.
Reuters Newsblogs has highlights from the interview for their story:
Q: What�s changed about the way the music industry works now from when you started out?
In the music industry we�ve been through some rough times, still are, but it�s definitely getting better. We used to shun the Internet now we bow down and embrace it. I think we�re getting rewarded for it. But at the end of the day if you don�t have a hit record, you don�t have hit record. You can use the Internet and marketing all you want but you still need hit records and that�s what we do at Bad Boy, we make hits.
From Reuters:
"Our expectation when we did the deal with Bad Boy was to break one new artist every 18 months and to reintroduce P. Diddy," said Warner Music Executive Vice President Kevin Liles this week. "He's broken three new artists this year so it's over our expectation, but still under what we know he can do."
Warner Music does not break down revenue from its various labels, but SoundScan sales data show that the company's labels collectively accounted for an 18.7 percent share of the urban music sector in the year to date. In 2005, their share of that market was 13.8 percent.
While Combs cannot claim all the credit for Warner's resurgence in the hip-hop/R&B; genre, analysts said Bad Boy was having a halo effect on other labels within the Warner group.
Via TheMTLBadBoy at BadBoyForever.com.
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