Sean Combs Gets His Roots As Puff Daddy

Sean John Combs, famously known as Puff Daddy or P. Diddy, was born in Harlem on November 4, 1969. Puff daddy, as he later came to be known, was raised in Mount Vernon, New York. He derived his nickname of Puff Daddy as a child because of the way he used to puff his chest during football on the field. He was 18 when Puff Daddy joined Howard University, where he was notorious for his reputation in selling and trading term papers and exam papers and in endlessly promoting parties. It was no later than two years that Puff Daddy left Howard and found himself knocking at the doors of Andre Harrell, the executive of Uptown Records. Harrell quickly granted him internship and the rest, you know, is history!

That was just the beginning of a prosperous career, where he came to collaborate with several well-known entities in the industry like Jodeci and Mary J. Blige until he materialized his dream of founding his own label in 1993, with the Bad Boys Records. Puff Daddy, along with his childhood friend, Christopher Wallace (Notorious B.I.G.), made the company turn into a success having sold more than 12 million albums by 1994, with the help of Faith Evans and Craig Mack. Puff Daddy made his debut appearance with No Way Out in 1997.

After his association with superstar Jennifer Lopez, Puff Daddy has been in constant spotlight with the Bad Boy Records still continuing to be a reigning deity in the Hollywood with the Bad Boy Record continuing to swing the crowd to their tunes.

Timbaland Named By DeVante Swing Of Jodeci

Timbaland Z. Moseley or Tm Moseley was born in the year 1971, March 10. Timbaland is an American composer, singer, rapper and record producer, who could make hip hop beats come alive. Timbaland is mainly known for his works in hip-hop, R&B and pop. Tim is the producer of many singles of many of the singers since the mid-90s. He has nicely played with many genres of music and his music characterizes a trademark sense of space and rhythm and have marked difference in the arrangements, sounds and instrumentation. He is also a very well reputed performer and has performed solo on many occasions. He has also provided the vocals to many of the songs that he produced.

Moseley grew familiar with Magoo in Norfolk. He began making backing tracks on hip-hop, which Magoo liked. At that time Missy Elliott, on behalf of Magoo, got a chance to work under Devante Swing. Elliott brought Moseley along and that was the starting point of Moseley’s work with the Devante. Devante is the member and the producer of the R&B act Jodeci. Devante actually renamed Timbaland after the Timbaland boot that became popular in the hip-hop fashion. Timbaland later became one of the parts of the Devante Swing's Mob signees known as "Da Bassment" crew. Later Timbaland did many of the production work with the Devante productions. Some of the projects that Timbaland worked under the Devante includes, the 1995 Jodeci LP the Show, The Hotel, The After Party, there are various others. In 1995, most of the acts of Devante broke ties with the producer. However, Timbaland, Magoo, Playa and a few others collaborated and continued working on individual projects.