Simone Boyce
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 20 Oct
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If you're one of those, if you or your parents did, good for them. That's pretty cool. Yeah, good for them, man. Yeah. So a good deal of our knowledge of college age Diddy comes from Derek Angeletti, who I quoted earlier. He's the guy who described young Puffy as a flashy guy. Quote, he was always out at the clubs and the young girls loved him. That's a creepier line. And
Now, modern context, he'd be in the middle of the floor doing all the new dance moves and his style of dress was a little more colorful, bolder. Everyone took notice of this cool, overconfident young dude. I was DJing at the time and one night he came up to me and said, I'd like to throw a party with you. You're pretty popular. And that's kind of how Diddy did.
He's really good at recognizing people that other people like. That's his primary talent. He becomes a billionaire off the basis of that.
Yeah, and that's like, I mean, honestly, like that's also just an entertainment industry thing. Like, you know, Sophie and I, that's a skill we have in a different way, right?
Yeah, a year or so ago, I'm reading this Ed Zitron guy and I'm like, I bet he could be a podcaster. You know, like that's just, that is just kind of the industry too. That's like how you, you know, and he's going, Diddy's going to be one of the best at it, right?
takeover or start an east coast west coast podcast rivalry get ed shot in a fucking conflict with one of the npr guys oh my god oh man another movie idea you guys are welcome yeah great movie i'm i'm making ed the biggie smalls of podcasting here Sorry, man, you cooked. Enjoy the next couple of years, buddy.
So Combs took things a few steps further than most people who throw popular parties on campus by sometimes successfully convincing or paying celebrities to show up. He included his name on flyers with their name, which is part of how he would brand himself, right? You're attaching yourself to celebrity.
You're also just making sure everyone who goes to this huge party with like 1,500 people knows that's a ditty party, right? Yeah.
That and he's good at reputation management. He prints business cards for himself that he hands out. They have his name engraved on them as Sean in parentheses Puff Combs. Just one F. So he's still working on the nickname, right?
I knew you before you were Greasy Will.
Just a boardroom of guys? Oh, man. That's one of my... By the way, speaking of wasted old people are lying, one of my... Because this comes up periodically when people will lie about having been in the military or special forces. If anyone ever tells you they served and they had a really cool nickname, full of shit. Nobody gets called the Avenger or fucking killer or whatever.
So these parties with Diddy grow to be sizable affairs, but the biggest of them was a homecoming event at a Masonic temple. 1500, which actually does sound pretty cool. Yeah, it sounds banging. Yeah, 1,500 attendees were expected, but Sean's marketing of the event was so successful, more than 4,500 people showed up, which causes a problem when three times as many people show up.
And this is going to be a continuing problem for him. Angeletti later claimed, the D.C. police shut down the whole block and brought out the dogs. We had to get on our knees and beg them not to lock us up, which again, not super gangster.
That was Martha Stewart's friend. Weekly parties were all well and good for getting attention, but Sean wanted much more out of life, and he quickly decided a business administration degree from Howard wasn't going to get it for him. So he drops out and he starts begging record executives in New York for jobs, using his party planning career as a resume. This did not work.
But when he reduced the request from job to unpaid internship, he got a yes from Uptown Records' Andre Harrell. Now, this is not a guy I'd heard of before, but Sheila Flynn for The Independent describes him as the man who, quote, famously coined the term ghetto fabulous. So, yeah, that's Andre Harrell. He's a big guy in the industry. She describes his time interning for Uptown this way.
Combs initially commuted weekly between college and his hometown, working 80-hour weeks as he literally ran to complete errands for his record superiors. And it wasn't long before he quit Howard altogether. By 1991, Harrell had installed him as an A&R executive, and Combs was forging a reputation for identifying and molding top-tier talent.
So he goes very quickly from unpaid intern to paid executive. He's very good at this. He works like crazy, and he's got an incredible eye for talent. And this is also 91. Rap is exploding.
Well, there you go, folks. You could have your own Grammy. You're welcome. And maybe even be a guest on this podcast. And more tips like this on my TikTok, GreasyWillMusic.com. I don't have any tips for becoming a journalist or a writer. It's very hard and it seems like no one's doing it anymore.
Type the Lord of the Rings into ChatGPT and you too can be a novelist. Yeah. Or sued by the Tolkien estate. Either way, same diff. Yeah. So he's, you know, by 91, he's an A&R executive. So he's doing, like, while he does that, he continues throwing parties. He understands that that's, number one, that's how I'm going to meet people.
That's how I'm going to run into DJs, the people that I'm going to, like, poach, you know, as talent. He would throw what is described in one source as racially mixed daddy's house parties for street kids and preppy students from Columbia University and New York University. Right.
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