Puffy Signs New Edition ? Remember Them?
Sean Combs, a.k.a. Puff Daddy, made a big deal this week by announcing he'd signed New Edition to his Bad Boy Entertainment. However, he didn't sign Bobby Brown as part of the deal, which means he nabbed five of the group's original six members -- Ralph Tresvant, Ricardo Bell, Michael Bivins, Ronald DeVoe and Johnny Gill.
When Brown split New Edition for a solo career years ago, Bell, Bivins and DeVoe formed the popular group Bell Biv DeVoe. The new group had one big hit album that I remember fondly, before their career sputtered.
But wait ? to what exactly did Puffy sign the reunited NE? Bad Boy Entertainment remains without a label and distribution deal after months and months of drifting.
Expelled from the BMG Bertelsmann family, Bad Boy was supposedly headed to Sony Music. That scenario didn't take, and neither did others with Warners and EMI.
So the question remains: How will Puffy distribute the new CD by these 30-plus-year-old former boy stars?
Meanwhile, the New York Post's Page Six reports that some unknown benefactor is paying for Puffy to have a wildly expensive birthday party in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Nov. 4. Could this be the European brewer said to want to help take Bad Boy independent? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Can't wait!
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 October 2002 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)
god, puff daddy is just the worst. the worst ever
― maura (maura), Thursday, 24 October 2002 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)
I'd say they must be broke, and Whitney must still have enough to support Bobby Brown, But didn't BBV make a bunch of money off of Boyz II Men?
― Dave Beckhouse (Dave Beckhouse), Thursday, 24 October 2002 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)
I hope everyone involved with this deal dies in a horribly grotesque (and of course ludicrously expensive!) plane crash. Puff Daddy is the single worst thing to happen to music since... oh, Alan Klein.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 24 October 2002 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)
I want a new Jodeci album. Or another K-Ci and Jo-Jo at the least.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 October 2002 03:22 (twenty-three years ago)
Sterling, a new K-ci and Jo-jo album,
Emotional has actually just bit ripped and is floating around on the internet now.
― Honda, Saturday, 26 October 2002 01:42 (twenty-three years ago)