Are you kidding me? Do you know how much Puff sold on that "No Way Out" album back in 1997?
Nah... I acknowledge that... but I'm talking post that album... AND that album was released on the heels of Biggie's death... which of course would make it sell more.
This is the same album with huge hits such as "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down", "I'll Be Missing You", "Been Around The World",
Right... and and these are all songs that were in some shape centered around Biggie. Again, using Big's name and memory to sell records.
Diddy had to at least sell 5-10 million off of that album, although I'm not sure. The Lox even said that No Way Out was the album that made Puffy and made him some of his millions he has today.
Aside from that album and aside from Biggie, tell me what Puff has done? Tell me what huge, mega hit diamond scoring material he's put out.
He said Misa. I'm guessing Misa is a former girlfriend of Diddy or a close associate.
*shrugs* Eh... my bad. With 50's lack of pronouncing words correctly... I thought he said "Missy"
I don't even understand that statement or how it's relevant to what you quoted.
50 said he thinks that Puff was ruining Big's legacy with the Duets album. Eminem, who happens to be 50's boss, produced and rapped on "It Has Been Said" with Obie and Puffy, which was on that album.
Mase was the man on Badboy in 1998.
That's not saying much. When you have a label like Death Row that has a STABLE of multi-platinum selling artists that are hugely popular worldwide, and you say "Pac was the man on DR in 95/96", that's one thing. When you're "the man" on a label that was primarily built around the the talent of ONE MAN (Biggie), and that main talent is now dead, saying "I'm the man" isn't really worth much.
He was probably the biggest popstar that year. And Mase was considered successful.
Good for him being a sub-par "pop star"... I don't know about you, but that don't impress me (and I have NOTHING against Mase). And a lot of people are "considered successful" that really don't do much of anything.
Pac was successful before DR (not comparing Pac to Mase, but just an example of popularity here), but once he got on DR.. he was even 10x bigger.
Since he retired and became a minister, badboy had went downhill from then.
Bad Boy went downhill when Puffy wasn't as able to market everything off Big's name anymore...
And once again, I don't see how this is relevant to what you quoted and replied to.
The point is that Puffy ain't shit in the grand scheme of things and really is mostly hype.
Now... tell me how great his cologne is selling and how that proves he hasn't fallen off (was he ever even "on"?).