There are throwback snaps of the Bad Boy family in the mid-90s and then we flash back to the present. The past and present are given further context as Kaufman skillfully uses archival bits of footage to show Combs and the label’s historical precedence. They proved to a rising generation of hip-hop and R&B artists that you didn’t have to cash in on your true self in order to make it. “We could express who they were in a suit, just as much as we could wearing our pants sagged,” Combs says in the film. They represented a cast of hip-hop and R&B artists who were free. Bad Boy made constant music headlines throughout the mid-90s, helping to define a new era in East Coast hip-hop culture. Unfortunately, Bad Boy’s rise didn’t come without trials and tribulations, from relationship mayhem to the label’s ongoing violent upheaval with the West Coast’s Death Row Records. Taking over the charts in 1995, Biggie became East Coast rap’s representative and Bad Boy’s superhero of sorts. While Mack’s album went gold, Ready to Die received multi-platinum recognition. In the same year, “Juicy” and Ready to Die, the lead single and debut album from the Notorious B.I.G were released. The film takes us through Bad Boy’s skyrocket to success after putting out “Flava In Ya Ear” by Craig Mack, followed by Mack’s debut album, Project: Funk Da World in 1994. “At the beginning of the process Puff said, if you are going to do the concert, I want you to do it in a way that no one has ever done before and I want to look like batman,” he continued. I thought the story was much more compelling,” Kaufman said during a post screening Q&A session. “My intention from the beginning was never to make a concert movie. The sold-out concert opened a planned 25-date tour and happened one day before what would have been Notorious B.I.G’s 44th birthday last year.Īt the first the film feels like a simple concert promotional video, but there’s a rich narrative woven in, giving this era of music further cultural context.
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Taking a riff from reality TV drama, we witness the stress that Gibson has to go through in order to produce a Diddy production. This was the cultural zeitgeist in which Sean “Diddy” Combs created Bad Boy Records, after getting fired from his A&R job at Uptown Records by founder André Harrell, turning him into the music mogul he is today and carving out a new era in hip-hop culture.Ĭan’t Stop, Won’t Stop: The Bad Boy Story directed by Daniel Kaufman and Live Nation Productions chronicles what happens when Diddy task his Creative Director powerhouse, Laurieann Gibson with pulling together the Bad Boy family for a 20th anniversary (“20th anniversary” was actually celebrating 23 years since the labels inception) reunion show with just three weeks to rehearse vocals and chorography that hadn’t been performed in years. Imagine New York in 1993, the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn cautioned with the phrase “Bed-Stuy Do or Die” and record labels were much more relevant.
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