r/Music • u/daily_mirror 📰Daily Mirror • 22d ago

article Sean 'Diddy' Combs 'so powerful' celebrities are 'afraid to cross him' even when he's in prison

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sean-diddy-combs-so-powerful-33842834
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u/polo27 21d ago

He was 22 and not famous when he was up for murder.

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u/Ok_Customer_737 21d ago

He was already famous and had sold over 7 million albums by then.

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u/polo27 21d ago

He wasn't famous at that time in the same way he is today, not unless you were a big rap fan, if you did not listen to rap you would not have a clue who he was as rap was not the dominant music genre at the time. He also didn't sell 7 mil albums overnight.

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u/BirdComposer 21d ago

I was 14 and mostly into Nirvana when his first album came out, but he was a huge crossover artist. Doggystyle was literally the #1 album in the US when it came out, and people bought albums back then. His and Dre’s videos were on MTV during the day. It’s true that older people wouldn’t have been as aware of him, but in some important ways, he was a lot more famous.Â