Famous For
Uptown was a starting ground for Combs, who became a top executive after his beginnings as an intern. He was instrumental in developing Jodeci and signing and producing Mary J. Blige. He was fired from Uptown in 1993, and went on to establish Bad Boy Records, taking new hip-hop artist The Notorious B.I.G. with him.


Quick Bio
Sean Combs was born in Harlem, New York, the son of Janice and Melvin Combs. He grew up in Mount Vernon, just to the north of the New York City borough of the Bronx. When Combs was three, his father, Melvin, was shot dead in his car on January 26, 1972 at age thirty-three in a Manhattan park following a party he attended. Melvin Combs was an associate of Frank Lucas, the New York drug lord.

Combs attended Howard University in Washington, DC but dropped out, and eventually became an intern at Uptown Records.