Controversy

He has been criticized for watering down and overly commercializing hip-hop for a mainstream market and as overusing guest appearances by other artists as well as samples and interpolations of past hits for the majority of his own hit songs. The Onion parodied this phenomenon in an article titled "New rap song samples Billie Jean in its entirety, adds nothing."[6] Nevertheless, he has been enormously successful, with a current estimated worth of US $346 million and growing, making him the richest person in the hip hop entertainment business.[7]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Combs

Performing career

Diddy has recently finished recording his latest LP, entitled Press Play, featuring collaborations with, among others, Christina Aguilera, Nas, Big Boi, Twista, Just Blaze, Pharrell, Brandy, Mary J. Blige and Keyshia Cole which was released on October 17th, 2006.

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Establishing Bad Boy

After starting the label, both Craig Mack and The Notorious B.I.G. quickly released hit singles, followed by similarly successful LPs, particularly B.I.G.'s Ready to Die. Puff Daddy, as he was then known, began signing more acts to Bad Boy, including, Dream, Carl Thomas, Faith Evans, Father MC, 112 and Total, as well as producing for Jodeci, Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil' Kim, TLC, Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men, SWV, Aretha Franklin and others, and forming The Hitmen, an in-house production team. Ma$e and D-Block (known as "The Lox" at the time) soon joined Bad Boy, just as a widely publicized rivalry with the West Coast's Death Row Records was beginning. Combs and Biggie were criticized and parodied by Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight, in songs and interviews during the mid 1990s. Shakur was murdered in September, 1996.[5] Six months later, on March 9, 1997, the Notorious B.I.G. was murdered weeks before the release of his most successful album, Life After Death.

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Early years

Born in New York to Melvin and mother Janice Combs, Combs grew up in Mount Vernon, just to the north of the New York City borough of the Bronx. When Puff Daddy was two, 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.[4] After completing his private secondary education at the Roman Catholic Mount Saint Michael Academy in the Bronx in 1987, Combs attended Howard University in Washington, DC but dropped out, and eventually became an intern at Uptown Records.[4]

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Special Awards

Best Retail Website – Rentals - WantedList
Best Retail Website – Sales – AdultDVDEmpire.com

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVN_Awards

AVN Award winners

The following is a list of the winners in the major categories for the AVN Awards. A more complete list of winners can be found through the External Link listed below.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVN_Awards

Special categories

Best Renting Title of the Year, Best Selling Title of the Year, Hall of Fame, Reuben Sturman Award

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVN_Awards