Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Reassigns Publishing to Infamous B.I.G., Mase

In a uncommon go apparently themed for Labor Working day, Poor Boy Information founder Sean “Diddy” Combs has “decided to reassign his Negative Boy publishing rights back again to all Negative Boy artists and writers who assisted construct Negative Boy into the powerhouse it is nowadays,” a resource shut to the scenario confirmed to Selection on Monday.

The artists in issue consist of the Infamous B.I.G.’s estate, Religion Evans, Ma$e, the Lox, 112 and “many more” unspecified creators. Unique information were not promptly offered but the belongings are reported to be worthy of hundreds of tens of millions of dollars.

All those assets have greater drastically in price in current a long time as artists or estates symbolizing the songs catalogs Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Genesis, Luther Vandross and many other folks have struck nine-figure deals providing or partly promoting the legal rights to people catalogs. The resource notes that Combs has gained a number of multi-million dollar provides for the rights to the Negative Boy publishing catalog, but as a substitute has made the decision to reassign the rights to the songwriters the source additional that most, but not all, of the recipients have been located, contacted and signed the needed paperwork.

Mase, a multiplatinum-advertising Negative Boy rapper who appeared with Combs on a lot of songs, has frequently referred to as out his previous mentor above income allegedly owed Combs said on the Breakfast Club final calendar year that Mase basically owned him $3 million, a assert that Mase disputed aggressively. Mase said in 2020 that Combs experienced refused his $2 million provide for Mase’s publishing.

In actuality, Mase’s longtime buddy and collaborator Cam’ron leaked the news of the publishing arrangement in an Instagram write-up late final 7 days: Referencing his friend’s first rapper name “Murda Mase,” Cam’ron wrote in a write-up about “The Dropped Information,” his forthcoming mixtape, “My n—a murder experienced to sit this a person out. He just bought his publishing back from Puff. Just finished the paper do the job for that yesterday. Congrats @rsvpmase.”

During the 1990s it was not unheard of for labels or label owners to just take a percentage of an artist’s publishing as element of a recorded-tunes offer, whilst that syndrome has faded absent as artists and songwriters come to be far more aware of the worth of their publishing legal rights.

“Combs sees it as part of a broader purpose of promoting economic empowerment for Black artists and culture,” the resource says.

Combs has a new album, “The L.O.V.E. Album: Off the Grid,” showcasing Justin Bieber, the Weeknd, Swae Lee, Mary J. Blige and some others, dropping Sept. 15.

Wide variety will have more on the circumstance as it develops.