Sean Combs is one of Urban music’s most admired innovators and is no stranger to altering the game. Presently, according to the September issue of ‘Vanity Fair,’ he plans to shake things up once more by creating an “all R&B label.”
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The 51-year-old spoke to ‘Vanity Fair’ about his ambition to bring R&B back into focus in music, saying:
“I’m coming back to music, you know?” he told the magazine in his Tressie Cottom-penned feature. “[An] all R&B label, because I feel like R&B was abandoned and it’s a part of our African American culture.”
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However, Combs stated plainly that he had no intention to repeat the approach that made his renowned Bad Boy Records such a success in the 1990s.
“I’m not signing any artists. Because if you know better, you do better. I’m doing 50–50 partnerships with pure transparency. That’s the thing. We don’t own hip-hop right now. We have a chance to—and I’m going to make sure that—we own R&B.”
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The lack of such “transparency” has already seen the multi-hyphenate heavily criticised, with a number of musicians on his labels accusing him of commercial misconduct. When asked how he felt about the scrutiny, Love responded:
“I can’t get caught up in that. I know where my heart is at, and you can’t just do it alone with just Black people. You got to have all types of allies. And that’s one thing I’m good at, I’m good at being a unifier, but I’m not going to be in a room with other tribes that protect themselves and make sure that they straight and not make sure that we straight.”
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