in Miami, he amassed considerable connections. He studied Combs carefully and sought to make being “commercial” a personality. The desire to be “all on the record, dancing” is DJ Khaled’s entire ethos. Combs, he implied, disrupted the balance, and took the spotlight off actual entertainers he was standing where he shouldn’t be, in a place reserved for creators. He was drawing a line between being “real” and being “commercial,” and between the backstage impresario and the on-air talent. ![]() ![]() “Any artist out there that want to be an artist and want to stay a star, and don’t want to have to worry about the executive producer trying to be all in the videos, all on the record, dancing-come to Death Row,” he howled. At the 1995 Source Awards, Suge Knight, the thug mogul of Death Row Records, took to the stage to criticize his rival, Sean (Puffy) Combs, the founder of Bad Boy Records.
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