"Bad Boy for Life"

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I say classic. I mean, its got P Diddy admitting he writes checks to ghostwriters and a really cool beat. da-da-da-da-dada, dada da STOPPED NOW BECUZ ITS BAD BOY FOR LIFE.

― djdee2005, Friday, 20 February 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

CLASSIQUE x 100,000,000

But surely this has come up before?

― NERQ (Enrique), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I searched for it, didn't find it.
But I am bad at using the search function.

― djdee2005, Friday, 20 February 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

classic, easily. nice dirty funk.-

― adam west (adamwest), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Ben Stiller + golf + stereotypes= classic!!!!!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Puffy + music = DUD
Puffy + music videos = sometimes classic
Puffy + Making the Hip-Hop Band = classic!!

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Step #241 in shedding my indie-rap guilt: realizing that if El-P had done this beat, I'd love it unconditionally, then realizing I loved the beat anyways and that Diddy et al on the mic > SA Smash

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i quite like it (lame video tho) - is that main hook based on the opening bass riff on Labi Siffre's 'I Got The' or is it something else?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 20 February 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

This track is no "D.I.D.D.Y."

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 February 2004 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

one of the only Megahertz productions I can stand (besides "One For Peedi Crakk").

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 20 February 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

That bass drum sounds so incredible on a loud system

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 20 February 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

He flexes at the end of the video. But yeah this track is no D.I.D.D.Y.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 20 February 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

wait why is D.I.D.D.Y. any good? beat was used a thousand times before, and the hook was lifted from KRS. I mean if you're gonna steal a hook, shouldn't you have to steal from a genre that isn't your own?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 20 February 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

there is nothing wrong with Puffy stealing a hook about jimmy hats. Plus the video is stunning (shiny suit man!) and he claims that Mr. Belvedere works for him.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 20 February 2004 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean if you're gonna steal a hook, shouldn't you have to steal from a genre that isn't your own?

What!?

― djdee2005, Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

What I think was Great and Important about "D.I.D.D.Y." is that it ushered in Puffy's new relaxed rapping style where everything just sounds effortless - see also him swapping lines with Busta on "Pass The Courvoisier Part II".

Songwise I don't think I could choose between "D.I.D.D.Y." and "Bad Boys For Life" - but don't forget the REEEEEMIIIIIXX!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 21 February 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to admit here, I think this is definitely among the worst popular songs of the past decade, maybe longer. wow, is it bad. the riff, the rhymes, the video, all of it. gaaaah. I usually don't drop into threads and do this sort of thing, but at the time this song seemed so atrocious, I found myself wondering if anyone at all actually liked it, or if the whole life cycle of it through the charts and on the radio was just based on payola.

― daria g (daria g), Saturday, 21 February 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah I'll admit any success this song had was purely based on hype, payola and all that good stuff. But I kind of enjoy those horrendous The-King-Is-Poised-To-Fall attention-getters.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 21 February 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah Tim cause his rapping on "I'll Be Missing You" wasn't relaxed at all. Nor was, oh, almost everything else he's done.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 21 February 2004 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops, what's your opinion of "Bad Boy for Life"? You haven't said yet.

As irritating a figure as Puffy is, I think it's a classic. That beat is just too much.

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 21 February 2004 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

what i love in the video where puffy and shaq do that crazy-jiggly dance together in sync after shaq dunks. is puffy a better dancer than usher??

― dave k, Sunday, 22 February 2004 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Yeah Tim cause his rapping on "I'll Be Missing You" wasn't relaxed at all. Nor was, oh, almost everything else he's done."

I think you're confusing "relaxed" with "wooden" Oops. There is a difference. Also I think he actually sounded quite worked up on stuff like the Godzilla song and "PE 2000". He didn't do worked up well though.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 23 February 2004 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's a decent beat, Broheems. Sufficiently dirty for my tastes, and probably my favorite of all the ones that Puffy's rapped on---which isn't saying very much at all.

Is the Godzilla song the Kashmir one? That was the only one I remember where he sounded awake. Made me wish he stayed asleep. In any case, he's really an awful mc.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 23 February 2004 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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