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Sean Combs

The American dream for Sean Combs has taken him from his Harlem childhood to fame and fortune as a rapper, fashion designer, record company executive, and multimillionaire philanthropist.

Born in 1969 to an aspiring model and a hustler dad, and he was 14 years old when he learned that his father had not died in a car accident, as his mother had told him, but from a gunshot to the head from a criminal rival.  Beginning with that news, this honest biography includes both the bad and the good throughout his life.

His phenomenal success, beginning with producing songs for other groups and then the release of I’ll Be Missing You, his own first album, is told, but so are his connections to gangs, and accusations from other artists who feel he has used their talents to fill his own ambitions.

Both fans and other readers will appreciate this honest look at Combs as an artist, a businessman, and a person who is willing to share his own success by helping others, and the art and culture surrounding rap and hip-hop artists and their music make for interesting reading.