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Mark Curry: Dancing with the Devil, How Puff Burned the Bad Boys of Hip- Hop

As an artist signed to Bad Boy records, Mark Curry rapped on songs with the Notorious B.I.G., appeared in big-budget music videos and rubbed shoulders with hip-hop's elite. His ultimate goal: a chance to write and debut his own album. But when a combination of bad business agreements with label owner Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs and personal choices got in the way of that, he turned to a different type of writing. The result was  Dancing with the Devil, How Puff Burned the Bad Boys of Hip- Hop. In the explosive cautionary tell-all, Curry, 39, delves into the hip-hop beef that ultimately resulted in the deaths of rappers Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. and exposes Combs — one of the most powerful people in hip-hop — as an economic opportunist with little interest in helping his artist get ahead. When you first signed to Bad Boy, where did you see your music career going? All the way to the top as an entertainer and rapper. I saw me being able to feed my f...