Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Tried to Quietly Change the Notorious B.I.G.’s Contract After His Death

Sean “Diddy” Combs worked with the Notorious B.I.G. at Bad Boy Records. He helped make Biggie a star, but at least one Bad Boy artist said the rapper’s contract was more favorable to Combs. According to Kirk Burrowes, Combs’ former business partner, Combs also tried to change Biggie’s contract after his death. Burrowes alleged that Combs attempted to keep this quiet.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ former partner said the mogul tried to change the Notorious B.I.G.’s contract

Former Bad Boy artist Mark Curry claimed Combs pressured him into a contract that took half his publishing rights. He said that nobody but Combs prospered off their contracts, including the hugely successful Notorious B.I.G.

“I was in the same spot as Biggie when he signed with Bad Boy,” Curry wrote in his book Dancing With the Devil: How Puff Burned the Bad Boys of Hiphop (via Salon). “After Biggie signed the contracts that Puff forced on him, for example, he walked away with only $25,000.”

Burrowes, who co-founded Bad Boy with Combs, alleged that the latter tried to make the contract even more favorable after Biggie’s death. In the documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning, Burrowes said Combs tried to quietly alter the terms to benefit Bad Boy. He said Combs didn’t want Biggie’s family to know.

Burrowes said he refused to go along with the plan. He believed this was very unfairly taking advantage of Biggie.

“You’ve abused everyone and used most everyone,” he said. “There are horror stories like this all throughout.”

He claimed that 90 days after this, Combs fired him from Bad Boy.