It’s Bad Boy For Life? Artists Whose Talents Are/Were Wasted Under Bad Boy Records

Danity Kane

DK was by far Diddy’s biggest success when it comes to using reality TV as a means to find talent.  I mean, these chicks were the first girl group to have their first two albums debut at the top of the Billboard 200 charts. That’s a big thing! But despite all their good and hard work, rumors consistently surfaced that the women were having trouble in paradise, spending a lot of time worrying about outside activities (including Dawn Richard’s work on Diddy’s own album) that was creating a rift in the band.  However, though the women returned for season 3 (Making the Band 4), it wasn’t their issues that broke them up, but Diddy. The Bad Boy CEO disapproved of the new image of member Aubrey O’Day, as well as her smart mouth, and cut member D.Woods for speaking up after O’Day was dropped from the group. You don’t talk back to Diddy, girls!

After those two ladies were kicked out of the group, Diddy later let all the members of the group out of their contracts, disbanding Danity Kane at the height of their popularity. In the end, only Dawn got to stick around, becoming a member of Diddy-Dirty Money, whose success with The Last Train to Paris wasn’t nearly as big as the numbers DK albums were pulling. What a waste of all these girl’s talents. They had pipes!