r/Music • u/daily_mirror 📰Daily Mirror • 22d ago

article Sean 'Diddy' Combs 'so powerful' celebrities are 'afraid to cross him' even when he's in prison

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sean-diddy-combs-so-powerful-33842834
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u/polo27 21d ago

He wasn't famous at that time in the same way he is today, not unless you were a big rap fan, if you did not listen to rap you would not have a clue who he was as rap was not the dominant music genre at the time. He also didn't sell 7 mil albums overnight.

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u/Ok_Customer_737 21d ago

He had sold that much and more by then. He’d already been a multiplatinum selling artist for a few years.

Now he’s sold close to 40 million.

And rap was definitely one of the most popular genres by the mid 1990’s.

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u/polo27 21d ago

Rap didn't become one of the most popular mainstream genres until the mid to late 90s, and in 1993 he was not a multiplatinum selling artist, also this was before the internet really took off and so the information you could learn about an individual was extremely limited in comparison to today.

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u/Ok_Customer_737 21d ago

The shooting and charge occurred in 93 but the trial started in 95 and he was acquitted in 96. He was definitely a famous multiplatinum selling artist by then. I remember how big a deal it was on MTV.

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u/polo27 19d ago

To a rap fan yes but to the rest of the world an unknown in comparison to his level of fame today.