Chapter Two of The Rise And Fall Of A King Called Diddy—The Uptown Years

Chapter Two of a Substack-only book

In the early 90s the mixtape scene was hot in New York City. That’s what the real tastemakers listened to know what’s coming next. Most of the time these tapes were recordings of famous MCs rhyming, but sometimes they consisted of DJs blending songs together so the vocals from one song meshed with the music from another. When they laced the vocals from …