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NYU Offers Course on Puff Daddy

Sean ‘Puffy, Puff Daddy, Diddy’ Combs is a legend when it comes to the music label game and he can prove his worth starting from the bottom and being on top with Bad Boy and Revolt!

Diddy has solidified his place among the greatest entrepreneurs in music history with over 20 years of breath taking music and groundbreaking moments. Now CelebNMusic247.com has learned that a new course is about to be offered to the studends of NYU’s Clive Davis Institute.

The Institute will be dedicating a course entirely to the ways of Puff this upcoming semester.

The former Director of Marketing for Urban Music for Elektra, Jayson Jackson, will be teaching this course. He is also the former Vice President Of Marketing and Promotions for Bad Boy Entertainment, a man who helped cement the legacy of Notorious B.I.G. and Faith and introducing artists like Mase, The Lox, and Carl Thomas to the culture, according to Stashed.

If your a student at NYU and you are interested in taking the course the checkout the description below.

Here is what you can expect from a semester of Puff Daddy-ism via NYU:

No single personality dominated the landscape of urban mainstream popular culture in the 1990s (and since) more than producer, rapper and entrepreneur Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs. By 2014, hip-hop and black culture have become globally mainstream; the immense popularity that hip-hop enjoys today is directly rooted in the profound cultural changes that Combs and his peers instigated. Combs emerged from his humble professional beginnings in the early 1990s as an A&R man at Andre Harrell’s Uptown Records to fashion himself as a profoundly versatile and wildly successful performer, actor, reality-TV star, producer, songwriter, fashion and restaurant entrepreneur and philanthropist. His current net worth estimated at $650 million makes him the richest man in hip-hop and one of the wealthiest artists in the history of popular music. He is a multiple Grammy-winner and won an Oscar in 2012 for his work as a film producer.

Though sometimes not treated with seriousness he deserves, Combs has had a profound effect on global culture of the last twenty years. Through the success of his Bad Boy Records label, which distributed genre-defining artists like the Notorious B.I.G., Combs helped forever alter and change the sound and visuals of hip hop and R&B. Combs drew on Russell Simmons’ early business success to redefine the image of the hip-hop entrepreneur as aggressive, brash and full of self-assured swagger. He also helped redefine the concept of celebrity branded entertainment and he mainstreamed innovative marketing techniques (like street teams) in the music industry.

This class will investigate the social and cultural and political changes of the 1990s and how Sean Combs was catapulted to success by those changes. Through critical readings, viewings and listening assignments, the brilliance, strategy and serial entrepreneurship of Sean Combs will be interpreted, discussed and dissected.

We think this would be a very interesting course, since Puff Daddy started as a PA and made it happen.

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