Most businessmen will tell you that behind every success is a slew of failures. Sean Combs is no different. The 47-year-old New Yorker (a k a Puff Daddy, a k a Puffy, P. Diddy, Diddy) is worth around $820 million thanks to his successes in fashion, movies, TV, liquor branding and, of course, music. But as covered in the new documentary “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A Bad Boy Story,” his first get-rich-quick scheme was selling drugs while a student at Washington, DC’s Howard University. “Back in the early ’90s, I saw a lot of my friends coming ’round with big wads of cash, so I decided to try it out,” Combs told The Post. In a sense, it was in his genes. His father, Melvin, did the same hustle and was killed in a drug deal gone wrong when Combs was a toddler. But it didn’t take long for Puffy to realize street life was not for him.
Instead, Combs committed to a career in music. Not only did he re-establish the East Coast as the center of hip-hop, Combs took the music and the lifestyle into mainstream culture. Aiming high was always Combs’ calling card in work and play, but he learned early on that it could also have disastrous consequences. In 1991, while starting out as an intern at Uptown Records, he and rapper Heavy D helped promote a charity basketball game at City College Harlem campus. Things really took off when Combs founded Bad Boy Entertainment...
