Black Rob was another artist who was getting burned. When Rob realized that Puff was stonewalling about releasing his album, around this time, Puff’s career had taken off and he couldn’t catch Puff in the office or get him to answer phone calls.

When Black Rob started asking Puff to let him out of his contract, Puff finally started giving him studio time. The catch was that he was cooking the books to do so, engaging in a questionable practice called “piggybacking.”

One night, for example, Mary J. Blige was doing a cameo for Bad Boy and was in the studio working with producer Stevie Jay for six hours straight. When the session was over, Stevie Jay and Blige left and dismissed the studio crew. But instead of letting everyone go home, Puff ordered the technicians and musicians to stay put. Then he called Black Rob and me into the studio and told us to work on a couple of songs for the next two hours.

When going over the accounts later, one of Blige’s managers asked her about the eight hours she was billed for studio time at Bad Boy. Blige told him that it was in error, and that she had worked six hours that night. Puff was confronted about the discrepancy and promised to look into it. He took so long that Blige ended up being billed anyway.

Once Puff realized that he wouldn’t be able to siphon enough studio time to finish Black Rob’s album, he reluctantly gave Black Rob a recording budget. Although the album went platinum, Puff had given him such a lousy contract that Black Rob, a dropout with no job skills, was flat broke by the time it was released. To avoid the embarrassment of people finding out that he couldn’t afford to pay child support with his meager publishing royalties from “Life Story,” while Puff was living in luxury. Black Rob resorted to petty crime. Five months after his album dropped, he was serving time for burglary.

Source: “Dancing With The Devil,” by Mark Curry

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I am suprised? NO, I thought he has always been on them drugs. actually he is even better these days.