Mark Curry (rapper)

In 2009, he published a book, Dancing with the Devil, which contains scurrilous anecdotes about his tenure at Puff Daddy's label Bad Boy Records.

[9] Curry featured on the album's "Blast Off", "Where's Sean", "Lonely", "I Don't Like That (Interlude)", "The Last Song", and "Bad Boy for Life",[8] the latter of which charted at No.

[11] Also in 2001, he appeared on "American Dream", from the Training Day soundtrack, which credited David Bowie due to it sampling "This Is Not America",[12] and on "Blast Off" and "Let's Get It (Remix)" from G. Dep's album Child of the Ghetto.

[4] In 2009, Curry released a book, Dancing with the Devil, which contained a number of scurrilous anecdotes about Combs and Bad Boy Records, and which Curry began writing in the belief that Combs "would try to deal with me fairly if he knew I was going to air his dirty laundry"; the book claimed that Combs copied Curry's mannerisms and guide vocals verbatim for his 1998 single "Come with Me",[9] that he regularly shoehorned himself on to his artists' tracks so that he could charge high "special guest appearances" and that artists only found out once they received their royalty checks,[14] that he would insist on his sports cars being featured in artists' music videos so that he could deduct high rental fees from their budgets and that he would then claim tax credits for his cars' business use, that he regularly muscled his way into unearned songwriting and production credits,[15] and that he would flaunt his wealth around the people he was exploiting.

[9] Curry also used the book to note that he was so poor while with Bad Boy that he had to sell his backstage passes for shows where he was one of Combs' henchmen and that towards the end of his Bad Boy career he had considered selling cannabis to provide for his family, that the previous year he had lost his house to foreclosure, and that he was homeless, driving a 1992 Honda Accord he had bought at auction, and unable to afford health insurance for himself, his wife, or his son Mark Curry II.