Bad Boy Records and Puff Daddy have released many classic albums over the years, but there are a bunch of them that sit somewhere on the shelves of Bad Boy Studios to this day. The ten albums listed here are some of the more famous projects that they never released.
Notorious B.I.G. Live Album
Once Death Row Records officially released an all-live 2Pac album back in the day, Puffy got the idea of doing the same with Biggie. This album was supposed to be out in 2002/2003. If you go on YouTube and see Biggie’s old performances, you can tell that an all-live Biggie album would have been a monster.
Buggati Boyz Album
Remember this one? This was the duo album with Puffy and Florida rapper Rick Ross. They did release one song for this, titled “Another One”, but that was released over ten years ago at this point. Former producers have confirmed making tracks for this project, but no one has ever confirmed anything past that first song.
Craig Mack’s Sophmore Album
Mack was Bad Boy’s original debut artist. Consider the fact that Mack’s first single and album went Gold on a brand-new label, it was a really big deal. Once Biggie’s “Ready to Die” was released, Mack dropped to the number two slot, and fast. Puffy had talked about a second Craig Mack album in 1996, but there was no actual proof that anything was actually recorded.
Mark Curry Album
Curry was one of Puffy’s main ghostwriters back in the early 2k days. Curry had done work producing and writing on Biggie’s “Born Again” Album and Puffy’s “The Saga Continues” album. Curry had been recording a Bad Boy solo album for years, an album which Puffy kept promising him that would be released. Guess what, it wasn’t.
Fuzzbubble Album
Bad Boy Records first rock group that Puffy signed back in 1997. You might remember them from the “Its All About The Benjamins” rock remix. Puffy had them record an album and then never released it. Something cool to note: Fuzzbubble did a cover of Biggie’s Hypnotize and it sounds pretty sick.
Mario Winans’ 2nd Bad Boy Album
This really is a strange one and probably the strangest project on the list. Winans has been one of Puffy’s most trusted loyal writers and performers for the better part of the last two decades. His debut “Hurt No More” was one of the bestselling albums of 2004. You would think a follow up with be a no-brainer, right? Well, Winans did start a project and have a release date (which was in 2006) but nothing more than that happened. And, no one even knows why……
Aasim Album
Another one of Puffy’s best ghostwriters that he promised a solo album. Aasim has been contributing to Bad Boy Records albums back to Puffy’s album “Press Play” from 2006. Aasim contributed as a performer and as a writer, and showed promise as a new Bad Boy rapper. It’s now over fifteen years later, and that Bad Boy Aasim album never happened.
Jerome Album
Jerome was the teenage R&B singer that Puffy kept talking about being a big part of the future of Bad Boy Records. Jerome did actually release a few songs and appear in a few videos in 1999, but his 2000 album never did happen. Jerome claims the album was thirteen cuts deep and ready to go.
E. Ness/Babs Joint Album
Sooooo this was going to be two separate solo albums consisting 50% of E. Ness and 50% of Babs or possibly the two of them as a rap duo. No one really knows. When Da Band disbanded (or to be more clear, Puffy disbanded them) Puffy kept Ness and Babs around with the promise of a future project. Babs left after a while and Ness’ contributions came as a writer on a couple of tracks but that was it for them.
Diddy “No Way Out 2″
The follow-up to Puffy’s classic debut album from 1997. Puffy has been promising this one for the last five plus years and has said that it will be his final album. Puffy said it will be another classic with timeless music. No single or video has been completed for this project and there has been absolutely no progress since announcing the album years ago. Puffy did release “The Love Album: Off The Grid” back in 2023, but that was apparently a complete separate project. Was that Puffy’s last album or is this one somewhere down the pipeline? Who knows at this point.