Given the size of the deal, rival record label executives estimate Def Jam will have to sell about 900,000 copies for ''Godfather Buried Alive'' to break even. So when word spread last fall of other recordings made before he began serving his sentence, top music industry executives began making the trek to the Clinton Correctional Facility to woo Shyne.ĭef Jam beat out competitors, signing Shyne to a two-album deal that could pay him an estimated $6.5 million in advances. Combs declined to comment.)īut before the trial, Shyne had recorded his first album, ''Shyne,'' which has sold more than 900,000 copies since its release in 2000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Combs betrayed him by not speaking up in his defense Mr. Diddy, was charged with illegal possession of a gun and bribery and acquitted at the same trial. Combs, also known to fans then as Puff Daddy and now as P. He was convicted in 2001 of assault, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment, and sentenced to 10 years in prison with no eligibility for parole until 2009. Witnesses said Shyne had fired a handgun wildly into the crowd. Combs, a melee erupted and the violence escalated into gunfire, injuring three bystanders. Combs's girlfriend at the time, Jennifer Lopez, at Club New York in Manhattan. 27, 1999, Shyne was among the entourage of Mr. Combs that led Shyne to his current residence.
I've found a way to stay on top of everything.''īut it was another connection with Mr. ''I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. ''No one would want to be here,'' Shyne said in a telephone interview last week from the Clinton Correctional Facility. And whatever modest publicity efforts Shyne can undertake will not take place on Friday nights or Saturdays - he recently began observing the Jewish Sabbath, a nod, he says, to his great-grandmother, an Ethiopian Jew. The New York State Department of Correctional Services has started to enforce rules limiting the number of reporters who can visit. So is the customary swing through radio station studios in the biggest markets. With the performer behind bars in upstate New York, a concert tour is out of the question. But now, after signing Shyne to a multimillion-dollar-record contract to put out some of his unreleased recordings, executives at Vivendi Universal's Def Jam Recordings are finding that some of the very traits that stirred up such interest - his hardcore image and tangles with the law - may prove to be major drawbacks as they market his new album, ''Godfather Buried Alive,'' due in stores Tuesday. Barrow, professionally known as Shyne and a former protégé of the rap music impresario Sean Combs, was heavily courted this winter despite being just three years into a 10-year sentence for a shooting while he was with Mr. Unfortunately for them, he's serving it right now.
Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).In the calculating eyes of music industry executives, the rap artist Jamaal Barrow possesses the sort of street credibility that instantly draws fans and sells records - a prison sentence.
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