Bad Boy Records, Miramax, Time Warner, HBO, Sony, Disney, Loud Records, Interscope, on and on.

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Phil Robinson, who once served as Combs' Bad Boy Records lieutenant, can now be seen on VH1's wildly popular "Basketball Wives" series.

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Combs continued on, from his early days running Bad Boy Records, to become a cottage industry with everything from clothing lines to restaurant chains, not to mention music-making.

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