 became a trope outside of music.During 1993, Uptown Records' founder Andre Harrell fired his young, burgeoning A&R man Sean "Puffy" Combs, who immediately launched his own record label, Bad Boy Entertainment.In the latter half of 1994, Bad Boy established itself upon rapper Craig Mack's hit single "Flava in Ya Ear," yet especially upon Bad Boy's first album, "Ready to Die", the debut album of gangsta rapper the Notorious B.I.G., or Biggie Smalls.