Diddy’s Bad Boy For Life protégé Mark Curry reveals hidden meaning of famous hit song

Diddy’s Bad Boys For Life protégé Mark Curry reveals the secret meaning behind a song he wrote for the mogul early in his career – and how the rapper cut him out of the bottom line.

On The trial against Diddythe brand new Daily Mail podcast launching today, Curry claims the disgraced music mogul stripped him of his credit and profits from the songs he wrote.

Mark Curry signed with Bad Boy Record in 1997 and said for years that Diddy promised him he would release his own album.

Instead, Curry said he ended up writing songs for which Diddy took credit.

One of these was the smash hit Come With Me, which appeared on the soundtrack of the 1998 Godzilla film, sold a million copies in the US and reached number four on the Billboard charts.

Curry claimed that it wasn’t just the song that Diddy took credit for, but that the lyrics were about the pain and betrayal Diddy put him through.

“When I finalized the publishing deal, I had just finished writing the song Godzilla Come With Me. And that song was going to be big,” he said.

“And he knew that he didn’t have a publishing situation with me at that point… and that he had executed my production deal that I entered into.”

When it came time to release the song, Curry said Diddy “was very adamant about making sure I signed the contract.”

The contract meant that Curry would sign over half of the publishing rights, and in return he would receive “X amount of dollars.”

“But if I didn’t sign the contract, he wouldn’t let me write the song because he wouldn’t get the percentage out of it that he would need.

“So it’s like, before we can use this song, you have to sign this contract. So I thought, OK, they had the contract.”

Curry signed the contact, but later found out he would only receive $25,000 – even though it was worth $8 million to $10 million.

“Why don’t you wait until we have a value in it and then make me an offer? Why are you offering me a deal for something we don’t even understand the possibilities?’ he told the podcast.

‘And that is the folly. The deal comes before the work. So you’ll offer me a deal when we achieve what we’re aiming for.”

When it was released in 1998, Come With Me was an instant hit.

“When I wrote that song, I was trying to write a song for Puff. And I tried to put it into the words that I thought would best describe him,” Curry said.

‘It was a really great song. It was perhaps one of the greatest songs I ever wrote. And it was a huge song. It charted… I wrote that song.”

Speaking about the first episode of The trial against DiddyCurry revealed that the hidden meaning behind the song was what he said to Diddy at the time.

“If you listen to that song, every word was what I said to him. You said to trust me. You know, you gotta listen to that song, those words,” he said.

“That’s when I realized I wanted to write more songs about how I felt and how I felt so hurt that all my songs came.”

Curry went on to appear on numerous Bad Boy Records songs until leaving the label in 2005, including the 2001 hit Bad Boy for Life.

He wrote the tell-all memoir Dancing with the Devil (referring to Diddy) in 2009, which he said gradually came to be described as a form of insurance.

Curry said he hoped Diddy “would try to be honest with me if he knew I was going to air his dirty laundry,” but that didn’t work.

The book claimed that Curry not only wrote Come With Me, but also sang a vocal guide for Diddy that he followed so closely that he even perfectly mimicked Curry’s hand gestures and facial movements.

Then Notorious B.I.G. was shot in a drive-by shooting and Diddy needed Curry to ghostwrite for him even more – dangling the promise of riches.

Instead, he sat on the line for years, appearing in countless music videos, writing some of Diddy’s biggest hits, and appearing to the world as a moneyed right-hand man — but he was paid a pittance.

Curry explained how Diddy even scammed his artists by insisting on singing on their hits – and then charging a huge fee or a share of the profits that they only found out about when the smaller-than-expected royalty checks arrived.

Diddy tried the same trick by featuring his fleet of sports cars in their music videos and charging huge sums for the privilege.

Other times he forcefully muscled his way into songwriting and production credits on songs he wasn’t involved with.

Curry was paid so little that he sold his backstage passes to Diddy concerts and seriously considered selling marijuana to provide for his family.

“Last year I lost my home to foreclosure, like thousands of other American families who put too much faith in their fellow man, like the lovely lady at the mortgage refinancing company,” he wrote.

“Today I am homeless and still drive a 1992 Honda Accord that I bought at auction. “I still can’t afford health insurance for my son, my wife or myself.”

Meanwhile, Diddy flaunted his extreme wealth in front of those he exploited, Curry wrote.

Curry told the DailyMail.com podcast that he wasn’t surprised that Diddy wasn’t accused of sex trafficking and other disturbing crimes until the sordid stories about his exploits came out.

“What we have yet to discover that hasn’t been discovered or talked about much will come to the surface,” he said.

‘We are just working on it. But once we see and understand the true story of what’s going on, you can kind of understand why it’s taken so long, because it’s not just about one person. It involves several people.’

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