Mark
Curry
Dancing With
the Devil
By Janaya Black
“Welcome to Bad Boy, where dreams come,”
are the words that Sean “Puffy” Combs spoke to
Mark Curry, former Bad Boy artist, as they shook
hands to the seal a deal that would change his life
forever.
After ten years of working, watching and wait-
ing, Curry finally decided that enough was enough.
Now with his tell-all book, Dancing With the Devil,
he has laid all of the Bad Boy secrets out for the
whole world to see: the alleged shady contracts,
the lies and the truth about who he says P. Diddy
really is.
The FrontPage got the opportunity to converse
with Curry to find out why he finally decided to
write the book and what he hopes to accomplish
from it.
FrontPage: We’ll start with you telling Detroi-
ters why you wrote the book Dancing With the
Devil.
Mark Curry: I’m sure a lot of Detroiters can
understand I wrote the book because…I had this
dream, and God gave me a talent. And if I used
it, it could take care of me for the rest of my life.
And when I was pursuing my dream, I ran across
a person who deceived me and where he left me
was in a terrible position in life to where I was basi-
cally lost and confused and I didn’t know what to
do and didn’t have no where to go. You can’t go
from being on the stage in front of 20,000 people
that’s cheering you on, staring at you, singing your
verses, to working at the Jiffy Lube. So I felt like I
had to do this in order to shake this bad cloud that
was hovering over me.
It was a decision that I made when I was 26 years
old, when I first signed to Bad Boy, and I just felt
like I was up against something that didn’t want
me to have it as much as I wanted it. So I had to
address that just in order to get my life back. I had
to address what the problem was, and the prob-
lem wasn’t that I wasn’t good enough to do what I
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