Born in Harlem in 1971, Combs grew up not on those mean streets but in the New York suburb of Mt. Vernon while attending a Catholic, boys-only high school in the Bronx. While majoring in business administration at Howard University, he put his salesmanship to work, holding hip-hop dance parties every week and running a shuttle bus service for fellow students traveling back and forth from the airport for visits home (which means that if he hadn't kept pursuing the hip-hop angle, Puff Daddy might today known as the king of airport shuttling, Sean "Huffy" Combs).
Puff dropped out of college when he turned his internship at Uptown Record ...More
