Artist Former roster
Black Rob
Harlem's Robert Ross, better known as Black Rob, rapped for Bad Boy Entertainment under Sean "Puffy" Combs and gave the label its 2000 street anthem "Whoa!"
Robert Ross, Black Rob, was one of those artists you knew from two bars. Harlem truth, East Coast swing, and a cadence that kept records alive even when the subject matter was heavy.
“Whoa!” arrived in 2000 and climbed to number 43 on the Hot 100, a modest Billboard number for a record you could feel from Uptown to everywhere. Rob could be raw and still musical, street and still ready for radio when the timing was right.
His story had highs and hard seasons, and his death in 2021 closed it far too early. The catalog still knocks: Black Rob is one of the grittiest, most quotable voices Bad Boy ever had, and essential to any serious timeline of the label.
Rest in power.
Awards & honors
- Grammy · Nominated Nominated for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Bad Boy for Life" (with Diddy and Mark Curry ) from *The Saga Continues…* at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards (February 27, 2002).
Discography 2
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Singles 2
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Appears on 14
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- 1996 Bad Boy Mixtape Vol. 4 (Stop Yappin')
- 1996 Come See Me - Single
- 1997 No Way Out No.1 7× Platinum
- 1997 Harlem World No.1 4× Platinum
- 1998 Lookin' at Me - EP
- 1998 Love Like This - Single Gold
- 1998 Kima, Keisha, and Pam Gold
- 1999 Never Gonna Let You Go - Single
- 1999 Born Again No.1 2× Platinum
- 2001 The Saga Continues...
- 2001 Child of the Ghetto
- 2002 We Invented the Remix No.1 Platinum
- 2004 Hurt No More Gold
- 2016 Bad Boy 20th Anniversary Box Set Edition
Frequent collaborators
Songs shared across Bad Boy releases
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