Today In Hip Hop History: Shyne Dropped His Eponymous Debut Album 22 Years Ago

On this date in 2000, Bad Boy Records best artist Jamal “Shyne” Barrow launched his self-titled launching album on the ever-popular Bad Boy imprint under the management of BB honcho, then referred to as “P. Diddy.”

Shyne’s launching album release was a bittersweet one, with his LP being dropped while the Belize-born rap artist was serving 8-10 years in an upstate jail for a shooting in Club New York in Manhattan simply a year prior including his employer and then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez. Despite Barrow needing to do time behind bars, his album was an undeniable success, offering over a million copies in less than a year. It likewise was a significant assistance that Shyne’s voice was strangely similar to killed Bad Boy artist Notorious B.I.G.

With the album material surrounding Shyne’s real-life gangster image, the job’s leading songs, “Bad Boyz”, which includes reggae legend Barrington Levy and the criminal romance “Bonnie And Shyne”, were not just popular in the streets, however likewise did their numbers on-air, with the songs in continuous rotation on the radio around the nation.

Salute to Diddy, Shyne and the rest of the Bad Boy personnel for bringing individuals such a classic Hip Hop traditional!