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"Bad Boy for Life"
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Single by P. Diddy, Black Rob and Mark Curry
from the album The Saga Continues...
ReleasedJuly 10, 2001 (2001-07-10)
Length4:13
Label
Songwriters
  • Dorsey Wesley
  • Mark Curry
  • Robert Ross
  • Jamel Fisher
  • Drayton Goss
ProducerMegahertz
P. Diddy singles chronology
"Let's Get It"
(2001) 		"Bad Boy for Life"
(2001) 		"Diddy"
(2001)
Black Rob singles chronology
"Whoa!"
(2000) 		"Bad Boy for Life"
(2001) 		"Let's Get it"
(2001)

"Bad Boy for Life" is a song by American rappers P. Diddy, Black Rob and Mark Curry, featured on P. Diddy's third studio album The Saga Continues.... Produced by Megahertz (Dorsey Wesley), it was released as the second single from the album in July 2001 and reached number 33 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Background

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"Bad Boy for Life" was produced in 1998 but was not released until 2001. In reviews of the album, "Bad Boy for Life" has been identified as a declaration of strength by Diddy's label Bad Boy Records. Jason Birchmeier of music website Allmusic explains that the song summarises the claim "that [the] Bad Boy empire is in fact still an empire",[1] while Entertainment Weekly reviewer David Browne similarly points out the lyric "It's official/I survived what I been through" as a declaration of strength.[2] Soren Baker of the Los Angeles Times identifies "Bad Boy for Life", in addition to previous single "Let's Get It", as particularly important to the success of the album.[3]

Music video

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The music video for "Bad Boy for Life" was directed by Chris Robinson, filmed in June 2001 and released in early July, and features a number of cameo appearances including guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Travis Barker, actors Ben Stiller and Richard Dunn, rappers Xzibit, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg and Fonzworth Bentley, boxer Mike Tyson, television host Pat O'Brien, basketball players Shaquille O'Neal and Baron Davis and rap rock band Crazy Town.[4] The video was nominated for Best Rap Video at both the 2002 MVPA Awards[5] and the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards.[6]

Track listing

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12" vinyl (78612-79400-1)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bad Boy for Life" (club mix)Wesley, Curry, Ross, Fisher, Goss4:09
2."Bad Boy for Life" (instrumental)Wesley, Curry, Ross, Fisher, Goss4:09
3."Bad Boy for Life" (radio mix)Wesley, Curry, Ross, Fisher, Goss4:09
4."Bad Boy for Life" (acapella)Wesley, Curry, Ross, Fisher, Goss4:09
Total length:16:36
European CD single (Arista 74321 88431 2)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bad Boy for Life"Wesley, Curry, Ross, Fisher, Goss4:13
2."Let's Get It"Trevell Coleman, Jeremy Graham, Ross, Al Green, Mabon Hodge4:16
Total length:8:29
European maxi single (Arista 74321 88430 2)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bad Boy for Life" (club mix)Wesley, Curry, Ross, Fisher, Goss4:13
2."Bad Boy for Life" (instrumental)Wesley, Curry, Ross, Fisher, Goss4:13
3."Let's Get It" (club mix)Coleman, Graham, Ross, Green, Hodge4:16
4."Let's Get It" (remix)Coleman, Graham, Ross, Green, Hodge4:01
5."Can't Believe" (club mix)Sean Combs, Mario Winans, Mechalie Jamison, Michael Jones, Jack Knight, Andre Young, Chris Taylor, Nasir Jones, Jermain Baxter, Anthony Cruz3:49
6."Hoodfellaz" (club mix)Graham, Ronald Smith, Chris Moss, Kamau Herbert, Goss4:03
Total length:24:35
United Kingdom 12" vinyl (Arista 74321 88998 1)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bad Boy for Life"Wesley, Curry, Ross, Fisher, Goss4:09
2."Bad Boy for Life" (instrumental)Wesley, Curry, Ross, Fisher, Goss4:09
3."Let's Get It" (remix)Coleman, Graham, Ross, Green, Hodge5:19
4."Let's Get It" (instrumental)Coleman, Graham, Ross, Green, Hodge4:30
Total length:18:07
United Kingdom maxi single (Arista 74321 88998 2)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bad Boy for Life"Wesley, Curry, Ross, Fisher, Goss4:09
2."Bad Boy for Life" (instrumental)Wesley, Curry, Ross, Fisher, Goss4:09
3."Let's Get It" (remix)Coleman, Graham, Ross, Green, Hodge5:19
4."Bad Boy for Life" (music video)Wesley, Curry, Ross, Fisher, Goss5:56
Total length:19:33

Credits and samples

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Charts

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Certifications

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Certifications for "Bad Boy for Life"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
New Zealand (RMNZ)[30] Gold 15,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

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Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States June 26, 2001 Urban radio
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July 10, 2001 12-inch vinyl [32]
United Kingdom September 24, 2001
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
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Australia October 1, 2001 CD [34]

In other media

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Jesy Nelson's 2021 debut single "Boyz", featuring Nicki Minaj, prominently samples the baseline and the final lyrics of the song.[35]

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