Diddy, Black Rob & Mark Curry - Bad Boy for Life (Vinyl)".
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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. Jason Birchmeier of music website Allmusic explains that the song summarises the claim "that Bad Boy empire is in fact still an empire", 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. In reviews of the album, "Bad Boy for Life" has been identified as a declaration of strength by Diddy's label Bad Boy Records.
The irony is the point.“Bad Boys For Life” was produced in 1998, but later released in 2001. In its choice of name the group, which claims to not be racist or espouse white supremacy - while at the same time boasting an impressive number of white supremacist links and openly advocating for the safeguarding of white masculinity - is invoking a song written by the Jewish composer-lyricist team of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, the latter of whom was gay. It’s a bad song, in my opinion, but McInnes referenced it regularly on his podcast as a token of a certain kind of feminized masculinity he sees being advanced by “PC culture.” McInnes said the showtune was all about Aladdin “apologizing for being a boy, when actually we should let boys be boys.”įor the Proud Boys, being a boy means an initiation that involves getting pummeled while saying the names of breakfast cereals, a Kelloggian avoidance of masturbation and a commitment to not apologizing for how white men behave. In the song, the street rat promises his mother he’ll reform his bad behavior, which includes, but is not limited to, stealing and cavorting with a monkey in a fez. McInnes hated the treacly tune, placed back in the “Aladdin” songbook by the 2014 Broadway musical.