Which rapper founded the record label Bad Boy Records?

Sean Combs founded Bad Boy Records in 1993. The label grew from Combs’s experience as a talent director at Uptown Records into one of hip-hop’s most influential record companies.

Bad Boy’s early breakthrough came through Craig Mack’s “Flava in Ya Ear” and The Notorious B.I.G.’s 1994 album Ready to Die. Biggie became the label’s flagship artist, while acts such as Faith Evans, Mase, 112, Total, and The Lox helped establish Bad Boy as a major force in 1990s rap and R&B.

Combs has used several professional names, including Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, and Diddy, which can make this answer appear under different labels. The founder is still the same person: Sean Combs. Suge Knight founded Death Row Records, Dr. Dre co-founded Aftermath Entertainment, and Jay-Z founded Roc-A-Fella Records, so those names belong to different label histories.