by Avery 
56 years before Sean “Puffy” Combes went into Steve Stout’s office accompanied by several burly bodyguards and allegedly smashed him over the head with a champagne bottle, a percussionist named Chano Pozo went to his music publicists office in New
York City and trashed it over unpaid royalties. When he returned a day later, the publicists bodyguard shot him three times in the back. Yet This did not stop Pozo from continuing to perform. And…
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