Vibe Magazine – December 1997/January 1998 (Puff Daddy Cover, The Good, The Bad and the Puffy)

A Piece of Vibe Magazine History

Puff Daddy closes out 1997 on the December 1997 and January 1998 cover of Vibe, posed with angel wings under the cover line The Good, The Bad and the Puffy at the peak of his Bad Boy empire. The double issue carries a special three-part report in which Tupac Shakur’s accused killer speaks, along with features on Tyra Banks, Air Jordan, Rakim, Chico DeBarge, and Michelle Yeoh, plus a holiday photo album spanning Lauryn Hill, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Maxwell, Master P, Biggie and Faith, and Bobby Brown. A definitive snapshot of late-nineties hip-hop and R&B from Vibe, the magazine that chronicled the soul and swagger of the culture.