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Anthony Wolf Jones came into this world February 20th 1965 up in the Bronx New York, raised by his moms Barbara Jones, his pops wasn't in the picture and his mother did everything she could to bring up wolf and his two younger brothers, they went to private school and every Saturday their moms would teach them at the crib since she was an educator herself. Wolf was raised in a part of the Bronx they called the Valley, it had a name for being a rough section, a lot of people assumed he got tagged with the nickname wolf from how he operated in these streets but that menacing name really came from something way more innocent, back when he was young his best friend Troy and Troy's sister Tammy started calling him wolf gang after this character Eddie Munster from that 1960s TV show The Munsters, they used to clown him about that pronounced widow's peak he had on his hairline and how much he looked like Eddie, his younger brother Terrence got called little wolf and those two were tight as hell. When wolf hit his teenage years he formed a crew with his boys from around the way, they named themselves the Valley mob and earned a reputation throughout the Bronx as tough dudes who could throw hands, even though he was dabbling in street life wolf still managed to graduate from Harry Truman High School in 1983, then he went on to enroll at Bronx Community College, he tried holding down different gigs while getting his education, working at United States Parcel Service and later grinding as a construction worker, but being a college kid and working a nine to five wasn't putting enough bread in his pocket so wolf took it to the streets and started getting money with his Valley mob crew, unfortunately this choice led wolf straight to a cell, after he had beef with a rival crew he caught an attempted murder charge in the early 1990s, after doing only a few years behind bars he got released in early 1993. 93 was a year of growth not just for wolf but for a young music industry cat who was trying to figure out his path, a dude named Sean Puffy Combs, they already knew each other before wolf went in to serve his bid and by the time he touched back down puff was building a name for himself in the music game working under Andre Harrell at the legendary Uptown Records, playing a big role in successful projects like Jodeci's Forever My Lady and Mary J Blige's What's the 411, but word is after tasting this success puffy started feeling himself way too much and was bumping heads with the CEO of the label Andre Harrell, and by early 1993 he got fired from the label. Getting dropped put puffy in a real dark place and made him question if he had a future in music, but luckily for him people that he knew from Harlem and around the way looked out for him while he was trying to stay financially stable and build his empire. One person specifically who went by the name of D Ferg who had respect and status around Harlem put the word out to look after puffy because he believed in what he was building, he was also a member of a well known crew in Harlem called the Same Gang and puffy would shout him out multiple times throughout his career. A prominent New York rapper during that era named Herm Dog would step up for puff financially as well as Ed F who was a producer for Heavy D and the Boyz, they would help puff pay for his rent, car note and other living expenses that he had. This was the very beginning of Bad Boy Records but puff still needed cash so he could promote his two most prized artists Craig Mack and Biggie Smalls, this is when his relationship with Anthony Wolf Jones would come into the picture. After his release from prison he went into business with two of his close homies Buck and L, they started a party company called Buck Naked and would throw events all up and down the East Coast including at puff's old college Howard University in Washington DC, but word is this was just a front, a cover for the real business that was going on, cocaine distribution. The story goes that wolf along with his two good friends Buck and L decided that they wanted to be early investors in Bad Boy Records, giving puff hundreds of thousands of dollars along with other costs that add up while trying to jumpstart a label, his good friend D Ferg would continue to help him as well, he's the one that designed the iconic Bad Boy Records logo. Their investment would pay off immediately after Biggie was featured on the hit Super Cat song Dolly My Baby along with his own solo single Party and Bullshit that was featured on the 1993 film Who's the Man soundtrack. Wolf began to spend more and more time around puff and they formed a bond like brothers. Bad Boy Records was starting to get some traction in the music industry and in 1994 it would be taken to a whole other level after puff signed a lucrative 50/50 distribution deal with music mogul Clive Davis and Arista Records. Bad Boy would become one of the most popular labels in rap especially after the release of Craig Mack's hit song Flava in Ya Ear followed by a star studded remix, and after the release of the legendary Ready to Die album by Biggie, Bad Boy was an official superpower in the music industry. Wolf would become head of security at Bad Boy but he was more like muscle, somebody that puff respected for his reputation in the streets, word is he was very protective over puff and was always on point when it came to any type of threats, and soon Bad Boy Records would need a soldier like wolf more than ever because on November 30th 1994 the seeds of war were planted after Tupac was ambushed in the lobby of the Quad Studios by three armed gunmen leading to him being shot five times. The story goes Tupac was in New York City doing guest appearances with different artists while he awaited trial on an assault case that he was fighting, Tupac started to question why his co-defendants who were accused of the same crime were getting lesser charges and way less jail time, this was a dangerous move because one of the people that he was speaking of was a well known Brooklyn gangster by the name of Haitian Jack who called up another notorious New York gangster named Jimmy Henchman and together they came up with the plan to set up Tupac at Quad Studios. Tupac would call out Jimmy Henchman and Haitian Jack for being the ones behind him getting shot, from the outside looking in the situation had absolutely nothing to do with Biggie, Puffy or Bad Boy Records but according to Tupac they knew exactly what was going to happen to him that night and they didn't warn him which he viewed as a betrayal because he was cool with puff and he was good friends with Biggie. It's been said that one of the reasons for the underlying tension between puff and Pac was because originally Pac was supposed to sign to Bad Boy but he pulled out of the deal at the last minute and would later tell Biggie not to sign to puff because he didn't trust him. Only a few weeks after being shot he was sent to the Bellevue Hospital jail ward before ultimately being sentenced to four and a half years in prison and being sent to the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, while he was locked up he did an interview with writer Kevin Powell for Vibe Magazine stating that once he was released he vowed to get his revenge on Puffy, Biggie and anybody associated with Bad Boy Records. But more beef was on the way from another person that they once considered a friend, Marion Suge Knight the CEO of the legendary Death Row Records, despite the belief that they've been mortal enemies since day one they were actually cool once upon a time thanks to his bodyguard Anthony Wolf Jones who already had a relationship with Suge Knight and they shared a mutual respect, word is he introduced them at the legendary Tunnel nightclub in New York City and they got so cool that sometimes when puff would fly out to Los Angeles to conduct business Suge Knight would pick him up from the airport, but eventually competitiveness would get in the way and the two rising moguls would fall out over supremacy of the music industry, over money and over women, especially after pictures surfaced of Suge Knight spending time with puffy's son Justin adding fuel to the fire. The East Coast and West Coast feud was becoming more violent by the day and tensions were at an all time high, Death Row Records was pushing their artists to make diss tracks and rap about their enemies up in New York, Tupac would release diss records going at puff and Bad Boy Records, and the situation was escalating out of control with each passing week. Wolf knew the streets and he knew how these situations could play out, he was aware of the danger that was creeping up on the Bad Boy camp but sometimes even the toughest soldiers can't see all the threats coming their way. On March 9th 1997 Biggie Smalls was driving through the streets of Los Angeles at around 12:30 in the morning when a dark colored vehicle pulled up beside him at a red light on Wilshire Boulevard, somebody from inside that vehicle opened fire hitting the twenty four year old legend multiple times, he was pronounced dead at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and the entire hip hop world was shaken to its core. Wolf felt this loss deeply because he had looked out for Biggie just like he looked out for puff, he was there for the rise of the Notorious B.I.G. and now he had to witness his downfall. The streets were talking and theories were flying around about who was responsible for Biggie's death, some people blamed Tupac's crew since he had been murdered six months prior, others blamed Suge Knight and Death Row Records, and some even theorized it was internal beef within Bad Boy itself, but the truth was nobody really knew what happened and that mystery still haunts the hip hop community to this day. After Biggie's death the whole vibe around Bad Boy Records changed, it wasn't the same empire it once was, Puff was devastated and wolf could see his boss and brother going through the darkest time of his life, the label that they had built together was crumbling and the streets were no longer safe for them. Wolf continued to work for puff through the late 1990s and early 2000s but he was watching the music industry change, new artists were rising up and the East Coast sound was evolving, wolf eventually stepped away from the spotlight and back into the streets where he came from, some say he went back to his old ways, others say he tried to stay legitimate but the lure of the streets was too strong. On January 3rd 2003 Anthony Wolf Jones was found dead in his apartment in the Bronx from what authorities ruled as a drug overdose, he was only thirty seven years old, the man who had survived prison, gang warfare and the most violent era in hip hop history had fallen to the demons of addiction. His death marked the end of an era, the end of a street legend who had played a major role in one of the most important record labels in hip hop history, and his story became yet another cautionary tale in the streets of the Bronx. Anthony Wolf Jones will forever be remembered as a street soldier, a loyal bodyguard and a man who walked between two worlds, he was there during Bad Boy Records' rise to dominance but he lived to see its fall and the death of his closest associates, his legacy is one of complexity and contradiction, a reminder that no matter how much money you make or how much power you accumulate, the streets will always come calling, and for some like Wolf, the price of that call is everything.