text: Production for Blige 's debut album began in 1992 , with Sean `` Puffy '' Combs , who was at the time an A&R executive at Uptown who oversaw the project .
simplified: Production for Blige 's debut album began in 1991 , with Sean `` Puffy '' Combs ( at the time a beginning A&R executive at Uptown ) largely overseeing the project .