I talked to Mema, and she helped me find a place. I lived in East Orange, and it was like pulling teeth to get him to come see me. I offered to drive a friend home, and Big asked for a lift.īig was such a mama’s boy he didn’t want to move. First time I know we met was at a photo shoot. Some people thought I was some church girl, but when Red came around, they knew not to mess with me.īig said he saw me at the Hit Factory, but I don’t remember him. When I got signed, he used to come down to the studio and check on me. He was a real nice guy from a respectful family, and he went to church. I was singing in the gospel quartet, and he was a drummer at his mother’s church. How’d you get to know the rapper Redman, who’s on your new album? He wasn’t always great keeping up with who wrote what, but some great music came out of that chaos.
He would have a session going in every room. After that, I was in the studio every day.
Drove my daughter’s dad to the studio, and somebody told Puff that I could sing the part. He needed somebody to sing one line, and I just happened to be in the studio. In the beginning, I wasn’t trying to be a recording star or get a deal. You got your start working with Sean “Puffy” Combs. I thought I was going to marry El DeBarge. He came from the church, and I used to listen to the first DeBarge album when I was a kid, at my cousin’s house, in the summertime, eating hot dogs with cole slaw on them. They were a huge influence early on-arrangements, styles, the harmony patterns. I picked up my skills in church and from being a big listener. The next morning in her suite at the W-a fragrance of strong incense in the air-she was wearing a baggy sweat suit, no makeup, a pink bandanna tied around her hair. Evans played a big role in planning his funeral as well as his burial and even worked alongside P-Diddy in writing and performing the song they played tribute to B.I.G called, "I'll be Missing You" in 1997.Faith Evans, the soul singer once married to rapper Biggie Smalls (who was shot in 1997 she has since remarried), recently launched her sixth studio album, Something About Faith, at B.B. She also took on the big responsibility of calling his mother to let her know the painful news about her only son. She had to identify his body since she was still married to him. She immediately stepped into wife mode and went straight to the hospital to find out that he had passed away. Not long after leaving the party, Evans heard about a nearby shooting that involved Biggie Small. She told the friend and part of his entourage to say the same thing back to her former husband. However, one of B.I.G's people came up to her and said that Biggie sent him over to tell her hi and to say, "what's up?" to her.
Although she admitted to seeing him too, she also admitted she was letting pride get in the way of her walking up to him and saying 'hi' at least. Her friends saw him there too and asked her to go talk to Notorious. They spotted one another when attending the same party one evening at the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Once the couple split for good, Evans met another man, Todd Russau who would eventually become husband number two for her.Īlthough he cheated on her multiple times during their marriage, she still loved him and he still had love for her. However, he flat out denied that he was the father not only to her but to the public as well which put even more of a strain on their once loving relationship. Soon after all of this went down, Evans found out she was pregnant by B.I.G. Evans even wrote about spending one last Christmas with her husband and about the affairs he was having in her memoir, 'Keep the Faith.' However, Faith found out he was still seeing many different women behind her back and she couldn't get past the hurt and embarrassment this put on her. They soon began to be in an on-again and off-again kind of relationship and couldn't seem to find their way back to each other as they once were.īiggie Small and Faith Evans spent one last Christmas together. “The relationship kind of dissolved, but we’re still going to be friends.”īecause of the multiple affairs her husband was having with other women, and right after the album Hit Em Up was released, the once hip-hop royalty, Faith Evans and Notorious B.I.G spent less and less time together and their relationship seemed to be fading out rather quickly. We should have got to know each other and then got married,” He said, “Maybe she won’t admit it, but I will. During the same interview with Vibe Magazine, Biggie also admitted that the couple did rush into the relationship and marriage too fast.
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