“Even though she didn’t get on there and say, ‘We’re together,’ she said, ‘That’s my baby,’ and it was enough to tell something was going on.”Įvans was shocked and confronted Biggie about her gut feeling that he and Kim were seeing each other and he didn’t deny it. I just felt like that’s really out of bounds,” she said of Kim. “She got on the radio and was comfortable enough to say that Big and I were not wearing wedding rings. Evans said that she had an inkling that he and Kim were having dealings after she did a radio interview on Wendy Williams’ show and spoke about their marriage. The infidelities of Biggie pushed Evans away and they eventually separated. “To really be real, he was in love with Faith and he was in love with Kim,” said Lil Cease is Biggie’s crew Junior Mafia. Their relationship continued even after he and Evans tied the knot. In fact, they say he began dating her before he met and married Evans. While Evans was blind, Biggie’s entire inner circle was well aware of his affair with Kim. Evans and Kim even developed a friendship of sorts, which Biggie encouraged. With that in mind, Evans paid the working relationship between Kim and Biggie no attention. “I’m not insecure and not the type of woman who I feel like if my man is next to another woman that I need to be…I’m just not like that.” “My first impression of Kim was that she was cool,” Evans recalled. “Who sows that? Who has that ability to be able to say that was a four, no that’s seven.” Faith Evans details learning of Biggie’s relationship with Lil’ KimĮvans was introduced to Kim by her husband as she was one of his artists and a member of the Junior Mafia clique. She pressed redial on the phone and she listened to the tone that played back and found each number from the tone,” he said. Rivera, who was Biggie’s business partner, confirmed Evans’ interesting way of discovering Biggie cheated. “Un to this very day, Un Rivera, always laughs at the fact that I recognized the tones on the dial pad and dialed this girl’s number back.” “My ears are golden, let me just tell you,” Evans declares. Evans didn’t have her suspicions until a suspicious phone call she overheard between her husband and someone else. While Evans focused on trying to create a home with her new husband for their blended family, Biggie’s obligations were on the road, which left plenty of room for temptation.īiggie’s crew admitted that he was unfaithful from the start. His star was also on the rise and he found success quickly with his first album, Ready to Die. Not that she gives Biggie any passes for his infidelities, but Evans attributes much of the problems in their relationship to both of them being young. Faith Evans says her ear for music helped her to figure out Biggie was cheating Biggie was only 21 years old when he and Evans married and their immaturity showed pretty early in their relationship.
They married just a few weeks after their initial meeting to the surprise of their friends and family. “I don’t play when I see something I want, I just take that, lock that down, cause I know this is going to be the power right there,” an audio of Biggie speaking about Evans reveals the rapper said.
According to their mutual friend, stylist Misa Hylton, he knew from the moment he saw her that Evans would be his wife. She gave the rapper a ride home after the shoot and he called her. The two met on the set of a photoshoot for Bad Boy Records. | Chris Walter/WireImage How Faith Evans and Biggie Smalls met
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“Something about it has that timeless appeal, which people today are still using him as a reference of how to do it. “When you hear a Biggie record now, it doesn’t sound like it’s 18 years old,” she added. Puff told me from very early on, ‘He’s going to be a star, I’m going to make him a sex symbol. Maybe even half of that album was recorded before he and I were together, because I think Puff had Big from when he was still on Uptown. So I wasn’t around for a whole bunch of his sessions. “When Big was recording Ready to Die, I was actually working on at that time. The Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘Ready to Die’ at 20: Classic Track-by-Track Album Review record Ready to Die, which is considered one of hip-hop’s most influential and important albums. But her time on the label also gave her a front row seat to witness her late husband Notorious B.I.G. With Bad Boy, Evans released three successful LPs- Faith, Keeping the Faith (1998) and Faithfully (2001)-before branching off from Puff Daddy to release The First Lady on Capitol Records in 2005.
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