Faith Evans found a way to bless the world with new music from The Notorious B.I.G. 20 years after the legendary MC’s death, his widow has put together a duet album with her late husband titled The King & I. The 25-track project sees Evans injecting new life into classic Biggie verses and debuting a few previously unheard ones too. Evans also enlists the help of Lil Kim, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, The L.O.X. and Lil Cease to bolster this unique duet album.
The LP has been in the works for quite some time, as Evans said the project was in its “finishing stages” in March 2016. During an appearance on Dame Dash’s podcast, Evans told the co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records that she and Biggie would have recorded a duet album if he had not been tragically killed in 1997.
“Today, if he was alive, I know, ultimately, we would’ve done something like this,” Evans said. “But the way the stuff has come together, and the way I’m using his vocals, it’s giving the stuff new life. It’s totally different.”
Check out Faith Evans and The Notorious B.I.G.’s King & I album stream, cover art and tracklist below.
1. A Billion
2. Legacy
3. Beautiful (Interlude)
4. Can’t Get Enough
5. Don’t Test Me
6. Big/Faye (Interlude) f. Jamal Woolard
7. Tryna Get By
8. The Reason
9. I Don’t Want It f. Lil Cease
10. I Got Married (Interlude) f. Mama Wallace
11. Wife Commandments
12. We Just Clicked (Interlude) f. Mama Wallace
13. A Little Romance
14. The Baddest (Interlude)
15. Fool For You
16. Crazy (Interlude) f. 112 & Mama Wallace
17. Got Me Twisted
18. When We Party f. Snoop Dogg
19. Somebody Knows f. Busta Rhymes
20. Take Me There f. Sheek Louch & Styles P
21. One In The Same
22. I Wish (Interlude) f. Kevin McCall & Chyna Tahjere
23. Lovin You For Life f. Lil Kim
24. NYC f. Jadakiss
25. It Was Worth It
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You claim to be a player but I f*cked your wife -Tupac “Hit Em Up”.
If faith had twins she probably have 2 pacs
-B.I.G “brooklyns finest”
These are worst kind of manufactured and manipulated albums. The concept of dissecting Biggies recorded lyrics from 20+ years ago and then 20+ years later having an artist record new vocals to mesh with old recordings is truly unacceptable and unauthentic. Biggie is one of the greatest, but methods like this of putting out more of his unreleased vocals is a travesty!
Comtemporary Jeep Music…hmmm…y’all forgot about dat 1.
Hot garbage. Let the late great veteran live.
I see some haters…..keep hating while faith cashing Dem checks
Let this dude rest in peace. HORRIBLE recordings.
What the fuck u talking about
Ten Wife Commandments <- this is a blasphemy of BIGs work. I do not believe that happened and what was heard can not be unheard.
what a crap from an old BITTY bitch.
We would have done a duet album despite both of us already being with other people, him with Charlie Baltimore and me with my ex-husband that I was with for 10 years after he died. Plus, not to mention that I was on bad terms with Bad Boy, but yeah, toatlly would have happened. Yet another story from Faith who still swears up and down that she just went to the studio to sing for Pac and left without ever getting paid for it after backtracking on 4 or 5 other versions of the reason she was at Death Row in March 1996. Yep, sounds plausible.