The Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die album turns 20 years old Saturday (September 13). Before the album was released, Puff Daddy played some of the songs from the collection for Faith Evans, who like Biggie, was signed to Bad Boy Entertainment at the time.
“I wasn’t really in his sessions back then ’cause Puff had me working on all types of stuff, not to mention my own album,” Faith Evans says during an interview that premiered in the DX Daily today (September 11), “But when I did get a chance to hear the first few songs I heard on that album, I believed everything Puff told me because he knew. He was like, ‘He’s gonna be star… He’s gonna be a sex symbol.’ I mean, he knew…I was like, ‘Ok.’ And he really did, but I mean he couldn’t have done it if Big didn’t have anything to work with, ya know.”
Faith Evans and Biggie later married.
The Brooklyn rapper was killed in a still unsolved murder in Los Angeles in March 1997. He would have turned 42 this year.
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new album coming out, faith?
Or maybe just asked to share a memory about her deceased husband.
But she did drop a single during the summer, so that could be it too.
Brief Breakdown Of Lives Sean Combs Has Destroyed
1991-Nine students at City College of New York killed during stampede from overbooked event
1995-Jake Robles killed in Atlanta at the Platinum House (Allegedly by Anthony Wolf Jones Puffs right hand man)
1996-2Pac allegedly killed by Southside Crips as revenge for a beating that was revenge for a Death Row chain being snatched for a Sean Combs bounty
1997-Notorious B.I.G. killed in Los Angeles as revenge for murders of Pac and Jake Robles
1998-After penning and recording several multi platinum hits attempts to pay The Lox with fresh pairs of matching Air Force 1s
1999-Steve Stoute brutally attacked with champagne bottles and turned from a stand up man into Mr. Scarf Hands
1999-Ma$e leaves label at peak of his popularity after repeated alleged homosexual advances and becomes a bootleg T.D. Jakes
2000-Multiple shooting at Club New York in Manhattan after throwing money in the face of gangsters. Black woman loses eye.
2001-Jamal Shyne Barrow sentenced to 10 years in prison for saving Puffys life. Would later be deported.
2002- MTV Making Da Band. The list of tragedies probably deserve its own thread *see Chopper Suit.
2003-Anthony Wolf Jones finally murdered in an Atlanta club, allegedly by members of BMF on orders from Big Meech for multiple transgressions (including being shot in the azz by Wolf) Forever changing the landscape of one Atlantas most affluent and diverse party districts.
2004-Co-Creates a Rap The Vote campaign to get c000ns to support John Kerry the weakest democratic candidate since Walter Mondale. Loses to George W. Bush. Months later Katrina happens.
2005-Loon departs Bad Boy records in dispute over unpaid royalties. Turns Muslim.
2006-Black Rob forced to turn back into a life of crime and become a jewel thief after being refused royalties for platinum smash Whoa. Sentenced to 7 years in prison.
2007-Partners with Ciroc, causing single mothers to neglect their children and Black men to skip child support p@yments in an endless chase to cop his high-priced Kool Aid
2008-Puffy stars as the lead in Raisin In The Sun, destroying the credibility of co-stars Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald and director Kenny Leon
2010-Broke and addicted to drugs G-Dep confesses to a murder he committed in 1993. sentenced to 15 years to life.
2011-Signs Machine Gun Kelley
2013-Muslim Loon convicted of drug trafficking in Germany. Sentenced to 14 years in prison
2014-One wounded, prominent DJ arrested after shooting at The Velvet Room in Atlanta following a Puffy Combs Rick Ross album release party.
2014 (yeah again)-Two shot and wounded at a crowded hotel party thrown by Sean Puffy Combs in Charlotte, NC following the CIAA Tournament . The shooting occurred in the gated off VIP area. Rumor has it Ciroc was flowing in abundance prior to shootings..
2014-Plugs his Vodka Ciroc on a Michael Brown tribute song with a bunch of gangsta rappers who promote violence 95% of the time
Forgot to add French Montana to 2011.
diddy thick yo
Ahahahaha Sex symbol? Really? I’m sorry but I’ve never met a female in my life who said they wanted to have sex with Biggie Smalls
1. Your friends weren’t even born when Biggie was alive
2. Your friends ain’t Lil Kim, Faith Evans or Charli Baltimore. Don’t know them? Go and Google them after 6th period youngster
Biggie and Ross both get mad bitchs. Diddy got a grammy for best album, beating biggie.
^ Let’s be real, Biggie was the reason Diddy won that Grammy.
fat niggas like biggie and ross only get bitches because of the fame and money. ross still has to put drugs in their drinks to get them home without them knowing it.
Heavy D was a seks symbol but you dumb fucks dont understand this go listen to your faggot rappers like: Kanye, Wayne, lil fuck, young wack etc.
why you fuck tupac than faith
SOREN FAKER FUCKING SUCKS DICK MAN
“Diddy got a grammy for best album, beating biggie.”
Which means nothing as Biggie has the better album.
Biggie had to pay for pussy.tupac was a sex symbol not that fat fuck
A sex symbol to who, blind girls?
So here are the alternative scenarios, he woulda:
1. die anyway from diabetes or some other fat man ilness
2. ODed
3. Made a career and collaborate with such wack artists as Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Young Thug.
4. Become irrelevant like Lord Jamar
i guess you are a frustrated 2pac fan.
No. Im a frustrated hiphop fan.
5. Retired from rapping and doing other business opportunities.
6. Defending or renouncing Mr. Cee’s love of tranny head.
7. Left Bad Boy and exposed Puffy for the snake he truly is.
Puffyva fag tho
I guess he thinks the same about Ross some dudes like thick hoes diddy like fat niggaz
LOL, real talk homie!
Wow. Amazing Article. Biggie was a legend before his time. Greatest of all Times.