The stars he name-checked - including Mariah Carey, Mary J. Essentially a boast rap about which R&B singers Biggie wants to have sex with, the two-verse favorite showed early on he’d become one of mainstream hip-hop’s most ribald stars. “Just Playing (Dreams),” an add-on to the 12-inch promo for “Juicy,’ stands as his catalog’s most obvious example. The decades of intense idolatry surrounding Biggie’s catalog sometimes overlook that his best material often hung on his comedic wit. Here are the Notorious B.I.G.’s best 25 songs, including collabs and featured appearances. But I was pretty oblivious to the things that had gone on prior to that, until probably a few years later.Biggie's Biggest: The Notorious B.I.G.'s Top 15 Billboard Hot 100 Hits “Even though I didn’t really know a lot of the details about what happened, but it was clear he took a jab at Puff at the Source Awards and stuff like that. “I didn’t think that was a good look just because of the fact of the Suge and Puff situation.
“I went to the studio, I realized there were a bunch of Death Row people there, so kind of in my mind I started figuring it out right there,” she said. In a 2014 interview with VladTV, Faith Evans further expounded on the topic and admitted 2Pac did ask her for sex when she went to the studio to record his 1996 All Eyez On Me single “Wonda Why They Call U Bitch.” At the time, she claimed she didn’t know 2Pac was signed to Death Row, the label at the center of the Bad Boy Entertainment beef.
‘Pac even said it himself on the seething 1996 Biggie diss track “Hit Em Up” in which he raps, “You claim to be a player/But I fucked your wife.”īut in Evans’ 2009 book Keep The Faith, she deaded all speculation on the alleged tryst. Rumors of an affair between 2Pac and Evans had already been floating around prior to Biggie’s 1997 murder. But she did come visit him.”Īs Napoleon noted, Faith Evans was married to The Notorious B.I.G. I don’t want to get into that controversy of Faith Evans-Biggie - I can’t do that. But I don’t want to get into this because she was somebody’s wife. When asked if Faith Evans once visited 2Pac at Can-Am Studios in Tarzana, California, the veteran rapper laughed and replied, “Yeah, bruh. “He built a lot of good relationship where people that wasn’t even involved in the music industry had a lot of respect for ‘Pac and would go up there and visit him.” ‘”Pac was the hottest thing back then,” Napoleon said matter-of-factly.
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