Faith Evans Shares the Stories Behind her Biggest Songs, Talks the Legacy of Biggie, and Shares her Deep Love of Hip-hop

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Faith Evans is R&B incarnate. Her voice, style, and musical sensibilities are generation-defining. Hear her run through some of the stories behind her most well-known songs, as well as speak on the legacy of her late husband, Biggie Smalls. We also get into some antics from her R&B Divas and The Masked Singer days that are sure to keep you laughing. If you’ve ever felt moved—be it to dance, cry, laugh or love—because of Faith’s music you’re going to want to hear about it from the source. Here is a true Queen of R&B.

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.
0:03.8	You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented co-host,
0:08.6	Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our episodes
0:13.6	with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Haddish,
0:18.5	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. Now speaking of church and red man,
0:24.9	that's how I met him. Okay, drum to church. No, red actually, okay, red sister Rosalind
0:32.8	and I went to high school together. Rosalind is one of my best friends to this day. Red and I actually
0:39.1	fake, I guess I wouldn't say dated, but fake dating. One of those high school
0:44.0	relationships. You went together. I was in a ninth grade. He was in the 12th grade. This is
0:48.5	my girl. I go with her. Pre him and Eric Sarman connecting. But yeah, that was my boy,
0:59.6	but they still family. Red and Rhyse are actually China's Godparents. When I finally got in the
1:07.4	business, red had already been signed with Eric. He used to come check on me on my sessions and
1:12.7	stuff, but I met red when he was a drummer at his mother's church. That's the only reason my
1:18.1	grandparents would allow him to come to my house because they knew that his mom was in church.
1:24.0	And he was a nice guy, but you know, he wasn't red man. He was just Reggie. Reggie. Now the story
1:30.3	goes that red man introduced you to Branson and you introduced Branson Viggy. Yes, that's the fact.
1:37.0	So for people who don't know who Branson is, because some of the people watching show might not
1:40.8	know who Branson is, can you explain who Branson is and why that introduction was significant?
1:46.5	Well, Branson, his name is actually in a lot of records, but like you said, people don't really
1:52.1	know what that means. Branson was like the, well, for us anyway, like the good weed supply, you know,
2:00.0	like he had the good weed to snow. It was called the snow. It had little white flakes, you know,
2:04.4	and it was in the woods. In the woods. Like, yeah, you know, it was like, you know, it's like
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