![]() Biggie isn’t even on it as much as you’d expect, occupying perhaps a quarter of its runtime.Įvans is a great singer who’s produced some great music, and she’s best here on songs like “Fool For You,” where she’s singing about being in love with… somebody. This is really just a Faith Evans album with a bunch of recycled Biggie verses on it. It’s light on the bangers, focusing mostly on love-drunk R&B, and its all-legend guest list is sequestered in its final third. It doesn’t play like the theoretical Biggie Smalls albums we might have heard had he lived, which was the vibe its fellow Frankensteins Born Again and Duets: The Final Chapter went for. The lack of cynicism is what saves this album from absolute wretchedness. So maybe she’s not out to make money, but if she really wants him back, that’s creepy as hell too, the archival-album equivalent of Jimmy Cross digging up his baby. ![]() The King & I, a cobbled-together collection of duets between Big and his widow Faith Evans, is the first not helmed by Diddy, who no doubt owes a couple islands to the verses he extracted from his dead friend and plopped over au-courant beats. since his death, and they stink up the idea of the posthumous cash-grab as bad as anyone’s since Hendrix. Only three releases have been credited to the Notorious B.I.G. ![]() “ I just need you back with me.” It can’t be read as anything but a preemptive defense. “ I don’t want the money,” says Faith Evans in the opening seconds of The King & I.
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