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- During an appearance on Acton Entertainment, Redman opened up about his long history with Faith Evans
- The rapper and producer joked he was “jealous” when Evans got together with The Notorious B.I.G.
- Redman and Evans recently joined forces for the “Hoodstar” music video, which Redman dropped today
Redman and Faith Evans go way back.
During an appearance on Acton Entertainment on Tuesday, Sept. 9, the rapper and producer was asked how he felt when his high school sweetheart, Evans, married the late Notorious B.I.G. (whose real name is Christopher Wallace) in 1994.
“When she started her relationship with Biggie, I was jealous,” Redman, 55, joked.
He continued, “First of all… Faith was my sister’s best friend, and I met Faith through my sister… Yeah, we were all young. Me and Faith was dating at a very young age before we got on. She’s always been a sweetheart to me.”
Later on in the conversation, he said they were split up for a while when she got together with Biggie — and he was focused on other things.
“When she started dating Biggie and stuff … I was doing my thing. I was already on tour wildin’ out with chicks, you know?” he recalled. “Me and her had split and parted ways, of course, but she would still come to see me… Then she finally got on, and I was happy for her.”
“So, when she dated Biggie, man, I was like, Faith has always been a smart person. She’s Brick City. She’s Jersey all day. So, of course, she’s going to move with good discernment,” he added.
After Biggie and Evans welcomed their son, Christopher Jordan “C.J.” Wallace, on Oct. 19, 1996, Redman was “amazed at her outcome.”
“Getting on, being successful, being part of one of the hottest rap crews at the time,” he said. “I was, ‘Wow, she’s doing her thing.’ So only thing I can do was salute her, pray for her and wish her the best.”
Evans, 52, first confirmed she dated Redman during an episode of Drink Champs in 2018.
“Red was my boyfriend when I was in the ninth grade… He was a drummer in church when we met,” she said on the podcast.
In 2010, Evans told New York Magazine that he was “a real nice guy from a respectful family.”
“He went to church. He’s my daughter’s godfather,” she said. “When I got signed, he used to come down to the studio and check on me. Some people thought I was some church girl, but when Red came around, they knew not to mess with me.”
The exes recently collaborated with Kid Capri on the song “Hoodstar,” featured on Redman’s Muddy Waters Too album, in December 2024. On Sept. 9, Redman debuted the music video, which sees the duo jamming out to the track at a party.
Evans married Biggie — the icon behind hits like “Hypnotize” and “Big Poppa” — in August 1994. When the rapper was killed in March 1997, they were still together.
In a 2022 interview with PEOPLE, Evans spoke about remembering Biggie “every day” since his death. “I walk down my stairs and there’s a portrait that someone gave me of him up in the top of the foyer. B.I.G. is a huge part of this house,” she said. “He’s one of the reasons that I am able to be here, to be quite honest, and live here, and my son.”
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