James’ stage banter from a live performance of “Mary Jane” was sampled in Kanye West’s 2010 single “Runaway”īear with me now.It was sampled along with All Night Long, in “Mary Jane (All Night Long)” by Mary J.I’m Real (Murder Remix) by Jennifer Lopez ft.The song has been covered and sampled by numerous artists. I had a playlist for the longest time with the original, 213’s version including the clips from Dave Chappelle. I’ve loved the original version of Mary Jane forever and almost all the samplings of it. When I saw the track listing for this album, I had to have it. The singles, “You and I” and “Mary Jane” pushed Come Get It! to 2×Platinum status. Her autobiography Keep the Faith: A Memoir was released by Grand Central Publishing in 2008 and won a 2009 African American Literary Award for the Best Biography/Memoir category.Ĭome Get It! is Rick James and the Stone City Band’s debut album on Motown sub-label Gordy Records and was released in April 1978. A 1997 tribute single featuring Puff Daddy and the band 112, named “I’ll Be Missing You”, won Evans a Grammy Award.Īlso an actress and writer, Evans made her screen debut in the 2000 musical drama Turn It Up. The turbulent marriage resulted in Evans’ involvement in the East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry, dominating the rap music news at the time, and ended with Wallace’s murder in a unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997. Other than her recording career, Evans is mostly known as the widow of New York rapper Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace, whom she married on August 4, 1994, a few weeks after meeting at a Bad Boy photo shoot. Following a longer hiatus, Evans released her fifth album Something About Faith on the independent label Prolific/E1 Music in 2010. Her first album released on the label, The First Lady became her highest-charting album at the time, reaching the top of the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, while the holiday album A Faithful Christmas, released the same year, would became her last release before the company was bought in 2007. In 2003, she ended her relationship with the company to sign with Capitol Records. Blige and Carl Thomas and released three platinum-certified studio albums between 19.
Sure and Christopher Williams, she became the first female artist to contract with Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs’ Bad Boy Entertainment recording company in 1994, for which she collaborated with several label mates such as Mary J. Born in Florida and raised in New Jersey, Evans relocated to Los Angeles in 1993 for a career in the music business.Īfter working as a backing vocalist for Al B. Faith Renée Evans (born June 10, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, occasional actress and author.
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