Cyrus Langhorne
R&B veteran Faith Evans‘ long-awaited collaborative album with late ex-husband Notorious B.I.G. is on the way. The crooner’s The King & I is expected to arrive this spring.
Barring any setbacks, fans will finally get their hands on the 25-song LP on May 19.
On Friday (Jan. 3), the album went up for pre-order on iTunes with a release date set for May 19. The 25-song track list is also now available, with guest appearances by Biggie’s mother (Voletta Wallace), The LOX, Lil’ Kim, Lil’ Cease, Busta Rhymes, 112 and Kevin McCall. (Miss Info TV)
Last year, Faith teased fans about the status of her upcoming project.
In April 2016, reality TV star and producer Stevie J dished on creating new music alongside Faith.
The first order of business for the Biggie Humagram is a music video appearance for the first single off Faith Evans’ duets compilation titled The King & I. Last month, the Brooklyn MC’s former wife revealed on Dame Dash’s radio show that a potential hologram tour was in the works, which Bharti confirms. “What we’re gonna start with is a video with the first single from The King & I then I think Faith wants to do a little tour,” he says. (Billboard)
In March 2016, Evans talked about putting together their The King And I joint album and possibly performing alongside a Biggie hologram.
“Right now I’m actually recording this project, a duet project with me and Big, called The King And I. It’s something I’ve been thinking and doing for a while with [Big’s mom] Ms. Wallace – I’m in the finishing stages. I had no idea how I was going to even go about it but it’s been coming along pretty awesome. … If he were alive, we would have done something like this. … We’re actually in development with a hologram [company] but I don’t necessarily know to what extent I’m going to perform with it but I definitely want to debut it probably with the first video from the album and use it a little bit performance-wise and that depends on a lot of things. It’s expensive. … If this Bad Boy tour ever really happens, it might be something that really happens.”
