I just got an issue of the Vibe Magazine with Faith Evans on the front (yeah i know its been out a while), but as I was reading her article there was a little saying in there that disturbed me:

"While Evans was elevated to hip hop's version of the bereaved first lady, she didn't accept the idea that she should become one of those long-suffering, seemingly asexual widows like Betty Shabazz or Coretta Scott King."

I have a little problem with this statement, because why are they comparing an R&B singer to women who stood by the sides of their Civil Rights leader husbands? The two don't even compare by a long shot. Biggie was just a rapper who got shot. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. were assassinated. They stood up for their people by all means, all Biggie did was rap about his past life as a hustler and life in New York's projects. Did he try to help his people make a change for a better life other than just rapping about it? As wives of slain Civil Rights leaders, how could another man even compare to Malcolm X or MLK? I think it would have been hard for Betty Shabazz or Coretta to even try to look for a man that could fill those shoes. But this is just my opinion. What are your thoughts on this?

missfee said:

Yeah, when I read that, it disturbed. The article had a wierd vibe to me. What do you think about her husband? He seems like he's guiding her career to something-- yet there seems to be something controlling about him.

Is that the magazine with The Notorious F.A.I.T.H. on it?

Yep, that's the one. I hope people write in about that statement because it was truely ridiculous to even mention Biggie in the same vein as Malcolm and Martin.

Come One he nor 2Pac were martyrs.

missfee said:

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Because some people in the Hip-Hop world are mentally unbalanced enough to think that Biggie and Tupac were mayters for the hip-hop cause. Instead of two rappers who just got shot.

missfee said:

Nothing more needs to be said. You expressed it perfectly. What the hell has Faith been smoking?

The problem is with the editor/author of the story, not Faith. B.I.G./2pac may not have meant anything 2 some folks, but they were someone's son, best friend, husband,father, etc.

musicman said:

OMG THANK YOU!! What the hell was so special about Tupac? I mean, really. "Oh, he's a genius" "He's just misunderstood" Nigga Please. He was just another mad black man with talent. And now people wanna idolize him with t-shirts and jewelry. Please.

GlitterStream said:

lmao

AcutenPetiteGrl said:

LOL at that Vibe article..

uPtoWnNY said:

Agree...
Very well said indeed.....

uPtoWnNY said:

Marijuana.

sextonseven said:

Oh shit...

scorp84 said:

thats true, and no one is denying the fact that B.I.G. wasn't a father, son, husband, etc. but c'mon here, Faith was just a wife who half the time didn't even stand by Biggie's side, which is why they were apart when he died...

there's no way you could compare that to Betty Shabazz and Coretta whose husbands were gone half the time trying to make a change in the world.

Perhaps it was a young writer at the magazine that wrote that. That's not to say it justifies their comment, but just a little naive.