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- Throughout an look on Acton Leisure, Redman opened up about his lengthy historical past with Religion Evans
- The rapper and producer joked he was “jealous” when Evans acquired along with The Infamous B.I.G.
- Redman and Evans just lately joined forces for the “Hoodstar” music video, which Redman dropped immediately
Redman and Religion Evans go method again.
Throughout an look on Acton Leisure on Tuesday, Sept. 9, the rapper and producer was requested how he felt when his highschool sweetheart, Evans, married the late Infamous B.I.G. (whose actual identify is Christopher Wallace) in 1994.
“When she began her relationship with Biggie, I used to be jealous,” Redman, 55, joked.
He continued, “To start with… Religion was my sister’s finest buddy, and I met Religion via my sister… Yeah, we have been all younger. Me and Religion was relationship at a really younger age earlier than we acquired on. She’s at all times been a sweetheart to me.”
In a while within the dialog, he mentioned they have been cut up up for some time when she acquired along with Biggie — and he was targeted on different issues.
“When she began relationship Biggie and stuff … I used to be doing my factor. I used to be already on tour wildin’ out with chicks, ?” he recalled. “Me and her had cut up and parted methods, in fact, however she would nonetheless come to see me… Then she lastly acquired on, and I used to be completely satisfied for her.”
“So, when she dated Biggie, man, I used to be like, Religion has at all times been a sensible individual. She’s Brick Metropolis. She’s Jersey all day. So, in fact, she’s going to maneuver 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 final result.”
“Getting on, being profitable, being a part of one of many hottest rap crews on the time,” he mentioned. “I used to be, ‘Wow, she’s doing her factor.’ So solely factor I can do was salute her, pray for her and want her the perfect.”
Evans, 52, first confirmed she dated Redman throughout an episode of Drink Champs in 2018.
“Pink was my boyfriend after I was within the ninth grade… He was a drummer in church after we met,” she mentioned on the podcast.
In 2010, Evans instructed New York journal that he was “an actual good man from a respectful household.”
“He went to church. He’s my daughter’s godfather,” she mentioned. “After I acquired signed, he used to come back right down to the studio and examine on me. Some individuals thought I used to be some church woman, however when Pink got here round, they knew to not mess with me.”
The exes just lately collaborated with Child Capri on the tune “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 observe at a celebration.
Evans married Biggie — the icon behind hits like “Hypnotize” and “Huge Poppa” — in August 1994. When the rapper was killed in March 1997, they have been nonetheless collectively.
In a 2022 interview with ipromiseyoumedia, Evans spoke about remembering Biggie “on daily basis” since his loss of life. “I stroll down my stairs and there is a portrait that somebody gave me of him up within the prime of the lobby. B.I.G. is a big a part of this home,” she mentioned. “He is one of many causes that I’m able to be right here, to be fairly trustworthy, and dwell right here, and my son.”
