Gene Deal said Faith Evans could sing circles round Mary J Blige :
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Puff has his faults too, lol
yeah, in that Drink Champs interview she said she still gets publishing from her work (writing/background vocals) on the first Usher first album and Mary's "My Life" album
BlackDiBiase
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Yep I'm into early Bad Boy/Hitmen R&B something serious and Chucky Thompson gave the best in-depth interviews. He's literally the closest one to Mary & Faith besides Diddy.
I waswhen he explained how Faith's "Soon As I Get Home" sonically is based on gospel chords. Faith knows every gospel song but doesn't really know old school R&B because she grew up in the church.
Mary is the exact opposite in that she knows every single classic R&B song from her hime. Which makes sense why Mary covered "Natural Woman" and "I'm Going Down" early in her career.
"There was one time when people were comparing her with Mary. The thing that makes them different is that Mary knows the old school, she knows quiet Storm; you can sit with her and she’ll tell you every classic song on the radio. Faith knows nothing about classic, but she knows all the gospel records, so her vocal background is gospel. I did the albums back to back with two different personalities. I was able to separate the two but yet it was coming from the same camp."
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Heck, My Life album might have the most R&B samples and interpolations of any R&B album all-time (Guy, Debarge, Mary Jane Girls, Rolls Royce, Barry White, etc). They did that in a time when NOBODY in R&B was sampling like that.
this is special bro props, mary j blige has the better songs thats easy to tell. like Kang Conqueror said Mary has a special story too.
at the Camron "Oh Boy" sample popping up in that mix.
BlackDiBiase
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Don't know about Faith being the better vocalist, singing the right way and all that shyt; I still prefer Mary's singing just off the strength of the buildup to the third hook on "Reminisce":
When she hits that "with the love we shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare"...
reminiscence, reminiscneeeeence ... i hear you.
Marlo Barksdale
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That's where the whole Puff/Mary/Faith beef comes from.
Puff had left Uptown but still executive produced My Life. Faith did co-writing and background vocals on Mary's My Life album. This is back when R&B singers usually started out doing background vocals to get in the game and Faith had a good pen game.
Puff then pushed Faith as his first Bad Boy female artist and started focusing on her instead of Mary. His thinking was basically why make another label rich when I can build my own Bad Boy exclusive version.
Mary felt left out and like Puff was replacing her with Faith. Then add in the fact that Mary J was super close to Lil Kim, who was the mistress of Faith's husband Biggie. Mary was in almost every Kim video wildin out
.People even said "I Can Love You" was diss to Faith. I always felt it was like "Who Shot Ya": it may not have been intended as a diss, but the timing was
. Faith had already gotten dissed in the "Get Money" video.That's why it took almost 10 years for Puff & Mary to work together again (the magic never really came back at all sadly
)..
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That's where the whole Puff/Mary/Faith beef comes from.
Puff had left Uptown but still executive produced My Life. Faith did co-writing and background vocals on Mary's My Life album. This is back when R&B singers usually started out doing background vocals to get in the game and Faith had a good pen game.
Puff then pushed Faith as his first Bad Boy female artist and started focusing on her instead of Mary. His thinking was basically why make another label rich when I can build my own Bad Boy exclusive version.
Mary felt left out and like Puff was replacing her with Faith. Then add in the fact that Mary J was super close to Lil Kim, who was the mistress of Faith's husband Biggie. Mary was in almost every Kim video wildin out
That's why it took almost 10 years for Puff & Mary to work together again (the magic never really came back at all sadly
never realized that bit, that would definitely cause friction.
That's where the whole Puff/Mary/Faith beef comes from.
Puff had left Uptown but still executive produced My Life. Faith did co-writing and background vocals on Mary's My Life album. This is back when R&B singers usually started out doing background vocals to get in the game and Faith had a good pen game.
Puff then pushed Faith as his first Bad Boy female artist and started focusing on her instead of Mary. His thinking was basically why make another label rich when I can build my own Bad Boy exclusive version.
Mary felt left out and like Puff was replacing her with Faith. Then add in the fact that Mary J was super close to Lil Kim, who was the mistress of Faith's husband Biggie. Mary was in almost every Kim video wildin out
People even said "I Can Love You" was diss to Faith. I always felt it was like "Who Shot Ya": it may not have been intended as a diss, but the timing was
That's why it took almost 10 years for Puff & Mary to work together again (the magic never really came back at all sadly
“He had a label, he had a female artist, he had Biggie, but during the time I was really dogging myself. I was a mess on drugs. Any smart man or businessman would have moved away from me. It felt like he was becoming distant, but looking back, I now understand why.” - Mary J Blige after they made upWas Mary J Blige’s “I Can Love You” A Faith Evans Diss Track
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Mary has the better catalog by far but this isn't really a hot take. Faith can sing her ass off and Mary used to be horrible live especially in the 90s.
Mary is my favorite female artist of all time but Gene is correct here. Faith is the superior vocalist.
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
That is true.
It is the reason.
Faith was alway the covert badboy flagship artist.
Plus backed up mjb on mca uptown.
The real bullshyt of the era is.
They bit miss Jones.
who should have been the main draw of the era.
Art Barr
It is the reason.
Faith was alway the covert badboy flagship artist.
Plus backed up mjb on mca uptown.
The real bullshyt of the era is.
They bit miss Jones.
who should have been the main draw of the era.
Art Barr