Biggie Smalls exes Faith Evans and Lil Kim attend his mom Voletta Wallaces funeral after her death at 78
No more drama.Faith Evans and Lil’ Kim, along with Biggie Smalls’ children and Sean “Diddy” Combs’ son, Christian, came together on Wednesday for the funeral of the late rapper’s mother, Voletta Wallace, who passed away last month at the age of 78. Jay-Z’s mother, Gloria Carter, Bad Boy artist Mase, and RCA Records president Mark Pitts, who co-managed Biggie – aka The Notorious B.I.G.– along with Evans as they came up in the music industry, were also in attendance.Evans, 51, was married to Biggie when he was slain in a drive-by shooting on Mar.
9, 1997, at the age of 24. To date, no arrests have been made in the murder, which was widely speculated as a retaliation for the killing of fellow rapper Tupac Shukar, as the pair were embroiled in an infamous East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry.The R&B singer was rumored to have a beef with Lil’ Kim, B.I.G.’s mentee, who Evans said had an affair with her husband. In recent years, both Evans and Kim, 50, have said no animosity remains between them.“My issues with Kim really went out the window when B.I.G.
passed, to be quite honest,” Evans remarked in 2017.She and Kim even collaborated together on Evans’ 2017 song, “Lovin’ You For Life.”Biggie and Evans’ son, Christopher Jordan “C.J.” Wallace, arrived a few minutes before his mother, who wore a cream-colored Gucci tuxedo.T’yanna Dream Wallace, the daughter of Biggie and his high school love, Jan Jackson, made her arrival just before the service was scheduled to start.Diddy’s son, Christian (aka “King”), was seemingly present to represent his father, who is currently jailed at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where he awaits trial on racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
Combs has pleaded not guilty on all counts. The Bad Boy Entertainment founder is widely credited with discovering Biggie and propelling him to fame in the early 1990s.Wallace’s service was held at the Frank E.Campbell Funeral Chapel on...