CNN Breaks The Internet After Announcing Faith Hill Collaboration with Notorious B.I.G.
Yes, the cross-genre collaborations and rap incursions in mainstream country music have gotten completely out-of-control, but even this headline had a lot of country faithful doing a second take. Late Friday morning (2-3), CNN posted a story announcing that country pop music star Faith Hill—known mostly for her more adult contemporary-styled country crooning—would be collaborating on a duets album with hardcore gangsta rapper Notorious B.I.G.
Not only is Faith Hill and Notorious B.I.G and incredibly awkward musical pairing on the surface, it’s also a strange headline because Notorious B.I.G. has been dead for some 20 years. He was gunned down in 1997 in a still unsolved murder. Nonetheless, it’s coming from CNN, right? President Trump may accuse them of “fake news,” but this isn’t the onion. And as strange as it may appear on paper, would we really put it past Music Row to plan some sort of stupid collaboration like this after what we have seen over the last few years?
Luckily though, the whole thing can be boiled down to a typo. It was actually Faith Evans, an R&B star that is planning to release a record called The Kind and I in May, that was supposed to be the subject of the story. Evans was married to Notorious B.I.G. when he died, though the two were estranged. The album is said to mix newly recorded vocals by Evans with B.I.G. vocals from the vault.
The great country world quickly began to chime in as the headline went viral. “Country music will never be the same,” said Jason Isbell on Twitter.
So there you go. That’s at least one crisis for country music averted.For now.
The Ghost of Buckshot Jones
February 3, 2017 @ 12:42 pm
Her actual collaboration is going to be with the Notorious Tim M C. Co-produced by Pharell.
Wallace
February 3, 2017 @ 12:44 pm
Mike Curb would do it.
Bear
February 3, 2017 @ 12:46 pm
I was never a one of the Faith Hill faithful so I haven’t seen much of her but is she another victim of too work on the face… goooooooodddddd lord chile.
The Ghost of Buckshot Jones
February 3, 2017 @ 12:59 pm
Do what now?
Or are you thinking that the picture of faith evans, a 43 year old black woman is somehow a picture of the 50 year old white woman Faith Hill?
Fuzzy TwoShirts
February 3, 2017 @ 12:55 pm
Well, there you have it, a “major news network” that obviously doesn’t have any editors or any kind of quality control.
Probably why Trump makes fun of them.
This is just embarrassing.
And hello comments section it’s been a while. I haven’t quit reading but I haven’t had anything to say as of late. and to be honest my depression got pretty bad for a few weeks but I think the worst of it is in the past. I got out and played music again with actual quality musicians for the first time in months. It’s amazing how a body gets used to playing with “average” musicians and forgets how good it can be to just let loose with other more experienced players.
I also haven’t been much for any kind of Country Music lately. aside from my same old classic records I haven’t found anything new inspiring. Marty Stuart was up in my neck of the woods a couple weeks ago but I couldn’t make it.
Matt Murray
February 3, 2017 @ 1:23 pm
Still more country than country music destroyer Alan Jackson.
sbach66
February 3, 2017 @ 2:16 pm
Riiiiiiiiiiight…..
Sam Cody
February 3, 2017 @ 5:17 pm
Wow! Did he bang your wife or something?
Chris
February 3, 2017 @ 2:20 pm
The good news is that the mistake occurred on CNN, so not many people saw it.
Razor X
February 3, 2017 @ 2:36 pm
Could still happen now that CNN has put the idea in their heads.
Nick
February 3, 2017 @ 6:20 pm
Can’t wait for the “This Kiss” “Big Poppa” mashup!! Couldn’t be any worse than Tim doing a duet with Nelly! Now I’m hoping for a country crossover with Sam Hunt and Eminem. Oh wait, Sam Hunt already performs hip hop.
Whitebacon
February 4, 2017 @ 8:21 am
The Kind and I, you say?
Gillian
February 4, 2017 @ 8:52 am
As one of Biggie’s fans, I remember his great love for Faith. She must have amazing amounts of his art and I’m curious to hear what it sounds like. I don’t see this as an RnB / Hip-Hop collaboration, I see it as a husband and wife collaboration.
Sean Mitchell
February 5, 2017 @ 2:05 am
Yeah, but Fox news is so fair and balanced huh.
Trigger
February 5, 2017 @ 11:19 am
Who said it was? If Fox News has screwed up the headline, we’d be laughing at them too. This isn’t a politically-motivated hit job, it’s just humor.
Sean Mitchell
February 5, 2017 @ 2:22 am
Lets us take a thought though, in the days of the liberal media to remember the victims of the bowling green attack, and let us never have a president who faked his birth certificate which he learnt to do after going to a school for terrorists, thankfully he didnt get to invent that pill that he was working on that turned good clean white christian teen girls (who would never think of having sex if it wasnt for clinton) into black Muslim boys who hate us.
Let us all pray for Fox News also, they have our best interests at heart.
BEH
February 5, 2017 @ 6:17 pm
Sean, this isn’t the Yahoo message boards… As much as I like to give Trigger a hard time this article is about as harmless as they get. It is probably vanilla enough to even make it on tasteofcountry. You need to take a deep breath and not let every little thing in the world send you into a tizzy.
FreeTicketGal
February 6, 2017 @ 6:01 pm
I believed in this until I finished the article. I don’t want to think too much about what that says about me, or maybe even about Faith. 🙂