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may have been looked at as just another MC from the city that also produced the likes of Will
Smith Beanie Siegel and Lisa Left Eye Lopez but as she came up in the late 90s with a super short
platinum color Dew and paw print tattoos across her chest she was determined to be a standout
voice of Her generation and a force to be reckoned with in the hip-hop world Eve's mother was only
17 years old when she brought her daughter into the world born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania her
mother raised Eve as a single parent while her father came in and out of her life periodically
her first musical interest was actually singing so she started out in choirs and then became part of
an all-female vocal group called dope girl Posse around the age of 12. I actually was interested in
singing before rapping I started singing first I was I was always in like the school choir when I
was little um and yeah I think it's not until like ABC came out that I was like oh that's I
don't want to do that like I really want I think rapping is the my thing after Eve graduated high
school she began working as a stripper at the age of 18. she didn't last very long though
it was two months and I was the laziest stripper around I would literally say look I could give you
a lap dance but I'm better at rapping one night mace came walking and I didn't even know who he
was asking my name I'm like giving up fake names whatever he's like no I know you're not supposed
to be here he's like what do you want to do and I was like I rap and he was like let me hear you
rap and he did and he was like yeah he's like if that's what you're trying to do you shouldn't be
here Eve's manager called her up one day and told her that the anr executive from Death Row Records
was coming into town he asked her if she was interested in auditioning for him she absolutely
was and by the time she got through just one verse and the hook the exec knew he'd found a jam he
gave her two weeks to get her bags packed and make her way over to La so she could record a proper
demo as soon as death row found her Dr Dre heard it he immediately signed her while signed to Dre's
aftermath entertainment label Eve going by the name Eve of Destruction appeared on the bulward
soundtrack as well as being featured on DMX's song Rough Riders Anthem Remix and The Roots single you
got me then things came to a grinding halt the reason had everything to do with Dre at adding a
new male rapper to his labels roster named Eminem I mean I remember when I was working with Dre That
Eminem did get signed there's nobody out there that's even close to what he's doing so I would
literally show up to Studio sessions that I wasn't supposed to be at where I knew Dre was going to be
and be like so when am I recording when are you gonna put me on a song what's going on
I think he got sick of that and then I got dropped eight months later
enter Jimmy iveen co-founder and chairman of Interscope Records he ended up having a chat
with Dre and told him that since he was clearly too busy with his other artists he should send
Eve over to Rough Riders a management company who started its own label imprint through Interscope
before she knew it Eve or as she called herself a pitbull in a skirt became the first lady of Rough
Riders Eve's debut solo single what y'all want featuring Nokio of Drew Hill was released in June
1999. it peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and captured the top spot on the hot rap
songs chart [Music] at this point he decided to let the of Destruction part of her handle
go and just be herself her debut album called Let There Be Eve Rough Riders first lady was
released that fall it went two times platinum and features the singles got a man and another
song that went to number one on the hot rod songs chart Love is Blind the latter track was written
by Eve as a poem when she was 16 about her best friend that was the same age as her engaged in
an abusive relationship with a 35 year old man later becoming pregnant all of the songs on the
album in fact were written by Eve herself she became the third female hip-hop artist to have
her album Peak at number one on the billboard 200 behind Lauren Hills the miseducation of
Lauryn Hill and Foxy Brown's china doll when asked if she ever felt frustrated constantly
being referred to as a female rapper Eve didn't hold back she told stereo gum in 2021 I never
wanted to just be good for a female I always wanted to be a good mc period and back then it
was always oh you're good even for a female a guy said to me I listen to you I usually don't
listen to female MCS but for a female you're good for a girl you're good it's like shut up
it was so annoying Eve experienced more number one success with when she was featured on Missy
Elliott's single hot boys remix the song broke the record for most weeks at number one on the
r b chart it also spent 18 weeks at number one on the hot rap singles chart years later Eve
would reflect on The Sisterhood she had looked forward to being a part of in the male-dominated
field of hip-hop she quickly found out though that it wasn't like that at all she recalls a
time where she would run up to another female rapper she admired telling them how much she
loved their work and suggesting they do something together only to be met with a bunch of negativity
one woman in the game that definitely had no interest in building a Sisterhood with Eve was
Foxy Brown things apparently got kicked off when Eve levied some thinly veiled disses at
Foxy and Little Kim on her tracks 2001's let me blow your mind and 2002's Double
R wand where she criticized the two for having Ghost Riders foxy fired back via
her unreleased record get off me comparing Eve to a Yorkie terrier and dubbing her a
jealous bum Eve later responded to Foxy's diss stating that she was glad she could
be an inspiration for her Ghostwriter and dubbed her a wankster and a miserable jealous
foxy then revealed in an interview with Wendy Williams that she hated Eve and the main reason
why was foxy believed Eve had snitched about her alleged affair with DMX causing her breakup with
then-boyfriend corrupt someone Eve did end up befriending in the business with Keisha
Cole that is until Keisha started to exhibit some behavior that just didn't sit well with
Eve and caused her to separate herself from the R B singer Keisha touched on what happened in her
TV one uncensored episode it was a thing that happened with Eve that you know we walking out
and somebody grabbed her bag or something like that and you know I just kind of turned around
and slapped the girl you know I was like girl what is you doing I'm saying like period like back up
you know and Eve is really pissed off about that like we stopped hanging out like she was like I I
can't hang with Keisha like she can't be slapping people I was like wait I'll slap somebody for you
what the [ __ ] is this but then it taught me a lot too later too because you know even being who
I am today because she get sued two you know what I'm saying me being a part of her crew
walking out the club but I just I should have left that to security if somebody gets paid
for that you know what I mean in the midst of all the success she was experiencing in her
professional life things weren't going that great in Eve's personal life at that time I was also
in a relationship that was very toxic that was not working can you guys uh wait for him again
she was in a relationship with another producer Stevie J and she would tell me she wasn't happy
it wasn't good because here is it this person I thought was the love of my life was just so
unsupportive it's just so much competition I went through a depression I was drinking a lot a lot
and trying to bury emotions I think Eve's man may not have been supportive of her career aspirations
but he sure didn't have a problem enjoying the perks that came along with it like being all up
in her Who's That Girl music video the couple also appeared in another video together during their
relationship of the x-rated variety a tape of the couple made the rounds on the internet right when
Eve's career was taking off they both deny leaking at themselves she spoke to MTV in 2012 about how
the situation made her feel and how she handled it when that happens sex tapes weren't hot like
that and I got the FBI involved so that's not something I wanted to happen I respect my mother
and my family and that's not something I am okay with and it hurt my heart that anyone who was
in my circle whether it be him or anybody else it hurt my heart that that went out there that
wasn't my thing Eve's second studio album scorpion dropped in 2001. who's that girl the lead single
did moderately well peaking at number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100 the second single though let me
blow your mind with Gwen Stefani of No Doubt ended up being a Smash Hit Rising all the way to number
two on the hot 100. the song also won a Grammy for best rap song collaboration and Eve also
picked up an additional nomination for best album Evolution her third studio album was released a
year and a half later the first single Gangsta 11 with Alicia Keys became her second consecutive
number two hit on the pop chart 2002 was also the Year Eve branched out into acting starting
out on the big screen in the action film XXX as well as the dramedy film Barbershop she would go
on to participate in many other films over the years including the barbershop sequels in 2004
and 2016. in 2003 Eve starred in the lead role in her own sitcom named after her it aired for three
seasons on UPN she now says at the end of the show was heartbreaking and she admits that the
reason probably had a lot to do with her trying to straddle both sides of her life it didn't work
trying to be the professional actor who had to be on set early in the morning while simultaneously
being a party girl staying up until all hours of the night Eve returned the favor to Gwen Stefani
for appearing on her song let me blow your mind and became a featured art based on Gwen's track
rich girl in 2005. it became a top 10 pop hit and received a Grammy nomination after not being heard
from on her own for a while Eve came back in 2007 with her top 40 pop top 20 r b and top 10 rap hit
tambourine a few months later it was followed up with give it to you both tracks were slated
to be included on her next album that was in the works at the time unfortunately due to a series
of delays that had everything to do with tensions between her and her label the project never saw
the light of day she eventually left Interscope and signed with Emi hoping to finally get her next
album out but more setbacks prevented that from happening in the spring of 2010 Eve made another
Epic feature on the remix of Ludacris's hit song My Chick Bad along with diamond and Trina in 2012
Eve decided the way it had been long enough and she was going to release her long-awaited album
independently the first official single make it out this town featuring Gabe's supporter
of Cobra star Starship was released in February 2013 a follow-up track called Eve also dropped a
few months later lip lock Eve's fourth album was released under her own label from The Rib music
in May 2013. in 2017 she became the new permanent co-host on the CBS daytime talk show The Talk Eve
came back to music in 2019 when she released her first single in six years titled reload featuring
Jamaican dancehall artist conscience the following year after a three-year run Eve announced that
she would be leaving the talk at the end of the year due to the impending lockdown restrictions
preventing her from returning to the U.S and plans to expand her current family in the spring of 2021
it was announced that Eve was to join the cast of ABC's musical drama series Queens even though
the show premiered that fall to largely positive reviews it was canceled in early 2022 after one
season Eve began dating British fashion designer businessman and race car driver Maximilian coop
Uber in 2010 after meeting him in London at an event for his car rally company Gumball 3000 she
got invited to participate that year by one of the sponsors and agreed to do it she admits that
even though she wasn't looking for a relationship she was immediately intrigued and wanted to get to
know everything about him from that moment forward she was traveling quite extensively at that time
so their relationship was long distance for a while with them relying on communicating through
their phones and sporadic get-togethers when she had European tour dates things didn't get super
serious until Eve moved to London so they could really put things in perspective Max also has
four children from a previous marriage and Eve's confessed she was skeptical about whether or not
she really wanted to be with a man with so many children and of course they couldn't ignore the
race Factor Max had never dated a black woman before so Eve spent a lot of time educating
him and his children about her experiences as a woman of color when we first got together
he thought I was high maintenance because of how often I changed my hair I had to say no
I'm a black woman this is not high maintenance this is part of the culture in the end it all
worked out because as she fell in love with him she automatically fell in love with the kids
the couple became engaged in December 2013 and married the following summer in Ibiza Spain Eve
now divides her time between London Los Angeles and New York after struggling with infertility
issues for years her and her husband welcomed their first child a son on February 1st 2022.
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