― OCP (OCP), Monday, 5 January 2004 11:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 5 January 2004 11:39 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 5 January 2004 12:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee Smith (Leee), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link
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― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 5 January 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
vs.
I Care 4 U (best of?) - http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000088E1B/
vs. some combination of
Aaliyah [LIMITED EDITION] - http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MCXH/ and...?
whats new and potentially indispensible on the newest one (top)?
― help! help!, Friday, 1 April 2005 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link
One In A Million appears to be out of print, more & more kids I talk to don't know who Aaliyah is... Is her estate just being drastically mismanaged?
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 01:45 (eight years ago) link
yeah when i wanted OIAM on cd a few years ago i had to order an import, wonder why that is
― some dude, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 02:12 (eight years ago) link
oiam and s/t aren't available physically, digitally, or even on spotify. they're being actively withheld and there's no easy way for ppl, young or otherwise, to hear them. it's tragic.
from what i've heard it's the fault of the label she was on - blackground. her debut album is only available because it was distributed through jive.
blackground is seriously the worst label ever. they kept jojo in hell for a decade. aaliyah was trying to get out of her contract just before she died (jay-z offered her a deal to join rocafella) because they were holding her back.
there's quite a few conspiracy theories around her death which i don't particularly want to induldge, but seriously her label was and is shady af.
― prolego, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 02:57 (eight years ago) link
Yeah it's cause of fallout related to Blackground's distribution deal with Virgin.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 03:20 (eight years ago) link
Barry Hankerson was effectively blackballed out of the industry cause of all the shit he pulled.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 03:21 (eight years ago) link
hilarity from the Blackground wikipedia entry
Also in 2006 Barry signed heart throb rapper Brian Rose (who's real name just happens to be Brian Hankerson) to the label for a lucrative mixtape deal that did not have the chance to get the notoriety that it deserved due to legal issues.
― some dude, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 03:23 (eight years ago) link
I really know next to nothing about Hankerson or Blackground -- has anyone written about this stuff at length in an article(s) somewhere?
Her music was such a huge part of my experience of "the 90s", & it's seriously heartbreaking to see the tragedy of her death compounded by the neglect for her legacy.
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link