I've already got the Aaliyah best-of ("I Care 4 U") do I really need One in a Million or anything else?

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)?

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?

yeah when i wanted OIAM on cd a few years ago i had to order an import, wonder why that is

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.

Yeah it's cause of fallout related to Blackground's distribution deal with Virgin.

Barry Hankerson was effectively blackballed out of the industry cause of all the shit he pulled.

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.

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.