aaliyah

yeah i definitely doubt someone that young dying that suddenly has any kind of documents stating what should be done w/ their uncompleted demos if they suddenly become valuable in the event of their death. but again SOMEBODY in her family and/or her label must have final say over these things. timbaland said he hasn't been contacted about the project but that it shouldn't be done w/o him and missy involved (which is obv true).

http://i.imgur.com/QosW1.gif

yeah you want to say leave it to those two which seems like the right-est thing to do but then again, what have those guys done in the last 5 years that would make you think it'd be any good. aaliyah's music is timeless and singular but also benefitted from some of gthe greatest ever (r kelly, missy, timbo) being on the tops of their games at roughly the same time. if the full tracks are just sitting there that's one thing but if not, who knows if her leftover material will get the complementary help it deserves?

amazing gif btw good work

someone said this on twitter but i'm curious as to what these vocals are from. why can't we hear the original iteration of whatever this song is

this sounds like it could've been okay but drake's verse is awful. i mean, it wouldn't be awful on a normal drake song but it feels completely out of place here

afaict nothing has been confirmed by her label/estate/etc. so who knows if anything's going to happen beyond this one song

― Diary of a Whiney Kid: Dog Days (some dude), Sunday, August 5, 2012 6:52 PM Bookmark

The source of the track is Blackground's soundcloud page.

drake: f u f u f u f u f u

:(

http://jawnita.tumblr.com/post/28818674747/this-is-aaliyah-with-her-mother-and-best-friend

PREACH

"swervin with Balotelli"

christ

why can't we hear the original iteration of whatever this song is

Because it is probably better than this garbage.

Treach & Slick Rick
& Drake

"What's up?"

My thoughts exactly.

fuck drake.. this is offensive IMO

https://twitter.com/AaliyahsGhost

YASSSSS

ahahahahahaha

this is pretty fucked up

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/08/aaliyah_enough_said_drake.php

Went from my nigga serving it by the tele
To venues in Manchester just swerving with Balotelli
The fuck are you trying to tell me?
Bothers me when you got to play therapist
That shit’s embarrassin’
They even bring up these niggas make the comparison
They just got to forgive me, this watch is a 150
Still ain’t got the time for a bitch to be acting iffy
Running through the city with niggas I’d give a kidney
Selling under 150 you niggas gotta be kidding
Is this even still a discussion?
Don’t you ever wake up disgusted?
Every million I gain an enemy or a cousin
And people’s feelings have changed ever since I became somethin’
Girls that becoming ladies
And my friends are having babies
And babies are dropping dead in my city
This shit is crazy
And I don’t know if speaking on it helps
This the shit that’s on my mind I just keep it to myself
You know

this is making me nauseous

is the SIDS rate really high in Toronto or something

This the shit that’s on my mind I just keep it to myself

apparently you don't!

Mario Balotelli Voice

http://youtu.be/CgMqkdCg-F8

Ergh, the WORST.

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/426614_10152035163905515_828497835_n.jpg

oh lord

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/71175986.html

aaliyah's brother favourited a fan letter criticising drake's involvement in all of this <3

11 years ago today

wait wasn't it just ten years ago today like a few weeks ago????

I posted this in another thread and nobody cared but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZsEEPo_Tw

:O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFJ2kblbChk

eminem was the one who broke the news of aaliyah's passing to me. well he announced it during his set at the reading festival and asked for a moment of silence, the majority of the crowd didn't co-operate. He wasn't impressed.

I posted this in another thread and nobody cared but

ha no it knocked me out & made me think about sampling & beatjacking a lot - what's really interesting is when it gets to a chord change & goes in a different direction that timbaland's version didn't, & was better for. weird to hear.

this is incredible http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1693774/dmx-drake-aaliyah-collaboration.jhtml?xrs=share_twitter

:-D

DMX sums up my feelings on Drake perfectly:

I don’t like anything about Drake. I don’t like his voice. I don’t like what he talks about. I don’t like his face. I don’t like the way he walks. Let me shut up. Imma stop right there.

omg dmx i hadn't seen that ilu ilu ilu yesssss

and also bless missy and tim for protecting babygirl's legacy:

Last night, Missy Elliott and Timbaland dropped off two, long-teased new singles at New York’s Hot 97. While there, they spoke with Angie Martinez, adding a new chapter to the winding, sad tale of the rumored new Aaliyah album. “I don’t even know if it’s an album,” Timbaland said. “I don’t think that’s in the works. I don’t know, I think it’s blown out of proportion. I haven’t spoken to Drake yet.” Missy says she hasn’t been contacted either, adding, “No call has been made to me… We’re talking about unfinished music. And we don’t know her reasoning for not putting those records out. Maybe she didn’t feel like they were her best work. We just don’t want to tap into that, just spiritually something else you know… very, very touchy. Unless her parents came in and conducted that.” Timbaland also called Drake’s Aaliyah portrait tattoo into question, saying, “To me, the tattoo part, did that man come in here and show y’all? Like lift up his shirt?”

nice that tim is giving drake shade despite the two of them having worked together

is this drake thing the reason everyone aside from the usuals have been making it a point to assert that they love aaliyah lately? like it's reached semi-obnoxious mbv-revival levels

It's worse. It's not like most MBV newcomers/revivalists thought derisively of -- or ignored -- every other guitar-oriented band that was around during/after Loveless.

i haven't noticed this... who are some of the non-usuals who started loving aaliyah 4 weeks ago?

all the quotes from the dude in yeasayer are a pretty good example

i wasn't even thinking famous types just random whoevers tweeting and whatnot but i guess the famous types apply too

right, i think the idea is that that guy is representative of a certain group (altho prob a bit douchier)

haha, I'm kind of trying to tone down my "usual"-ness for ~personal~ reasons. red album desktop wallpaper: gone.

keep in mind tho, that the anniversary of her death was a couple weeks ago, so that might have some to do with the love-in.

Twelve years.