#DontKnowWhatToTellYou

[aaliyahunleashed]

December 10, 2002,

Compilation album “I Care 4 U” is released.

Blackground Records and Universal Music decided to release a posthumous record that included songs from her studio albums and previously unreleased tracks and demos, recorded between 1993 and 2001; including “I Miss You”, “Don’t Know What To Tell You” and “Erica Kane” along with a few of Aaliyah’s greatest hits such as “One In A Million”, “Are You That Somebody” and “At Your Best (You Are love)”.

I Care 4 U was certified Platinum in the United States and sold over 1.6 million copies in the country (6 million worldwide).

[aaliyahunleashed]

#OnThisDay February 11, 2003

The CD for "Don't Know What to Tell Ya" is released in France. The vinyl's are released in the UK April 14, and in the US September 9, 2003.

Due to a limited release, it only peaked at number 70 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales. It fared better internationally, peaking at number 22 in the United Kingdom and within the top 40 in Australia and Switzerland.

In her book Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah (2021), author–journalist Kathy Iandoli, further explained that the lyrics talks about, "Aaliyah refusing to be tied down by a controlling relationship, as she compares it to incarceration"