#aaliyah tribute

[lilygoat]

Aaliyah - Miss You [Aaliyah Tribute] Feat. DMX & Timbaland (Video)

Now I'm sittin' here (I miss thee) Thinking 'bout you and the days we used to share It's drivin' me crazy, I don't know what to do I'm just wonderin' if you still care (Don't wanna let) I don't wanna let you know that it's killin' me I know you got another life, you gotta concentrate, baby

[artisofthandy]

If you didn’t know, on August 25th 2001, we lost a very iconic and memorable singer and actress, dubbed the Princess of R&B and the Queen of Urban Pop herself; Aaliyah due to a plane accident where she was listed as a casualty unfortunately… Dear Aaliyah, even though you may not be with us, we just want you to know that your friends, family, fans and many more still love and remember you and thank you for the many songs and albums you’ve created and shared with us. Rest in peace still to the Queen of Urban Pop & The Princess of R&B….Aaliyah.

(1979 - 2001)

(Updated since I wrote the incorrect birthdate which was 1975, what should’ve been 1979

[aaliyahhsources]

[aaliyahalways]

In loving memory of Aaliyah Dana Haughton

• January 16th, 1979 🕊️ August 25th, 2001 •

[ashleyinwondrland]

Please in season 3 since we are getting Queen of the Damned, I need them to play Aaliyah’s music somewhere. In the background when Akasha comes out or Lestat boppin along to her music on his Siri.

[joslincox]

[showbizndentertainment]

Raveena honors Aaliyah with a captivating cover during Tinashe's show in NYC tonight.

[aaliyahunleashed]

Happy Blessed Birthday to Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, known professionally as 21 Savage born October 22, 1992.

Here are a few (out of many) clips of him singing and jamming to Aaliyah.

[djrobblog]

Longer Gone Than Here: Kurt, Tupac, Aaliyah and 9 others who’ve recently joined this club

Longer Gone Than Here: Kurt, Tupac, Aaliyah and 9 others who’ve recently joined this club

(September 26, 2024). If there’s a rock and roll heaven, then there’s a band of artists that have recently joined that dubious distinction of having played in it longer than they rocked us here on earth… or even lived. A handful of iconic musicians have, in the past decade, joined the “longer deceased than alive” club — where legends like Jimi Hendrix, Jim Croce, Janis Joplin and Buddy Holly…

[modernmutiny]

God, watching Claim To Fame this season is so frustrating, these people are So Dumb

[aaliyahunleashed]

Aaliyah feat. Timbaland - Are You That Somebody

Ryan Destiny feat. Tobi Lou - The Same

Aaliyah (‘98)

Ryan Destiny (‘19)

[ozzibaby1]

Tribute to Aaliyah Taylor - she filled many a dream and show us how diapers could be enjoyed

[champagnemoon]

The way people act like Beyoncé was Aaliyahs direct peer when it was really more Brandy or Monica … they do the same thing with amerie like she wasn’t doing destiny’s child tributes at the beginning of her career lmao timelines get skewed because she’s been so dominant for decades

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #54: 2003

[Image description: a collage of photos of the 10 musicians and musical groups featured in this poll. In order from left to right, top to bottom: 50 Cent, R. Kelly, Sean Paul, Beyoncé, 3 Doors Down, Matchbox Twenty, Chingy, Aaliyah, Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow, Evanescence. End description]

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As I alluded to yesterday, ringtones became one of the record industry's strategies for raising profits in a post-Napster world. Two of the songs on today's poll are notable for this reason, with 50 Cent's In da Club becoming the first number one song on the Billboard Ringtone Charts in 2004 (the first song to reach this achievement) and Beyoncé's Crazy in Love becoming the best selling ringtone in the United Kingdom that year.

We're also starting to see the south start to take over the sound of rap in the mainstream. Groups like OutKast, Arrested Development, Three 6 Mafia, and Geto Boys already helped to put the south on people's radars (note: these artists are all from different regions in the south so their music branches off from different styles, so I'm not lumping them together for any of those reasons). But in the early 2000s with the mainstream popularity of crunk, the south was going to define a lot of what rap sounds like to people this decade. With all of the R&B fusion gaining popularity in the genre, crunk helped to serve as an alternative sound. There isn't any crunk on this poll (sadly Get Low by Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz missed eligibility by one slot), but we'll definitely see its presence later on.

Today's chart also features the posthumous release of Aaliyah's Miss You. Aaliyah, singer, actress, "Princess of R&B", was killed in a plane crash in 2001 when she was only 22 years old. For the music video, artists like Jamie Foxx, Queen Latifa, Lil Kim, DMX, and Missy Elliot made appearances to pay tribute to the late artist. The video also opens with DMX reciting a poem he wrote after the news of her passing. During her short life, she helped to define an entire generation of R&B and her influence is still heard and seen today.

[aaliyahalways]

Forever 22 ❤️

Aaliyah, you have been weighing heavy on my mind and heart more than ever…it’s like my body, my entire existence has a visceral reaction to the approach of August, before my mind can even compute what month I’m in. My heart always knows before my brain does. It’s innate. I dread this month. This day. Some years I’ve been able to focus on the positive of your life, your legacy. Celebrating you the best way I know how. This year, I can’t help but feel the sorrow sweep over me in waves, the immense void seems bigger than ever….the loss, palpable. Life has really been an intense battle as of late, but your voice, your joy, your essence always comforts me through my struggles enough for me to somehow make it through the day. I feel guilty at times that I’m not present on here like I used to be, like I’m somehow letting you down. But I know you know my heart, I can see it in every little message you send my way. When I’m walking through a store, on the verge of tears because I’ve had a difficult day, I hear your voice come over the loudspeakers, like you’re singing just for me. Like that’s your way of letting me know that you hear me and that I will be ok. So thank you Aaliyah, for still being there. For still guiding us. Guiding me. For still being a beacon of light in an often all too dark world. It’s hard to believe that you have now been gone the same amount of years that you once graced this Earth 💔

I miss you daily, I love you…eternally. I know you know how much.

Rest easy my LiLi 🕊️💫 I’ll be blasting your songs all day today. Be sure to sing along with me 🥰

P.S My niece is named after YOU. I promise your legacy will continue to shine on through our little ones, the way that you deserve. I will forever make sure she knows exactly who the highest, most exalted one was and forever will be ❤️

[liquoricebxxxh]

Back to the Janet and R. Kelly thing…

Her short-lived yet meaningful friendship with Aaliyah makes me wonder about some things…and then in the wake of her tragic death and tribute to her Janet mentions Aaliyah’s “strength”. It makes me think about the rumors (actually I think it was proven in court documents) of R. Kelly having hit her amongst other things being in that illegal marriage.

So maybe that’s a reason why I’ve never heard Janet say any nice things about— or anything at all, about R. Kelly.