Drake releasing a Aaliyah album.......

[ketamine]

Soundcloud

1m42s...did Drake just namecheck Mario Balotelli?

Yes. He said he was in Manchester. Who else would you hang out with in said circumstances.

[cmgoodman1226]

This makes me want to stab somebody. yolo

[bela]

i think this whole post-humous revival trend is incredibly distasteful.... bad when it was holo-pac at coachella, worse when aaliyah's work is being manipulated by someone who was still suckling the teat of canadian teen tv drama when she died.

sampling/making 1 track as an homage is one thing, putting an entire album out something different entirely.
that being said, someone from aaliyah's camp must have okayed this/agreed to receive a check from it.

[fractal]

so many post humous albums, it's part of being an entertainer with music that other people still own

not justifying it, just saying - it's business.

look at:

Bob Marley
Biggie
Tupac
Big L
Jerry Garcia
Jimmy Hendrix
Kurt Cobain
shit, pretty much every pop artist that died has had at least one post humous album. it's par for the course at this point

[herbs]

The Big Picture was already finished by the time L died afaik

[bela]

so many post humous albums, it's part of being an entertainer with music that other people still own

not justifying it, just saying - it's business.

true.

different when someone is quite literally reviving pac from the dead & making "him" say "wassup coachella!!!" or whatever the fuck they voiced over though, no?
or having your work taken and re-interpreted by somebody else entirely for their own profit? (obviously for some of aaliyah's peeps' profit too, but you know what i mean - aaliyah-via-drake is not the same as a straight up aaliyah album released post humously.)

[Today]

Jimi*

[fractal]

so many post humous albums, it's part of being an entertainer with music that other people still own

not justifying it, just saying - it's business.

true.

different when someone is quite literally reviving pac from the dead & making "him" say "wassup coachella!!!" or whatever the fuck they voiced over though, no?
or having your work taken and re-interpreted by somebody else entirely for their own profit? (obviously for some of aaliyah's peeps' profit too, but you know what i mean - aaliyah-via-drake is not the same as a straight up aaliyah album released post humously.)

i see your point and yeah, there is a big difference

[ketamine]

I actually think the Pac thing was way creepier & worse than this. This is just music.

If she was a hologram dancing around on stage with him that would be on a whole 'nother level & definitely cross the line.

[dickman69]

incoming drake's 2013 international tour FEATURING aaliyah!!

[Today]

[dreamizm]

tbh I feel the same abt a hologram as this, at least with a hologram they are putting effort and P into it and it is promoting her (not Drake)!

[primavera]

Tupac

[wolf89]

Hendrix was releasing recorded material largely already finished (but occasionally messed about with badly, rarely though).

Tupac revival was pathetically clawing at the dead

This looks like a shallow attempt at selling an album which has been clearly abandoned by those who were actually connected at the time and claimed by the unrelated, crap and popular.

I think Bela makes some really valid points too for sure

[primavera]

Hendrix was releasing recorded material largely already finished (but occasionally messed about with badly, rarely though).

Tupac revival was pathetically clawing at the dead

This looks like a shallow attempt at selling an album which has been clearly abandoned by those who were actually connected at the time and claimed by the unrelated, crap and popular.

I think Bela makes some really valid points too for sure

Surprise nothing was made after she died. Only a tribute by Missy/Timba/Magoo, etc.
That would have sold.
Would love to hear a new Aaliyah song.
I loved those old collabs, not so much love for those made the past decade.
Maybe just lots of good memories (personally) of those days.

[SCope13]

Whoever produces drake's beats, I'm a fan (is it timbaland?).

Noah "40" Shebib.

I describe him has hip-hop's Burial.

just caught this gem

[_cheef_]

hate the drake