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She started it all for my generation and she will forever be an inspiration for me. It definitely would be different because she started it all. I think a lot of people would be in trouble right now if she were still here. I don’t think we experienced everything that she was going to become. Honestly, I think she would be one of the biggest influences right now because she wasn’t afraid to be herself. How different do you think R&B would be if she were still with us? It’s just unfortunate that she’s not here with us physically. I have every one of her albums and know the words to all of her songs. It wasn’t anything put on and anything fake about Aaliyah. She wasn’t afraid to express her individuality. It seemed like everything she was doing was coming from her.
How different she was and how she didn’t let anybody tell her what she needed to do or how to do it. Is there anything she said to you or you learned from her that you apply to your everyday life, whether personal and professional? But for her to pick herself up, come back, do it all again and be more inspirational and bigger than she was the first time was amazing.ĭMX Talks ‘Priceless’ Moments With Aaliyah | Damon Dash Talks Losing Aaliyah You don’t want to be seen, you don’t want to hear what people have to say about you. It was an inspiration because some people when you go through a hard time that young you give up and you don’t want to do it anymore. She come back from something like that and won bigger than she had ever won before, Timbaland and Missy. They were giving her really bad flak for that. I think she had so many great moments, but I think coming back from a tough time when her first album and people were saying that she was married. What would you say was the best moment in Aaliyah’s career? I was like ‘whoa, that’s really big of her.’ People say that Aaliyah is angelic and that just made me feel like ‘wow, that’s a moment.’ Other artists supporting another artist when everybody’s trying to put you against each other, which was very special. She sent me flowers saying how proud she was and ‘congratulations.’ I just thought that was so angelic and sweet of her. There was a moment when I won at, I think, Lady of Soul. I was trying to sing louder than everybody else so she can hear that I knew her stuff and that I was being just as supportive as she was to me.
Then when she got on to perform, the entire place was singing her songs word for word, and so I was I. It felt like was no competition, or any of that. I remember going on before her and I could see her in a section where they kept the artists and she was just bobbing her head, really being supportive. What are some other special moments you shared with her? Photos: Aailyah and Her Famous Friends | Aaliyah’s Top 10 Billboard Hits She said the same thing about me and we connected. When I met her I embraced her, I was so happy to meet her. At the time, record companies did not believe in kid acts and it was just inspiring to see someone that was winning and winning being themselves. She came out before Monica and I did, she was our inspiration. I was so excited to meet her because she was the first girl on the scene. It was I think at a rehearsal for the Soul Train Awards and someone introduced us. The Juice: Tell me about the time you first met Aaliyah.īrandy: I met Aaliyah when I was about 15.