I didn't know timbaland was this weird about Aaliyah.

[tuckgod]

Maybe that's what really got them, she seemed older than she was BUT SHE WASN'T. Weirdo ass dudes.

Yeah her songs instantly take me back to a specific time. You couldn't tell me nothing about that girl. I knew it all lol. I still remember my mom telling me she passed. She knew I'd be tore up and I was.

I can't condone their thoughts or behaviors, but anybody that really remembers back then can probably understand.

Like Kellz said, she had this glow about her that wasn't normal, and she didn't talk about her age.

I'm a year older than her, but until like 97-98 when we found out her real age once the internet became more widespread and you could yahoo these things (pre-Google), I thought she was way older than me.

Kellz nasty because he knew how old she was and still acted on his desires.

I can't be mad at Timb though because he probably watched her on TV with Kellz before Timb was famous and fell in love with her before he knew how young she was.

She didn't carry herself like her age at all, she was beautiful, and she had this cool factor about her, what the youngins used to call swag, that was natural and very magnetic.

 

[Dave24]

 

[Tetsuo]

 

[tuckgod]

Missy Elliot too!

This is not discussed enough.

It wasn't just the nikkas, Aaliyah had everybody in love with her.

Dykes is known for being the number 1 "groomers" of young girls they want to fukk with, same shyt that straight men constantly get ridiculed for.

When I was a counselor, one of my supervisors was a bulldagger that every bytch, young/old/gay/straight lusted after.

She had hazel eyes, long locs, played ball, dressed her ass off and was hella swagged out.

But she STAYED having some young pretty girl in the office that wasn't in the program that she was "grooming" or trying to turn out.

She damn near bragged about it and nobody batted an eye.

 

[Gold]

Fam when I worked at a restaurant I was befuddled at dudes that did this shyt, and with impunity. Bragging about it and all. One dude almost got hemmed up because the girls parents were pissed...no idea how he got off.

 

[BunchePark]

Timbo was a simp

Hoe from blockbuster put that p*ssy on dog he bought the whole team new uniforms and her son aint even get no PT

 

[tuckgod]

To be honest , cant knock it when i was in high school in Brooklyn the chicks were always fukking with the older dudes

Another thing that isn't discussed enough.

I think shyt is changing now, but when I was in high school, all the popping girls that was in 11th 12th grade didn't fukk with nikkas our age at all unless you sold dope or played ball.

When we got out of school every day, at least 15 - 20% of the cars in the pick up line was older nikkas picking these bytches up.

You had some girls like my wife that was fukking with the star football/basketball players in school, but if you didn't bag the popular nikkas or ball players in the school, you was fukkin with the older dope boys, shipyard nikkas, and boat boys (Navy nikkas) that was in their early 20s, and nobody really tripped on it.

It was normal.

As a young nikka, I was just tight because I couldn't compete at the time with them nikkas.

But at the same time, nikkas like me that was juniors/seniors fukked with the poppin girls that was in 9th - 10th grade.

Natural cycle.

I didn't bag my wife until years later when we was in our early 20s.

She didn't even know I existed our senior year of high school because I was a new dusty Newport News nikka struggling to graduate on time and trying to acclimate to these uppity Hampton nikkas lifestyle, and the only classes I had with other seniors was Government and English.

I've talked about this before on here, and was literally just talking with my moms about this earlier today, but my dad was 25 when he got my mom pregnant with me and she was 17.

Whenever I bring that fact up, she tells me some shyt like, "that's what we all did."

Girls was constantly looking to bag an older nikka with his own money, crib, and car as soon as they was fukking age, 16-17.

 

[fact]

So you mad a 19 year old stole your bytch

Maybe that’s why before I had my daughter, either way, I’m on the right side of this one. You mad that society frowns on your dusty ass *pause* dating a 14 yo

 

[Bmezy]

younger women are easier to control and manipulate..

 

[Leonard Washington]

Lord, I don't know why I let y'all take me down this Aaliyah rabbit hole.

These are painful wounds that I thought was healed, but I've just ignored it for years.

I was really in love with this damn girl, like most nikkas was back then.

Anybody over 39, y'all remember when this shyt first dropped when Aaliyah reappeared?

We had never heard nothing like this before, it was some otherworldly shyt, but incredible.

Changed the sound of black music forever..

That 96-97 school year (freshman) music in general

 

[tuckgod]

That 96-97 school year (freshman) music in general

You feel me, breh.

I graduated in the '95-96 school year, and started high school in '92-93, so I was lucky enough to be in high school throughout one of the absolute best eras in black culture.

Arguably, the best.

Our style, sports stars, tv shows, movies, and music is still held in the highest esteem after all this time because that era was very special.

1992 - 1996.

We was influenced by the best of the 70s and 80s and put our own little twist on all that shyt to bring it together in a beautiful way in the early to mid-90s.

 

[hjnm]

This is not discussed enough.

It wasn't just the nikkas, Aaliyah had everybody in love with her.

Dykes is known for being the number 1 "groomers" of young girls they want to fukk with, same shyt that straight men constantly get ridiculed for.

When I was a counselor, one of my supervisors was a bulldagger that every bytch, young/old/gay/straight lusted after.

She had hazel eyes, long locs, played ball, dressed her ass off and was hella swagged out.

But she STAYED having some young pretty girl in the office that wasn't in the program that she was "grooming" or trying to turn out.

She damn near bragged about it and nobody batted an eye.

Yeah her style and beauty were really ahead of her time, people keep trying to imitate it today. Her best comparison today might be Rihanna or Zendaya, which is funny since that's who Lifetime wanted to play her.

 

[tuckgod]

Yeah her style and beauty were really ahead of her time, people keep trying to imitate it today. Her best comparison today might be Zendaya, which is funny since that's who Lifetime wanted to play her.

She was absolutely ahead of her time.

She's really the blueprint for everything that came after her.

She just happened to die in the early 00s and a lot of folks speaking on the culture, that wasn't old enough to really experience her while she was alive, think she developed this aura and status after she passed, the same way they think Pac and Big did.

What I educate these young nikkas on is, our stars were legends while they walked the Earth.

We had real life black superheroes walking this bytch, the archetypes for everything that came after.

Their deaths were very painful to all of us, but they were legends while they were alive.

Facts.

The majority of these IG bytches thats halfway lightskin try to pull of Aaliyah's look, not knowing that when she did it, there was none before her.

That's her real nose, real eyebrows, real hair.

She didn't get that swag watching youtube videos of other bytches and emulating them.

She was born with it and influenced generations of girls that came after her, whether they realize it or not.

We don't have many innovators anymore, so it pisses me off to see people try and lump real innovators and creatives in with these lame copycat nikkas today.

 

[lord canon]

You feel me, breh.

I graduated in the '95-96 school year, and started high school in '92-93, so I was lucky enough to be in high school throughout one of the absolute best eras in black culture.

Arguably, the best.

Our style, sports stars, tv shows, movies, and music is still held in the highest esteem after all this time because that era was very special.

1992 - 1996.

We was influenced by the best of the 70s and 80s and put our own little twist on all that shyt to bring it together in a beautiful way in the early to mid-90s.

we grew up in the best time to be honest everything now is trash

She was absolutely ahead of her time.

She's really the blueprint for everything that came after her.

She just happened to die in the early 00s and a lot of folks speaking on the culture, that wasn't old enough to really experience her while she was alive, think she developed this aura and status after she passed, the same way they think Pac and Big did.

What I educate these young nikkas on is, our stars were legends while they walked the Earth.

We had real life black superheroes walking this bytch, the archetypes for everything that came after.

Their deaths were very painful to all of us, but they were legends while they were alive.

Facts.

The majority of these IG bytches thats halfway lightskin try to pull of Aaliyah's look, not knowing that when she did it, there was none before her.

That's her real nose, real eyebrows, real hair.

She didn't get that swag watching youtube videos of other bytches and emulating them.

She was born with it and influenced generations of girls that came after her, whether they realize it or not.

We don't have many innovators anymore, so it pisses me off to see people try and lump real innovators and creatives in with these lame copycat nikkas today.

Just more recycled garbage, i gotta keep on telling my daughter .. been there done that

 

[Wild self]

She was absolutely ahead of her time.

She's really the blueprint for everything that came after her.

She just happened to die in the early 00s and a lot of folks speaking on the culture, that wasn't old enough to really experience her while she was alive, think she developed this aura and status after she passed, the same way they think Pac and Big did.

What I educate these young nikkas on is, our stars were legends while they walked the Earth.

We had real life black superheroes walking this bytch, the archetypes for everything that came after.

Their deaths were very painful to all of us, but they were legends while they were alive.

Facts.

The majority of these IG bytches thats halfway lightskin try to pull of Aaliyah's look, not knowing that when she did it, there was none before her.

That's her real nose, real eyebrows, real hair.

She didn't get that swag watching youtube videos of other bytches and emulating them.

She was born with it and influenced generations of girls that came after her, whether they realize it or not.

We don't have many innovators anymore, so it pisses me off to see people try and lump real innovators and creatives in with these lame copycat nikkas today.

A lot of dudes like her because she light skinned with natural long hair

A lot of brehs are color struck and simping towards light skinned women.