Aaliyah Trends Due to Anger Over Posthumous Album
Aaliyah's new album "Unstoppable" drops this month featuring Drake, Chris Brown, and Future https://t.co/pIrcNUFCLv pic.twitter.com/uRTlrxpOS8
- Rap-Up (@RapUp) January 4, 2022
Aaliyah trended this morning on Twitter due to the collaborator announcement of Aaliyah's upcoming posthumous album UNSTOPPABLE, which drops late January. Unstoppable will feature Aaliyah’s first new music in more than fifteen years. Aaliyah died twenty years ago at the age of 22 in a plane crash.
The features list includes The Weeknd, Chris Brown, Snoop Dogg, Future, Ne-Yo, and Drake, who Aaliyah’s uncle and Blackground founder, Barry Hankerson calls “one of her biggest fans.”
Fans have been criticizing the album for 1. Not including any women, and 2. Including known abusers on an album by an abuse and exploitation survivor.
so instead of featuring any of the black female artists who were influenced by aaliyah they featured…a bunch of predators and abusers ? so disgusting considering what she went through. whoever took part in this is going to hell https://t.co/TNkoKV8RH1
- 🧸 (@dodecaroon) January 5, 2022
It is interesting (?) how to musicians like Chris Brown, Future and Drake, who are surrounded with varying degrees of accusations of the mistreatment of women, Aaliyah has become their passive, perfect Virgin Mary & they in turn have been allowed unfettered access to her legacy https://t.co/fghSfuHONs
- Moya Lothian-Mclean (@mlothianmclean) January 5, 2022
I’m sorry but having Chris Brown on an posthumous album with Aaliyah after all the R. Kelly allegations feels wrong. Like damn we aren’t protecting her from men who do violence against women, even in her death. https://t.co/vbqCqLjvFp
- Tony! Toni! Toné! (@AEHollingsworth) January 5, 2022
A teenage groomer, a serial abuser, and a deadbeat father with community dick. This is a terrible way to honor Aaliyah https://t.co/9W0chsmSJS
- Nato Jacobs (@dcmadness202) January 5, 2022
I'mma need folks to listen to Aaliyah song "Never No More" and then let me know if she would ever let CB within ten feet of her. Next, if Aaliyah needs hip-hop, R&B AND ROCK collabs... fight me. And so many women are influenced by her, are they on this project? https://t.co/puv6SoUlSE
- Latisha Jones (@leticia_creates) January 5, 2022
out of all the artists to choose from ... i'm so sorry Aaliyah. https://t.co/LnWG6DvIls
- 🍷 (@ALLHAILHEROINE) January 4, 2022
Aaliyah literally has an anti-domestic violence song and these idiots put Chris Brown on the album. Throw this shit in the garbage. https://t.co/zxwxVtUJm6
- Jolyne Cujoh (@imanimlewis) January 5, 2022
They staining Aaliyah's legacy I am super against posthumous anything let the person rest everybody else in the dead person fam go hustle for yourself
- Meekee (@meekelelah) January 5, 2022
You know what's actually just as bad as having Chris Brown on an album with Aaliyah? Having Drake, a dude who attempted to groom Millie Bobby Brown and DEFINITELY groomed Bella Harris, on an album with Aaliyah
- Chocolate Robots Majority Shareholder (@defbydegrees) January 5, 2022
The way Chris Brown or Drake lionise Aaliyah and framed her as their ultimate, untouchable woman-figure, while simultaneously steam-rolling over her legacy with their own music... in death she has become a site of worship for a certain type of man
- Moya Lothian-Mclean (@mlothianmclean) January 5, 2022
imagine having the opp to create a new Aaliyah album with an entire generation of women that were directly influenced (Ciara, Teyana, Tinashe, Normani, Jhene, CxH, H.E.R., Sevyn, etc.)
but instead we get Snoop Dogg, Neyo, Future, CB, a weird Weeknd song...yikes https://t.co/2NHEX17VkU
- Dante (@AllThingsDante) January 4, 2022
not seeing the pearly gates. they put abusers/misogynists on this album when she was largely affected by abusers/misogynists when she was alive. they could have gone to the many black girls that cite aaliyah as their inspiration for their artistry but we got dingy ass men instead https://t.co/HbFXyDLecO
- missiconick (@iconickbeauty) January 5, 2022
No Missy or Timbo on an Aaliyah album? Yeah they can keep that
- Brotha Maady (@MaadyBK67) January 4, 2022
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