R.Kelly sold his album rights to Aaliyah’s family as an agreement that prevented them from pressing charges over illegal marriage.

[FluffyEyes]

First of all, I see y'all still posting that page that never has links to verify if what they're saying is true. Secondly, why are ppl calling this young lady a hoe??

She was groomed and subsequently taken advantage of. She was not protected in anyway, exploited by her own family, and made to be the villain. There should be a fukking lesson in that, not calling her a whore because of one known adult relationship and one rumoured (also adult) relationship. Like wtf, I hope some of you nikkas do NOT have daughters. Some of you are definitely the trash calling little girls fast and grown when nasty men prey on them.

 

[Dump Gawd]

Aaliyah's parents are pure scum

 

[Arizax2]

I mean a crime was committed regardless...why would the government care if he cut a deal with the family? If she was underage why would this stop them . What am I missing?

 

[Dre Space Age]

It's a great take actually cause it's true. Aaliyah was the hottest chick in the game back then and everyone was coming for her. Kellz was just the guy who won. Cause if it wasn't him it would have been timbo, dame, Jay etc.. who would have wifed her up.

Whether you like it our not the reality is dating teens wasn't as taboo like that in the 90s. Jerry Seinfeld openly dated a 16 year old. All the Rockstars were doing it and making songs about it. You had chicks doing playboy once they turn 18. You had hustlers barely legal as one of the biggest points mags. Girls gone wild was teens also who just got to college. Can't really look at the 90s through a modern lens cause things change over time. There is a lot you can point to in the 90s that was common and going on that yall are not keeping the same energy as with kellz. Let's be real.

 

[EastsideRio]

Aaliyah's parents are pure scum

I highly doubt this is true, if you know anything about Aaliyah’s parents they were definitely not strapped for cash at anytime Aaliyah was in her teens. They moved from Bagley (Big Sean’s old neighborhood, really nice well kept homes) to Sherwood Forest (which is Detroit’s Elite Neighborhood) Big Money Barry was her uncle he married Gladys Knight and they lived a few streets over in Palmer Woods (Multi-Million Dollar Houses n shyt). Nikka was buying Cadillacs every other month.

 

[Ku$h Parker]

Hell no. I was in high school ( ) but we knew then that nikka was fukkin Aaliyah. That album cover and suspect interview he had was enough. Then the confirmed rumors of the annulled marriage.

People CHOSE to ignore it. But going back and looking at other legends, they were just as nasty if not worse.

I remember reading about it in The Rolling Stone back then(plus it had The Document)

I was 11-12 then

 

[EastsideRio]

So you mean to tell me Aaliyah’s estate owns R Kelly’s first three albums which have always been on digital streaming sites for all of these years, but Aaliyah albums (their own daughter) just recently started appearing on these same platforms?

Make it make sense

 

[Rekkapryde]

So you mean to tell me Aaliyah’s estate owns R Kelly’s first three albums which have always been on digital streaming sites for all of these years, but Aaliyah albums (their own daughter) just recently started appearing on these same platforms?

Make it make sense

I think Barry owns the rights to her albums.

 

[EastsideRio]

I think Barry owns the rights to her albums.

Her estate, mom pops brother had the rights to clear her songs for that wack ass lifetime movie and they didn’t.

That’s why Timbaland was against it and Zendaya backed out of it

 

[Mastamimd]

Y’all got to take 2023 perspectives away. shyt was a different time. finding the right balance through science on how young is too young. No adult i knew in 1994 thought R Kelly was a sick fukk even with that info

As a kid I definitely thought that it was odd at the very least

 

[JustCKing]

So you mean to tell me Aaliyah’s estate owns R Kelly’s first three albums which have always been on digital streaming sites for all of these years, but Aaliyah albums (their own daughter) just recently started appearing on these same platforms?

Make it make sense

Jive Records. Aaliyah's first album came out on Jive, which is why it was always available. Her other albums weren't. R. Kelly was also on Jive.

 

[MJ Truth]

I know folks are going to feel some type of way about this, but fukk it. Aaliyah was never an angel as the media made her out to be. She just had a good street team and laid the blueprint for the Beyhive.

Let's keep it a buck, she was an opportunist who smutted with every higher up and entertainer combined. From Kells to Timbaland to Jay to Dame. This woman rolled with whatever could bring shine to her career.

But the grim reality of it all was the fact that Kells turned her into a demon all due to the circumstances of a young naive teenager, getting married to a full-grown ass man with a twisted sick persona for younger girls.

Yeah, good point. Let’s blame the teenager for taking advantage of the thirty year old men.

 

[Nigerianwonder]

Hell no. I was in high school ( ) but we knew then that nikka was fukkin Aaliyah. That album cover and suspect interview he had was enough. Then the confirmed rumors of the annulled marriage.

People CHOSE to ignore it. But going back and looking at other legends, they were just as nasty if not worse.

I remember Half the chicks in high school had 20+ year old boyfriends and bragged about it. They would even pick them up from school sometimes. Parents knew they had older boyfriends too. Nobody cared cause it wasn't taboo and it was a different time back then in the 90s. RKelly was ignored cause it was common to see. Social norms change over time and the me too movement has folks way more sensitive about these things than they were before.

 

[O.Red]

This is the frustrating part of these situations

Everyone can agree to hate R Kelly but it's crickets when it comes time to hold everyone accountable for contributing to the bullshyt

One of the elephants in the room of entertainment is how completely willing parents are to sell their children to perverts that's why so many of them end up fukked in the head as adults

 

[Rekkapryde]

This is the frustrating part of these situations

Everyone can agree to hate R Kelly but it's crickets when it comes time to hold everyone accountable for contributing to the bullshyt

One of the elephants in the room of entertainment is how completely willing parents are to sell their children to perverts that's why so many of them end up fukked in the head as adults

that's the worst part of this whole shyt honestly