Aaliyah

Hits like "We Need A Resolution," "More Than a Woman," "Rock The Boat" and "I Care 4 U" helped late music icon Aaliyah's 2001 third and final album achieve major success, but the genre-bending LP overall still stands as a complete R&B classic on the 20th anniversary of its release today (July 17).

Keeping our Black Music Month momentum going here at Black America Web, we put together a list of our favorite R&B cover songs from the likes of Aaliyah, Beyoncé, Luther Vandross, Frank Ocean and more soul greats.

Black Music Month is fully alive and thriving here at Black America Web, so we figured now would be the perfect time to pay tribute to some of our favorite records that infused hard-hitting beats with soulful vocals.

Thedeath of rapper DMX has left fans flocking to Twitter to reminisce over the hip-hip icons greatest moments, including the speech he recited to Aaliyah.

NEW YORK (AP) — Singer R. Kelly pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he schemed with others to pay for a fake ID for an unnamed female a day before he married R&B singer Aaliyah, then 15 years old, in a secret ceremony in 1994. Kelly entered the plea in New York via a video […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors are accusing singer R. Kelly of scheming with others to pay for a fake ID for an unnamed female a day before he married R&B singer Aaliyah, then 15 years old, in a secret ceremony in 1994. The revised indictment filed Thursday in New York, accuses Kelly of paying […]

After decades in the music vault, Aaliyah’s music will finally be available on streaming services in 2020. Aaliyah’s uncle, Barry Hankerson, announced the news on Twitter, telling fans that the music will drop on January 16th, 2020. “We listened, this is not a drill in honor of the great legacy of #Aaliyah,” Hankerson, the former head of […]

Days before the 18th anniversary of her death, a new wax figure of Aaliyah was unveiled at Madame Tussauds in Las Vegas. Now her family is urging museum-goers to respect the replica after fans gave it a makeover. On Monday, Aaliyah’s estate posted a photo of a woman applying lip gloss to the wax figure (from M.A.C.’s Aaliyah collection), […]

This weekend makes 18 years since Aaliyah died in the tragic plane crash that would leave us mourning for years to come.

Madame Tussauds will honor late singer Aaliyah with a wax figure tribute set to debut in Las Vegas on August 21st. To celebrate the event, Aaliyah’s family and estate have set up a contest for loyal fans to get a chance to attend the exclusive VIP party where the wax figure will be unveiled. The official Aaliyah […]

Following the premiere of the jaw-dropping Lifetime docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly,” Roc-A-Fella co-founder Dame Dash has come forward to spill even more tea about the R&B hitmaker. First the claimed late singer Aaliyah thought R. Kelly was a creep and a monster, now the says Jay-Z’s association with the alleged child molester contributed to the downfall of Roc-A-Fella. However, former producer Choke No […]

A new day brings more new R. Kelly criticism, and this time in the form of a newly surfaced clip that appears to debunk earlier claims that the singer was unaware Aaliyah was underage when they illegally married. Kelly’s camp has in the past denied that he knew the late pop star was just 15 when they wed in secret in […]