Aaliyah Unleashed

#OnThisDay OCTOBER 5TH 1995 | URBAN AID 4 LIFE Event:

World Teachers' Day - Sun, Oct 5, 2025 📚🍎🎓

World Teachers' Day - Sun, Oct 5, 2025 📚🍎🎓

"yes, she yells a lot" - Aaliyah (age 9) on her musical director Susan.

World Teachers' Day - Sun, Oct 5, 2025 📚🍎🎓

Aaliyah once signed an autograph for her math teacher (Mr. Mark Bondar) that said: “You’re 1 plus a million = 2 in a million.”

I guess she was trying to say he was extra unique and special. It’s technically inaccurate (1 + a million = a million and one 😭 which is a idiom which when used normally means overwhelmed with a countless number of things), but the way Aaliyah says it is so adorable. I like to think she did it on purpose just to mess with her MATH teacher a little — pure Baby Girl energy, I miss her so much! 🥹

📸 Autograph from @jaysblogspot (who has a couple Aaliyah autographs to her her math teacher Mr. Bondar)

World Teachers' Day - Sun, Oct 5, 2025 📚🍎🎓

Aaliyah once signed an autograph for her math teacher (Mr. Mark Bondar) that said: "To Mr. Bondar, One of the best teachers I've ever had, Your support has been immeasurable"

She also added a extra note in the lower right, but it's hard to make out.

World Teachers' Day - Sun, Oct 5, 2025 📚🍎🎓

📸 Rarely Posted image of Diane Haughton (Aaliyah's mother) and Voletta Wallace (Biggie's mother) in 2002.

It’s World Teachers’ Day, but let’s be honest, not every teacher deserved an apple 🍎

Here’s a throwback: Aaliyah’s classmates once shared that she checked a teacher who threw a book at her for talking in class 😳. Supposedly, the teacher had everyone’s attention except Aaliyah’s; so they threw the book straight at her head to get it.

After that, Aaliyah never returned to the class. She was so upset by the disrespect that she switched her major from vocal to dance.

Aaliyah's theme songs while exiting was probably "Never No More", "We Need A Resolution", "I Refuse" and "Messed Up".😅

What do you think? Did the teacher cross the line? Did Aaliyah over-react? 🎶Who should be hurt? Who should be shamed? 🎶😂👇🏽

Rarely Posted images of Aaliyah (photographed by Jeffrey Mayer | @jeffreymayer) performs at The Forum in Inglewood, California in 1997.

October 4, 1997

Rarely Posted image of Aaliyah (photographed by Jeffrey Mayer | @jeffreymayer ) performs at The Forum in Inglewood, California in 1997.

October 4, 1997 – "The One I Gave My Heart To" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in the issue week of October 4, 1997 at number 24.

The song was released ‎September 16, 1997. In the song's seventh week on the chart it reached its peak at number 9, making it the highest-charting single from the album.

In the same issue week of October 4, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at number 18.

Eventually the song reached its peaked within the top 10 ten weeks later after its first charting at number 8 on December 6, 1997.

The song also peaked within the top ten on the Rhythmic charts at number 8 on November 15, 1997. On the Billboard Dance charts the song peaked within the top 20 at number 18 on February 28, 1998.

OCTOBER 4TH - 5TH 1995 | URBAN AID 4 LIFE LAUNCHES:

When Eric Lynn Wright, known professionally as Eazy-E, passed away after being diagnosed with AIDS March of 1995, the butch/he-man world of hip-hop dismissed AIDS as an only “gay disease” and rap moguls started to consider raising money for AIDS research and education. An event called the Urban Aid 4 Lifebeat was started and filled the Madison Square Garden arena Thursday night (10/5/95) for five (5) hours of hip-hop and rhythm-and-blues.

Leading rappers from New York and New Jersey – the Wu-Tang Clan, Naughty by Nature, Run-D.M.C., the Notorious B.I.G., Craig Mack, Junior M.A.F.I.A., Fat Joe da Gangsta, Salt-n-Pepa – alongside male and female crooners including Jodeci, Mary J. Blige and Brandy.

Alongside the Notorious B.I.G. were Craig Mack (performing a major summer hit, “Flava in Ya Ear”), Junior M.A.F.I.A. and female crooners including Faith, Aaliyah and the three-woman group Total, who sang, “Can’t you see what you do to me?”

Happy Heavenly Birthday to Anne Rice OCTOBER 4, 1941 - DECEMBER 11, 2021

Anne Rice was an author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature. She was best known for her series of novels The Vampire Chronicles. Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations—Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned.

Aaliyah backstage in San Jose during @budweiser Superfest tour on October 3rd,1997 w/ Ginuwine.

Aaliyah would go on and perform back to back shows October 3rd through the 6th 1997. Aaliyah also did back to back Budweiser Superfest shows in September as well.

Aaliyah backstage in San Jose during @budweiser Superfest tour on October 3rd,1997.

Aaliyah would go on and perform back to back shows October 3rd through the 6th 1997. Aaliyah also did back to back Budweiser Superfest shows in September as well.

October 3rd, 2020

British singer and songwriter, @craigdavid , pays tribute to Aaliyah on this day by singing her hit song, “4 Page Letter”.

I remember being apart of the Aaliyah and Craig David Street Teams and promoting his and (of course) Aaliyah's Red Album on my Aaliyah Yahoo group back when her album came out in 2001. *sigh* Do they even do Street Teams anymore?

October 2, 2000

Principal photography, which is the phase that involves actively shooting the scenes in the script, begins for Aaliyah’s 2nd and final film; Queen Of The Damned.

Filming started October 2, 2000 and wrapped up February 27, 2001 in a former biscuit factory, converted into a studio in the Melbourne suburb of St. Albans.