John Luv Aaliyah

I watch a lot of the fashion shows, and runway models, and see what’s the next thing  happening and then intertwine it with what I’m doing. Image go hand in hand with the music, and that’s how people identify you. They separate you knowing your music and knowing your style and image so, that’s why it takes me a while to put things together. Especially from doing a dressy thing rather than sporty thing ‘cause what you see here is really me: the baggy jeans and a skull cap, and everything. So, when I’m doing a dressy thing I gotta still remain in my image. It takes me ahwile to put something really good together that still looks like Aaliyah.

source: usatoday.com | Nov. 28, 2018

Aaliyah, “One In a Million”

Aaliyah had been coming off the major success of her 1994 debut album, the R. Kelly-produced “Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number,” when newcomers Missy Elliott and Timbaland were called in to work on ONE song with the R&B goddess.

But one song turned into eight, and “One In a Million” — the song and the album — was born.

“I was scared. I don’t know if Tim was scared when we first played it because it was a different sound. It was a different way to attack records because people were really singing then; that world of rap-singing didn’t really exist,” Elliott explained. “Because I wasn’t really a singer like that, that’s why I wrote like that, because I was a rapper, but I didn’t know how to do a bunch of runs, so every record that I would attack, I would attack it like I’m rap-singing it.”

But Aaliyah loved the song and appreciated Elliott and Timbaland’s unique style.