#aaliyah unleashed

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 Around 2005, Celebrity Photographer, William Rutten, almost lost thousands of original photos he snapped of various celebrities, including all his AALIYAH originals, and it took him 8 years to finally get it all back? Read below for more on this.  

On this day, 9 years ago (May 10, 2013), William Rutten shared on his Facebook page that after Aaliyah’s death, Aaliyah’s manager reached out to him to use some of Aaliyah’s photos for the posthumous “Ultimate Aaliyah” CD Box collection. “I was honored and also dumb enough to courier all of my original material from that shoot to them. Those were the slides back then, so I didn’t have a copy of ANYTHING”. Learning of this BIG mistake, he reached out to Blackground to get his’s originals back, but he and his agent were hit with a brick wall due to the label going bankrupt.

To make matters worse, Ruttens English agent was able to locate and retrieve the originals but told him they would not mail them to him (that he had to get them himself in England). Unfortunately, due to a time restraint, Rutten did not make it in time to retrieve his work. “My Agent went bankrupt completely unexpectedly and all my original slides they had in my office (and dozens of other photographers) were confiscated.   

Rutten then started to give up that he’d never get his property back. It wasn’t until, by the grace of God, that he received a phone call in December 2012 from a company mediating bankruptcy who advised they discovered boxes in the basement with his name on it and wanted to know if he wanted these boxes back, otherwise they were going in the trash. “If this woman hadn’t been so kind to google and contact me, I would have lost everything for good!” 

Rutten shared that this woman mailed the boxes to him, and inside the boxes was all of his work, including all of the photos (including the last session he had with Aaliyah). May of 2013, William Rutten shares a few rares that he was able to retrieve. 

Anyone else notice this adult Pitbull jump up and try to grab Aaliyah’s right hand and she snatches it away? 

Although the Pitbull has a muzzle on, Aaliyah takes no chances and snatches her hand away. The two guys on opposite side of Aaliyah start to look down at the action before the video scene CUTS.

This is the LAST scene where Aaliyah is standing, dancing or even walking with the fellas and their Pitbull's before the scene changes to her on a comfy bed playing with the same Brindle Pitbull puppy she had in her arms majority of the video. 

Not sure if the adult pit was interested in the chain leash Aaliyah shook or what. 

Hey Team Aaliyah!

I complied a list of songs that mention Aaliyah's name and/or sample Aaliyah's material. Please check it out and please don't forgot to hit that like button!

Also, please reach out to me if there is a song or two you know of that is not on this list!

After an earlier photoshoot with James Patrick Cooper and Robert Deutsch from USA Today in New York. Aaliyah changes her shirt and attends her “AALIYAH” album listening party at Jimmy Uptown Restaurant in New York (May 09, 2001).

Rare candid photo of Aaliyah at a live performance in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on May 8th 1995. ⠀⠀

Aaliyah with (what looks to be) a Pecan Pie and fork in hand. 

Reblogged from @__therealneikk her mother on the set of Back in one Piece w/ Aaliyah.