Tuesday, October 9th, 2001
“Rock The Boat” made its world premiere on BET’s Access Granted at 8pm EST. This would be the last music video Aaliyah puts her work and heart into as well as the last time Aaliyah does a special for BET Networks.
BET producer Kevin Taylor said that even though putting together the show was tough, footage of Aaliyah joking with stylists Eric Foreman and Christopher Maldonado, who were also killed in the twin-engine plane crash, made it bittersweet. “They were completely hilarious, like sitcom funny,” Taylor said. “I’ve never been around a group of people who were funnier.”
There is apparently HOURS and hours of unreleased footage of Aaliyah during those days but much of it was compiled and chopped down to a half hour mini documentary of this music video. So, what gives BET? Hype Williams? WHAT GIVES Blackground? Can we get some more rare footage? We ain't asking for ALL of it (not yet anyway).
