Fader Magazine Honors Aaliyah

Although Aaliyah passed on August 25^th ( in a plane crash after completing her filming for the single, Rock the Boat, off her 3^rd album, Aaliyah), The Fader magazine will honor her legacy in it’s annual Icon Issue which will be hitting stands this month. It's hard to believe that it has been almost seven years since she passed away. Time flies by like crazy, and I can still remember waking up on Sunday morning and hearing my cousin say that they said on the radio last night that Aaliyah passed away. I didn't believe her but then i turned on MTV to find them doing a tribute to her... Aaliyah was a great artist, she had a signature style and the things that she, Missy and Timbaland came up with was unique and genius.

“It’s hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I’m long gone……want people to remember me as a full-on entertainer and a good person." Aaliyah said in an interview. She succeeded in doing just that.
Here’s a few excerpts of what folks told the mag:

Missy Elliott

“We was gonna save the world. We was gonna change music every chance we got. We was gonna always be family. Forever.”

Mark Ronson

“If it wasn’t for Aaliyah being the face and voice of [Missy Elliott and Timbaland’s] sound they might have never got to where they did. They were presenting their sort of brilliant but challenging breakthrough music through this beautiful young girl who could sing it perfectly.”

Kidada Jones

“I think about her all the time…Anytime she’s brought up or her music comes on the radio, it’s sweet, but it definitely sounds like she found a niche before it was here. If you listen to her music it’s so relevant today, but we had it so long ago.”

Damon Dash

“She was already a fashion icon, she was getting into movies, she had already planted that seed. If she was alive today she would be so relevant. I see little bits of her everywhere I look, in a lot of artists.”

Jomo Hankerson ( Cousin)

“I think a lot of that mysteriousness they talk about was just what she was. She seemed like she came here already grown up, from the beginning.”