Drake is reportedly set to executive produce Aaliyah’s upcoming posthumous album. He is also slated to feature the late singer on his new single.
A reliable source with inside knowledge of the situation told HipHopDX that the Young Money rapper, who has a tattoo of the songstress on his back, will sit at the helm for her new LP. Details surrounding the album are scarce, but in March, producer Jeffrey “J. Dub” Walker said that an unreleased song titled “Steady Ground” will appear on the project. Aaliyah’s brother, Rashad Haughton, later said that no such album was in the works.
In late March, Drake hinted to Tim Westwood that he had some “special things” related to Aaliyah in motion. “I have some great Aaliyah news coming soon,” he said. “Just some special things. Just gave you that, just a little. Because I said, I’m with Westwood, so I can’t not. But great things, great things for music, period.”
Additionally, Drake, who sampled Aaliyah’s “At Your Best (You Are Love)” for his track “Unforgettable,” is reportedly set to feature her vocals on his upcoming single. He is set to debut the song at the OVO Festival, taking place this Sunday (August 5th) at Toronto, Canada’s Molson Amphitheatre.
HipHopDX will keep you updated as more information comes to light.
Fuck this lil scared of revolution sissyfied ass nigga.
Please just let the dead rest in peace People need to leave them alone and stop trying to make money from them
Plus this guy will fuck it up and put Officer ricky the arab lil wayne and them loosers all over it
I’m an Aaliyah fan and I’m excited at the prospect of a new posthumous album. Drake, you better not fucking ruin it
oh don’t worry he’ll thoroughly fuck it up. Bet that.
BACK OFF don’t even go there you dick… don’t do it.
Pretty disrespectful to Aaliyah to have Drake of all people…. Drake will EASILY ruin it. When will he leave the rap game and go back to Canada acting? Tired of his pussy ass crying and whining bullshit. But that’s who he is as a person so if he was to spit raw he’d be fake. Ugh, disgrace to hip hop.
You need help. Hip Hop is all about self-expression.
Exactly Self-expression! Drake is a fabricated character.
And which rapper isn’t? Come with something more original, nice attempt though.
Isn’t Timbaland still alive!? Come on!
WTF DID I JUST READ ???
I DIN’T EVEN SEE MISSY ELLIOT OR TIMBALAND’S NAME IN THE ARTICLE, DA FUQ ???
It would have been nice to have someone close to Aaliyah to exec produce this. Not feeling this idea at all.
He’s never even met Aaliyah before lol. This is ridiculous.
yeah but he got her tattooed on him LOL
wheres Timbaland in all of this?
hope not
No Homo
Hey Chris,
After you beat Rihannas ass (Trust me bra, I know she deserved it) did you ever think she would start humping literally any guy who approached her? Ashton Kuthcer, Drake, Magic Johnson, several current pro athletes, Mr. T, Refrigerator Perry, Prodigy etc etc
Why is he all over Aaliyah? Where the fuck is her estate? Dame? I mean, this here is some bull.
Canada dry
As long as Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne and all other YM people stay away from it and Timbaland and Missy are allowed to work on it I’m fine and very excited!
this.
hmm, this.
Rick Ross will be coming out with a new mixtape, featuring Whitney Houston..
with samples from Billy Mays
How the fuck can you exc produce an album for a dead person?!? Its not like you can tell them to re do their shit or something lol
mann u shld go jump>> ths the 21st century we got technology>>>> drake z th shit>> 2 chainz ain nun wout drake> look at the tracks on the charts (no lie) (fucking problem) ( diced pinapples)>> he deserves to do suin for aaliyah>> a legend in the making
that is bull shit. TIMBALAND OR NOTHING
Drake is carrying the torch for her sound better than any RnB artist out right now. And to all of ya’ll fuck boys crying down there it says “EXECUTIVE” produced. Drake doesn’t make beats.
Timbaland and Missy will likely still be behind the boards in some capacity. And there isn’t really a limit to how many executive producers u can use for an album either so he just may be one of many.
I think this is great for Drizzy. As long as YMCMB isnt involved.
Good joke.
hahaha the article can say “Drake makes a peanut butter and jelly sandwich” and yAll niggas will still hate SMH
Cause the nigga would probably fuck that up to.
cause he would do it wrong
I dont get how anyone takes this guy seriously
Just 16 year old bitches and niggas when they’re high off coke, cause no real person in his/her right mind would ever take this ho seriously
But yet you were interested in reading this article haha, haters follow Drake more than his fans do,
Idiotic Drake stans making up excuses.
lmfao but hes right though. Haters follow drake more than his fans do. just look at the posts!
Good joke, man.
you fucking idiot just proved him. rofl.
Aaliyah just roled on her grave.
So does that mean,Aaliyah came alive, somehow Digged herself out, and then “Rolled On Her Grave” as you stated?
It’s a metaphor, dumbass. Meaning that Drake just disgraced her legacy.
what up world its cha boi. i dont understand all the hate for drake. dude pours his heart and and makes real records… yall hating cus he aint in the trap? or cus he aint sold crack? dude wears heart on his sleeve.. and he has dope beats. i’ll be honest.. i aint never liked aaliyah… her voice is too scratchy for me.. the only time i liekd her was on that drizzy record. here’s hoping 40 can make most the bests and Drizzy can kick a couple dope 16 bars.
its cha boi!
fuck your gay
you just described exactly why i hate him
^ Cosign. Cha Boi. All your posts are shit. I’m a 16 yr kid from Montana and I know more about hip hop than you.
Wonder how Tim and Missy feel about this
Drake is so corny. He’s a rich Canadian actor trying to be known as a singing thug that struggled all his life.
Name one song of his that he raps about him struggling financially all his life, don’t worry I’ll wait……
What about all those mean faces he makes? And when he talks about bodying niggas lmao he’s a corny ass Russian dude
he had ONE song where he said hed body someone. ONE. But yall act like his entire catalog is filled with that. lol
@jay …. did you really bring up the mean faces he makes?!?!?1
shut alllll the way the fuck up! hahahaha
@jay lol for being familiar with Drake’s catalog check your penis at the door
Why do people on here always feel the need to bring Nas into everything? Nas is on his 10th album! You can’t compare him to people like Rick Ross or Nicki Minaj or whoever, because they’re still reasonably new to the game. For Nas to be rapping SINCE 1992 and putting out albums with NO HIT SINGLES, his numbers are incredible. You can’t compare him to flavor of the year artists like Rick Ross. Ross is hot AT THE MOMENT but remember Nelly was selling more then Nas once too, but his last album did 63,000K first week. Not only that but dude is only on his 4th or 5th album… When Rick Ross reaches his 10th album and it’s still doing numbers you can compare him with Nas all you want, but until then shut the fuck up.
lol. bitchmade nas stan crying again part #10340235435
Another bitchmade nas hater crying again part #10340235435
oh god, poor aaliyah…
Newsflash Drake. She’s dead! It can’t be that hard to find an Aaliyah wanna be out there who wants to make an album. Stop raping the pockets of the dead.
“as a singing thug that struggled all his life”
He’s struggling to decide how many houses to buy. Canada stand up!
drake- retire- not that you ever worked.lol
2 platinum albums back to back. all his tours sell out… why should he retire?
cause your a bitch made pop tart. listen to drake and be a sheep pussy boy.
… that wasnt an intelligent answer so ill give you another try. Come on. I know you can do it. Come on. i believe in you!
Just because an artist hangs off someone’s Tittie$ and reps her all the time, doesn’t mean that he should produce her post-deceased album. Aaliyah didn’t know who he was when she was alive, had no friendship relationship with Drake, and more than likely wouldn’t want some stranger who is pushing her name for publicity with the female crowd to produce her post-mortum album. What a travesty, this is seriously sickening. Imagine if a rapper 10 years from now was repping Michael Jackson hard core, or Tupac or Biggie? Do you think they would have any authenticity or right to produce their album? This kids a fraud, just like the whole Young Money posse
This actually happened to 2pac when eminem produced Loyal to the Game album.
They should let dre or someone more credible than drake do this.
Who the fuck is Drake? Someone told me he’s some corny R&B singer. Why is he executive-producing my album when he doesn’t even know me? This is some bullshit.
You are right. Timbaland or at least Missy Elliot should have produced your album.
thats exactly what i was thinking…who the fuck is drake to get the ok to produce one of the best, if not the best female singer in the world
They let Eminem executive produce 2Pac’s album and Pac didn’t even like Dr Dre, which is Eminem’s boss. Shut the hell up!
^^^^ That was the biggest disgrace Eminem ever did to Rap music.
If this is necessary, why isn’t Timbaland producing this?
2nd anon: you’re either trolling or you’re fucked in the head. and Eminem was his protege no more no less.
Loyal To The Game was a great album, its one of the main reasons why I love Pac so much, his 1st album I ever listened to and I didnt even know it was produced by Eminem
^^^both you bitches are retarted. Pac didn’t love Dr. Dre, period. So Eminem wasn’t in a position of producing his goddamn album.
remember though, this is just a rumor. Yall dont get so upset without it being confirmed lol
“she would start humping literally any guy who approached her?”
She even gave Joe Pesci a courtesy blow job.
Her uncles control all of her music and wouldn’t let nobody else executive produce her album.
you robots like that soft, glossy r&b rap and swallow anything the mainstream media hypes up enough. drake is a joke. sales dont mean shit especially when the most feminine singer/rapper ever has huge corporate entities(that dont know shit about dope rap) pushing him
There is no such thing as dope rap, music is a personal experience.
Fuck that shit. If theres no wack shit and theres no good stuff then theres no standards in music.
Word up. Everything comes to down to preferences.
the little girls like drake and bieber
People hate Drake because he is young, rich and famous. They hated her for the same reasons as well. He doesn’t need her name and she doesn’t need his either.
WROOOOOONG!!!!!!
Exactly. People not hate him, but the things he embodies.
Drake is a flop
Still Having Problems between Timbaland and Blackgound?
Anyways
Executive producer = is a producer who was not involved in any technical aspects of the music process in the original definition. The executive producer of an album is often in control of the business side of production, distribution, and promotion.
#1NOE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boCRgiSuI6c
weird, executive producer is usually just the person who financed the project
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THIS IS A BIG NO NO, WHERES TIMBALAND?
Aaliyah said she was sick and tired of that loose rap
Then Drake went and tattooed the bitch on his back
Next he’s gonna have Adele tattooed on his ass
who is next? 2pac? Big? Cobain? Lennon? Elvis??? Fuck you Drake
Aaliyahs next album? Isnt she dead?
Does this mean when soilder boy dies the earth will still be cursed with his music?
lmao unfortunately yes!
Posthumous album…
Let’s act like Drake did not put out a classic album last year… And don’t hit me with that “real rap” shit either.
Sorry to burst your little bubble kiddo, but that shit aint real hiphop. Swallow that pill and take it like a man.
^^ dumb fuck. a thing “real” Hip Hop has never existed.
Drake is not a rapper.
I DONT HATE DRAKE – HE JUST LOOKS LIKE A CAMEL. THE EXECS WAITED FOR A WHILE TO MAKE MORE BUCKS OF YOUNG TEENAGERS WHO MIGHT FIND IT COOL THAT DRAKE IS FEATURING A DEAD LEGEND.
fuck this faggot
The fans should boycott this shit. wtf is this guy thinking.
whaat! drake produces? what noticable tracks has drake produced?
hes trying to get sympathy from the public by milking a dead artist. the same way chris brown milked MJ’s death.
you sound real stupid. chris brown’s career was over and mj hadn’t even been dead a year yet. baby girl been gone for a minute and drake is still hot. stop making up stuff.
please dont let this chump ruin the aalaysh cstsaloge I beggers u
the ones who are saying fuck Drake, please post some of your music on here!! i would never hate on another mans craft. im not a drake fan, but the man is making moves. look in the mirror and question your moves before u blast another man’s moves. M.O.B
Retard.
Retarded ass nigga.
Stop hating on Drake, yal some haters, he making good music and got more money than yal..
Good joke, stan.
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“Timbaland or at least Missy Elliot should have produced your album”
They would just milk her too.
Sounds like 40 will be getting at least 3 tracks on the album if that’s the case,
ugh…leave her alone
why is he even allowed to get near anything aaliyah related? Is her estate asleep at the wheel or just desperate to make a buck? WTF?
dude has no relation to aaliyah whatsoever. This feels gross….like someone trying to rewrite history and draw a nonexistent connection in the public eye. It’s wrong on so many levels. I will not support this B.S.!
Does he think he’s Aaliyah come back to life or something? creepy!
Fuck this is dumb and insulting, how do we get rid of this talentless fag?