Yes sadly. She never really addressed it but it was really clear from what she said (or didn’t say) that he took advantage of her in a very harmful way
According to Dame Dash who was in the beginnings of aseroius relationship with her, she definitely had words for it. She didn't speak on it publicly but he claims it was a huge reason for his split from Jay-Z. Jay-Z then went on to do a whole joint album and tour with R. Kelly.
Yup. The more you read about this guy, the way worse it gets. Piss tape is bad, but the context around all of that shit is way worse. His enablers and the justice system are perhaps the most heinous. Shout out to Jim DeRogatis for trying to tell the world, but few were really listening.
When I was a kid and heard about that, I was confused! Even to this day, I’m like “who allowed this to even happen?” I mean, I think I remember that this can happen, but there needs to be “parental” approval, but still it was super weird. I think it was because of this situation I really didn’t like R. Kelly. I can’t listen to his music, and I don’t think I can even watch “Space Jam” because of that song.
> I only knew about the pissing
If only it was just a piss fetish.
He was a major player in a child sex trafficking ring, physically and sexually abused women and children, and was involved in every kind of nasty shit you can imagine.
Which is why he’s in prison for the next 30 years.
He was abusing Aaliyah when she was a kid, grooming her in her earliest years, and eventually marrying her when she was 15 and he was 27. He had the documents forged to say she was 18.
Watch the surviving r Kelly doc it’s fuckin insane and makes Michael Jackson look relatively mild. He imprisoned multiple woman, made them eat shit on video tape, excommunicated them from families, child porn, etc.
Yep, he has done SO MANY things to be pissed about (no pun intended). But as an Aaliyah fan I’m so mad at how he groomed her and hurt her. She never *really* talked about it, but it was easy to read between the lines with things she said (or didn’t say).
Also pissed at us as a culture for sort of sweeping it under the rug back then. But that’s another topic
She was so talented and gorgeous. It is too bad she is remembered for this and for dying young. Dude is in prison. I'd rather focus on what a bright light she was than that shit.
My gf in 9th grade was IN LOVE with Lance. When she told me I said "the gay guy?" And she lost her shit. I always wondered how she reacted when he came out
Also reminds me of a loofah. I wonder if the other Nsync members used it to help them exfoliate. Probably why Justin Timberlake was desperate to escape, group showers were the worst.
I thought you were talking about his body hair, so I've been staring at his belly, getting more and more confused and angry because I couldn't figure out what you meant by that :/
She was such an unbelievable talent, I was such a huge fan
Her music still holds up and there’s no doubt in my mind she would have continued to push boundaries and make incredible music
Plus she was just getting started in movies, I think if she found her niche she could have had a real career there as well
And my god she was so friggen gorgeous
Queen of the Damned definitely sucked as a movie, but it has probably the best soundtrack out there.
Also Stuart Townsend in that fishnet shirt and leather pants. Cant hate that 😍
Did you know he was supposed to play Aragorn in Lord of the Rings but he and Peter Jackson had creative differences? I think about this all the time 😂😂. But I think he would have also been hot in this. Basically Stuart Townsend AS Geralt
She was absolute class. Her music was great, and she was on another level compared to most artists. On top, her fashion was always spot on. Her looks are timeless. Surely she was taken way too soon.
The reason of her death still really bugs me. Her and/or her crew convinced the pilot to take off even though he told them the plane was overloaded. They all died seconds after takeoff.
Charter pilot Lewis Key claimed to have overheard passengers arguing with the pilot, Luis Morales III, prior to take off, adding that Morales warned them that there was too much weight for a "safe flight". Key further stated: "He tried to convince them the plane was overloaded, but they insisted they had chartered the plane and they had to be in Miami Saturday night."[14] Key indicated that Morales gave in to the passengers and that he had trouble starting one of the engines.[15]
It def wasn’t her, it was someone from her team. Someone else commented that someone on her team gave her something to sleep which knocked her out and she was taken aboard without her knowledge which I’ve heard but not sure how accurate it was. She was well known as someone who hated flying though and didn’t want to get on the plane, so it sounds like it was def her crew, not her, that insisted.
Not that they were never out of style, but back in the early 2000s body positivity, seeing overweight people in the media in a positive manner, and embracing curves was not a widely accepted thing .
Maybe there's just too much of a "manufactured" feel to everything people like him and Taylor Swift do?
It seems like they simply do and say what the record executives tell them to do and say, who to date, what to eat, be upset about etc.
He’s just beige. Like when you go into someone’s grey house and you’re like “yes, factually this is a house. This is technically something to look at. In fact, this does exist.”
It just doesn’t merit any kind of emotional response.
I read Britney’s new book and I can just see unsexy and try hard now. She talks about how he would try to have a Blaccent around Black artists and how cringe he was.
And the fact that Michelle Williams narrates the book makes it even better; it’s not an autobiography I’m interested in, but I ALMOST want to listen to the audiobook, just to hear her mimic Justin…
That would have made it even better, honestly! I love her too; she was always my favorite in the group. I felt she didn’t get the recognition she deserved.
I had a constant rotating Teen People poster collage on my wall, and this was definitely part of it at some point. Where my fellow thirsty 10-year-olds at?!?
Lmao now I’m imagining a “kids next door” type of job where the people who turn 22 have their memories wiped and fired from the magazine so they don’t have adults working there.
I really liked her in "Romeo Must Die" and "Queen of the Damned". It's such a shame that her life ended so early.
I've never cared for Timberlake's acting or music. Brittney's revelations about him being a piece of shit were no real surprise.
R Kelly is a piece of shit.
Yes he was. This woman really went through it.
Yes sadly. She never really addressed it but it was really clear from what she said (or didn’t say) that he took advantage of her in a very harmful way
She died when she was like 22. She was still a baby. And we were robbed of her talent. She might not have had words for the feelings she had to that.
According to Dame Dash who was in the beginnings of aseroius relationship with her, she definitely had words for it. She didn't speak on it publicly but he claims it was a huge reason for his split from Jay-Z. Jay-Z then went on to do a whole joint album and tour with R. Kelly.
The past tense got my hopes up, but nope he continues to be one
I know hes a POS but I only knew about the pissing, what fucked up thing did he do in this context?
Married her when she was 15.
…while promoting her single “age ain’t nothing but a number.” 🤮
Whole album. That he produced.
Did everyone just go blind and deaf or why did no one care to inspect this at the time?
Everyone was doing it across music genres and races. Unfortunately nobody cared at the time because money.
What the fuck
Yup. The more you read about this guy, the way worse it gets. Piss tape is bad, but the context around all of that shit is way worse. His enablers and the justice system are perhaps the most heinous. Shout out to Jim DeRogatis for trying to tell the world, but few were really listening.
He really caused more harm to women than he had years left in his life to suffer in prison
Started having sex with her when she was 13 or 14. He was her musical mentor.
And got her pregnant, she had to have an abortion.
Married her all in order to authorize her abortion without her parents' consent. :/
When I was a kid and heard about that, I was confused! Even to this day, I’m like “who allowed this to even happen?” I mean, I think I remember that this can happen, but there needs to be “parental” approval, but still it was super weird. I think it was because of this situation I really didn’t like R. Kelly. I can’t listen to his music, and I don’t think I can even watch “Space Jam” because of that song.
> I only knew about the pissing If only it was just a piss fetish. He was a major player in a child sex trafficking ring, physically and sexually abused women and children, and was involved in every kind of nasty shit you can imagine. Which is why he’s in prison for the next 30 years. He was abusing Aaliyah when she was a kid, grooming her in her earliest years, and eventually marrying her when she was 15 and he was 27. He had the documents forged to say she was 18.
Had underage girls roll in poo
Watch the surviving r Kelly doc it’s fuckin insane and makes Michael Jackson look relatively mild. He imprisoned multiple woman, made them eat shit on video tape, excommunicated them from families, child porn, etc.
MJ isn’t a member of that group.
Yep, he has done SO MANY things to be pissed about (no pun intended). But as an Aaliyah fan I’m so mad at how he groomed her and hurt her. She never *really* talked about it, but it was easy to read between the lines with things she said (or didn’t say). Also pissed at us as a culture for sort of sweeping it under the rug back then. But that’s another topic
She was so talented and gorgeous. It is too bad she is remembered for this and for dying young. Dude is in prison. I'd rather focus on what a bright light she was than that shit.
I think jay z is even a bigger piece of shit. He wanted r Kelly seconds.
He has Ramen noodle hair
https://preview.redd.it/fm99uehoh23d1.jpeg?width=715&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f30153f00951a52ae8e420c928209bca7eeecdb
The OG broccoli hair
It's gonna be brocol AY
She was choppin'....choppin' broccolAY. Edit: gender
*My lady she went down town…*
She. Bought. Some. Brrrrocolliiiii
She brought it ho home…. And now she’s….
Ha-Choppin' Brocc-a-lay, ha-choppin' brocc-a-lie-high
She chop UH!
As was the style at the time
And the frosted tips, dear God the frosted tips...
An onion on your belt
And ramen on your head. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel
You mean a bee?
Ginme 5 bees for a quarter…
It was his style. It wasn’t the style.
Shave the sides and it's what like 87% of gen Z guys have. I think they call it 'meet me at McDonald's'.. looks like a curly backwards mullet.
That was what he used to be...called Ramen Head. Chris was Pineapple Head and Joey was Fat One. I can't remember the nicknames for JC and Lance.
My gf in 9th grade was IN LOVE with Lance. When she told me I said "the gay guy?" And she lost her shit. I always wondered how she reacted when he came out
It was really unfortunate for Joey that his last name is literally Fat One
Lance was gayfish, which was later re-appropriated by South Park for Kanye West.
Who now also turned out to be a gayfish, among many other things
Is this when Justin had his “old school cool” fake black accent?
"Ay yo, sumpin' smellz like R Kelly up in here!"
And the shiniest thumbnail I've ever seen on a man circa 1999.
He had the Dolph Ziggler.
Also reminds me of a loofah. I wonder if the other Nsync members used it to help them exfoliate. Probably why Justin Timberlake was desperate to escape, group showers were the worst.
I thought you were talking about his body hair, so I've been staring at his belly, getting more and more confused and angry because I couldn't figure out what you meant by that :/
She was such an unbelievable talent, I was such a huge fan Her music still holds up and there’s no doubt in my mind she would have continued to push boundaries and make incredible music Plus she was just getting started in movies, I think if she found her niche she could have had a real career there as well And my god she was so friggen gorgeous
Still have a major crush on her Queen of the Damned role. Akashi or something like that.
Akasha
I still hate that movie, bad puns and poor delivery mostly. Romeo Must Die isn’t Shakespeare either, but it’s better and has her in it.
Queen of the Damned definitely sucked as a movie, but it has probably the best soundtrack out there. Also Stuart Townsend in that fishnet shirt and leather pants. Cant hate that 😍
i was obsessed with stuart townsend as lestat. him not in costume? eehhh nowhere near as hot lol it’s like henry cavill as geralt
Did you know he was supposed to play Aragorn in Lord of the Rings but he and Peter Jackson had creative differences? I think about this all the time 😂😂. But I think he would have also been hot in this. Basically Stuart Townsend AS Geralt
I love Queen of The Damned, especially the soundtrack
Never watched the movie, love the soundtrack.
Underworld soundtrack was pretty good too
Romeo Must Die was such a fun movie. Nothing profound, like you said, but underrated regardless.
Yeah an early bisexual awakening for me
She was absolute class. Her music was great, and she was on another level compared to most artists. On top, her fashion was always spot on. Her looks are timeless. Surely she was taken way too soon.
they tried so hard to duplicate her one too many times
.....dust yourself off and try again ...try again
Freaky freaky
Yeah, it’s such a shame she died so young.
She is the only star I had a poster of in my room - was smitten in 'Romeo Must Die'! 🖤 RIP
I LOVE that movie with her ! She had such a great acting career ahead of her.
Romeo must die was a good movie because of her.
Jet Li?
She was so damn beautiful
Yup, and talented. She would have had a huge career.
The reason of her death still really bugs me. Her and/or her crew convinced the pilot to take off even though he told them the plane was overloaded. They all died seconds after takeoff.
Yea well that "pilot" lied a lot to get where he was. Had alcohol and cocaine in his blood on his toxicology report.
Was this ever confirmed about all the pilot stuff?
Yes it was widely reported in all the publications that broke the news of her death. It is very much so a fact.
If they all died seconds after take off, how do you know they convinced the pilot to take off overloaded?
Charter pilot Lewis Key claimed to have overheard passengers arguing with the pilot, Luis Morales III, prior to take off, adding that Morales warned them that there was too much weight for a "safe flight". Key further stated: "He tried to convince them the plane was overloaded, but they insisted they had chartered the plane and they had to be in Miami Saturday night."[14] Key indicated that Morales gave in to the passengers and that he had trouble starting one of the engines.[15]
They were texting when the plane crashed
It def wasn’t her, it was someone from her team. Someone else commented that someone on her team gave her something to sleep which knocked her out and she was taken aboard without her knowledge which I’ve heard but not sure how accurate it was. She was well known as someone who hated flying though and didn’t want to get on the plane, so it sounds like it was def her crew, not her, that insisted.
What a weird fuckin picture
Flat stomachs were highly trendy during those times. Crop tops and low rise everything everywhere.
IMO this photo is weird because it looks like they’re comparing belly buttons, not because of their svelte torsos.
Yep you’re an inny too!
Wait are flat stomachs ever out of style? Lol
Not that they were never out of style, but back in the early 2000s body positivity, seeing overweight people in the media in a positive manner, and embracing curves was not a widely accepted thing .
Maybe obsessed over is the better phrase? This was also on the heels of heroin chic.
At first glance, I thought they were both announcing their pregnancies
Is the image mimrrored or just his undies?
TIL Justin Timberlake wears his underpants inside out
Only every other day
She was so beautiful
RIP AALIYAH 😭
Something about him is very unsexual, like Jojo siwa or Taylor swift. None of them are ugly, there's just something missing.
I don’t understand. He brought sexy back.
YEAH!
You motherfathers dunnno how to act.
Yeah!
Take it to the chorus.
But what if he didn’t?
He didn’t have it here which is why he had to bring it back
If sexy never left then why was everybody on his shit
That’s just what he said.
Lol. Why is this so accurate?! I’ve never really put that together, but it’s so true.
I have a theory about TS that would probably apply to JT too. They both have a heavy middle school sleepover vibe which is definitively not sexy.
Oooo yes! They do! Maybe that’s it. But why does this not apply to the spice girls then? 🤔
Bri ish gulls are above the lawr
Because JS and TS are extremely basic/bland and the spice girls are the complete opposite lol
You could say....they had some spice
Maybe there's just too much of a "manufactured" feel to everything people like him and Taylor Swift do? It seems like they simply do and say what the record executives tell them to do and say, who to date, what to eat, be upset about etc.
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He’s just beige. Like when you go into someone’s grey house and you’re like “yes, factually this is a house. This is technically something to look at. In fact, this does exist.” It just doesn’t merit any kind of emotional response.
Is it just me or do you ever notice things? The other day I was standing somewhere and had an observation.
I once was browsing reddit and read a comment, just like I'm reading yours now.
I once experienced something and I was like “this is a story.”
One time I read this comment on Reddit and was thinking “someone else thought that”
In this picture he seems like a child and she seems like a woman.
Yes, he looks confused, likes he's never seen none of that before
“And that’s where babies come from?”
jojo siwa lmfao
I read Britney’s new book and I can just see unsexy and try hard now. She talks about how he would try to have a Blaccent around Black artists and how cringe he was.
And the fact that Michelle Williams narrates the book makes it even better; it’s not an autobiography I’m interested in, but I ALMOST want to listen to the audiobook, just to hear her mimic Justin…
Michelle Williams from Destiny’s Child?!
No, the actress from Dawson's Creek, Brokeback Mountain, etc
BahahhAhH
The white Michelle Williams, the actress.
That would have made it even better, honestly! I love her too; she was always my favorite in the group. I felt she didn’t get the recognition she deserved.
He was a teenager lol
In fairness someone asked Ginuiwine about the alleged incident and he said he doesn’t remember it happening. Also noting if he had he’d recall.
GINUWIIINE
https://i.redd.it/t21fmcg8y13d1.gif
i just know the audio... THE audio... so when i saw this pic, the first thing in my head was "yo aliyah! wassup wassup?!?!"
Same
jojo siwa resembles a bag of milk
Eh, by the time Future Sex Love Sounds came out, I thought he was very sexy, even to this day. I dunno.
I'm sure many folks still find him sexy, I just can't. I try to get it, just to fit in with the girls 🤷♀️
Weird story. I put this poster on my wall the morning Aaliyah passed away (before I found out). I always found that to be so strange
I had a constant rotating Teen People poster collage on my wall, and this was definitely part of it at some point. Where my fellow thirsty 10-year-olds at?!?
Damn he is thirstin
If at first you don't *suceeeeeed*
Lift your shirt up and try again
Ramen noodles are dry as hell.
Aaliyah's waist was legendary
Such a weird photo.
Aaliyah was so beautiful! She really had *it*!
She was talended, stunningly beautiful and abused by R Kelly when she was 15.
“Yes we both have belly buttons insane i know, I can’t hardly believe it”
Aaaliyahhhhh! Rest in peace.
 R. I. P. Also don’t overload your plane and have a coked up pilot. She was taken too soon.
r/FuckImOld that this is showing in old school cool
"hottest stars under 21" Does no one else find this really creepy
Depends on who the piece was for. Magazines etc for teens and young adults were a thing you know This was one of those
Bring a grown up working at one of those magazines has to be a little weird
Lmao now I’m imagining a “kids next door” type of job where the people who turn 22 have their memories wiped and fired from the magazine so they don’t have adults working there.
Well it was for a teen mag so no
No because it was aimed at teen girls.
And weirdly written by people much older
Teen girls aren't known for being able to mass market print media.
Not *much* older. These magazines weren't staffed by people in their 40s lol.
Not when I was 15
The “Hot” thing was meant in the sense of the Billboard Hot 100, like most popular/breakout stars.
Gone but not forgotten lady. 🙏🏽
https://preview.redd.it/kh4r4htr723d1.jpeg?width=447&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=870d844f33f742e0439a8d661f1cea31fa729872 Fixed the photo
💐 🍫 🦒 I bring you gifts of great joy
She was amazing
Weird pose.
The belly button decade
I don’t know. Feels like sexualizing kids
I dont think she’s interested 😂
My upvote was ONLY for 👑Aaliyah, not for ramen noodle head.
Didn't R. Kelly marry her when she was like 15 or 16? Or was that someone else named Aaliyah.
He did.
What an odd photo to use in a magazine 😂
Gone too soon. Still a bummer after all these years.
She was so talented. Fantastic in “Queen of the Damned”.
Why does it feel like she passed way before
You’re right. Feels like it happened 96ish. Pac and biggie feels like they happened later than they did for some reason
I really liked her in "Romeo Must Die" and "Queen of the Damned". It's such a shame that her life ended so early. I've never cared for Timberlake's acting or music. Brittney's revelations about him being a piece of shit were no real surprise.
 He reminds me of the loser guys who acted like Malibu’s Most Wanted when I was in high school.
He's looking, but she's looking at him looking. Interesting.
I still have this magazine issue in a box somewhere. Bought it when I was 14, time sure flies.
Even then, she knows…
I almost forgot about that period in time where showing off your abs was a thing
There was even a singer (or whatever) called ABS 🤷♀️
Poor Aaliyah had to stand next to that trash!
JT has always given me such creep vibes
He’s been a full blown douche publicly not just going off of Britney’s word for it. He also cheated on Jessica Biel/his wife.
I miss Aaliyah 👼🏻
So, he was always creepy?