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Originally posted by Teezy
Gyal sit your goofy, excited ass down
Wow. If that was her peak, then this kinda further proves my point that her career achievements were grossly overstated and actually quite poor.
At least she seemed to be getting better quality-wise tho. Aaliyah was a nice album.
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That makes no sense, if your career is growing and doing better the more you carry on than how can you be a flop especially when all your albums were multi platinum...she was able to become the 1st teen star to hit platinum paving the way for the rest and was the youngest African American performer at the Oscars, and established a billboard record with Try Again, all of that with the industry trying to push out due to the R. Kelly scandal...if you look at how much promotion Monica had and how exposed Brandy was to mainstream media the fact that Aaliyah kept up with both and surpassed Monica speaks volumes to how much people digged her because she wasn't given the opportunities they were during the early portion of her career...but once she was you saw what happened her career took off.
It's funny to see people use that drag of her not instantly blowing up at the beginning of her career. There are plenty of artist who didn't blow up until the 3rd album: Janet, Rihanna, Prince (he didn't even blow up until later albums) just to name a few