![]() ![]() Cole found direct inspiration from the strength of Missy and Aaliyah’s ties heard on the sisters-before-misters anthem, and flipped the script on his own “Best Friend” track from his 2010 mixtape Friday Night Lights. ![]() While “Best Friends” comes from Missy Elliott’s 1997 LP Supa Dupa Fly, J. The Young Jeezy-assisted Thank Me Later cut highlighted Drizzy’s desire to become one of the genre’s greatest, proving that “At Your Best (You Are Love)” is a force that’s quite unforgettable - as are the artists who pushed it forward.Īaliyah Song Sampled: “Best Friends” (by Missy Elliott, feat. Drake’s “Unforgettable” underlined the breathless a cappella “Let me know, let me knows” from her soulful rendition - which broke into the top 10 of the Hot 100 - with pensive percussion. The eternal magnetism of The Isley Brothers’ quiet storm gem “At Your Best (You Are Love)” didn’t stop at Aaliyah’s equally outstanding gold-certified 1994 cover. Young Jeezy, “Unforgettable” (2010)Īaliyah Song Sampled: “At Your Best (You Are Love)” The chopped and screwed hook of Aaliyah’s Age Ain’t Nothin But a Number title track set the tone for OutKast’s slick-tongued ode to cougars, from the hip-hop duo’s 2003 double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. André 3000 fantasizes about getting with an older woman on the track,c rooning, “Miss Lady, you could have been born a little later - but I don’t care/ So what if your head sports a couple of grey hairs?” He lightheartedly flipped the script of the original recording from Aaliyah’s multi-platinum debut album - which was speculated to be about the relationship between then-15-year-old Aaliyah and her 27-year-old mentor R. 1 hit for the first-half of Jay’s song, and pitched it up, before the East Coast heavyweight laid down his verse over Premier’s piano-driven beat.Īaliyah Song Sampled: “Age Ain’t Nothin But a Number” The song’s producer DJ Premier said in an interview that the “A Million and One Questions” title instantly reminded him of “One in a Million,” - so he sampled the “a million” hook from the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay No. ![]() ![]() Jay-Z, “Intro: A Million and One Questions/Rhyme No More” (1997)Īlthough Aaliyah and Hov didn’t directly work together in her lifetime, he found a way to make a collab of sorts happen when he sampled the title track of her multi-platinum sophomore album One in a Million on the opener of his own sophomore album In My Lifetime, Vol. While the visual was the last project Aaliyah ever worked on, the legacy of “Rock the Boat” and her other hits has lived on over the last two decades in other major artists’ songs, sampling and lifting from her classics a million times over (or at least 325 times, according to WhoSampled).Īlthough there have been numerous covers dedicated to the late songstress - notably Frank Ocean’s version of Aaliyah’s “At Your Best (You Are Love)” rendition, itself a cover of The Isley Brothers’ 1976 radio hit - this list focuses on samples and interpolations, showcasing how artists from Jay-Z to The Weeknd have expertly embedded the DNA of Aaliyah’s discography (which is slowly coming to streaming services) into their own successful catalogs.Īaliyah's Music to Return After a Decade: The Inside Story 25, 2001 in an airplane accident, following filming of her “Rock the Boat” music video in the Bahamas. The Princess of R&B put out three albums - Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number (1994), One in a Million (1996) and Aaliyah (2001) - before she was tragically killed on Aug. At her best, and long after she passed away, Aaliyah is loved still by the many R&B and hip-hop artists that she’s influenced. ![]()
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