Aaliyah performs in Irvine, Florida in 1997.
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Image Credit: Chris Walter/WireImage Aaliyah performs in Irvine, Florida in 1997.
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Image Credit: Chelsea Lauren/WireImage DRAKEThe rapper’s Aaliyah obsession spans samples, a botched posthumous LP and a, uh, tattoo of her face on his back.
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Image Credit: KMazur/WireImage; Alex Davies/FilmMagic RIHANNAAaliyah offset her love for baggy tomboy clothes by showing off perfect abs. The navel is making a comeback on artists like Rihanna. (Girls, do your crunches.)
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Image Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty Images CIARAEven Timbaland could see the likeness: He has called the singer “the next Aaliyah.”
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Image Credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Samsung Galaxy JHENE AIKODrake producer Noah “40” Shebib has compared the singer’s silky vocals to Aaliyah’s.
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Image Credit: The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images; Alo Ceballos/FilmMagic Aaliyah photographed in 1995; Kim Kardashian photographed in 2012.
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Image Credit: Courtesy FKA TWIGSIn her “Two Weeks” video, the U.K. singer mimics Aaliyah’s look from the 2002 film Queen of the Damned.
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Image Credit: Erika Goldring/Getty Images SEVYN STREETER“You made it good to be cool, then turned cool into sexy,” wrote Streeter in an online letter to Aaliyah.
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Image Credit: The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images; Keith Hewitt/GC Images RITA ORABasketball jerseys, backwards baseball hats — Aaliyah showed her love for the game, somehow making XXL sportswear designed for men look sexy (like on singers like Rita Ora).
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Image Credit: Gabe Ginsberg/FilmMagic TINASHE“She brought new vocal stylings to the table,” says the 21-year-old, who channels Aaliyah’s tomboy style.
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CHRIS BROWNBreezy was flanked by Aaliyah holograms in the 2013 video for “Don’t Think They Know.”