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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