January 9, 2014
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Back in September, Drake hinted in an interview that he was no longer spearheading the long-planned posthumous Aaliyah album. Now, the rapper's producer, Noah "40" Shebib, has confirmed the rumors that the project has been shelved.

Noah explained in an interview with Vibe how the project initially became a possibility. "Aaliyah’s label Blackground -- the Hankersons, her uncle and cousin -- came to me and said if she was around she’d want you to do this [posthumous] project," Noah says. "I’ve been obsessed with Aaliyah forever, and I know Drake has his relationship with her. But that opportunity was mine."

But Noah says the reaction to word of Drake's involvement played a role in the decision to scrap the project. "The world reacting to Drake’s involvement so negatively, I just wanted nothing to do with it. That was a very sad experience for me," he says.

After news broke of the upcoming album, Timbaland told Revolt TV that Drake and Chris Brown recreating Aaliyah songs "doesn’t work," which seemed to have an impact on Noah.

"I was naïve to the politics surrounding Aaliyah’s legacy and a bit ignorant to Timbaland’s relationship and everybody else involved and how they’d feel," Noah recalls. "Tim said to me 'Don’t stop, make the album.' I think that was Tim taking the position of, 'I’m not going to stop you. If you’re not going to do it, that’s your decision.' But ultimately, I wasn’t comfortable and didn’t like the stigma."

Despite recording seven songs and releasing Drake's song "Enough Said" with unreleased vocals from Aaliyah, Noah revealed that the late singer's mother didn't want it out. "That was enough for me. I walked away very quickly," he says.

I was looking forward to this

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January 9, 2014
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Back in September, Drake hinted in an interview that he was no longer spearheading the long-planned posthumous Aaliyah album. Now, the rapper's producer, Noah "40" Shebib, has confirmed the rumors that the project has been shelved.

Noah explained in an interview with Vibe how the project initially became a possibility. "Aaliyah’s label Blackground -- the Hankersons, her uncle and cousin -- came to me and said if she was around she’d want you to do this [posthumous] project," Noah says. "I’ve been obsessed with Aaliyah forever, and I know Drake has his relationship with her. But that opportunity was mine."

But Noah says the reaction to word of Drake's involvement played a role in the decision to scrap the project. "The world reacting to Drake’s involvement so negatively, I just wanted nothing to do with it. That was a very sad experience for me," he says.

After news broke of the upcoming album, Timbaland told Revolt TV that Drake and Chris Brown recreating Aaliyah songs "doesn’t work," which seemed to have an impact on Noah.

"I was naïve to the politics surrounding Aaliyah’s legacy and a bit ignorant to Timbaland’s relationship and everybody else involved and how they’d feel," Noah recalls. "Tim said to me 'Don’t stop, make the album.' I think that was Tim taking the position of, 'I’m not going to stop you. If you’re not going to do it, that’s your decision.' But ultimately, I wasn’t comfortable and didn’t like the stigma."

Despite recording seven songs and releasing Drake's song "Enough Said" with unreleased vocals from Aaliyah, Noah revealed that the late singer's mother didn't want it out. "That was enough for me. I walked away very quickly," he says.

I applaud this decision, especially with the amount of time that has past since her death, i see no need to really do this, i can see collecting things putting something together where you at least get people that were relevant in her world back then. I mean this would have been like on the Beatles anthology taking the John Lennon vocals for Free as a Bird and having the guys in Fall out Boy on the track instead of the actual remaining beatles. Glad they scrapped this.