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Friday July 10th, 1998

Coca Cola Company launches a new Citrus soft drink called “Surge” and holds a sweepstakes event called “ A Surge Around The World; Splash Contest”. 

On this date, double platinum R&B artist, Aaliyah Haughton, stands at the Santa Monica Municipal Airport and does the honors of randomly drawing the name of 20-year-old winner, Fadel Abdulha of Burbank, Calif in front of many sweepstakes participants and fans. 

The winner and his accompanied entourage (his two brothers; Bob and Sarkis Abdulha) board a private jet headed to Moscow, Idaho for lunch and spend the rest of the day hanging with Aaliyah. - what a lucky guy! 

DID YOU KNOW: Surge was created by Coca Cola to compete with Pepsi’s Mountain Dew and was launched February 7th 1997. Despite efforts to lure customers away from Pepsi, Coca Cola shut down production of SURGE (due to lack of sales) in 2003. It was a popular Facebook fan-page called "SURGE Movement" which convinced Coca-Cola to re-release the soft drink on September 15, 2014. Occasionally, this fan page shows love to Aaliyah sporting the Surge outfit on her birthday and anniversary of her passing. 

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Aaliyah attends and performs at the BOMB 2000 Cinco De Mayo event Presented by the hit radio station Wild 94.9 on May 4th, 2000

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“Up Jumps Da Boogie” is the debut single to hip hop duo Timbaland and Magoo.  {Recorded in 1996 – released July 11th 1997}

The track features rapper Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott, and R&B singer Aaliyah. 

This song is a classic! and so is the photography, which was done by photographer Mike Miller. 

"I was there to shoot @timbaland and Magoo's cd cover. After we finished, #Timbaland got me to come over to a video they were filming, and Aaliyah Missy Elliott came through and posed for me." - Mike Miller

Music video director (Billie Woodruff) stated that everyone (except Aaliyah) was all from Virginia and it felt like a family reunion to him to be reconnected with everyone. They wanted to give the music video a feel of how VA rolls and decided on a funhouse approach. 

So I had wanted it to be creative and cool and have a vibe, and the music had that kinda eerie feel. So it was just some things going on, you don’t know what it is, but it’s just like, “Oh what’s this over here?” So it’s like a funhouse, but you don’t totally understand everything, kinda. - Billie Woodruff

  The song itself charted #1 on the Billboard US Hot Rap Songs, #4 on the Billboard US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Rare Aaliyah images recently listed on GettyImages.com  Credit to AaliiyahDana on IG for the find. Thank you to @favouritethingsbyazzizz for pointing us to GettyImages. 

 I'm sure untagged versions of this will be leaked soon since other rares from GettyImages were also released. Until then, please enjoy the tagged version.

 Aaliyah performs during KMEL All-Star Jam at Shoreline Amphitheatre on August 29, 1998 in Mountain View, California.

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March 20 2000 - Aaliyah attending the Premiere of Warner Brother's “ROMEO MUST DIE” at the Mann Village Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.

The movie is later released 3/22/00 and grossed 91 million on a 25 million budget.

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Rare Images that were recently shared with the Aaliyah community by @favouritethingsbyazziz via IG. Make sure you check out her page for more.

 Aaliyah performs at KMEL All Star Jam 1997 at the Concord Pavillion on August 09, 1997 in Concord, California.

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First single, "We Need A Resolution", off Aaliyah's highly anticipated 3rd (and final) album is released April 13th 2001.

DID YOU KNOW: This song was added to the album LAST minute  (recorded March 2001) and got pushed out as the first single. Due to the uncertainty with Timbaland being able to make his deadline in time the song "Loose Rap" was chosen as the album's lead single. The music video for "We Need a Resolution" made its television debut on the BET network during the week ending on April 22, 2001. During the week ending on April 29, 2001, the video made its debut on the MTV network.

The following month later, during the week ending on May 13, 2001, the video was the tenth most played video on MTV. During the week ending on May 20, 2001, the video was the fifth most played video on BET.

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Aaliyah Art

Reblogged from @javereirie via IG

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