AALIYAH: One in a Million — Dreams, Omens, and Destiny

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[SPEAKER_00]: On August 25, 2001, Alia had just finished shooting her new music video, Rock the Boat in the Bahamas.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She was scheduled to leave the island the following day, but her filming completed early.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The young singer was eager to get home to her boyfriend, Rock a fellow record CEO, Damon Dash, and wanted to catch a private jet back to Miami that night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Shortly before the flight took off, a heated argument erupted between the pilot and her video crew.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He warned the group the aircraft was severely overloaded with luggage and video equipment and was too dangerous to fly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: However, the group insisted they needed to get home right away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, at 6.50pm, Alia, along with the members of her record company, boarded the plane at Marsh Harbour Airport to take the quick flight back to Florida.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A few minutes later, witnesses watched the plane taxi down the runway and slowly climbed

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[SPEAKER_00]: When emergency teams arrived a minute later, they found Aliah's body 20 feet from the fuselage, curled on her left side.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Traditionally, she was pronounced dead, along with five other passengers, and the three others would sadly die just a few hours later.

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[SPEAKER_00]: After the accident, the Bahamas Aviation Investigation would reveal the pilot had traces of cocaine and alcohol in the system.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The plane was £700 overweight, and mysteriously, the owner of the aircraft was nowhere to be found.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Join us on a supernatural journey as we explore the short but memorable life of Alia.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We uncover the shocking details of her untimely death, examine the mystical facts, and reveal how to who written in the stars for the princess of R&B.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is Death by Mrs. Venture.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Alia was born on January 16, 1979, in Brooklyn, New York under the zodiac sign of Capricorn.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Her parents chose a swahili word, Alia, to name their beautiful baby girl, meaning most exalted one, and the singer spent her life, living up to the power of her mystical name.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At a young age, her mother nurtured her daughter's talents, and enrolled her voice lessons before she started elementary school.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Alia was determined to become a star and would perform at weddings, charities, and even a homeless shelter that her father ran to get the opportunity to sing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When she was 10, she received her first big break and appeared on star search.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Alia performed my funny valentine and cried after she lost.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Her parents continued to support her blossoming career, and when she turned 11, they sent Alia out on the road with her uncle Barry, an entertainment lawyer, and his wife Gladys Knight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Her real fortune had now turned towards a path to start him, when she appeared with her famous aunt for five nights in Las Vegas.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The next year, her uncle-signed a distribution deal with Jive Records and gave his niece a record deal with his own indie label Black Ground at the age of 12.

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[SPEAKER_01]: However, fate would step in and change a liaison forever when her uncle introduced her to recording artist and producer R. Kelly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said in an interview the first thing that caught his eye was Alia's talent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I heard the soft voice and she had a lot of charisma he said.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Our Kelly knew she was going to be a star, whether he worked with her or not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He agreed to sign on as her mentor, as well as lead songwriter and producer of her first album that she recorded at the age of 14.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jive and Blackground Records released Alias debut album, age 8, nothing but a number, on May 24, 1994, and the album debuted at number 24 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 74,000 copies in its first week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It ultimately peaked at number 18, and it later went on to sell 3 million copies in the United States.

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[SPEAKER_01]: However, life was about to get complicated for the young singer and our Kelly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Alia had developed an unusually close friendship with our Kelly during the recording of her first album.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As she recalled in a 5 magazine interview in 1994, the two would go out when she got tired and would eat or catch a movie and then would come back and work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A romance quickly developed and they were rumored to have secretly married in 1994 after the album's release without Alia's parents' knowledge or permission.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Later, when her family found out, they had the marriage annulled in 1995 and demanded she find a new producer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: However, her cousin, Joe Mohangerson, later revealed in a radio interview that the singer had trouble maintaining her career after the scandal with R. Kelly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He felt the music industry villainized Alia, and the transition to the second album was difficult.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She had just come off a multi-platenum debut album and except for a couple of relationships with Germain Dupri and Puffy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was hard for the label to hire a producer to record her next album.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Luckily in 1996, Destiny called an Alia left Jive Records to sign with Atlantic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The label brought on board newcomers, Missy Alia and Timbaland, to producer sophomore

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[SPEAKER_01]: The new album yielded the single, if your girl only knew, which taught the billboard hot R&B songs for two weeks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One in a million would later peak at number 18 and go on to sell 8 million copies worldwide.

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[SPEAKER_01]: During this time, Alia attended the Detroit High School for the Fine and Performing Arts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Always an overachiever and perfectionist, she majored in drama and graduated in 1997 with a 4.0 GPA.

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[SPEAKER_01]: After graduation, Alia filed a legal request in Cook County to have her marriage record expunged.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She wanted to cut all karmiak ties with our Kelly and remove the stigma of being a child bride.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In musical circles, anyone who had the pleasure of meeting Alia, always noticed her mysterious aura and secretive nature.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've always been mysteriously a told vibe magazine and an interview.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My mother and father always asked me, what are you thinking, what's going on?

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[SPEAKER_01]: There are times when I don't understand myself.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She was a smart girl, and with a Capricorn son, she was attracted to intense romances, with her moon and furgo squared by freedom-loving, Sagittarius.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Moon Square Venus astrological aspect represented a liaison emotional conflict between what she felt she needed in a man versus what she wanted.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This may have cost a lead a field to satisfaction with any romantic relationship she was involved in, and truly wonder if any man could ever make her happy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, she was like most young women who hope not just to fall in love, but they dream to find that once in a lifetime love story and meet their prince charming.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The first romantic relationship she entered into was a carmic one with Arkelli.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Her mother later said that everything that went wrong in her daughter's life started when she began her relationship with Arkelli.

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[SPEAKER_01]: After her parents abruptly ended her relationship with Arkelli,

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[SPEAKER_01]: She decided to change the channel and vibrate on a higher frequency.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She had set her sights on Hollywood and wanted to be a movie star.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In 1999, Alia landed her first film role in Romeo Miss Die, and it was released on March 22, 2000.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The singer starred opposite Marshall Artist Jet Lee, and they played two star-crossed lovers who fall in love and join forces to avenge his brother's death.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In addition to starring in the film, she served as an executive producer of the movie soundtrack and contributed for songs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Try again was the first single released from the film soundtrack.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The song top the Billboard Hot 100, making Alia the first artist to top the chart based solely on Airplay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocalist, and the soundtrack

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[SPEAKER_01]: During that time, Alia met the love of her life, Damon Dash, a tourist in 1999.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The couple instantly filled an undeniable connection to one another, and it was if they had known each other all their life.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Damon felt their common experiences and intuitive understanding of one another fueled the couple's attraction, and he liked that she had a point of view.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Although he had some competition with other rappers like Jay-Z, Damon won her heart over in the end, and she put all the other dudes in the friend zone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Alia had found a true partner in Damon, a man she could trust and respect, his energy grounded her and made her feel safe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Soon after the couple met, they became inseparable, attending movie premieres, softball games in the Hamptons, and spending all their time together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Alia may have only been 20 years old at the time, but the couple's eight-year age gap didn't seem to face either one of them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Despite their demanding careers, Alia and Damon made the relationship work he said in a Billboard interview.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She was always working and shooting movies.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She would be gone for four months at a time, then come back and leave for another month.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She had to rehearse and I was doing my own thing, so it was tough for us to spend much time together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Despite the complications, both Alia and Damon understood the time they did have together was precious.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He remembered they could be in a room full of people talking to each other, and it felt like time stood still, and they were the only ones in the room.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Little to the couple realized only two years later, the romance would meet a tragic demise.

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[SPEAKER_01]: After Alia completed the film, Romeo must die.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She began work on her second film, Queen of the Damned.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She was cast in the role of an ancient vampire, Queen Akasha, which she described as a manipulative, crazy, sexual being.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Alia was obsessed with the part and was paid $5 million to star in the film.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She was also tapped to star in the sequel of the Matrix as the character Z.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She was on the fast track to become a superstar, just like Janet Jackson and Whitney Houston.

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[SPEAKER_01]: However, something was off for the singer, and in her final interview a few weeks before she died, Alia revealed a more mystical side to her personality.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She spoke of being a dreamer and how at times she would lose herself and thought to climb to a higher sphere.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Alia said she enjoyed being alone and liked to lie in her bed and stare out the window.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The hypnotic

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[SPEAKER_01]: She said the culture and the pyramids fascinated her, and she believed she was an Egyptian princess in a past life.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Alia was spellbound by the Egyptian images of pyramids, masks, people, and even strange ceremonies.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She had stumbled into a magical world and possibly into another dimension.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I found this aspect fascinating, and the fact she gave such an intimate interview just a few weeks before her death.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I asked Tom Dre to take a look at her numerology vibration, to find out what mystical roles certain numbers may have played in her short but memorable life.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Alia signed her first record deal in 1991 when she was only 12 years old.

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[SPEAKER_03]: She had an intoxicating presence in a magical essence that would light up a room.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Born on January 16, 1979 with the life path number 7.

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[SPEAKER_03]: She had the sign of the mystic.

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[SPEAKER_03]: In numerology, the life path number shows us the flow of life.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This vibration made Alia the Seeker, thinker and the searcher of truth.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The number 7 doesn't take anything at face value, and it looks for the underlying hidden truth.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The 7 knows that nothing is exactly as it seems, and that reality is often hidden behind illusions.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This was true for Alia, and the energy of the seven shows she led a secret life.

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[SPEAKER_03]: In fact, when she was only 15 years old, the singer allegedly married Arkelli, who was 27, on August 31, 1994 in Chicago.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The couple lied and listed her age as a teen on the marriage certificate.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Alia's family found out about their marriage, and immediately demanded an enrollment.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The singer was later quoted as same.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Never be ashamed of a scar.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It simply means he was stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: However, just a few years later, tragedy struck.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And on August 25th, 2001, Alia and eight others were killed in a plane crash in the Bahamas after filming the music video for the single, Rock the Boat.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Earily, the death number was at 9, and 9 people were killed in the tragic accident that day.

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[SPEAKER_03]: 9 is the number that finishes all that was started by the numbers which came before it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: All the passengers' lives on that fateful flight had come full circle.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Alia had completed her soul contract on Earth, and the angels had come to carry her home.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The final few days of her life, Alia had a foreboding of what was to come.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She had a haunting feeling about her upcoming trip to the Caribbean to shoot the music video rocked the boat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In an MTV interview, her boyfriend Damon Dash revealed he was against the trip, and he pleaded with her to stay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said before she even got on the flight, she told me she didn't like the plane, and again I told her yo, don't go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: However, despite the deadly warning signals, telling Elia that danger loomed ahead, she told Damon, you know, I gotta do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said it was a complicated situation, but she felt she had contract obligations and needed to fly to the Bahamas to shoot the music video.

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[SPEAKER_01]: On August 25, 2001, the moon was in Scorpio when Alia completed shooting her new music video, rocked the boat early that morning.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She was scheduled to leave the island the following day, but was tired and wanted to catch a private jet back to Miami that night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Shortly before the flight took off, a heated argument erupted between the pilot and her video crew.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He warned the group the aircraft was severely overloaded with luggage and video equipment and was too dangerous to fly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the group convinced the pilot to take off.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and at 650 p.m., Alia and her crew boarded the plane, and a few minutes later, witnesses watch the plane taxi down the runway and slowly climb to 50 feet, and then nose dive into a marsh and burst into flames.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The emergency crew arrives several minutes later, and they found Alia's limp body, 20 feet from the fuselage, with severe burns and a blow to the head,

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[SPEAKER_01]: The princess of R&B and eight others on board, pilot Lewis Morales III, hairstylist Eric Foreman, Anthony Dodd, security guard Scott Galen, family friend Keith Wallace, makeup stylist, Christopher Maldonado, and Blackground Records employees Douglas Crats in Gina Smith would die in the crash that day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What was even more twisted, the accident report determined the cause of the accident was due to pilot error, and the aircraft was 700 pounds overweight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The National Transportation Safety Board stated, the pilot morale was not approved to fly the plane.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had falsely obtained his FAA license by showing hundreds of hours he never flew to secure a job with his employer, blackhawk international airways.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Additionally, Tuxacology tests performed on Morales, revealed traces of cocaine and alcohol in his system.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Still, Alia's family believed they might have prevented the plane crash if they had been with her on this trip.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Normally when she traveled either her brother Rashad or her cousin Joe Moe would accompany Alia.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were always there to protect her, but sadly fate was

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[SPEAKER_02]: The private funeral service for Alia was held on August 31st, 2001 at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel and the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan, New York.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Heartbroken fans lined the street to pay their final respects to the Princess of R&B, a white horse-drawn

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[SPEAKER_02]: Ticklea's body from the funeral home to the memorial service on Park Avenue.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The word Angel was written in white flowers on the side of the carriage, and her casket was covered in pink roses, her favorite color.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Ali is heartbroken parents, Diane and Michael, and her brother, Rashad, tearfully walked behind the carriage, and several other mourners, including her boyfriend, Damon Dash, and Romeo Moustache co-star Delroy Lindo, followed close behind.

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[SPEAKER_02]: 10 Paul Bears carried the silver plated coffin into the church, where it was lovingly placed next to two large pictures.

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[SPEAKER_02]: One was of a lia, and the other was of her beloved grandmother, who had died of breast cancer.

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[SPEAKER_02]: A special VIP section was established for friends, family, and music royalty who attended.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The mourners included her aunt and uncle, Gladys Knight, and Barry Hancerson, and rappers, Jay-Z, Sean P. Diddy Combs, Miss Elliott, and Lil Kim.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Her brother, Rashad, delivered a 15-minute, tearful eulogy,

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[SPEAKER_02]: And in it with Alia, I will always see you smiling through the sunshine.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I hope God keeps me steady until I see you again.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He read the names of the eight other crash victims and asked the mourners to pray for them as well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The church choir sang of Amaria, and after the hour-long service ended, Aliah's mother stood up, placed her left hand on her daughter's coffin, and walked alongside it until she reached the church doors.

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[SPEAKER_02]: As she and the other mourners walked behind her, they sang one of Aliah's songs, one in a million.

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[SPEAKER_02]: outside on the church steps.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Ali is mother stood a few feet from her coffin and released a total of 22 doves to celebrate each year of this singer's precious life.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Immediately after Aliya's death, there was uncertainty over where the music video for Rock the Boat would ever air.

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[SPEAKER_01]: However, it made its first World premiere on BET's Access Granite on October 9, 2001.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She went on to win two Postumous awards, favorite female R&B artist, and favorite R&B soul album at the American Music Awards of 2002.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Her second and final film, Queen of the Damned, was released in February 2002, but what many fans may not know is while Ali's film scenes were complete.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Some of her lines needed to be recorded because the Egyptian accent of her character was difficult to understand.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Her brother Rashad, who had a similar voice, recorded a small portion of his sister's dialogue, and the sound engineer's blended his voice with her original lines prior to the film's premiere.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But coping with the death of Alia for family and friends would prove to be difficult.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Grief is a complicated process of mourning through which they had to learn to live with the loss of their baby girl.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Her death created a complex web of emotions and reactions, especially for her family, boyfriend Damon Dash and her musical legacy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Damon spoke about Oliya on an episode of VH1 Reality Show, Family Therapy with Dr. Jen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: saying her death turned him into a monster, but even with the pain he felt, he said he would fall in love with her all over again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He expressed a soul-crushing heartbreak over losing Belia in a plain crash and later his mom.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It made him afraid of intimacy and how he lived with constant fear he would again lose someone he loved.

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[SPEAKER_01]: To this day, many believe that Alia would have achieved even greater career success if her life had not been cut short.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The director of Queen of the Damned Michael Rhymer said of Alia, God that girl could have gone so far and spoke of her having such clarity about what she wanted.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing was going to step in her way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No ego, no nervousness, no manipulation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was nothing to stop her.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As for her musical legacy, the battle reaches on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Her uncle Barry Hinkerson, wounded from the loss of Alia, and most likely a host of other personal reasons, led to his label Blackground Records meltdown.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Complex wrote his grief turned to despair, despondency turned to inertia, and for no apparent reason, Blackground stopped releasing music and artists stopped getting paid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The tensions continued L.A. times reported, and sources have said the relationship between Barry and a sister Diana, Alia's mom, became strained after the singer died and black ground struggled to rebuild.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Although the label survived with the string of successful releases from Joe Joe, Tony Braxton, and Timberland, by 2009 the label was barely functioning after lawsuits from

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[SPEAKER_01]: With her sound as iconic as her style, Alia's music will eternally be the one artist they continue to be inspired and influenced by.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The month before Aliya died, she told a German magazine about one of her favorite recurring dreams.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was about being followed, and just before the dark shadow could catch up with her, she would be lifted up into the sky and be flown away to safety.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She said the dream gave for an incredible sense for peace, freedom, and the comfort that no one could reach her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Although a little spooked by the dream, and withplex by what it meant, Alia expressed her love for fame and fortune, and if she had the choice to start life over again, she would not change a thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The 40 minute interview in a Paris Hotel was the last one given by the Princess of R&B, just a few chilling weeks before her tragic pain crash.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We believe it was a spiritual message for those who loved her the most, and let a family and friends know that she had completed her soul contract, and was ready to have the angel carry her home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In his eulogy for his little sister, Rashad spoke of God's divine will to write ideas final chapter, and described her as a force that gave him strength.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In his touching tribute, he said, I will see your smile in every sunrise and feel the warmth of your touch in its rays.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When the bird sing, I will hear your angelic voice resonate through this guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I will look up the moon and stars to see the twinkle in your eye.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I will walk the earth knowing that you aren't everywhere.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hold her for me, God, until I get there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I'll ear one in a million.