Aaliyah’s ‘Poison’ collab with The Weeknd is lastly right here

By Online Desk

Aaliyah and The Weeknd convey followers their long-awaited collab album ‘Poison,’ which was launched on Friday. The launch comes after a lot of Aaliyah’s music arrived to streaming providers for the primary time.

Blackground Records 2.0 and EMPIRE has launched the album from the singer amid the world awaiting Unstoppable, Aaliyah’s first posthumous album.

Barry Hankerson, Blackground founder and Aaliyah’s uncle, informed Billboard earlier this 12 months that the brand new album would characteristic The Weeknd.

Much of Aaliyah’s music has been left off DSPs for greater than a decade following her loss of life in a airplane accident on Aug. 25, 2001, when she was solely 22 years outdated.

In the Billboard interview, Hankerson hinted that The Weeknd wouldn’t be the one celebrity featured on the upcoming album of recent Aaliyah music, since he name-dropped Drake, Future, Ne-Yo, Chris Brown and Snoop Dogg.

The Weeknd beforehand sampled Aaliyah’s 2001 Billboard Hot 100 prime 20 hit “Rock the Boat” on “What You Need” from his 2012 compilation album Trilogy.