Aaliyah passed away many years ago, but thanks to the R Kelly documentary she was thrust back in the spotlight. Damon Dash has decided to be a chatty patty and continually has talked about how his former best friend Jay Z tried to steal Aaliyah away from him.
Others say that Aaliyah and Jay Z were together first and Dame is exaggerating how serious his relationship with Aaliyah was.
In this latest story from the Daily Mail it appears that Jay Z and Aaliyah were much closer than Dame would like to admit.
Never-before-published photos show just how close rapper Jay-Z was to ‘princess of R&B’ Aaliyah just a year before her death.
The photos from a Fourth of July party in 2000, obtained exclusively by DailyMailTV, show the rapper with his arms around Aaliyah as they danced and laughed.
This comes as Damon Dash – Jay-Z’s ex-business partner – revealed recently that Jay-Z ‘tried very hard’ to get with Aaliyah before he hooked up with superstar Beyoncé.
The source added: ‘Damon was dating Aaliyah at the time and Jay-Z was single, he wasn’t there with a girl.
‘I saw that Jay-Z was trying to get close to Aaliyah but I didn’t think too much of it at the time.
‘They were hugging each other and you could totally see there was a chemistry between them.
‘I knew that Damon was going out with her so I did think it was a little weird.
‘Sometimes people share girlfriends. I don’t know if they were sharing but they wouldn’t be the first.’
The wild thing is Jay referenced Aaliyah and this party in one of his raps when he said.
‘Have you ever loved somebody used to get the party poppin’/ We used to party hop/ We used to be in the Hamptons/ Party a lot.’
Flip the pages for the never seen before pics of Jay Z and Aaliyah.