Aaliyah

So there was the the morning I found out that the r&b singer Aaliyah is playing crash. Now. I was already helping manage in an Aaliyah site called Aaliyah online biggest repository of Aaliyah videos and photos and information run by kidney V Chet Tran of Pflugerville, Texas.

And then her plane went down and that site was overloaded. We had to move from a normal V servers plan to a dedicated server I had to do a lot of fundraising campaigns. I sold posters online, Amazon affiliates stuff, ad revenue. When her death happen, that website was put front and center but also taught me a lot about generating revenue and different ways to do it. Donation campaigns posters, T. We had T shirts from CafePress I was doing media interviews.

I had done a candlelight vigil in Times Square. I had helped with a friend named Freddy Mattia, I think we recounted this and another story. We also did have a memorial a year after that at Ferncliff Cemetery and at a church for her family participated. My websites are popular but that one was off the charts and it wasn’t even mine. It eventually became mine. As the chat was growing up and had less time for it, and I was in New York with the record labels, it just made sense.

I ended up taking it over and then I ended up shutting it down at one point when I was getting really out of control. So that’s kind of the story that but yeah, when her plane crashed, everything changed for me and I you know, I used to make trips up to Ferncliff Cemetery up the Metro North.

I think a lot of it was just killed. You know, there are opportunities being made for me. That would not have existed if she would have left and I was able to open up a bunch of websites brandy Monica, signing out Johnson. Lots of others. And I could interconnect them to the Aaliyah sites so I could spread my traffic around, spread my ad revenue around.

I think there was still a drag on it for me because the whole thing came out of somebody’s death. So I just make pilgrimages up to Ferncliff I would basically take the Metro North call for a black car, go up, spend some time there at the Mazel Liam and then call for the black cardigan and go back home.

And I don’t think it was a celebrity obsession thing. I think it was just more guilt and how the whole thing came about. And the worst part is I was at a release party for her. I just didn’t feel like staying late and I actually miss missed when she showed up.

It would have been cool to have met her. I don’t know whether I missed her by minutes or an hour but it was that long. I just I was working a full time job. i It was late at night I knew I needed to go by wish I had been more patient