Veteran music journalist Michael A. Gonzales looks back twenty years on Aaliyah’s debut album, the controversy with R. Kelly, and the follow-up album with Timbaland that changed the landscape of R&B. Includes never-before-published photos of Aaliyah by photographer Jonathan Mannion. Novelist T. P. Carter interviews newcomer  and runs down the L.A. electro-bass scene.

    Contents:

    Aaliyah
    Kelela
    Edwin Birdsong
    Rinder & Lewis
    Terry Reid
    Jimmy Jam
    Continental Baths
    Chromeo
    Blu
    Kaytranada
    BadBadNotGood
    Com Truise
    Doug Shorts

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