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"I Was in Love With Her"

After Timbaland sings the praises of Elliott ("She was just super dope...she was God-sent; that was my sister") and Timberlake ("Me and Justin, it's the weirdest thing. We just say we're gonna kill them and then we kill them...We get together, we break bread and we spill out music. That's what we do"), he soon turns toward his complicated feelings toward another famous performer.

"When I first met Aaliyah—it time for the world to hear this, I'm gonna give a little secret—I was in love with her. I said, But I'm not…She just a baby, I'm old," Timbaland says. "I said to myself, 'I'm just gonna be her brother.' Oh man, I was fightin', I was fightin' a lot—a big war. But I loved Aaliyah."

He, of course, is referring to Aaliyah Dana Haughton, the soulful singer who signed a deal with Jive Records at age 12 and allegedly married R. Kelly at the age of 15, inspiring the song, "Age Ain't Nothin but a Number."

Aaliyah then collaborated with Timbaland and Missy Elliott for her second album, One in a Million. The "Try Again" singer became highly successful in the music biz and started to dip her toes in acting, starring in Queen of the Damned.

Tragically, in August 2001, Aaliyah died in a plane crash. She was just 22.

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