“He thought she was the biggest star and had the best voice ever" Suge Knight has claimed that Tupac was interested in signing Aaliyah to Death Row Records. READ MORE: Who killed Tupac? Everything we know about hip-hop’s greatest mystery The iconic label’s co-founder made the revelation in a new interview with The Art of Dialogue . Talking over the phone from prison, Knight said Tupac first learned about Aaliyah when they went to see Gladys Knight perform.
“We had a thing,” he said. “I would always listen to oldies, and Pac would listen to rap. He didn’t like oldies, so I told him, ‘I gotta show you what oldies are about.
’ So, I took Tupac to go see Gladys Knight perform in Vegas.” He went on to say that Aaliyah came out to perform. “Tupac said, ‘Don’t get up! Don’t get up!’” Knight recalled.
“I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘Because Gladys Knight knows you, you’re gonna speak to Gladys Knight, and then you’re gonna talk to that little girl singing. And the next thing you know, you’re gonna be doing an album.’ He said, ‘I’m gonna go talk to her, you come later on, because I want to do an album with Aaliyah.
’” Knight added that the late rapper didn’t consider signing anybody else. “He thought she was the biggest star and had the best voice ever. Me and that dude spent hours and hours and days and days together.
Me, personally, I never seen him get so excited about no female artist. Aaliyah in 1997. CREDIT: Raymond Boyd/Getty .
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