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"We Need A Resolution," the first single from her double-platinum third album, Aaliyah, was released in spring of 2001 and was considered a commercial failure. However, the album was a critical success, and the video for "We Need A Resolution" received heavy MTV2 play. Most of Aaliyah was recorded in Australia, as the singer was filming scenes for her second and final movie role, that of Queen Akasha in Queen of the Damned, released by Warner Bros. in 2002.
"We Need A Resolution" was the last Aaliyah video released beofre her passing. She also filmed a video for the single "More Than A Woman," before it was decided that "Rock TheBoat" would become Aaliyah's second single.
Aaliyah traveled to the Bahamas in August 2001 to film the "Rock The Boat" video with director Hype Williams . After shooting had wrapped, Aaliyah and her entourage boarded a small airplane, which was to take them to Miami, Florida. The plane took off, but quickly descended and crashed in the forest. All nine people aboard, including Aaliyah, the pilot, and the other seven passengers, were either killed by the crash or died later at the hospital. It was later determined by investigators that the plane was overloaded by several hundred pounds.
Aaliyah's untimely death heavily effect both her family, her friends (including Timbaland and Missy Elliott), and the entertainment industry as a whole, which almost unanimously praised Aaliyah for being a inspirational and talented individual. "Rock the Boat" went on to become an enormous posthumous hit on radio and on video channels, and the tragic news of her death gave her album an enormous sales boost, pushing it to #1 on Billboard. Sadly, some of the album's biggest hits happened only after Aaliyah's death, including the remaining two singles, "More Than A Woman" and "I Care 4 U" which was a huge radio hit even without a music video.
Aaliyah was to have had a supporting role as Harold Perrineau Jr.'s wife in the two sequels to The Matrix; her role was ultimately filled by Nona Gaye.
In 2002, a posthumous greatest hits collection, I Care 4 You , was released in Aaliyah's name. It also contained a number of Aaliyah songs form the Blackground vaults that Aaliyah had recorded over the course of her career including "Miss You," which became the album's main single and features Missy Elliott, Lil Kim, Toni Braxton, DMX, and others paying tribute to Aaliyah in its video.
Aaliyah is interred in the Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, in Hartsdale, New York.
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