Are the recent collabos with Aaliyah Disrespectful?

Before Ginuwine made up one third of the R&B trio, TGT, the singer had a thriving solo career, which included collaborations with the late Aaliyah, who would have turned 35 years old on January 16. The crooner recently gave his opinion about entertainers featuring unreleased vocals from the songstress on their new material.

"I think it's a compliment, it keeps her legacy alive," he tells ABC News Radio. "It keeps people thinking about her."

Ginuwine admits he was initially on the fence about recent posthumous collaborations, including Chris Brown's duet, "Don't Think They Know," and Drake's "Enough Said." 

"You know at first I thought about it and I was like, 'Ugh, I don't kind of like it, they don't even know her.' That's just one of those things that a person that knew her, you know, feels," he says. "But at the end of the day, it's business and it keeps her legacy alive and that's what we're trying to do. You know, at the end of my shows, I'm always giving a shout-out to her, you know what I mean. So, I don't think it's an issue. I like it now and I understand it now, so it's cool."

Tyrese, who is also a TGT member, chimed in and explained why he feels new music featuring Aaliyah can be insensitive, especially if her family has not given its blessing.

"I just think at the end of the day, if the family has a problem with them putting her music on their album, there's a lot of sensitivities with us losing her tragically on that level," he says referring to the plane crash that claimed her life back in 2001. "I just think people should respect it. If nobody around her and her immediate circle on any level, family and people that actually produced and knew her, are in support of what you're doing... I would leave it alone."

Still, Ginuwine insists that Aaliyah's legacy is not only living on, thanks in part to Drake and Breezy, but he adds that a new generation is now being exposed to her.

"I don't agree with that at all, if that's the case a lot of rappers wouldn't be who they are. Again, ultimately it allows people just to know her. Really a lot of the kids right now, they don't really know Michael[Jackson]," he says. "I came up on Michael, so for someone to really dance like Michael or do one of his songs, it's not a detriment, I think that just keeps his legacy alive and the same goes for her, so it's cool."

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