>It at least became a more serious conversation outside of just
>something we quietlu acknowledged was happening.
>
>
>Although while Aaliyah was creepy as fuck, at least you could
>make the argument there was ‘love’ involved since I
>believe it was the first we heard about it. Not after he was
>using teenagers as urinals tho, by that time we knew kids were
>his thing

the tape and the disgusting shit blew it over the top


but before then...in the hood... I mean unless you had that nasty/creepy old man look...nah... niggas in that age bracket were ALWAYS gaming on (what I used to misogynistic-ally call as a teenager) 'our girls'...like regularly

then again I grew up in the number one teen-pregnancy capital era
they wasn't all getting knocked up by peers

so if you mix in the fact that his primary fanbase came from that era and of that ilk...that may have factored in a lot of the 'justifications'