Aaliyah is the proof that hard work can take you anywhere. The daughter of a single mother, raised in the projects, surrounded by struggle and scarcity. From the very beginning, the odds were stacked sky-high against her.

Society expected her to fail. Statistics proved that she would.

Still, she made it. And she made it big.

Now that she stands as a symbol of true grit, and ain’t nobody, nothin’, not even the devil himself could take that from her.