simply gorgeous!

Marie Penn nigga.. natural hair no tats no piercings hair not green lipstick not blue. Yes she looks beautiful

I'm sitting saying the same thing!!!!!

Absolutely stunning 🙌🏾😍

She is beautiful always

Le Anh Quoc to me Aaliyah was like pure beautiful

@@wisediva9807 Her as well. They're both beautiful.

But you can see what drugs can do to someone as beautiful as Whitney.

koenhouse Aaliyah is mines

Ditto! There will never be another like “the voice”.

A source close to her said, "Whitney is two steps away from childhood."

​@@mariecampbell3373that was so jacked up of the audience.

​@@mariecampbell3373can you kinda tell me more of what you mean? Respectfully asking. Not trying to be some jacked up way or anything. Just want to know what exactly does that mean. Also I thought her voice was Shakey saying that as if the pain of it was fresh and she had to hold back hear emotions and tears. This breaks my heart so. She didn't deserve that and I wish the black community as a whole had given her an apology to heal that pain. They owed her that.

tipofmytongue1024 we didn’t realise what we had until we lost it

As she took herself for granted, as in - drugging, smoking & other destructive behaviors ... Apple didn't fall far from tree with Kristina & hack BB ... We all have our path, some of which our choices strongly factor in ...

@@notapplicable687 That usually happens when somebody we care about dies young.

Devine-ety exactly!!!! That’s one of the reasons why she is not here. Judgmental people

Honestly, Whitney took herself for granted. RIP.

Tracie Henderson Whitney was gorgeous period.

Tracie Henderson every beautiful woman has a period where they reach the height of their beauty I feel the early 90s was the height of Whitney’s beauty. She was utterly breathtaking and looked so healthy

im miss her much..

+Fauziah Md Khalid nippy...rip..with daughter..😢😘👭

Yes indeed. Best selling album of the 90s. Best selling album of alltime by a female artist. Best selling soundtrack of alltime. The only other comparable album in terms of global impact is Thriller.

purkabe12 This is been one of the biggest problems we have is black people. And we don’t talk about it enough. I haven’t seen as much of it today in 2020 as I did growing up my whole childhood-it just goes to show the deep problems that arise because of other deep problems.

She wasn't only criticized by the Black community. She was criticized in the mainstream media as well. It was a different time and Black artists were put in a box.

@@bolder2009 Yeah Whitney & Mike were the last in their generations and all generations to come to have pure sales just off the strength of talent no gimmicks.

Now we criticize people for cultural appropriation. I cant wait for the next divisive thought-policing trend.

She sure is👍👍

omg you're right

Lol right

Lmao “in Living Color” did a skit on the length of his fingers before. Aah those were the days. I want my 90’s back 😂

I'm dyinggggg....When they did the parody of him on In Living Color they extended Keenan Ivory Wayans' finger when he was his character lmaooo

Of course they did. Only one being coy & denying it is Eddie. I have never understood why. She was one hell of a beautiful woman. Best believe, if I ever had the privilege of dating her, everyone & I mean everyone would of known about it. I ain't lying! Love You, Whitney.

Bobby was in full affect by this time. Arsenio knew exactly what he was doing

@@alessaaddae8436 Arsenio is petty 😆😆

Arsenio wanted her

He did it everytime she was on the show🤣clowning her

I know black people can becso hard on each other

*Black American church

@@TheEarthRealmsame thing, tf?

@@CHPYXO Literally not, are you daft? 😂 'African' is not a race. I'm South African, and 50% of our population (through multiple generations) are White. Guess what- They're Africans. And if/when they decide to move to the United States, they're also African American by default. Elon Musk is therefore South African. There are people who are not from Africa who are Black. The majority of people living on the continent of Africa aren't even Black, but rather of Middle Eastern decent. Guess what? They're Africans too.

@@TheEarthRealm Lmao you're clearly one of the slow ones so im going to make this as simple as I can; The prefix ''African'' in ''African-American'' means BLACK. African is used as a placeholder to refer to the fact that your kind snatched my people FROM Africa and dragged us in chains to the USA, thus we come from manny African countries. And no, y'all ain't Africans if you're just a colonizer in Africa, so im not going to refer to you as one. Y'all cave folk in South Africa are Dutchmen, and Dutchmen you shall be called, same with the Middle Eastern colonizers in North/East Africa. And no, a stray dog can't just move to America from Africa and suddenly morph into an African-American 🤣🤣. African-American literally refers to the *BLACK* people who were taken on slave ships from Africa to the USA, there's no loophole around it. But you see how easy it is for your people to rewrite history if we don't know ours? Like you really just sat there writing your own fantasy book expecting me to take you seriously LMFAO. I should've stopped when you said ''Elon Musk is an African-American'' cause you're probably just a dumb troll but hey 😂😂 And you're a cave person, so why are you even tryna dictate what black people should be called? lmfao.

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Same😭. I keep rewinding that part😂

Yup.... you can see her wipe her tears away. That's when the hurt began.

I remember that happening and I was hurt at the time, I didn’t understand.....I’ve always loved Whitney

@Shandra Smith I'm agree with you. They were jealous and mean... How could they tell her she's not black enough??? There is nothing to do with a career!! Shame on them!!

@Shandra Smith true and let's not forget about her low self confidence !! Robyn and Kevin Costner used to say that she cares to much about what people thought about her, she used to ask sometimes "if she was good enough? If they will like her? If she was pretty enough? If people will come (before a live performance)!!! If you paid attention to her interviews from 1990 to... she became a little bit defensive, people thought it was because of fame. For me she was trying to protect herself from those people who were making jokes about her! They said she was too white (musically), they said she didn't know how to dance, they said she wore wigs (I'm black too and I wear wigs too like many American and African women). They said a lot of things to put her down. I call it JEALOUSY because she was talented, gifted and BEAUTIFUL and when someone had all those things some people will hate for no reason! She got bullied at the elementary school, at high school and then at the soul train awards! I think that's why she started to behave like she was from the hood, marry a black man like Bobby Brown so the black community would accepted her. I wish that she shouldn't listen to them and continued to do what she wanted!

@Shandra Smith me too! That's why she gave her a Bible to break the relationship!!

Well said

Well said @ Remember The Time09 and I think her biggest sell outs was someone close to her.

RememberTheTime09 I agree with you totally. I think people are just Jealous when somebody has a God Given gift for some reason. She was just herself and sang great music.

T.E. V. Being booed in front of thousands of people, BY YOUR OWN people for the one thing you do best. That’s major rejection! But you may have tougher skin then she had at this time.

@Tev Whitney was a strong woman, but also a vulnerable person!! The bullied her!!

Man, they treated her like shit.

They were jealous of her!!!! Instead of be proud of her, they treat her like a shit!!!!

But that’s not racist right. Black people booing a black female singer because she has a lot of white fans

Stop trying to compare that to white sysremic racism. The booing is an example of being ill informed.

That's when the song"my name is not Susan came in ,so I heard.

I caught it but was it Eddie Murphy because in another interview she stated he stood her up

Quis Hunt true,that's what I'm thinking

+Quis Hunt No it Was Bobby Brown who she was referring to

Lakisha Holt u think it fits the Bobby Whitney time frame?? I know they both were around at the time

radaprince yes I think so

Yesss I agree

April Alexander while I appreciate you saying all those things...she hadn’t made any movies when this interview took place.

@@jobuck879 I don't think that April was limiting her comments to the time that the interview took place.

bex Coventry and now she’s a racist pothead.....

dsma06: You are spot on!

That's it in a nutshell

Vocalist* not performer

I hear it. Some people like to paint Whitney as some poor victim, but to have made it in the business as long as she did, you gotta have a tough skin. She had it to me, she didn't look phased at all. It's just like she said at 3:52, "I'd like to say that and some other things." Please, there's white people who are still hoping and wishing to sound half as good as Whitney, there's gospel and soul all in that woman's voice.

@@alexchen8565 She acted like a though outside ( she had to do it), but inside she was very vulnerable.

The Soul Train Awards issue is not blown out of porportion because it hurt her dearly. I was in highschool when this happened and some blacks turned their backs on her for all the success she had. They felt Janet Jackson was "blackier" than her. Craziness but this was a different time. Remember back then most black artist would have to have a number one hit on r&b stations before pop stations would play their music. Whitney and Michael changed all that. When they dropped music everyone listened.

rhocom89 Janet, ironically, experienced the same backlash circa 1989. I don't think they saw her as "blackier (a word? lol)". In Janet's case, there was backlash b/c she's crossed over to mainstream success and wasn't simply a fav of the black community as she was circa 1986 when her star turned. from what I read, the backlash Whitney experienced back then was b/c some felt like her image and her music was catering more to mainstream. But, hey, to crossover and have mainstream appeal, it's no secret that some artists have to (don't wanna say, sellout) de-emphasize any sort of racial divide. I don't believe Whitney or Janet ever sold out. I just think that's a painful price most minority artists pay whenever their success hits stride in a mass way, unfortunately. Kinda like with Hip Hop. Those who knew the culture before it hit MTV and crossed over will tell you it became something different (not all bad, but not as pure) when it went mainstream.

rhocom89 I'm glad you gave me some perspective, I could see that because Janet was definitely having success more in the R&B community, and I have to remember that music was not as intermixed as it is nowadays. There was a strictly black, R&B scene in the 80's. Hence why some black artists (Freddie Jackson, Miki Howard, Deniece Williams, Cameo, etc) are so famous to black people while white people and the general media don't know who they are.

+rhocom89 It was blown out of proportion, because no one wrote about; no one knew about it. She was booed because the Soul Train Awards were created to celebrate the black music industry. Whitney was a pop artist and always marketed as such. She was not with an R & B label, and really didn't work with the R & B community. She had a huge promotion and huge amounts of money were spent on her career. Almost a half million to make her debut album and over 3 million in promotion (completely unheard of even today). The reason she was booed was because they didn't feel she should be nominated - because she was with a major label - not a small R & B label - which the awards were created to celebrate. Here ... she and her friend are just bringing it up again and throwing a lot of BS into the wind (It happen in 88). For this particular album she work with songwriters and producer from the R & B community. Janet Jackson worked with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who were the SOS Band basically....that's were Janet's sound came from.They were GODS in the R & B community - so yeah her music was going to be played. What you are saying about the pop station is completely untrue - having to have a number one, before being played on pop radio - NOT TRUE. And Whitney didn't changed anything... Donna Summer changed everything...not only was she first female to dominate the pop charts, she transcend race and genre. Unfortunately people alway seem to try to tie MJ & WH... but MJ broke the colour barrier for men on MTV, Donna did it for women - both 1983. Donna was the first female to be played on MTV, the first to be played in heavy rotation (SWHFTM), and the first to be played in consistent heavy rotation. Followed by the Pointer Sister and Tina Turner. She was the first to be nominated for an MTV Award. Tina Turner was the first to win one. I say this because it is incorrectly credited to WH in her wiki bio and I have read many online article with the same incorrect facts. Her bio also claims she pave the way for other minorities like the lantinos...LOL.. Linda Ronstadt and Julio Iglesias were played in heavy rotation before WH debut in 1985, as was Sheila E, who was also nominated for 3 MTV Awards and 2 Grammys before WH. So there so-called facts, are so wrong !

+htownhomie06 I think you forget that Janet Jackson recorded 3 albums..before she started working with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and found charts success. That is why the R & B community would have felt Janet was theres. Whitney was marketed pop and was meant to be a pop star. They release certain songs only to R & B radio like Hold Me and Thinkin' Bout You.