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“You’re trying to get me in trouble, man.”

“Aaliyah’s in trouble man,” the manager, Demetrius Smith, recalled Mr. Kelly telling him during the third day of the singer’s trial.

“You trying to get me in trouble, man?”

“We met in Eddie’s car in a parking lot, a very LA thing to do. I played him the songs of Laraaji and this track Vai Gorilla, by Fabio Frizzi, which rips off Trouble Man brutally but it’s not quite so deep. It’s more modish, frailer. We talked about stuff like that as a concept for the album. I’d say, ‘Don’t try to be soul.

Travelling on the C train, Chacon met a young Philadelphia singer called Charles Pettigrew carrying a vinyl copy of Marvin Gaye’s 1972 soundtrack Trouble Man.