Since Lifetime announced that it was producing a biopic entitled "Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B" based on the life of the late singer Aaliyah, the performer's family and friends have been adamantly against it. Because her family was against the biopic, none of her songs were included in the film.

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Included in the list of those against the production of the flick is record producer-rapper Timbaland, a close colleague and friend of Aaliyah.

Taking to Instagram, Timbaland expressed his grievances in a short video clip. "This is why people should never remake movies. Bulls-t happens. Now you have to deal with the consequences," he stated.

All through the night, the artist posted messages on Twitter criticizing the flick and the network.

Aside from Timbaland, many of the late singer's fans also took to social media to post about their disagreement with how the network romanticized the relationship between Aaliyah and R. Kelly. The pair was illegally married when she was only 15 and Kelly was 27 years old.

A Twitter user named Miss Anne Dri posted, "WHY ARE YOU ROMANTICIZING PEDOPHILIA?! RT@lifetimetv: Is Aaliyah too young to know? #AaliyahMovie pic.twitter.com/RVmBKGOSGg"

The casting of the flick was also rather controversial after Zendaya Coleman dropped out of the titular role in June after feeling that she was not "morally okay moving forward with the project" following the family's vocal disdain for the production. Alexandra Shipp took over the part after Coleman dropped out.

Executive producers Howard Braunstein and Debra Martin Chase stated that they tried their utmost to create a flick which honored the memory of the late singer who passed in 2001 at the age of 22.

Defending their decision to push through with the flick, Chase confessed that biopics are very hard to make, stating, "People have an opinion and social media allows them to voice that opinion. But at the end of the day, our goal was to make the best movie possible."​