The son of Angie Stone and D’Angelo has uploaded a moving tribute to his late mother on social media. Michael Archer Jr., who performs under the stagename Swayvo Twain, shared a carousel post to Instagram last week, honoring Stone’s life and legacy. In the multimedia post, he shared throwback photos and videos, including his reaction to her tragic death.
“Hey mama, I ain’t want nothing, just wanted to say I love you ……. I know you up there enjoying your god body,” he wrote in the caption following by the crying laughter emoji.
I hope you got to see grandma and granddaddy …….i want you know how proud I am at the person you are…. I want you to know how much you inspired me every single day …… you never failed me ever ever….you never were a burden to me EVER … if I had to do it all again I wouldn’t change nothing….im so grateful for the lessons that I learned from you, I hope to one day be as good to my kids as you were to me…..I just wanted to you to know that I got it from here , imma be okay… and imma LONG LIVE YOU 4Ever [dove emoji] love you mama.”
In one of the clips shared by Twain, he relayed a message to “fake a** friends, family” and “bullsh*t people” who used his mother’s death for “attention.” He also detailed that he only heard somebody give Angie Stone and his “two aunties” their flowers for being Hip-Hop pioneers “for the first time.”
Twain, a budding musician himself, has used social media in the past to uplift his mother’s storied career. Last August, he questioned, “Why do we dream in a industry that treats our legends this way?”
“Ma Dukes has been in the industry since it’s inception almost…. 40+ years, Millions of album sold , Grammy nominations, life achievement awards…… the list goes on and on…. Yet she doesn’t [have] plaques for a lot of her biggest and highest selling records…. How do y’all feel about that? Do you think that the artist should have to buy their own plaques, or should it be the responsibility of the label?” he continued.
At Stone’s funeral, filmmaker Tyler Perry delivered a passionate speech, critiquing her treatment in the industry.
“Women like Angie Stone, who’s been in the business all these years, you’re gonna forget about what she did? All of the people that she put on and helped? See, you got to go through something to write a song like ’20 Dollars,’” bellowed the filmmaker from the podium.
“Y’all got to forgive me because I’m angry at the way she was treated. I did not know all the things she was going through… To think that this woman was in the business for all of these years. See, there’s a difference between performing because you want to and performing because you have to. All of those years, all of those songs, all of that money that was owed to her, where is it? It’s wrong!”
Angie Stone died earlier this month in a fatal car accident. The acclaimed talent released her last album, Love Language, in May 2023. She is survived by her children and grandchildren.
VIBE sends our condolences to the friends, family, and fans of Angie Stone at this time.
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