Angie Stone & D’Angelo’s Son Posts Heartfelt Tribute to Late Mother: ‘Love You Mama’
It’s been three weeks since R&B and soul singer Angie Stone died in a car crash at age 63, and her son is paying tribute to his beloved late mother with a heartfelt Instagram post.
“Hey mama, I ain’t want nothing, just wanted to say I love you,” Michael Archer Jr., who performs under the stage name Swayvo Twain, wrote alongside a carousel of videos and photos, including a clip of his reaction to his mother’s death, throwback snaps and more. “I know you up there enjoying your god body 😂 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🕊️ love you mama.”
In one of the clips on the post, he calls out “fake a– friends, family” and “bulls— people” who used his mother’s death for attention. “I seen it. We all seen it. Your actions were on full display,” said Twain. “But no more. Ya’ll folks do not get to use, you don’t get to take advantage, you don’t get to abuse my mother’s kindness and her heart no more.”
Swayvo’s father is singer-songwriter D’Angelo, whom Stone dated in the 1990s.
“Unfortunately, at around 4 a.m. while heading back to Atlanta from Alabama, the Sprinter flipped over and was subsequently hit by a big rig. Thankfully, all survived except for Angie,” Walter Millsap, president of Conjuction Entertainment, said in a statement obtained by Billboard at the time of Stone’s death. Stone performed at the Mardi Gras Association’s Grand Marshal’s Ball in Mobile, Alabama, on Feb. 28, the day before her death.
See Swayvo’s full post below.
Rania Aniftos
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