Swayvo Twain, son of the late R&B singer Angie Stone and D’Angelo, shared a heartfelt tribute to his mom just weeks after her sudden death at 63.
On Saturday (March 22), Twain (born Michael Archer Jr.) posted an Instagram carousel honoring Stone, who died in a car crash on March 1 near Montgomery, Alabama.
The post featured childhood photos of Stone with Twain, alongside videos expressing his grief. “Like, the love is cool…but she’s the one who wanted to know that,” Twain said in one clip. “She’s the one who was pushing for that.”
In another video, Twain called out “fake ass friends, family” and “bullshit people” exploiting his mother’s death for “attention.” “I seen it. We all seen it. Your actions were on full display,” he said. “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.”
In his caption, Twain wrote, “Hey mama, I ain’t want nothing, just wanted to say I love you.”
“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,” he continued.
“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,” he concluded.
At Stone’s memorial service earlier this month, Tyler Perry also spoke about how the singer was mistreated by the music industry during her lifetime.
“All of those years, all of those songs, all of that money that was owed to her — where is it?” Perry asked around the 3:30 minute mark of the video below. “It’s wrong, this is wrong, and I’m tired of seeing us struggle and go through things and work hard and not reap the benefits of what we were supposed to reap.”
Stone also had a daughter, 41-year-old Diamond Stone, from her previous marriage to Rodney Stone, formerly known as Lil’ Rodney C! of the Funky Four Plus One.
