Angie Stone and D’Angelo’s Son Posts Tribute to His Late Mother: ‘Long Live You’

Swayvo Twain, the son of late R&B vocalist Angie Stone and D’Angelo, wrote a tribute to his mother just weeks after her unexpected passing at 63 years old.

On Saturday (March 22), Twain, real name Michael Archer Jr., posted an Instagram carousel dedicated to Stone, who died in a car accident on March 1 near Montgomery, Alabama.

In the carousel were pictures of Stone and Twain when he was a child, along with clips of the musician detailing 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 clip, Twain addresses “fake ass friends, family” and “bullshit people” who were using Stone’s passing 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 the post’s 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 similarly gave a speech about the vocalist being mistreated by the music industry during her life.

“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 has a daughter, 41-year-old Diamond Stone, who the late singer shared with her ex-husband, Rodney Stone, formerly Lil’ Rodney C! from the Funky Four Plus One.