What Happened After Angie Stone's Last Performance?

0:01 Welcome to No Tears for Black Girls, a true crime podcast written and produced by award-winning author Jon Reed Berg. Make sure to hit that subscribe button on our YouTube channel and follow us on all social media platforms. Beloved R&B songstress Angie Stone, known for her soulful vocals as part of the groundbreaking hip hop trio The Sequence and her solo hit Wish I Didn't Miss You, tragically lost her life early Saturday morning in a devastating car accident. She was 63 years old. According to an e-mail from her long time manager and music producer Walter Milsap, the 3rd to The Associated Press, around 4:00 AM the vehicle transporting Stone from Alabama to Atlanta overturned and was subsequently struck by a large truck.

0:53 While the other occupants of the cargo van survived, Stone sadly did not, Millsap confirmed. The Alabama Highway Patrol reported that at approximately 4:25 AM Saturday, the 2021 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van carrying Stone flipped on Interstate 65 before being hit by a 2021 Freightliner Cascadia truck operated by a 33 year old Texas man. Stone was declared deceased at the scene of the accident, which occurred about 5 miles, 8 kilometers South of Montgomery city limits, according to the Highway Patrol. The sprinter driver and seven other passengers were transported to Baptist Medical Center for medical attention.

1:38 Authorities are still investigating the cause of the crash. Millsap learned of the heartbreaking news from Stone's daughter, Diamond and Blondie, a longtime member of the sequence. In a statement released by the SRG Group, Stone's children, Diamond and Michael Archer express their profound grief. Never in a million years did we ever expect to get this horrible news. We are still trying to process and are completely heartbroken, Millsap added. We are truly devastated by this unexpected and unfortunate tragedy and there are no words to express how we feel. Stone was slated to perform during the halftime show of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association men's championship basketball game on Saturday.

2:28 CIA Chaplain Pastor Jerome Barber LED a moment of silence in her honor. At the event. CIAA Commissioner Jackie McWilliams Parker expressed their heartbreak over the loss, saying she used her incredible talent, passion and presence to inspire and touch us with strength and hope. In a poignant final message to her fans, Stone took to social media to shed light on the music industry's dark underbelly. During the live stream, she fearlessly exposed the rampant exploitation of artists royalties, a systemic issue plaguing the industry for decades. Stone's candid and impassioned discussion provided a rare glimpse into the struggles musicians face in today's cutthroat landscape.

3:14 Her words serve as a powerful testament to the challenges artists must overcome to protect their rights and ensure fair compensation for their work. The audio of this eye opening live stream stands as a lasting reminder of Stone's unwavering commitment to advocating for change within the music industry. I'm about to reveal some stuff that you know, Lord just told me to talk about today. Going out of this year, going into new Year, I need to bring you guys up to speed with some things that I've kept very personal and to myself. Some things I wanted to share and other things I didn't want to share.

3:58 But now I'm OK to reveal some things that is probably going to shock some people. So I'm going to give you a little bit more time to get some people in here because it was a lot for me to get on here and do this. I mean, this last month has been trying. First out, I want to shout out all the people in Detroit. I had a show that was supposed to be with music soulchild Marsha Ambrosia. Shout out to Raheem Devaughn for standing in for me. I had something happen that caused me not to be there, but God just needed to sit me down so I could focus on me. So before I go into just, you know, what I experienced, what I went through, I want to let you guys know I almost didn't make it through this process because it was something that just kind of hit me.

5:02 It was a couple days, a day or so before I was scheduled to fly out to Detroit and I was very excited. All the tickets were bought, the hotels were paid for, the band was ready to go. And then I got hit with this crazy news and it kind of threw me for a loop. So I figured I'd better share it with you all and you can pass it on because just because we're in the industry don't, doesn't mean we're not human. Things happen all the time. And unfortunately when this happened, I, I just wasn't prepared for it. But anyway, it caused me to miss that show that I was super, super excited about.

5:50 Go ahead and get somebody come back to the live. Like I said, I don't want to have to say it again. I haven't even told my team that I was going on today. I just threw up my light and just put on a little something just so I could get with you guys. All right, we got some people in the room. Now I'm going to wait for about 10 or 15 more people to get on and then I'll share a couple of things with you that are going to be shocking. But anyway, nonetheless, I just want to say hi to all the people that are joining my lab.

6:33 Let me just see who you are. Let me see Lady Hayes. Hey, they are Freeway Rick elegant out. That went too fast. I'm sorry. Hey Lynn, Miss Tiff Quantum guru. Merry Christmas to all of you. J Rossi, Denise pretty. Oh, you look beautiful as well. Thank you. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning from Texas. I love you guys. Thank you for, you know, coming on my live, like I said, y'all are in for a bit of a treat. Maybe for some people they might be happy that it happened to me because everybody don't wish good things for you. Some people wish bad things for you and I continue to pray for them.

7:39 Somebody's calling my line but I can't answer a call because I'm more than alive right now. But I will say this, it has been one heck of a ride this last month. The enemy was trying to Take Me Out. He was really trying to Take Me Out. And we'll come and wait till we get get those 5060. We have 51. Let me get, let me just again, I get 70 to 100 people in the room right now before I reveal some very, very interesting information. And it is like a double edged sword because I'm going to tell you one thing and then I'm going to get to the worst thing that could possibly happen to any artist after 45 to 50 years in the business, the worst thing that could happen.

8:32 It is of course, happened to me and I'm constantly in prayer for God to forgive the people that have wished me ill will or, you know, done anything to remotely get in the way of the gift of sharing with my fans. OK, we're at 45. Let me get 50, let me get 60 and I'm going to give y'all 5 more minutes to get some more people on this live. The devil is a liar. You're right. Come on, now. Come on, come on, come on, come on. Oh, by the way, the Christmas song, All I'm missing is number one.

9:15 In several countries, we put it out on the 15th of November. On the 14th of November, the devil tried to stop that. It was snatched down. Then it was put back up. He tried to, of course, blame it on me, but it wasn't my fault. However, the song prevailed. After everybody bailed, the song went all the way to #1 and the steady, steadily climbing the chart. So if you guys have never heard our mechanicals, they've taken pretty much everything They've stolen. I won't say stolen, but they have taken all the monies that were due to me.

9:56 They have basically absorbed in that company. And even though there's several class action lawsuits, people that were working on my behalf never even registered the songs. All the songs that I've done, I'm only coming to find out they were not properly registered by the companies that I signed over to people that were supposed to do their due diligence. So I'm truly a a walking testimony that God has carried me all this time because if you only knew how much money they have taken from me, how much they have stolen from me, money that I'm supposed to be. I should have been able to retire 20 years ago with the money I've made supposedly.

10:47 But there are key people that have been driving the ships and what they've been doing is improperly representing me, improperly stealing from me, taking things in their own hands, changing and switching lanes because they knew I didn't know that part. See, I'm not an attorney. I don't know everything. What I learned how to do was go out, work, work hard, get paid, come home, pay my bills, take care of my family. Thanks for listening to No Tears for Black Girls. If you enjoyed our show, please take a moment to leave us a five star rating, Hit that subscribe button and give us a follow on social media.

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