Angie Stone’s Hidden Connection To The Rap Industry
Black History Year
PushBlack
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Before Megan Thee Stallion’s knees and Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl grin, there was Angie Stone. Here’s the fascinating story of how this Southern church girl,who was unexpectedly taken from us March 1, helped ground an entire industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Joe Wix is on a mission. |
| 0:02.0 | I want to make this and sell it. |
| 0:04.0 | He's creating a protein bar. |
| 0:05.0 | This is ultra-processing. |
| 0:07.0 | That could potentially kill you. |
| 0:08.0 | I want the maximum amount of each harmful ingredient while staying within the legal limit. |
| 0:12.0 | So just how ridiculous the food system really is. |
| 0:15.0 | Joe Wix, licensed to kill on Channel 4. |
| 0:18.0 | Stream now. |
| 0:20.0 | The culture was to kill on Channel 4. Stream now. |
| 0:27.7 | The culture was devastated and shocked by Angie Stone's passing. |
| 0:35.3 | The beloved No More Rain in this cloud and brother singer gifted us with sultry vocals and tongue-tingling lyrics. |
| 0:39.0 | But she also helped ground the entire rap industry. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm Len, and this is Two-Minute Black History. |
| 0:44.0 | What You Didn't Learn in School. |
| 1:00.0 | In 1979, Angie Stone was a church girl. She started singing in church, but by the time she was a teenager, she wasn't interested in anyone's choir. Sylvia Robinson, founder of Sugar |
| 1:05.9 | Hill Records, was building a record label, and Stone, with two of her friends, wanted to be signed. |
| 1:11.9 | The trio called themselves The Sequence and after sneaking backstage to perform for Robinson, |
| 1:17.9 | they got exactly what they wanted. |
| 1:19.6 | The group moved to New York and began recording. |
| 1:23.6 | The Sequences album, Sugar Hill presents the sequence, went Gold, inspiring Dr. Dre Buster rhymes and Ice Cube. |
| 1:31.4 | Stone's work also opened doors for Erica Badoo, Salt and Pepper, and every single woman's rap act that followed. |
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