Remembering Angie Stone

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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We're taking a moment to remember singer and R&B legend, Angie Stone, who died on March 1, 2025. She was 63 years old. When Stone spoke with Bullseye in 2023, she had just released her newest album: Love Language . She talked about having her heart set on performing from a very young age, the influence of her family on her career, and auditioning for Sugarhill Records with The Sequence.

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0:17.5	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:28.4	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:31.1	On March 1st of this year, we lost an icon.
0:34.6	Angie Stone died in a car crash, heading home to Atlanta from Alabama. She was a
0:40.0	Grammy-nominated soul singer. Her 2001 R&B album, Mahogany Soul, was a smash.
0:45.7	I love you. I'll never try to hurt you. I want you to
1:10.1	know that
1:10.7	But there was also more to Angie Stone Than just a woman could belt, right? But there was also more to Angie Stone than just a world-class singing voice.
1:15.6	I brought the Army Air Force and the Navy to One Nation, underbock, red, white, and blue.
1:21.6	C.A. is for Angie, B, it's for bad.
1:23.6	Something that your emceives never had.
1:25.6	Because when I walk in your body
1:27.6	In my first start to battle
1:28.8	I know for a fact
1:29.9	It's an MC battle
1:31.1	Give it up
1:31.7	Dish it out
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