At Angie Stone‘s Atlanta funeral, family members remembered the R&B icon with an emotional eulogy from Tyler Perry and highly effective performances from Anthony Hamilton, Tamela Mann, Kirk Franklin, and Keke Wyatt bringing the home down.
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On Friday, March 14, Phrase of Religion Cathedral livestreamed the service stuffed with soulful tributes and heartfelt reminiscences to rejoice Angie Stone’s legendary life. In a ceremony match for a queen, a whole bunch of roses surrounded her silver and gold coffin. A star-studded lineup took the stage to honor Stone’s contributions to a number of music genres, numerous careers, and greater than 40 years within the music business.
Tyler Perry Wasn’t Simply Unhappy About Dropping Angie Stone, He Was “Offended” That The Music Trade Cheated Her: “All Of That Cash… The place Is It?”
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Because the world gave the Grammy-nominated singer her flowers in dying, Tyler Perry referred to as out the predatory music business for failing to do this in life. The director stated he was “offended” that every one of her expertise and success by no means paid Stone what she was owed.
“Y’all bought to forgive me as a result of I’m offended on the means she was handled. I didn’t know all of the issues that she was going by [until] just lately,” he stated in regards to the just lately resurfaced claims of thousands and thousands in unpaid royalties.
“To suppose that this lady was within the enterprise for all of those years and there’s a distinction between performing since you wish to and performing as a result of you need to,” he continued.
This level spoke volumes after the 63-year-old died in a automobile crash on the way in which residence from a efficiency in Montgomery, Alabama. As BOSSIP beforehand reported, Stone was touring together with her band in a Mercedes Sprinter when it collided with an 18-wheeler truck early on March 1. The “Want I Didn’t Miss You” singer was the one fatality from the horrible crash.
Perry credited the “Extra Than A Lady” star with inspiring his work all through the years. He didn’t let up on holding the music business accountable for mistreating Stone.
“All of these years, all of these songs, all of that cash that was owed to her — the place is it? It’s incorrect, that is incorrect, and I’m bored with seeing us battle and undergo issues and work laborious and never reap the advantages of what we had been presupposed to reap,” he continued.
Perry additionally mirrored on Stone’s poetic and prophetic phrases completely “preached her personal eulogy” within the hit tune, “No Extra Rain.”
“In her tune ‘No Extra Rain,’ she says ‘my sunshine has come and I’m all cried out, there’s no extra rain on this cloud,” which he in comparison with folks burdened with struggling.
“We maintain a lot ache, we maintain a lot that it has to return out of our eyes as tears. However the fantastic thing about what she was speaking about is when a cloud has no extra tears, it dissipates, it’s gone,” Perry stated.
The Madea creator’s feedback echoed Stone’s statements from January. “I ought to have been in a position to retire 20 years in the past with the cash I’ve made,” she stated in a now-viral video.
See the star-studded tributes and full video of Angie Stone’s funeral service after the flip.
