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Angie Stone: The Unsung Hip-Hop Trailblazer Who Became an R&B Force

(March 2, 2025).  As February turned to March, bridging Black History and Women’s History Months, hip-hop and R&B lost an important artist who shaped both.  Angie Stone, who first rose to fame as a member of the rap trio The Sequence — the first female hip-hop act ever to chart — and later as a prominent figure in the neo-soul movement at the turn of the century, died in a horrific automobile…