For reasons good, bad, ugly, and everything in between, 2025 was one for the books!

As the year draws to a close, That Grape Juice is reflecting on the occasions that rocked – and to some degree – maybe even reshaped the Urban and Pop cultural landscape as we know it.

Finally, we’ll remember the celebrities we lost in 2025.

• Irv Gotti
• Voletta Wallace (Mother of Notorious B.I.G.)
• Roberta Flack
• Val Kilmer
• Angie Stone

• City High Star Rob Pardlo
• Sly Stone
• Ronald Fenty (Father of Rihanna)
• Jiggly Caliente
• Hulk Hogan

• George Foreman
• D’Wayne Wiggins
• Rolling Ray
• Brandon Blackstock (Ex-Husband of Kelly Clarkson)
• Ozzy Osbourne

• Malcolm-Jamal Warner
• Ike Turner Jr.
• Marshawn Kneeland
• Abraham Quintanilla
• Imani Smith

• D’Angelo
• Richard Smallwood
• Isiah Whitlock Jr.

Your thoughts?