Year in Review 2025: In Memoriam of Stars We Lost [Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Roberta Flack, Angie Stone, D’Angelo, & More]

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.