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T.I. and Violeta Morgan - Whether their mom manages their career or just cheers from the sidelines, these celebs have a deep appreciation for the women who made it happen. See how some of Hollywood's biggest entertainers have been influenced by their mothers.   (Photo: Ben Rose/WireImage for AKOO Clothing)

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Ray J, Sonja and Brandy Norwood - The singer-actors' mother has looked out for them right on down to managing their careers. "Coming into this industry and people saying, 'You're going to ruin Brandy's career,' I had to face all of that. I had to stay on guard and be assertive," the momager told The Hollywood Reporter. But her efforts are appreciated. “No one has more passion than my mom,” Brandy has said of Sonja, who she calls her “hero.” (Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

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Toni and Evelyn Braxton - The Braxton matriarch was once an amateur opera singer who initially started her girls in singing lessons. These days you can see her showering her love (and hilarious commentary) on her children, including Toni, on their reality show Braxton Family Values. (Photo: Todd Williamson/Getty Images For WE tv)

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Kandi Burruss and Joyce Jones - Kandi and Mama Joyce share a special relationship, as seen on the singer’s reality show The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Mama has supported Kandi’s bedroom toy line and Kandi even did a makeover and photo shoot for her mom to post on an online dating site. “My mom and I have fun,” Kandi has said. “Some people say they don’t get our relationship and some people love our relationship but it is what it is, that’s how we hang out!” (Photo: Courtesy Bravo)

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Beyoncé and Tina Knowles - Tina, who once owned a hair salon, famously designed Destiny’s Child’s costumes for years before moving on and eventually creating the House of Dereon line with her pop star daughter. Beyoncé calls her mom her “role model” and told Essence, “My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future.” (Photo: Ben Hider/PictureGroup)

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Jay-Z and Gloria Carter - Hov featured his mother, Gloria Carter, on his song “December 4th,” where she mused about giving birth to him and watching him grow up. And now that he’s a father, the rapper says he’ll tap into some of the lessons she taught him to raise Blue Ivy. “I imagine I'll take things I learned from my mom and things I've learned from raising my nephews and apply that.” (Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)

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Drake and Sandi Graham - Drake knows how to finesse the ladies in his songs and we can all thank his mother for that. “My mother made me truly appreciate women,” he told The Daily Beast. “I obviously make sex-driven, darker, sexier music, but I try not to offend women in them. It’s not in my character.” (Photo: EPA/WARREN TODA/Landov)

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Common and Dr. Mahalia Hines - Common has shared the spotlight with his mom through his work. The rapper released a memoir titled One Day It’ll All Make Sense in which his Chicago educator mother contributes several lengthy passages of commentary to the narrative. The book also shares its title with his 1997 album that features a throwback picture of Common and his mother when he was 8.  “I mean she’s my best friend,” the rapper has said about her.  (Photo: Timothy Hiatt/Getty Images)

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Michelle Obama and Marian Robinson - Luckily, the FLOTUS has help around the big house. Her mom, Marian Robinson, also lives with the family and helps out by picking up granddaughters Malia, 13, and Sasha, 10, from school, by attending their events when their parents are too busy and by offering Michelle support if she ever needs it. “Anytime I need to go and plop on her couch and just talk, she’s always there,” Michelle said to Ebony. (Photo: EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS/Landov)

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LaToya, Tito, Jackie, Marlon and Katherine Jackson - Katherine was the first to recognize her late son Michael Jackon’s musical talents when she noticed that he was singing and dancing to the radio on beat, at age 4, but she encouraged all ten of her children in their musical efforts. Eight of them saluted her in the forward for her 1990 autobiography My Family. "Every child thinks their mother is the greatest mother in the world, but we Jacksons never lost that feeling," the King of Pop wrote in Moonwalk, his 1988 autobiography. "Because of Katherine's gentleness, warmth and attention, I can't imagine what it's like to grow up without a mother's love." (Photo: Gregg DeGuire/PictureGroup)

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Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian and Kris Jenner - Kris Jenner, the momager behind the Kardashian business machine, has helped turn her family’s reality fame into an empire (in 2010 the family made $65 million, more than Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock and Tom Cruise combined). "My mother has just always been this 'let's make water into wine person,'" Khloe has said. “She knows how to take one small talent or ability and grow it into something huge.” (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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Keyshia Cole, Frankie Lons and Dr. Yvonne Cole - The singer has been open about being adopted by her mother Yvonne Cole (who actually first noticed Keyshia could sing when she was five) and shared her delicate relationship with her biological mother, Frankie, on the BET reality show The Way It Is. (Photos: Ray Tamarra/Getty Images; Courtesy MySpace)

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Diddy and Janice Combs - Diddy credits his mother for being a major influence on who he is today. He told Fuse: "My mother is why I am who I am today. People can say what they want to say, but I just reresent being sucker free, working hard and being positive. I don't hate on nobody, I'm not a negative individual." (Photo: Kris Connor/Getty Images)

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Nick Cannon and Beth Hackett - Cannon raised eyebrows for penning a song “Can I Live” that was a thank you ode to his mother for not aborting him when she was a pregnant teenager. “I love life, I love my mother for giving me life/We all need to appreciate life/And a strong woman who had to make a sacrifice” he rapped. (Photo: Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)

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Trey Songz and April Tucker - The singer has said that his mom is his biggest supporter for everything he does in life. “The first major check I got I bought my mama a house,” he has said.  (Photo: Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup)

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Ashanti and Tina Douglas - Ashanti’s mom and manager Tina is proud to be a “momager” and Ashanti likes having her on her team. “In this business it is crucial ’cause you can’t trust anyone,” the singer said on 106 & Park. “Everyone is a shark; everyone looks at you as a commodity as opposed to a human being with feelings. But with your family, they have your best interest at heart. They want to see you win regardless.” In 2008 the singer included a sweet song “Mother” on her album to honor the important lady in her life. (Photo: Evan Agostini/Getty Images)

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Ludacris and Roberta Shields - The Grammy-winning artist has credited his mother Roberta Shields for teaching him a thing or two about the business world. "My mother taught me [about being an entrepreneur] at an early age and I'd like to pass on the same thing to my daughter," he explains. "It's about creating wealth, it's about putting her in a position where she can be her own boss and learn early on about business." (Photo by Jay Westcott/Getty Images)

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Bow Wow and Teresa Caldwell - “One thing I liked about being raised by a woman is that it helps you understand women,” the rapper who is a father to a baby girl, told Houston’s 97.9 The Box about growing up with a single mom. “My mom has always put me on game and we always talk and our relationship is tighter now that we’re able to have these conversations.”  (Photo: WENN.com)

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Naomi and Valerie Campbell - The supermodel told Contact Music that thanks to her mom she’s not concerned with her looks fading with age. "I've got my mum and her good genes! I don't worry about my age, on the contrary, I like telling people I'm 40.” (Photo: WENN.com)

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Will and Caroline Smith - You know what they say: the way a man treats his mom is how he’s going to treat the woman he’s in a relationship with. Maybe that’s why Will and his wife Jada were built to last. "First and foremost, just like in my house when I was growing up, I knew that my mother was the center, in that mommy has to be taken care of first and if mommy is straight, then everybody else will be straight,” Will said. “So at home, I am very clear that Jada's physical, mental, spiritual health and comfort come first and foremost…" (Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

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Chris and Rose Rock - Rose was truly the rock of her family which included her own 10 kids and 17 foster children she helped raise. "I always say, in my household my mother was the president and my father was the troops," Chris Rock has said. "So she kind of made all the decisions but, you know, when things went wrong she'd call in the troops." (Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage)

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Jim and Nancy Jones - Mama Jones helps bring the drama to the VH1 reality show Love & Hip Hop that she and her son appear on, but Jim has stayed by her side, even when her firecracker antics have been directed right at his fiancée Chrissy. Don’t mess with mama! (Photo: Johnny Nunez/Getty Images)

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Flavor Flav and Anna Drayton - “She’s my biggest inspiration,” the rapper has said of his mother who once appeared on his reality show Flavor of Love. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)