chucky thompson
Remembering Chucky Thompson, One of Bad Boy’s Architects of Hip-Hop Soul
Carl E. Thompson, better known as Chucky, a producer who’d been making hits with artists ranging from Notorious B.I.G. to Mary J. Blige since the mid-’90s, died from COVID-19 complications on Monday at the age of 53. One of Thompson’s friends and proteges, longtime Jay-Z engineer Young Guru, broke the news on Monday that Thompson had died at the age of 53. “You were the kindest person the world has ever seen. You were the most gifted musician I have ever been around,” Guru wrote on Instagram. Thompson joins a long list of notable musicians who’ve died after contracting the COVID-19 virus in 2020 and 2021, including John Prine, Charley Pride, Fred the Godson, Adam Schlesinger, Joe Diffie, and Hal Willner. In many ways, Thompson was a producer’s producer. He was the type of musician who was ...
