Carl E. “Chucky” Thompson, a hip-hop and R&B producer famous for his works with Bad Boy Records, died at the age of 53.
Thompson was a member of Bad Boy’s in-house production team the Hitmen, which produced some of the biggest hip-hop and R&B singles of the 1990s, including the Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘Big Poppa,’ Nas’ ‘One Mic,’ and Faith Evans’ ‘You Used To Love Me.’ He’s also worked with Usher and Mary J. Blige on songs.
Thompson was born in the United States Washington, D.C. on July 12th, 1968. After spending time with Chuck Brown’s go-go band, the Soul Searchers, and getting involved in the music industry, he met Sean Combs, aka P. Diddy, who had just been dismissed from Uptown Records and was in the midst of launching his own label, “Bad Boy Records.”
When he was 24, Combs requested Thompson to create a track for ‘My Life,’ the follow-up to Mary J. Blige’s debut album ‘What’s the 411?’. Blige was so impressed with Thompson’s work that she requested him to produce the entire album, for which he received a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Album.
Following the news of Thompson’s passing, the producer Young Guru paid tribute to him.
