One of the biggest all-star lineups ever will celebrate the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees this weekend. The ceremony filmed October 30 in Cleveland, Ohio, and now airs this Saturday, November 20, on HBO and HBO Max.
The event clocking in at 3 hour and16 minutes honors Foo Fighters, The Go-Go’s, Jay-Z, Carole King, Todd Rundgren and Tina Turner in the performer category. Kraftwerk, Charley Patton and Gil Scott-Heron were chosen for early influence induction. LL Cool J, Billy Preston and Randy Rhoads were honored in the musical excellence category. Clarence Avant received the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
King had been previously inducted as a songwriter. Turner is now a solo artist inductee after going in with Ike Turner the first time around.
SEEThe Go-Go’s, Foo Fighters, Tina Turner, Jay-Z among 16 artists eligible for 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
While the order of inductions was different during filming, here...
The event clocking in at 3 hour and16 minutes honors Foo Fighters, The Go-Go’s, Jay-Z, Carole King, Todd Rundgren and Tina Turner in the performer category. Kraftwerk, Charley Patton and Gil Scott-Heron were chosen for early influence induction. LL Cool J, Billy Preston and Randy Rhoads were honored in the musical excellence category. Clarence Avant received the Ahmet Ertegun Award.
King had been previously inducted as a songwriter. Turner is now a solo artist inductee after going in with Ike Turner the first time around.
SEEThe Go-Go’s, Foo Fighters, Tina Turner, Jay-Z among 16 artists eligible for 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
While the order of inductions was different during filming, here...
- 11/19/2021
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Chucky Thompson, an in-house producer of Diddy’s Bad Boy Records production team “The Hitmen” in the 1990s has died at age 53. Thompson was behind numerous hits for hip-hop and R&b acts such as The Notorious B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, Nas, New Edition, Faith Evans, TLC, Usher, Snoop Dogg, Jennifer Lopez and others working as a […]
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- 8/11/2021
- by Samantha Popovics
- Uinterview
Chucky Thompson has died at age 53, his rep confirmed to People. The producer, who is best known for his work with Bad Boy Records's "Hitmen" production team, died on Aug. 9. "It is with a very heavy heart that I can confirm the passing of Chucky Thompson," his publicist, Tamar Juda, said in a statement to the publication. "To anyone in his orbit, you know how generous he was with his energy, creativity, and love. Both the music industry, and the world has lost a titan." His protégé, Young Guru, also reacted to the news on Instagram, writing, "There is nothing I can write that will take away this pain. I have to say Rip to my mentor, my big brother, the man who changed my life forever."
Chucky's production credits include Notorious B.I.G.'s Ready to Die, Faith Evans's "You Used To Love Me," and Mary J. Blige's Grammy-winning 1996 album My Life.
Chucky's production credits include Notorious B.I.G.'s Ready to Die, Faith Evans's "You Used To Love Me," and Mary J. Blige's Grammy-winning 1996 album My Life.
- 8/10/2021
- by Grayson Gilcrease
- Popsugar.com
D.C.-born record producer Chucky Thompson, who made music with some of the biggest hip hop and R&b stars of the ’90s, has died according to multiple reports.
Producer Young Guru broke the news on Monday and paid homage to Thompson, who mentored him early on at Bad Boy Records.
“There is nothing I can write that will take away this pain,” Guru wrote in a caption to a posted photo of himself and Thompson. “I have to say Rip to my mentor, my big brother, the man who changed my life forever. You were the kindest person the world has ever seen. You were the most gifted musician I have ever been around. You treated my like family from day one.”
He continued: “You made a point to the labels that I had to fly to New York with you on ever session. You put me in rooms with Biggie.
Producer Young Guru broke the news on Monday and paid homage to Thompson, who mentored him early on at Bad Boy Records.
“There is nothing I can write that will take away this pain,” Guru wrote in a caption to a posted photo of himself and Thompson. “I have to say Rip to my mentor, my big brother, the man who changed my life forever. You were the kindest person the world has ever seen. You were the most gifted musician I have ever been around. You treated my like family from day one.”
He continued: “You made a point to the labels that I had to fly to New York with you on ever session. You put me in rooms with Biggie.
- 8/10/2021
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Mary J. Blige’s 1992 debut, “What’s the 411?,” was an instant smash that established the young Yonkers singer as a multiplatinum hitmaker, a fashion icon and the prototype for what an R&b star could look and sound like in the hip-hop era. But it wasn’t until her second album, 1994’s “My Life,” that the Blige most of us are familiar with — the heart-on-a-sleeve singer-songwriter unafraid to mine her own considerable trauma through music — truly began to take shape.
Tracing that album’s dark genesis, exploring its legacy with fans and featuring brief (perhaps too brief) performance clips from a pair of 2019 concerts Blige staged to celebrate its 25th anniversary, Vanessa Roth’s “Mary J. Blige’s My Life” has no shortage of cooperation from the subject herself (also an executive producer). But there’s a valedictory glossiness to the film that sometimes underserves the warts-and-all power of the...
Tracing that album’s dark genesis, exploring its legacy with fans and featuring brief (perhaps too brief) performance clips from a pair of 2019 concerts Blige staged to celebrate its 25th anniversary, Vanessa Roth’s “Mary J. Blige’s My Life” has no shortage of cooperation from the subject herself (also an executive producer). But there’s a valedictory glossiness to the film that sometimes underserves the warts-and-all power of the...
- 6/25/2021
- by Andrew Barker
- Variety Film + TV
Some artists struggle to determine which of their releases is the most vital — it’s like asking a parent to pick a favorite child. But Mary J. Blige has no such hang-ups. “I have 13 albums,” she declares early on in her new Amazon documentary, released on Friday, “but my second, My Life, is my most important.”
After working with a grab-bag of big names — including Devante Swing of Jodeci and the rappers Busta Rhymes and Grand Puba — on her debut, What’s the 411?, Blige narrowed her focus for its follow-up,...
After working with a grab-bag of big names — including Devante Swing of Jodeci and the rappers Busta Rhymes and Grand Puba — on her debut, What’s the 411?, Blige narrowed her focus for its follow-up,...
- 6/25/2021
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Mary J. Blige has a long, illustrious career, riddled with Top Ten hits, million-selling albums, Grammys, and Oscar nominations. But there’s one project that has particular importance for her: “I have 13 albums, but my second, My Life, is my most important,” she says in a new documentary commemorating the LP, originally released in 1994. Blige sees My Life not only as the moment she “started speaking to my fans” but also as “the place where I survived.” That narrative of survival, of walking through the fire only to emerge stronger on the other side,...
- 6/25/2021
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
R&b singer Yaya Bey has lived some lives. At 32, she’s dabbled in marriage, divorce, weed peddling, visual art, education for the houseless, and street medicine. She’s also been a songwriter since age nine, first crafting hooks for her father — an Mc who’d seen moderate success in the Nineties — in their Queens, New York, home. “He was like, ‘You can’t sing,’ ” Bey recalls, trying to mimic her dad’s bite. “But he always thought I was a good writer.”
Now based in Brooklyn, Bey began this spring with an engrossing EP,...
Now based in Brooklyn, Bey began this spring with an engrossing EP,...
- 4/29/2021
- by Mankaprr Conteh
- Rollingstone.com
Mary J. Blige has dropped a new single, “Can’t Be Life,” featured on the soundtrack to the film Body Cam. Blige penned the song with frequent collaborators Denise Rich, Chucky Thompson, Stacy Barthe, Aaron Philips and Jimmy Cozier; it was produced by Chucky Thompson.
“I’ve been torn down like a worn-down, crumbling building/But I’m up now, and I’m up now, and I’m still living,” Blige sings, offering words of encouragement, hope and resilience throughout the track.
Body Cam is available today on streaming and digital download.
“I’ve been torn down like a worn-down, crumbling building/But I’m up now, and I’m up now, and I’m still living,” Blige sings, offering words of encouragement, hope and resilience throughout the track.
Body Cam is available today on streaming and digital download.
- 5/22/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
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