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Collaborated with Hip Hop, Go-Go, and R&B's finest. If you enjoyed the soulful music of the 90’s, if you enjoy good music today, you’ve probably heard the musical influence of Charles “Chucky” Thompson.   Thompson passed Monday due to COVID-19 complications. A Howard grad (don’t all good things come out of Howard?), Thompson was the musical brains behind many artists: from the Father of Go-Go, Chuck Brown, to Faith Evans, to Nas, to Biggie, to Boys to Men, to Mariah Carey, and beyond. If you grooved to the beat of Biggie’s One More Chance and crooned to Raheem DeVaughn’s hit  titled, Woman , you have entered the Chucky Thompson musical experience. DC native, Chucky Thompson dies of COVID.  It would take up too much space in this article to include all of Thompson’s works. Fortunately, Wikipedia has an outline of his catalog and producer credits here . Fans were stunned to learn of his passing and took to socialmedia to share their thoughts and memories of ...

If you know DC, you know go-go; and if you know go-go, you know one of the founding bands of the genre that has spanned cultures, generations and coasts, respectively. Experience Unlimited  (a.k.a. EU), the go-go group that has touched audiences from funk to rock (and genres in between) will come full circle when it celebrates their 50th year anniversary. The group, founded by  Gregory 'Sugar Bear' Elliott, has come a long way since their Charles Hart Middle School beginnings in 1971 having toured globally with their Billboard hit “ Da Butt ” featured in  Spike Lee’s 1988 film ‘ School Daze .’ “This is my life,” Elliott said of his long-spanning go-go music career. Elliott will not only celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the group he gave life to, but also his birthday on July 25th.  “I put a lot of time, grind, sweat and fun into this. Some of my brothers have gone on to glory with Jesus. It speaks volumes that all these musicians are celebrating wit...