Chance the Rapper ‘Broken’ After Death of Music Great

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New The Voice coach Chance the Rapper mourns the passing of singer/songwriter Bobby Caldwell on March 14 announced his wife Mary Caldwell on his Twitter account.

According to Mary’s message, Bobby “has been ‘FLOXED’ for the last 6 years and 2 months, it has cost his health.” “Floxing”, acc pitchfork, is “a disease resulting from the use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics”. Fluoroquinolone is used Treatment of certain bacterial infections.

“God bless Bobby Caldwell. Hurts.” Chance wrote in a Tweet from March 15th after I got the news.

Bobby was an R&B singer best known for his single What You Won’t Do For Love, released in 1978. His last record, Cool Uncle, was a collaboration with record producer Jack Splash, released in 2015.

Chance the Rapper messaged Bobby Caldwell before his death

In addition to his tweet, Chance went to his Instagram Page to mourn the loss and to share what little correspondence he had with Bobby in September 2022. The image posted was a screenshot of his direct Twitter messages with Bobby, where Chance asked, “Wow, is that really you?” and Bobby replied, “Yes, it’s me. Thank you for thinking about me. I’ll be honored if you try my song. All the best, Bobby.”

Chance explained in his post’s caption that he sampled one of Bobby’s songs on his upcoming album “Star Line Gallery”.

“That never happens. I’ve never received a message from an artist thanking me for sampling their record. This is a record that hasn’t even come out yet, and the legend himself has come forward. I was so excited to meet you, I haven’t felt this broken by a stranger walking by in a long time. You are a true legend and an amazing person that I know I will see one day 🕊️ RIP THE GREAT BOBBY CALDWELL 💔,” Chance wrote in the caption of his Instagram post.

Chance the Rapper teased his new album on the ‘Kelly Clarkson Show’

Chance appeared on fellow Voice coach Kelly Clarkson’s daytime talk show March 13 (her episode “50 Years of Hip-Hop”)where the two talked about the blind auditions of The Voice Season 23 and Chance’s next album.

Chance told Clarkson she stole some of his favorite singers for her team during the blind auditions, saying, “You got everyone I wanted, there were a couple of times where we turned… [and the singers] would give a whole speech about how much they love me and ‘Oh ‘coloring book’ but Kelly Clarkson’ and then they would go to you.”

At the end of the interview, Clarkson asked if Chance would be releasing anything soon and he replied: “Yes, my new album is called ‘Star Line Gallery’, it’s a collaboration with a lot of different people from all over the world taking our stories in a new way and Wise, and I’m actually playing my new single “YAH Know”. [‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’]“.

“YAH know” came out in November 2022, and Chance actually performed it on stage March 6 episode of The Tonight Show before the airing of his “Kelly Clarkson Show” episode.

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