“I actually made him stop smoking weed one time for about a year,” Wilson says, laughing as he shares the story. Then Wilson says something that is really hard to believe, even though it speaks to the closeness between him and the Long Beach rapper and outspoken marijuana enthusiast. Primavera Sound Los Angeles adds Giveon, Girl in Red and more to three-day lineup Snoop guests on Wilson’s 2017 album “In It To Win It,” and Wilson returned the favor on Snoop’s gospel album “Bible Of Love,” released earlier this year.
They met in a recording studio, and started recording together then, something they’ve done ever since. Man, I felt so sorry for you.’”Ī few years later, clean and sober, Wilson was told by a mutual friend that Snoop wanted to meet him. He said, ‘I did get out of the car to see if it was you. “He said, ‘I didn’t know whether to give you some money or what.’ I thought I was doing good at keeping myself hid. “Snoop Dogg told me he had seen me when I was homeless, he’d seen me on the streets at a gas station,” Wilson says.
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But even when he was still on the streets doing crack cocaine, a chance encounter, one he had no idea had even occurred, later turned into a deep friendship with rapper Snoop Dogg, whose closeness to Wilson led him to start calling him Uncle Charlie, which is Wilson’s nickname to practically everyone today. They’ve been married more than 20 years now. In a rehab center he met and fell in love with Mahin Tat, his counselor at the center. “My brothers would say, ‘I know Charlie got a hit, just give him time.’ And before you know it we’d have that record.”īy the early ’90s, though his life was overtaken by darkness, Wilson says, and he ended up a homeless drug and alcohol addict, living on the streets of Los Angeles, though it was from there that two of his most important relationships emerged, ones that brought him back into the light. “I had to be the one to come up hits,” Wilson says. “We used to call ourselves the one-a-day hitmakers, because whatever we cut that day it was definitely a hit record in those days. “We was making records every single day,” he says. Even so, the music was always the best of that lifestyle, he adds. “I quickly learned sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, and I almost forgot how I started,” he says. “I would be singing in clubs and things and on Sunday I felt a little guilty, and I’d have to go to church,” Wilson says.īut after fellow Oklahoman Leon Russell took the Wilson brothers under his wing, and then on the road with him and other artists, Wilson says the bad habits that plagued him for a few decades took hold. I can’t wait to hear how the arrangements sound.”
“I’m nervous, I’m excited, and I’m just in love with the fact that I’m going to be playing the Bowl, and playing it with the orchestra.
“I’m so excited to be invited to the Bowl, and not only that but to have two nights,” says Wilson, 65, who with his brothers as young men in Tulsa, Okla., formed the Gap Band in the mid-’70s, finding fame with that funk and R&B act through songs such as “You Dropped A Bomb On Me,” “Oops Upside Your Head,” and “Burn Rubber On Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me).” No, Charlie Wilson is feeling all the love that life has to offer because when he wakes up every morning in the home he shares with his wife there are good and positive things to fill his day, and that hasn’t always been the case, he says. 1 on both the Adult R&B and Gospel charts in 2017. Charlie Wilson is feeling blessed, and that’s not just because he’s headlining two nights at the Hollywood Bowl with its orchestra on Friday and Saturday, and it’s not just that his recent single, the appropriately titled “I’m Blessed,” hit No.
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