Charlie Wilson Opens Up About Sobriety Struggles, Gap Band Origins, Hometown Racism + More

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in their classes, you know, you fall asleep. now and she said, I know why you fall asleep because you detoxify and your body is detoxifying, but you have to participate, you have to find these tools for the rest of your life and I said, "I know, so she said the than you." what you're going to do when you get out of here then I collapsed like I had nowhere to go, she said, well, let's talk about it for a second, calm down and she said, well, you don't have to. You mean you had nowhere to go?

I told him I have nowhere to go. I'm homeless she was like a homeless person and you don't have any place so it doesn't matter sis okay Wednesday I want to take you to find your place to live so Wednesday came and she got me a pass I got on to a car she took me to a place and it was for three cars House with a garage upstairs, I think four or five bedrooms or something, so I said, I said, okay, this is great, I just don't have enough keys, let's go Tomorrow, let's go back to rehab, I went back there.

The next day we went and she found two pieces of furniture, she filled the whole place with furniture, oh my God, I don't have a bathroom, so she said she had to put the furniture in and I said, "Okay, what about the car?" ?" I don't give you any car because you know some cars will take you to the pharmacy see a store so I said I can't be here alone man I just laugh. She was looking, she said, oh, what are you looking at? I don't know you like that, I said, well, that should be good if you stay here with me at least until you know you're not saying like I did, it was kind of a coma, you know I'm trying.

I'm trying to sneak up on her, she even knows why I'm making music at the time anyway for the house, she bought it all, she paid for it all and my wife's person, you know, everyone Simon shot, He didn't have a white wife. She said no, she's not white, she's Persian anyway, she went uh, she paid for everything I got there and I came back the next day we moved. I mean, I went in there. She said, uh, I said, can you stay here with me? A couple of days she said: I can't do that. I don't think that's appropriate right now, so maybe when you graduate we'll talk about it.

Long story short, I talked about staying and she said, uh, fish kept. saying I don't know you like that but anyway she ended up staying there with me and then one day I said lady, I'll know something about myself if I leave this house alone, going somewhere alone being in this rehab for only 28 days I'm telling you now I'm going to die out there mmm it won't be another chance for me I know me and I've been I've had anything for 20 days and so many I'm angry as hell, so she moved in with me and she said, well, one day she said we'll be here for a year and I guarantee that after this year you will be able to buy your own house.

I was like, how is that? She said, you see, come on, we were in the house for a year and, spiritually, we get the car, we start driving, she leaves. I was in San Candace, it would be these big mansions, it was like I went up there, she said, let me ask. You have a question, why do you look at these big houses like this? They like about 20-something thousand square feet. She said it's just me and there won't be any big parties there. You won't celebrate them, so let's go. You were just looking for why you want it and I couldn't answer the question I couldn't answer, so I started driving again.

I found the neighborhood and the spirit told me to stop at the house, you know, the main one. house, what they do, the business, you know, so everything hadn't been built yet, so you think. I walked in, there was a lady who said, oh yeah, don't come in and I said, well, the spirit told me to come. here and it's already modeled, just the furniture and everything in it is fine, so I, uh, she said, okay, sit down. She was looking around and at a nice man's big backyard. I said let's put the pool back there and put a pond there and everything.

And then a couple came in and she said he said "Okay, let's look" and the lady said "Sorry, just this house is sold" and then I told her why didn't she tell me like that, so I know. they left why didn't you tell me it was so he said she said you said the spirit told you to come here of course I said yes ma'am she said this is your house I said yes but she He said, well, you'll have faith in that. and we from there took the house and tried to close and my wife also had a check and it was intercepted and I went to the house, I mean I went to the car, I just turned it on, I like it, man, that's a nice house I want .

Then Mrs. Charlie came out, where's your faith? Take these keys. I'll pay it for you and she paid it. Yes, she paid it and my wife said: I will give you the money tomorrow the next day. she but she paid she didn't know who I was I didn't know where my wife was but that was just God it was God's blessing he just gave put this woman in front of us and we got that house and I stayed and on the computer love man, oh , that was Roger Troutman, you know, he toured with the

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Roger was like brothers and one day he called me and one night he told me, man, what should I do?, and then I said. what you have to do Roger and he says, come on man, just tell me, I said, I take a vote, he said, I don't, you have to, I said, why are you asking me, so he says, okay, I'll try, I know goes home, goes a little. he goes to the hotel so he calls me around three in the morning after the show and says uh I have a VY dear, I said why are you waking me up, you could have waited until I sit down but I need you to come.

Now I said: do it with you ready, so I'm in the studio. I said, come on, Raj, and I came down and that's what he had and that's all he had, so he and I were going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. and then and I had just woken up, so I kept going every time I sang to someone. I just woke up, he said, don't say that, don't say it, here to go, delete it. I just woke up because every time he sang to someone he was just there. I really like it, you know, I sleep in my throat mmm, but it ended up being one of the best records we've made together.

I've never done it with anyone and they didn't want to put my name on it. I want, that was total. experience because they were angry because we had an incredible record and the gap wasn't like that and I was angry, yeah, they end up fighting over it and that was way before the digital age, so just the idea of ​​computer law, yeah, yeah. it was a it was a monstrous and beautiful moment Roger and I were great friends well, present your album right now present the album, let's play the album right now my name is Charlie Wilson uncle Charlie my new singles call forever Valentine produced by Bruno Mars stereotypes and D mile man, it doesn't get any better than that, let's go with the fastest record going up the hashtag charts I mean, number one most analysts are dead young, it's top 10 this week, fastest record to beat it in three years or something and so we took it to number one, yeah absolutely, it was a great record, you know Bruno and I, we talked about the record many times about what kind of record, he said you need a special record and we ended up getting a special album. record because he'll be back next year for Valentine's and you after that for Valentine's it's like the Christmas album because he tweeted last year that he wanted to make a record with you and oh yeah, oh yeah, that's God, that's God, yeah I'm sure they talked about it.

You know, I know you go to church, I think you should leave us with a prayer, pray, well, let yourself want something another day, we thank you for your mercy and your grace and we thank you for your son Jesus Christ, which would add five cents. Go ahead father, I ask you to bless every Solon in this room, every person in this room, father, I must continue to bless, touch them as they go, father, keep us all safe and sound as we travel, we thank you for the club of breakfast and for every person we support this organization we love you and we give you all the glory and all the praise and all the honor is for you father all these best things we ask you in the name of Jesus that it be done thanks to God