GAP BAND IV: A POST-SOUL CLASSIC DROPS DURING THE DAWN OF THE GREAT BLACK POP TAKEOVER
"One nation under a groove/nothing can stop us now" ----Funkadelic (1978) Charlie Wilson is R&B’s ultimate ironman. One year shy of 70, he’s still bobbing and weaving between post-modern R&B and adult contemporary weight classes selling out arenas on The Culture Tour with New Edition and Jodeci. Wilson's latest single Ain’t No Stoppin Us featuring Ki-Ci, Babyface, and Johnny Gill----arrived last month. Less you think that Wilson's string of 13 #1 adult contemporary R&B hits (from 2000 to 2018) and numerous Grammy nominations were built on his Snoop Dogg/R. Kelly affiliations---travel back to back to May 17, 1982, when he and his group the Gap Band dropped the summer's hottest album during R&B 's transitional year. In '82 nothing was bigger than Gap Band IV. #1 for nine weeks, Gap IV sold over a million copies