Featured Artist

Charlie Wilson

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1953, Charlie Wilson is a four-time Grammy-nominated R&B legend best known as the lead singer of The Gap Band — the funk-soul institution behind 'Outstanding,' 'You Dropped a Bomb on Me,' and 'Yearning for Your Love' — and as Snoop Dogg's longtime collaborator and uncle-figure. His timeless tenor anchors two of Don's most-prized records: 'If I Had' on Love Sick (2023, produced by DJ Dahi) and 'Attitude' on Hardstone Psycho (2024, with Cash Cobain). That Wilson — at 70+ years old and decades into a career that reshaped 80s funk and 2000s hip-hop hooks — chose to lend his voice to Don's records is a rare cross-generational stamp of approval. His phrasing on both tracks bridges Don's Houston narcotic-soul to the gospel-rooted R&B tradition Wilson helped define, gesturing toward the same lineage that runs through Snoop, Kanye, and Pharrell records of the 2000s. Wilson's solo catalog (Charlie, Last Name Wilson, Uncle Charlie, Just Charlie, Love, Charlie, In It to Win It) and Gap Band years make him the elder statesman of any room he enters; 'If I Had' and 'Attitude' confirm Don as a serious modern R&B vocalist worthy of that kind of pairing.