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He can go to the edge, because his music goes to the edge that way. Tyler’s the kind of guy that can get away with anything, because when he puts it on, he can own it. I got some Golf Wang socks from Tyler, the Creator on, and they’re so soft that when you walk around, it feels like you’re in some plush house shoes. If I spill something, it’s all good-I can just rub it in and pretend it was supposed to be there.
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It’s a good shirt for me, because I’m kind of clumsy with food. I was going to the studio, and I knew I was going to be there until after dark, so long sleeves are a must. This is just a chill look to start the week. She makes sure I stay on point.” -Yang-Yi Goh “ ‘Oh no, you just turn right on around and change, because you ain’t wearing that!’ I don’t get to flaunt some of the stuff I really want to wear. “My wife won’t let me go out the door with some of the stuff I have in my head,” he laughs. Even though he’s spent his quarantine mostly shuttling between his house and the studio (“If I have to be out in public, I better have a hazmat suit on, man! Next time you see me, I’ll look like I just came from NASA!”), he’s still doing his best to have some fun and take a few risks with his wardrobe. “Casual, flipped out, crazy, with a whole lot of swag,” he says when I ask him to describe his style. These days Wilson-or Uncle Charlie, as everybody calls him since Snoop Dogg first coined the nickname in the ’90s-dresses a little more relaxed. I saw Lil Nas X with his fringes on, and I thought, ‘He looks like Charlie Wilson back in the day!’ It’s cool, man. “I wore a white Zorro-style hat back then, and I’ve been seeing a couple of disc jockeys wearing those now. “We made those cowboy hats look a lot different than anybody had seen before on our records and album covers.” The same way you can still hear echoes of Wilson’s soulful melodies from that period all over the charts-right next to his own recent singles like “Forever Valentine,” which hit #1 on Billboard’s Adult R&B Songs in May-he’s been proud to see nods to his Western-inflected style popping up in 2020. “We were Oklahoma boys,” the legendary crooner tells me now, over the phone from his home in L.A. When Charlie Wilson first landed on the scene in 1974 with the Gap Band-the funk trio he fronted alongside his brothers, Ronnie and Robert-he wore a lot of cowboy hats. Up next: Charlie Wilson, the R&B luminary who’s been setting the right mood since the early ’70s, has worked with everybody from Kanye and Bruno Mars to Tyler, the Creator and Aminé along the way, and just dropped a brand-new single called “One I Got” that’s guaranteed to lift your quarantine spirits. Welcome back to Fit Diaries, where GQ asks our favorite style lords to document a week through their outfits.