I'm 53 white country boy this is a legendary song! The beat and words work! Dropped a bomb another untouchable song!! Badass band

I'm am a Black native NEW YORKER who will never forget this song .

I’m a southern white boy and I grew up listening to the Gap Band and still do. This music 🎶 is for ever.

This Hit Is "EPIC"!! The World Was Filled With "LOVE" In This ERA!! So Thankful I Was A Part Of It. The "70"s & 80's Music Was OFF THE CHAIN & Sounds Even Better In 2024. I Put on My Earphones & Listen To It ALL DAY! ❤️ I Loved Marvin Gaye's Sultry, Sexy Voice.

I'm a 62 yr old white country boy that still loved the gap band. Dancin to this group got me more trim than anything. But married to a beautiful woman that loves this song we still dance too. Been married to this gorgeous woman for 40 yrs. Still dancin to the gap band.

R.I.P to my Dad Robert Wilson " God Father of Bass" was gettn it🔥💃💃💃💃💃💃Had to bring you in the 2020 with me spiritually.. I Love and Mss you # GapBandChild❤

1970 babies awake. Listened to this every morning on the way to school me, my Dad. Lets go. Nuf. Let go get another.

Their outfits are outrageous! Their smiles contagious! Their beats timeless!

The more I listen to the Gap Band, the more I realize they are musical geniuses

Is no one going to talk about the acronym GAP ? GREENWOOD ARCHER PINE ! BLACK WALSTREET... TULSA OKLAHOMA! How prophetic it is That the Wilson Brothers would name the Band in Homage to a Community that many of us knew nothing about when this music was being created in the early 80's Truly Outstanding!

June, 2024, I never stopped listening. 🍻👏👏

May 5, 2023 - I'm 57 years old, playing businessman, in my office on the 72nd floor of One World Trade Center in NYC. I'm married, 1 kid, and living in NYC for 30+ years, and then, I hear this song, and my heart stops: my mind takes me back to John Marshall High School Oklahoma City, around '82/'83. Testerone running out of control, walking down the hallways falling in love every 5 seconds, going to dances, or driving in someone's car who just got their driver's license, and you feel INVINCIBLE. Man, this song takes me back. Makes me feel 17 again. God bless Tulsa's hometown Heroes. You gotta LOVE The Gap Band!

Lost my Mom & Dad to heart disease this year. This was their jam! Ma n Pop, this is for yall, I hope you can hear this in heaven 🙏🏼 RIP xoxoxo

That's so cool, I'm a LA chicano and at 66 I'm still dancing to this groove, way to gonmy southern white boy brother 👊✌️

Let's start a movement: The Gap Band for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

Just turned 76 and me and my wife are dancing. Get up!!!!

I’m 33 and this was my Momma’s cleaning house on Sunday’s music ❤ She passed away in 2012 and I dance for her now while I clean house.

RIP Ronnie Wilison These brothers are musical geniuses. Charlie is the only one left now. :(

See him live. He's still great! 2024!

Old white guy here was 61 the last time I checked in no I'm 64 checking in again still kickin it 👍

I swear to God this music just gets better and better as the decades go on and makes me realize how much I can’t stand the music of today

They always looked like they were having a blast! Which is how music should be!

They are amazing, even the backup dancer in yellow. No shame in anyone's game. I love it. ❤

Rest in peace Ronnie...go on home knowing you made thousands and thousands of us smile to your music

I was 7 years old when this song came out, my mama played it to death. It reminds me of Saturday mornings when we would all be up cleaning and mama would turn the stereo on, Daddy cleaning the downstairs, me and my cousin cleaning my room, and mama cleaning the rest. I miss those times in my life... RIP Mama

I'm incredibly blessed to have met Ronnie Wilson later in his life. We sang together at church. What a blessing to have been able to stand side by side a legend. Rest in peace my brother in Christ. Till we meet again!

Love love Love the Gap Band!!! Awesome group with amazing hits!!!!

You know it's on when you hear the rooster ❤

I'm a 25 year old Asian American dude who was brought up in good old US of A. When I turn this music on in my car as I drive down the street, you wouldn't believe how many stares I get. I simply then just turn it up louder, roll down my windows and nod my head up and down with my shades on. showing some love to the Gap Band baby!

Ronnie did his thing. Gone, but never forgotten.

65 white woman still jamming to this ever since it came out!

STILL GETS ME MOVING. TIMELESS. GLAD I GREW UP DANCING WITH THEM!!!

I’m 23 and my daughter is 9 months old. She LOVES this song and is always jumping up and down everytime I turn it on. 😂❤️

1. Their line dancing is solid. Love it. 2. The Wilson brothers always looks so happy. I love how positive the energy seems in their videos.

There's nothing like the original gap band for life 🤘👍💯

I took my now wife to a Gap Band show in Cleveland on one of our first dates. I'm sure she thought I was nuts as there weren't too many people that looked like us, lol. Still one of my two favorite funk bands of all time (SOS is the other). How I wish I could see these guys in concert again. I miss em'.

It's 2023 and it's still a masterpiece! It never goes out of style.

This is the best I've ever seen or heard... It makes the garbage today sound even more crappy than it does... These dudes were off the chain .

When musicianship was authentic and unadulterated by celebrityhood

These guys wrote timeless songs.

RIP Ronnie Wilson, you absolute genius.

Been on a Gap Band kick all day, I dare you to be in a bad mood when you hear Charlie Wilson’s voice, Can’t be done! What an incredible band!

Wowww!!! I remember this masterpiece ❤! First heard this song when I was 24 now I’m 67…..still Love Love Love this song 🎧

I'm 60 yrs young and still rocking to this in 2024...real music❤❤❤🔥🔥

Is anyone going to mention the drummer using ON FIRE sticks? That's a flex right there.

How cool are these guys. Flaming drumsticks?! Who does that? These three are epic legends. The best R&B Funk ever.

My crush for Charlie Wilson never dies 😂 he is so FINE!!! Love The Gap Band

Charlie has had his ups and downs. So glad he made it through addiction and homelessness and has a testimony, love and new success. Love GAP Band!

The sheer Freaking talent and soul flowing in them! My God! Charlie, if you ever read this, just know that you, and your brothers, and crew were the masters of the g/d universe! Y'all put out music and performances that people still enjoying, and always will enjoy!

My father passed away unexpectedly in 2022. He use to play this song everyday in the morning getting ready for work back in the day 😢. It use to get on my nerves now I'm thankful for this song/ol skool music. R.I.H. Daddy❤❤❤

56 year old music fanatic, here. This brings back memories, of high school. It's possible to love R&B, soul, hip hop, heavy metal, country, punk, blues, and jazz. We are all connected by positive vibrations. Let the music flow through you. Peace. Love. Happiness.

When Soul music was at its best!!! Gap Band, the Whispers, the Daz Band, Midnight Star, Klymaxx, Orang Juice Jones, Chaka Kahn, SOS, Sister Sledge, Chic and many more! Hell yeah Luv it!

People don't realize how BIG these guys and this band were back in the day.

love you Uncle Charlie i love the band way back in the day you guys were smokin rip Robert

❤I'm 34 years of age. My grandfather and my mother introduced me to The Gap Band at a young age & I've been vibing to This Band for decades ‼️💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾Rip to my mother, thanks for introducing me to this type of music, ma 💕❤️🥺.

So who still here '2019' JAMMIN & LISTENING with the...GAP BAND! 🎼💿🎼💿🎼💿🎼💿🎼💿🎼💿🎼

I'm 53 and my older brother would play this every morning to get us up for school . Good times

My bus driver use to play this every morning in elementary this is etched in my core memories lol

12-29-2023 Still KICKING with THE GAP BAND..

These brothers were ahead of their time and so unique. Whenever you hear one their songs you say: the gap band !

This was one of my Dad's FAVORITE songs🎶 He passed away 9-22-2018. He use to get up early in the morning, RAIN SHINE SLEET OR SNOW, I am now my Father 💯 Rest Easy Don G. Harbor, your legacy will FOREVER live on!

Used to see them in Tulsa during the early days! The walls would rock. There was an old church downtown! Amazing!

"DEFINITELY, SOME FUNKY STUFF" .... brings back some good memories of a less complicated time in our world .... ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 😊

This is always and forever will be one of those songs that you never get sick of no matter how old!!! ❤❤❤🎉🎉

Rip Ronnie 🙏 🕊 your music will live on forever !!! My dad would be so upset if he was still here !!! Thanks for everything you left us with !!!

The best music ever this generation missing out

I saw Mr. Charlie Wilson perform in Boston 1 week ago and he still has the Voice!!!

I've been hooked on the Gap Band since I first heard them way back when. There's just something about their music that makes you feel good.

2024 yep I love it I’ll always be a fan of the GAP BAND 🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤ RIP to those that’s gone on to heaven. Well done guys Thanks so much for all of your beautiful music 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤I love you and GOD BLESS YOU ALL

This is one of my favorites of all time...Cruisin through the "one Way Calles" in Varrio Norwalk listing to this jam full blast during the eighties and ninties...Those were the dayz...

GAP BAND "You Dropped a Bomb On Me - Black Wall Street Founded in 1967 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and comprised of multi-instrumentalist brothers Ronnie, Charlie, and Robert Wilson, the Gap Band surfaced as one of the most popular funk/rhythm-and-blues (R&B) groups of the 1980s. The brothers grew up performing in their father's Pentecostal church in Tulsa. There their mother was the church's pianist, and the boys sang every Sunday before their father's sermon. Ronnie, the oldest, started a group when he was fourteen and eventually recruited his younger brothers to play in the band, which they named after streets in the heart of Tulsa's historic African American Black Wall Street business district, Greenwood, Archer, and Pine. The Gap Band recorded their first album, Magician's Holiday (1974), for Shelter Records, owned fellow by Tulsan Leon Russell. Their success really took flight in 1979 after they moved to Los Angeles. The group scored a Top Five R&B hit with "Shake" (1979), followed by other 1980 R&B Top Ten hits "Steppin' Out" and "I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Oops, Up Side Your Head)." The 1982 pop hit "You Dropped a Bomb On Me" exhibits their trademark, bass-heavy style and the silky, smooth vocals of Charlie Wilson. The band continued recording into the twenty-first century.

Whos listening in 2020? 🎶🎼 This that Wave🌊

This is a video that you don't want to ever end.

This song never gets old! Love me some Gap Band!

The sheer talent of this band is just amazing

I will dance & watch this incredibly fab clip all night long. This (& lots of others: Rosalia, bad bunny, Temptations,) helped me thru pandemic “stay safe @ home.” I cared little that windows were open, that my dance space was teeny. I played this, plus Gap Band “Early In The Morning” really loudly on my flatscreen & got my groove on. Thank you to all groups mentioned. ❤

A Latino lady used to play this every morning. I worked with her at family dollar. I play every know in then when I need a push

If you don't like the gap band....you have no taste. Great funk and limitless talent. Long live the 80's.

RIP RONNIE!! THANK YOU FOR ALL THE GEMS OF GREAT JAMS YOU GAVE US...

My eldest brother, Glynn would buy all these LPs and on a Saturday, while doing our chores, I would be the resident DJ while they done the garden work. Rest in Peace, Hearty, Lips and Strangz. Red Cup 🥤 Approval Tune 🇿🇦 Memories in Music! Oh Yeah! 🗣️

This group is intemporel ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

If only modern artists realized that THIS is what so many people want, and what the world needs. Upbeat tone, check. Amazing vocals, check. Immaculate lyrics, check. Amazing music video, triple check!

It’s just something about this song, no one can do it like this band ! 38 years old and it makes me feel good!

Living in Oklahoma as a young girl dancing to this song everywhere i went....Good times from one of the best 👌🏽soul brother bands ever from Tulsa Oklahoma 🎉🎉🎉

Early in the morning. Saturday precisely. I'm skating fast and spinning around in circles. Thank God for my youth. If not for that, I'd have nothing.

The Wilson Brothers and Uncle Charlie... Glorious legends. The best of all time. One of the best days of my life, meeting Charlie and his phenomenal wife, Mahin, and the amazing crew, at Charlie's book signing. Beautiful. I play The Gap Band and Charlie when I need good feels. Works everytime! 😄🙌

These songs always give energy and motivation. Just brings me love and happiness. 😊

I pray one day we will get "THIS AMERICA" back again 🤦🤷💔 Where we all loved each other inspite of our differences 🤦🤷🫂

As a Daytonian gotta say, folks may have a preconceived notion bout us, but great example is me. Mom raisin me in the ‘Creek and T’Wood daddy. We all family here, so hearin these lovely memories from ya’ll is a blessing. Stay bless an stay up fam. From many we are one!❤️

It's sad they don't make music like this anymore.

RIP Ronnie Wilson. Still a classic and one of my fav bands!

The Gap Band will always be the best in old school music

Gap band kicks ass. I remember as a child in the 80s going to a giant block party thrown by what was the drug kingpin of the town at that time being taught to dance to this song. Still sends chills up my spine if I haven't heard in awhile. It was also the first time I ate soul food. Great memories

The legacy of the Gap Band. Everything they made was fire. This here.....put them on top of the Funk pile.

Mexican born but in CA since the age of 5, now 55 and grew up with this. I continue playing this song mostly every Friday for a friend I met when I was 12 and passed away before he reached 18- He loved this song so I come by now anf then but only Fridays and play this song for him. In fact, just finished playing it. Am parked at the Gonzales Ca cemetery and his resting place is just 50 feet away-

I'm Almost 51 in July 6 , I loved this song since 6 yrs old my Dad drove Schlitz beer trucks in the early 70's to be exact 73 to Miller my dad wore 🎉the Moose Head 🙏

Man! !! I LOVE THIS SONG IM 55 Yrs old Hispanic Woman I used to listen to this song everyday while I got dressed for school That's my jam 😊

Tulsa's finest! RIP Robert Wilson

It's 2021. This song is nearly 40 years old and it still sounds fresh and funky!

Gap Band, Spinners, and Commodores are a pleasure to listen to at 3 in the morning.