Stevie Wonder’s talents surpass music, according to Johnny Gill.
The R&B icon recently sat down with Shawn Stockman’s On That Note podcast, revealing that Stevie is quite good at air hockey. The moment comes around the 33-minute mark of the video above.
“That guy beat all three of us, whipped our ass in air hockey. I’ll never forget,” Gill said, with the “three of us” referring to himself, Keith Sweat, and Gerald Levert. “Steve was the master of air hockey.”
When the host pointed out that air hockey is a “visual sport,” Gill agreed.
“I told Keith, I was like, ‘Yo, man, we can’t tell nobody this shit. I swear to God, he beat all three of us. And I said, ‘I don’t care what you say, motherfucker, you can see,’” Gill remembered. “[Wonder’s] reflex is so quick and he was boom, boom, and serve it right back and I’m going, ‘Yo, man. There’s no way, man’. … I told Keith in the promise we would never tell nobody.”
It’s unclear when the legendary air hockey game happened, but it had to be before 2006, the year Levert died from accidental acute intoxication.
In the mid ’90s, Levert, Gill, and Sweat formed the R&B supergroup LSG. The group released its debut album, Levert.Sweat.Gill in 1997, which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and No. 2 on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
LSG released its second and final album, LSG2, in 2003, which found similar success at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and No. 3 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
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