show up close and personal i'm being if your host and you know we started the show a little different today because i've got over three decades of musical legend in the house we just saw that video and it's called when we all pull them all together c e o of u b s records singer composer musical genius mr c c rogers gentleman welcome to the i'm the distro i'm so glad you're here i'm like i don't know what to do with myself all these men in the room got out like this and you know what the show is about and i want to get up close and personal can we do that all right so i'm going to ask you a couple questions first i want to let our viewers know from your mouth who you are each into a lot of the topics that are out there with that a lot of the things are a little bit too negative i don't give enough love it's not enough inspiration not enough so you know but anyway my feet did you could do so because i didn't get out much in this state and for a little bit it was just a dance but house music to me well first of all i'm not a great dancer so one of the reasons why i became a teacher hop and then i grew up to club music yes and i just remember going into the clubs early on and here in the music and feeling it and of course you have to hear him wonderful sound systems that really gets you gets you  it gets to your body and then gets to emotionally and it gets to you spiritually and it really opens you up and that's one of the reasons why for a few years i was doing a longstanding grown folks are be type thing for a while and then i decided i'm just going to take a break from that for a minute and get back into my club and house roots i want to go there stop there for a minute he said long standing army so that brings it to you produce the legendary learned that in their late frankie crocker let's talk about yes i did home that well i worked when i first came to new york in ninety seven i was working for syndication company and when the shows we syndicated it was the classic soul countdown with frankie crocker which was locally here in new york on o write for the show and work closely with frankie and putting that show together and after that i actually had a chance to work with another legendary person vaughn harper yes yes really great garber yes and that was another great experience that i always remember you know just working both of them and picking their brains on the programming of music and that type of thing and what what an audience really likes to hear and so stan what do you think is the difference between producing people back then those legends versus people now i like those reaction from both the parts that we had to tell which are well i think the difference basically then is that when you started out no matter where you started from you always wanted to pick up things and you listen more and you experienced more now it seems like folks feel as though they want to go from one certain thing and jump immediately into the other thing and sometimes it's not warranted sometimes it's not flex right you know it goes from that extreme so i think we're working with those two individuals i learned a lot because i just sat back and listened and absorbed and i think anybody who's a professional has to always be growing as a professional and so and that's what i always thought even though i have years of experience in this business i still consider myself the other day a student of the game so that's another reason why i'm glad you're here because i'm  do the game was excuse me but that's good because you need to make sure that you're doing and giving good impressions so that when people do meet you it's like hey venus i know you are not well nothing you know want to do that all right so  know so but i was with the church group so i was a church group so i don't hang out with them you know and so when we talk about house it's kind of hard for me because i'm not used to dancin secular and making secular movements to church music you know in the club but now i listen to it for inspiration while i'm getting dressed while i'm clean or whatever and i was listening to when we all pull together yes and i was listening to some day and i was listening to how low you're so in the house you know i can do that vehicle which you hear that message you know it's it could change but as long as you receive the message doesn't matter and that's something i want to ask you have you want to darkness to bring the people absolutely right you're absolutely right so do you believe that they're not moving the body too much of had that relationship such as with you and so like like aaron i did not want to go outside gospel music but when i started coming along i started realizing there's going to be more doing this and she kind of shonda rhimes whenever i want to drive me and my granddad i was really upset my granddad was fixing on a car he was a mechanic and he says you're doing a ministry that's bigger than what i'll ever do when a i know i'm going to come back to you again for a minute you have the records before we go into that because anybody else have a record label i have to get records get records so we'll talk about that all right so and we're going to get to the project in a few minutes so why can't really go and do other projects like that so we started his group called mood life which my son has taken over that name and we started producing a lot of artists being example who work with a lot of major labels and independently and we started seeing taken off and you tube was just a new and so we felt that we needed a major label to be distributed so we had a label but we were still always looking for distribution of whether it's warner or universal time to talk about that but so you're not a subsidiary of any other major label you know label and now i'm on label but now with you know when you when you said some things about the difference between what happens when happens what happened over ten fifteen years ago what we had to we had to learn some information is like a map a nanosecond ok and that works in the whole spectrum of the industry i am to student distributed now pretty much major company but they call themselves a distribution service to see you got to do something he says man when we all put together a song title we'd pull some of the local talent up whatever so he may have my number and i'm sure aaron and i said oh and then he mentioned jeff and i'm like positive voices out there because you know like the groups like the temptations the o'jays you know he's got that barry white thing happening he's got that everything happened i want to listen in to the keys i'm like he's amazing i mean i like and see th everyone's all right i really winding down so i've got to ask you i need three tips three tips that a person who wants to start a label could do or a person who wants to be a d j for this and i want some real internet some so college courses the business sense because it's always changing education in education and yet you don't have to have a lot you don't have to have a law degree right but anything in music business you know so you can understand contracts because if you're not reading and standing contracts you can spend upwards of three to five hundred dollars for a lawyer to look at your contracts and everything like that and you just you know if you can if you start up a little kid and you had a lemonade do if you think like you and you really invest your time into it ok so they want to be a major if you want to be a d j you have to think like a d j you have to read everything about d j you have to do everything you have to hang out in clubs you have to hang out with people or influence or now the thing that's changed over the years news when you do all these things no matter what it is the musician or whatever you also have to create a story ok you have to create a story  sometimes the hype is bigger than the substance ok that's what it unfortunately is just a change nowadays it used to be that you would have to have the skills and then have the story sometimes you can get away with just having the story and then work back your way into something to have the ok with young people because they make me feel young yet but i think you have to discover your gift because not everybody can do it that's the problem with the world today everybody thinks they have to be anything exactly you have to be what you meant to be you guys are so awesome and that's what that's that's the thing you know you have