hello and welcome to the i'm b show up close and personal i'm your host venus and i'm here to take you through this musical dance we call life and to do that you know i bring on wonderful special people to help us make it through today's gets hails from newark new jersey and he's a drum about money we can say more than give the drama some because he's a writer he's a producer he's here to talk about his new single we're going to get into that but he has worked with so many of our of the greats of gospel great anybody you name it my favorite phil is hot musical family both your parents were in music and mother was an opera singer and your grandparents sang and that's how the music got in you so to speak come use it is in me all right so have you always been a muse in the music business i have from  since now you know think these questions always take me to another area since you said that fell by the wayside for those folks listen to us how long do you wait for to throw that to the wayside to do what your real passion is which is music well some of it n t downsizing which kind of forced me to rethink my direction and the other was the passion that had been calling me that that i've always had that i just decided to go for it and have it work for me as opposed to me chasing it on the sideline chasing the dollar right yeah exactly i mean i can tell i think i met you i don't know maybe sometime in the last year and you know i'm prone to looking at musicians i mean i think so if i see a musician i'm like tuned in and i love drummers to go in and say you know john the sound anyway so i know you do more than the drums you played at least one or two other instruments well i i work with the piano and my main instrument is the drums but i work at the piano for music production songwriting creation composing and working on my melodies and harmonies are one thing about a trumpet no why do i have to play trumpet and i play within the marching band playing for high school back in the  but my vocal instrument has always been there to support me so i'm i'm evolving i'm in constant evolving yeah i'm polishing the now i'm going to shine it up to step on a little further to the front you know but my my drop my first love is my drums ok all right do they have names several bands i don't have a band per se now but i will be developing a band because eventually this song in the others that i have in the works are going to take me on the road you know to the south to the west northeast wherever it tunes spotify you two we're working on a video a video for you tube for that we're setting up an online presence that gives me a presence for anyone to find us on the all the social media and you can find me on twitter you the hot song we heard a little bit at the top of the show yeah and as i was preparing for the show i'm listening to and i'm like ok yeah it's a nice beat you've got a little comedy in there somewhere right now i picked up all the little nuances and i really like if i think it's really going to fight safe on the radio already yeah within the south it's on the radio i have a manager that works with me and in the south he's been promoting it to d j s everyone's like in the song now we're just trying to build up an organic grassroots movement  minute so you when you travel with all those bands you know with a lot rather with all the artists that you've worked with how did you get to work with those artists and you can feel somewhat you know i've been i've been in the in this business for a while and word gets around there's a nice solid unit because i work my brother bob youngblood and we've been together for you know obviously since since inception but but musical we've been together for years and then you when you start together a certain feel for your rhythm people hear about and they want you to play behind them or that you get referrals and this business is all about referral about recommendation relationships right exactly you know that's it's just one thing is led to another one to a closes another one opens and you take but right now it's outdoors this is we've got some concerts lined up for the next couple of weeks and so with the band i'm working with my band present a my i'm working on original material these are good bands that are doing cover group he liked the group he said i want to talk to you don't want to talk to us about recording and actually my song my song walking was the song that got us to deal with it lenny records it was only four single deal but he got his so canned already that if i should say finish came in the can and i'm working on some more tunes tunes for the summer time makes and then i have some songs that are can for the for the lover and from the lover in me for the for the something back then yeah and then bring it up here and it's either still relevant or you just add a few things to make it real exactly and that's what i did because i felt like i had a good concept just have to keep it relevant to the times you're in so you listen to if has that catchy tune so people people will pick that up you've got it's got to have that hook yeah so it has that hook so they'll grab that and you know that's that's the key of learning and playing other people's music is you understand what makes a hit make at least makes a good song so that's the key thing to songs when i critique my own music i mean i'm i'm editing i'm writing rewriting retaking or just i'm never satisfied  until we've we do the final master and then sometimes i'm never satisfied it's like ok it could have been better but it's good it's it's it's poppin the way it is so the lyrics come from that concept with the girl doing some illegal stuff yeah  absolutely ok and then i think i start to expand on their spend on the idea and i said well ok i actually visualized i i'm sorry visualizing a an older lady in the distance calling security because she thought the young girl was and that's where you get that voice from ok and that adding the comedic relief in the song that is so funny i mean i'm literally writing preparing for the show and i'm listening to this song and i ha right so i actually about the voices of the drums and so tell me about the vibe of the songs to come are they similar to this or i know you've gotten down to seasons but i have a song that i am working on now that it's up tempo like this one then i have some that are made mid tempo more of a love song and then i have a very somber thought provoking slow song and then there are some others that are in development so i haven't really nailed down where they're going but all the good ones on once one cd i'll spread him out and then give you some of the songs that that give you pause to think oh ok well that's not necessarily a radio hit but it's still a good song to listen to them and so where do you want to see it do you want to see crossover  want to see the r and b jazz r and b you know where do you want to see contemporary i just pray that it's blessed to go wherever it goes because this opportunity came to me and i really can't define where it's going to go i'm just going to pursue it in all the different facets that it or avenues that it will that will go it used to be where you want to go r and b or you think it was a pop crossover song but in this day and age so many different there's so many different young years out there that that like different genres of music that i really i really don't want to classify it is it's probably at heart an r and b song but need to do and we'll concrete things they need to go do because they saw you on the show and they're saying i want to go out and do that first of all whatever craft or service or product they're in to  hours easily for a day i don't mean you should say that two hours a day right i mean when you crash but it's because by the time you warm up and half an hour is gone so it's i would say develop your craft use your social media skills in this day and age if you're not on social media you're really not going to be yeah noticed yeah and the third and most important one is believe in what you're doing and believe that you can be successful in it because that that's without that belief  yourself you know you're really not going to go anywhere i mean you can have people that believe in you that will encourage you but if you don't have that innate belief that i can do this and this is what i want to do it's going to come across let's go there for a minute with the belief in you how important is it would you say to have a team and i notice you have to johnny on the spot young ladies out there do they are also we need to like i say we need to clone them and you i believe in the use of today there's a lot of good use out there and they are intelligent they're smart and they are media savvy so it's about finding somebody that's hungry and looking for an opportunity and  synergy of of my experience and their knowledge and their youth bringing those two together finding them i would start with the colleges because that's where everybody i mean that's where you're getting the those they've got the degree and they are now they're looking for the opportunity to to hone their skills and develop their skills and bring it to the to the business world a little bit on an ad for them or did you decide well in this case i have i learned i met them through a friend of a friend on my sig actually my significant so yeah i mean i would start with the colleges or technical schools the places where kids are coming out hungry to develop their skills and now you mention significant other so you have a family on how is she in the music business i know she's not in that he's not in the music business she's a wonderful person that stays in the background supports me but i do have a family i have actually i have four wonderful girls with me erin lauren and asia wonderful family i'm so thankful for them and it's good when you have people surrounding you that support you yeah because it's really hard to be in this business any business really but this business particularly yeah and you know have support you had people that pull you down you know you got to keep away from those folks you know they will derail you and if you're not confident yourself it'll bring that down so yeah well i've been through the downside of this business as well but we won't get it we won't go that's another show yeah i do some relationship shows some bring you so when you travel how is it with you know having a significant other that doesn't get in the way you make sure you have time and you come back well you have write a romantic song you have to have more th it's it's going to be a scenario where you have to have minded somebody that's willing to do you with this business i mean because this is a hard business i mean and went if you were six fortunate enough to take off it's going to be travel time and there's going to be time away from home and you've got to have a foundation that's going to be solid that should say is solid that you can either bring them with you if that's a that one no i didn't play it so you need to bring a female vocalist you know when you're not doing your you're your regular song on your concerts ok you don't like me i'm not saying it is me but it could be but if you bring your female vocal and do that song oh and speaking of that when you do the drums here before me so you're going to be out front now this is your out front now correct yes ok so when you're playing the drums you sing as you play i absolutely yes i love singing musicians yeah i think i learned that of years ago you to tell me how we can stay connected so you can find at sign ernie youngblood one twitter and you can look me up one also should media all social media i like that you can come back i will absolutely come that will be wonderful look forward to it