Podcasts about Where I Wanna Be

Episode 168 - Oct. 6th, 2024 - WWE Attitude & Unions  - Violation Counter - Ceddy - 3 x DJ Intence - 0 x Walt - 4  - New York Sports Teams (Giants, Jets, Liberty, Mets, & Yankees)  - WNBA vs Caitlin Clark vs Critics  - Chicago Sky Firing Teresa Weatherspoon  - Sports Coaches Who Constantly Getting Coaching Opportunities  - Netflix's Mr. McMahon Documentary Episode 4: Attitude  - Side Note: Internet Dial-Up  - WCW Pushed WWE into The Attitude Era, it was Officially Launched December 1997  - Again, Art Imitates Life, The Late 90s & Early 2000s Rawness On Television  - Shawn HBK Michaels Comes into The Ring with Stuffed Biker Shorts  - Degeneration-X Faction is Created From The Attitude Era. Also Introducing Stone Cold Steve Austin, & The Rock  - Mike Tyson Comes Into WWE for Special Referee January 1998  - The Monday Night Wars Swap After Jan. 1998 & WWE Took Off & Took Over  - Wrestlemania 14 HBK vs Stone Cold  - Austin vs Mr. McMahon was kicked off after Wrestlemania 14  - Vince McMahon doesn't see Color &/or Race, he just SEES Money aka Green!!!!  - Ceddy Ced DeBunks The Claim of Vince McMahon on not being a Racist  - Ceddy Ced Names Off The Black Wrestlers At The Early Stages of WWF  - WWE & The Treatment of Women During The Attitude Era (i.e. Sable)  - Owen Hart  - Owen Hart's Tragic Death At 1997 No Way Out, & The WWE continuing the Show after Owen Hart's Tragic Accident  - Side Note: Bill Goldberg x The Undertaker x Kurt Angle Retiring & Retirement Matches  - Songs Of The Episode - Kai Ca$h “Where I Wanna Be?” (Produced By Woody The Great)  - DJ Intence Fandom for Real Madrid  - Paul Pogba Reduction In Doping Ban  - ILA Longshoremen Strike & Update After The Strike on The East Coast & South Eastern Ports  - A Live GameTime Reaction Of Dallas Cowboys vs Pittsburg Steelers on Sunday Night Football  - Wise Guy's Segment - Accepting the high percentage in your mate, & not seeking out the other Percentage into the other person. Ain't NOTHING OUT THERE!!! 

In this episode, we're thrilled to welcome 90s R&B legend Donell Jones! He shares his early beginnings and influences growing up in Chicago, and his journey through the golden age of R&B music on the LaFace label. Donell opens up about the challenges of being on a label with major talents like Usher, Pink, Toni Braxton, and OutKast, and the patience required as he waited for his moment to shine. He reflects on his iconic debut album, Where I Wanna Be, discussing the extensive work that went into its creation and his hopes for its success. Donell also shares his excitement about new artists sampling his music and the joy it brings him when his work gains renewed popularity plus more. You don't want to miss it! ✅ LISTEN, FOLLOW, AND RATE

Welcome to our special NAIDOC Week celebration on Triple Homegrown! Join us as we honor the extraordinary Indigenous artists who have not only shaped our music but have also influenced some of our most iconic albums. Prepare to be amazed by the rising generation of Indigenous artists who are conquering the world, captivating audiences with their unique stories and captivating live performances. In this special episode, we have the privilege of hearing from a stellar lineup including King Stingray, Busby Marou, Peter Garrett, Shane Howard, Chasing Ghosts, Dan Sultan, and Scott Darlow. Throughout the show, we've curated an incredible playlist featuring songs that showcase the rich tapestry of Indigenous music. From Yothu Yindi's original version of "Treaty" to King Stingray's tracks like "Down Under" and "Lookin' Out," each song embodies the spirit and diversity of Indigenous artistry. Get ready to experience the powerful sounds of Midnight Oil with "Beds are Burning" and "The Dead Heart," as well as the emotional resonance of Dan Sultan's "Took the Children Away" and Shane Howard's acoustic rendition of "Solid Rock." Scott Darlow will captivate you with "Deadly Heart" and "Forgotten Australia," while Busby Marou's "Where I Wanna Be" and "Conversation" will transport you to new musical landscapes. We'll also take you on a journey through time with classic tracks like Icehouse's "Great Southern Land" reimagined by Byrralku Dhanguda, as well as Warumpi Band's legendary "Blackfella/Whitefella." Chasing Ghosts will soothe your soul with the unplugged version of "Summer," while Kev Carmody's "From Little Things Big Things Grow" and Dan Sultan's "Won't Give You That" and "Kimberley Calling" will leave a lasting impression. To top it all off, we have a special collaboration between Budjerah, WILSN, and the timeless hit "Better Be Home Soon." This NAIDOC Week special on Triple Homegrown is a celebration of Indigenous talent that will leave you inspired and in awe of the rich musical heritage of Australia. Tune in now and join us in paying homage to these remarkable artists who have shaped the course of our music scene and continue to make waves on a global scale. Experience the power, passion, and indelible spirit of Indigenous music in this unforgettable episode of Triple Homegrown.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to our special NAIDOC Week celebration on Triple Homegrown! Join us as we honor the extraordinary Indigenous artists who have not only shaped our music but have also influenced some of our most iconic albums. Prepare to be amazed by the rising generation of Indigenous artists who are conquering the world, captivating audiences with their unique stories and captivating live performances. In this special episode, we have the privilege of hearing from a stellar lineup including King Stingray, Busby Marou, Peter Garrett, Shane Howard, Chasing Ghosts, Dan Sultan, and Scott Darlow. Throughout the show, we've curated an incredible playlist featuring songs that showcase the rich tapestry of Indigenous music. From Yothu Yindi's original version of "Treaty" to King Stingray's tracks like "Down Under" and "Lookin' Out," each song embodies the spirit and diversity of Indigenous artistry. Get ready to experience the powerful sounds of Midnight Oil with "Beds are Burning" and "The Dead Heart," as well as the emotional resonance of Dan Sultan's "Took the Children Away" and Shane Howard's acoustic rendition of "Solid Rock." Scott Darlow will captivate you with "Deadly Heart" and "Forgotten Australia," while Busby Marou's "Where I Wanna Be" and "Conversation" will transport you to new musical landscapes. We'll also take you on a journey through time with classic tracks like Icehouse's "Great Southern Land" reimagined by Byrralku Dhanguda, as well as Warumpi Band's legendary "Blackfella/Whitefella." Chasing Ghosts will soothe your soul with the unplugged version of "Summer," while Kev Carmody's "From Little Things Big Things Grow" and Dan Sultan's "Won't Give You That" and "Kimberley Calling" will leave a lasting impression. To top it all off, we have a special collaboration between Budjerah, WILSN, and the timeless hit "Better Be Home Soon." This NAIDOC Week special on Triple Homegrown is a celebration of Indigenous talent that will leave you inspired and in awe of the rich musical heritage of Australia. Tune in now and join us in paying homage to these remarkable artists who have shaped the course of our music scene and continue to make waves on a global scale. Experience the power, passion, and indelible spirit of Indigenous music in this unforgettable episode of Triple Homegrown.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Episode 140 of “That's What I'm Saying!” the podcast, we talk Jonathan Majors, Marcus Jordan's size 15s, Black Chyna's new look, and more. 36:20 - On the Woke Minute we discuss the fall of Silicon Valley Bank and the implication of a “controlled demolition”. 44:13 - On the Weekend D*** Report we ask is it ok to have 2 husbands? 56:17 - On That's My Jam, Shatara brings us back to “I Wish” by Carl Thomas and “Where I Wanna Be” by Donnell Jones. Want to advertise your business on our podcast AND TV Show on Island TV? Visit https://twispod.com/advertise-with-us

Welcome back to Shoptalkpodcast EP349! J and Dame are back and they are joined in the studio by returning guest and friend of the show @3269Chise. The fellas discuss how Christmas was for them all, talk about the New Year, and more. They also get a chance to chop it up about Chise's years right after high school that he spent in Los Angeles and how it shaped him musically and culturally. They talk about his newest project (Mason Made: Janice Baby Boy Vol. 1) and how much family plays a role into the music he makes , the idea behind the video Where I Wanna Be and why it was important to make it that way. Really dope conversations between the guys. Music Pick - Archer Lee - 3269 Chise Apple Link - Archer Lee Spotify Link - Archer Lee Please watch, rent, or purchase the stand up special J filed for @ComedianMacho in his hometown of Saginaw Michigan. Show Mach and J some love and view here ---> Comedian Macho - Homecoming ❶ Youtube ☞ YouTube.com/jjohnson313 ❷ Website ☞ www.shoptalkpod.com ❸ Book some time ☞ www.shoptalkpodcastudio.com ❹ Facebook ☞ https://m.facebook.com/ShoptalkPod/ Follow @jjohnson313 on Instagram and Twitter Follow @dame___313 on Instagram and Twitter Follow Shoptalkpodcast on Instagram and Twitter --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shoptalkpodcast/support

***ALL THE VIDEOS, SONGS, IMAGES, AND GRAPHICS USED IN THE VIDEO BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS AND I NOR THIS CHANNEL CLAIMS ANY RIGHT OVER THEM.******THIS SHOW IS INTENDED FOR ADULTS AND MATURE AUDIENCES!!!***LORD WE THANK YOU FOR OUR GIFTS!!!Mic Talkers, we have it over here! Special guests, Ree and Ashley live in studio for this one. The energy was high. Topics include: Get to know the guests. Would you want your mate to be apart of your business or just support from afar. Couple requests only cash as wedding gifts. Which is the better song, "They Don't Know, by Jon B or "Where I Wanna Be", by Donnell Jones. Are you cool with food during sex? Man doesn't like deodorant on his lady convo. If you mate took your three children out and bought em a Rolex, how would you respond?Segments: "If Your Mic Could Talk, What Would It Say About You", "things That make You Go Hmmm", "Black Excellence", "Random Confession", "Hot Seat", "OK Brotha", "Damn Girl", "Legacy", "Something For The Soul", and MORE!!!MIC TALKERS, THIS IS FOR YOU!!!

HOLIDAY STATE THE NEW TRIO (SEASON 2 EP. 41) HOLIDAY STATE Get to know the new country trio that is taking over! Oh I should also mention, they are brothers! Meet Bryan, Brandon & Brett. Holiday State will become your new go to band, ESPECIALLY for summer tunes

In this episode, Pastor Jay Lee interviews special guest Val of @thewabisabimama to discuss the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi which means to find beauty in imperfection and how that has been a source of encouragement for Val journeying through a child with colic, post-partum depression, and PTSD. This interview will help you with some of the pressures we face as parents from social media and even, our Christian faith. Guest bio: Val is the mom of a busy preschooler and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a first time mom, she struggled with postpartum depression. That season of life created a passion in her to help other moms find the beauty in the imperfections of motherhood. On her Instagram account @thewabisabimama, she shares transparently about the ups and downs of motherhood. She also loves to share ways her family connects with and celebrates their Asian cultures. **** The closing song for this episode is "Where I Wanna Be" by Damara Melissa (@damaramelissamusic) Links Page: https://instabio.cc/20827NXmsap **** If you would like to contact Pastor Jay or support the podcast, visit: dailysabbath.com

American Music Award Winner, Donell Jones is a renowned R&B vocalist, an exceptional songwriter, and a master producer.  For over the last 25 years, the multifaceted Chicago native has experienced greatness and adversity during his musical journey as well as he's been signed to LaFace Records, has had many chart-topping hits, including unforgettable classic ballads that are fan favorites like “Where I Wanna Be,” “You Know What's Up ft. TLC's Left Eye,” and “Knocks Me Off My Feet” just to name a few.  Jones has also produced and written hit songs for Usher “Think of You,” 702 “Get It Together” Drea “Not Gonna Letcha," Jacquees “23,” and he's recently collaborated with singer, Jon B on a song called “Understand.” Donell has traveled the world doing shows and he's even gone on tour with Alicia Keys. #rnb #rnbpodcast #rnbmusic #newjackswing #hiphop #hiphopmusic  #DJCassidy #PassTheMic #HalftimeChat

This Luv is a song by Donell Jones. It was released on October 12, 1999 off his second album, Where I Wanna Be. We review this song on this episode of Shades of Us: The Review. #ShadesofUs   Facebook: Shades of Us. Twitter: Shades of Us Media. LinkedIn: Shades of Us. Instagram: Shades of Us Media. Blog: Shades of Us Vlog: Shades of Us Africa Credit: This Luv by Donell Jones Image: Credit: The Producer's Channel

It's been more than a month but we're back with a new episode of the SoulBack R&B podcast. This week we have our friend and R&B singer/songwriter Kevin Ross with us. We talk about his journey as an independent artist, some of the challenges that he faced while on a major label and also some of the current issues that we're seeing in R&B right now. We also talk about Kevin's new single "Looking For Love". Lastly we get into a special love letters as we discuss the Kevin Ross penned "What's Best For You" by Trey Songz and analyze the lyrics. We compare the approach that Trey Songz takes on that record with Donell Jones' classic "Where I Wanna Be". Take a listen and see if you agree! 0:00:48 – New music from Kevin Ross, Silk Sonic and Kem 0:16:08 – BJ the Chicago Kid leaving Motown and going independent 0:21:32 - Learning to be profitable as an independent artist 0:28:14 - The stigma changing on Adult R&B and Urban AC radio 0:39:44 – Is modern R&B a victim of ageism? 0:54:38 – Is 90's and 2000's overrated in the grand scheme of things? 1:02:00 – Love letters: Trey Songz - What's Best For You 1:08:02 – Upcoming "Drive 2" project from Kevin Ross

This week we are back with a much needed Part 2 to one of the earliest episodes of Daily Dimensions titled "Where I Wanna Be".  In this episode we tackle the topic of not being where you want to be in life especially when you thought you would have been there already.  Most of us can relate to this feeling but not all of us know how to work through it and overcome it.  That's what Daily Dimensions is for!   Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for the latest news and episodes!

Chicago R&B singers Carl Thomas, Donell Jones, Dave Hollister announce supergroup called The Chi Three Chicago creatives with deep roots in the city's R&B scene have announced their intention to join forces. R&B singers Carl Thomas, Donell Jones, and Dave Hollister aim to form “The Chi,” an R&B group, the trio announced last week on their Instagram accounts. “The music … the voices finally coming together to give your ears and hearts what you've been waiting for,” said Hollister, who is most known for his time with '90s R&B group Blackstreet and his gold-selling album “Chicago '85 ... The Movie.” “We started talking about this in 2009 and now the time has finally come. … Brothas, I count it as an honor and privilege to Rep home with you both! LETS GO!” Jones, known for hits singles “Where I Wanna Be,” and “U Know What's Up,” echoes Hollister's sentiments in his own Instagram post, saying: “Yesssss it's happening! The level of music and songwriting will be impeccable and you already know the voices! It's only right for us to come together and represent Chicago and R&B to the fullest.” Thomas has platinum and gold albums with Bad Boy Entertainment, featuring the singles “I Wish,” “Summer Rain” and “Emotional,” a duet with Faith Evans. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode: We get right into What is Love vs. What is lust? Is it wrong to lust over other women if you are married or in a relationship? Is it a such thing at love at first sight or lust at first sight? A lot goes into this conversation as we discuss it from all sides. To go along with that, could you still be in love with someone and hate things about that person? Example being, what if your girl can't cook? Does that diminish the relationship and how you feel about her or could you withstand that? A lyric breakdown of Donnell Jones', Where I Wanna Be. He has a powerful line in there that states, "I'd rather leave, than to cheat". So Marcus opens up the floor to the fellas in the room on what they would do. Nate may have won this round of, "Whats On Your Shuffle" with the forgotten Ne-Yo banger, we discuss our favorite french fry from restaurants, all of this and more as you hangout In Tha Field! Intro: Haddaway | What Is Love? Outro: Big Sean | The Baddest --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/inthafieldpodcast/support

On this week of the #SoulBackPodcast, we revisit R&B in 1999 and what was going out during that era of R&B. Names that will pop up during this conversation are Sisqo, Donell Jones, Ginuwine, TLC and Destiny's Child. We talk about some of our favorite albums and songs from that year and also discuss some of the sleepers that people may have forgot about. We also discuss the industry during that time and some of the trends were happening during that time. 0:00:01 - Reflecting back on the state of the industry of 1999 0:02:50 - Reflecting on Donell Jones' "Where I Wanna Be" 0:05:25 - Looking at Brian McKnight's "Back At One" 0:07:30 - Looking at releases from Chico DeBarge, Silk, Montell Jordan, Eric Benet 0:16:33 - Talking about Destiny's Child "The Writing's on the Wall" 0:20:04 - Is TLC's "FanMail" better than "CrazySexyCool"? 0:23:03 - Looking at releases from 702, Mary J. Blige and Mariah Carey 0:33:43 - Looking at the 1999 rookies in R&B 0:44:24 - Rookie Of The Year Of 1999 0:48:30 - Looking back at Ginuwine's "100% Ginuwine" 0:51:00 - Top 3 albums of 1999

Tjena tjena!Glad sommar. I avsnitt 202 väljer vi två sommarsånger var. En från förr och en från nu. Det är allt.Ha en ok lyssning och hoppas ni har en toppen sommar.Whatever?!?! xoxoLåtlista:L'Algérino feat. Soprano - La VidaSimeon feat. Denz - 11 MannaKiki - PeachyTrunk Boiz - Cupcake No FillinShade Sheist feat. Nate Dogg & Kurupt - Where I Wanna BeZ.E - KaxigICEKIID - ErruDumEllaHvadSponsra oss på Patreon om ni vill. Ni betalar 1$ eller mer när vi släpper ett avsnitt. Patreon.com/vbdfr. Och gå med i vår Facebook-grupp Vad blir det för rap?! Eftersnacket.

Welcome Back to Rhythm and Banter! On this episode, Lyandre and Jeremy highlight their picks for some of the most underrated male R&B artists! Lyandre discusses Donell Jones, while Jeremy talks about Avant and they both highlight some of their favourite songs and why they think they are underrated. Tune in and Enjoy! See below the songs highlighted in this episode. Donell Jones: "Shorty Got Her Eyes on Me", "Where I Wanna Be", "U Know What's Up" ft. Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes Avant: "Separated", "My First Love" and "Nothing in this World" ft. KeKe Wyatt

We recently had a chance to catch up with the legendary Donell Jones on Instagram Live for an interview. The conversation started around his huge collaborative single with Jon B. last year on “Understand”. The song ended up being #1 on our list of the Top 100 R&B Songs of 2019. Donell then talked about the new music he had been working on as a follow up to his 2013 album “Forever”. We then took it back to his origins in the music industry, and he talked about his songwriting for other artists like Usher and 702. He then shared the story of how he originally got signed to LaFace after linking up with DJ Eddie F and The Untouchables. The discussion then turned to reflections of each of the albums Donell Jones has released over the years, from the debut “My Heart”, to “Where I Wanna Be”, to “Life Goes On”, to “Journey of a Gemini”, to “Lyrics”, to “Forever”. We ended our discussion by talking about how his music has been sampled quite a bit in recent years and some of the younger generation has been showing him respect. Check out what Donell Jones had to say in the video above!

Bryan Stevenson writes a powerful true story about the Equal Justice Initiative, the people we represent, and the importance of fighting injustice. His latest, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption is a New York Times bestseller and this year’s Book In Common. Also, Author TJ Richardson captures the essence of pursuing your goals amongst hardships in Where I Wanna Be . Richardson speaks about his journey as a nontraditional student.

We’re back with the second half of Golf Clap’s EF2020 Lineup Mix, plus some additional lineup reactions and favorite memories shared by EF Radio listeners. For more podcast episodes and to hear the EF Radio 24/7 live stream, visit ElectricForestFestival.com/radio. TRACK LIST Rome In Silver – Glass Noisia & Phace – Non Responsive 99 Neighbors – Ripstick 5AM – Komorebi Madi – White Horse (Golf Clap Remix) Louis The Child – Breaking News ft. RAYE Alison Wonderland – Church (Hex Cougar Remix) Mija & Vendetta – Better Golf Clap & MASTERIA – Freak It Out Justin Jay – Don’t Trip Dombresky – Trust The Process Walker and Royce & VNSSA – Rave Grave Sidepiece – Wanna See You Township Rebellion – Pelikan Big Gigantic – Where I Wanna Be

Jas and JD dive into the comedy/hip-hop force that was "In Living Color". Keenen Ivory Wayans sought talent that changed the face of urban comedy forever and brought Hip-Hop music to the masses in a way that pop culture is forever indebted to. We celebrate 20 years of Donnell Jones' "Where I Wanna Be" and the toxicity behind that hit single, and LL Cool J has many nicknames-- they all mean money. We researched, we discussed, we laughed, we sang. What A Time...

The crew recap's their weekend, which finds Chiane XO explaining her turn up behavior at Sundresses & Sangria, while Lingo Steve & Last Name Good breakdown the latest Snowfall episode, talk playlist vibes and of course Popeyes vs. Chick-fil-A. Last Name Good's Bruh Where: Donell Jones - "Where I Wanna Be" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhfCgSA6DeQ Chiane XO's Shout Out Of The Week: No Buffer Podcast (She Slick Didn't Have One) Lingo Steve's Word Of The Week: Wangle - to resort to trickery or devious methods. Catch The No Buffer Podcast live every Monday night at 7pm on LiveHipHopDaily.tv Be sure to subscribe to The No Buffer Podcast on Apple Podcast itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-n…ast/id1360907766 Want a Culturally Ratchet t-shirt? Grab one at nobufferpodcast.com/shop Follow the crew on social: IG www.instagram.com/nobufferpodcast www.instagram.com/lastnamegood/ www.instagram.com/chianexo www.instagram.com/lingostevo www.instagram.com/jabariblackmond www.instagram.com/h_imperial763

Epic R&B news came out this past week as Fantasia announced she will be hitting the road with Robin Thicke, Tank and The Bonfyre. We had the chance interview the new R&B star Bonfyre to discuss her new project as well as the upcoming tour. We also find out more about her early beginnings which included performing in a Chinese restaurant. We also discuss the success of her single "Automatic" as well as her new single "U Say". On our end we discuss new music from Missy Elliott, Lyfe Jennings and Raphael Saadiq. We also take the time to highlight Donell Jones' second album "Where I Wanna Be" which came out twenty years ago! Lastly we talk about this Dallas Austin/Shawn Stockman beef that's happening on social media. 0:00:15 - Popeyes' new chicken sandwich 0:02:30 - Our thoughts on Missy Elliott's Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award + new EP "Iconology" 0:06:10 - New albums from Lyfe Jennings and Raphael Saadiq 0:08:45 - In depth discussion about Fantasia's new Sketchbook tour with Robin Thicke, Tank and The Bonfyre 0:14:08 - Summer Walker's new song "Playing Games" and the problem with songs that clock in at under three minutes 0:17:45 - Revisiting Donell Jones' second album "Where I Wanna Be" 0:22:10 - The Bonfyre joins us on the #SoulBackPodcast 0:22:45 - One album that impacted her growing up 0:24:48 - Her journey and being in artist development for almost five years 0:28:45 - The creative process behind her EP with Raphael Saadiq 0:33:18 - Her new single "U Say" with 6lack 0:36:38 - Sharing information on her upcoming debut album 0:38:00 - Being part of the Sketchbook tour 0:45:02 - SoulBack Track Of The Day: Lauryn Hills - Ex Factor 0:47:10 - Playa Please Award: Dallas Austin/Shawn Stockman's beef

Episode 92: SUJIT KUNDU (SKAM ARTIST) On this weeks episode of the @RoadPodcast, the crew link up with Sujit Kundu, owner of @SkamArtist and former Senior VP for @UniversalMusicGroup and @EpicRecords. Sujit breaks down his work with @HitcoMusic (founded by @LA_Reid) and his instrumental role in Record Promotions for artists like @DJKhaled @FrenchMontana @Tyga (4:02). He explains the difference between a booking agent and a manager (17:44) and talks about his transition as a teenager promoting Rave parties to attending @UCSantaBarbara and booking Hip-Hop acts like #MobbDeep, @KeithMurrayRap @RedManGilla (31:00). Sujit remembers the release of his 1st record “Where I Wanna Be” by @ShadeSheist feat #NateDogg (35:50), creating the name for his DJ agency and the marketing plan behind the “I Am A Skam Artist” promotional campaign (42:15). He touches on tour managing for @AfroJack and @Pitbull (57:50), shares his thoughts on “Influencer DJs” (1:03:42), breaks down how DJing is a lifestyle and not a job (1:31:47) and explains representing producers turned DJ’s like @LilJon (1:33:55) and expanding his agency to performers/personalities like @AmberRose @BlacChyna (1:38:09). Finally, Sujit shares his personal thoughts on DJ’s leaving Skam Artist like @Roctakon and @DJVice (1:49:55).

Where I Wanna Be is a variety of electronic music with classic artists by Ken Steele. Some great remixes in this session. Artist names and song titles are in order of play...CRADE-ALL GOOD (original mix), TRACY CHAPMAN-FAST CAR (feat. Jonas Blue)(Dakota Remix), BOB MOSES-TEARING ME UP (original mix), TELEPOPMUSIK-BREATHE (Ext. Remix), TINUSH-STRUGGLE (feat. Aretha Franklin), ALEX HOOK-BURN (feat.Emma Brammer)(original mix), ELEFANTZ-WISH (original mix), MARVIN GAYE-IF THIS WORLD WERE MINE (Claes Rosen Remix), EMMA BRAMMER-CUTTING TIES (FVHM Remix), FLEETWOOD MAC-DREAMS (Gigamesh Edit), SADE-NOTHING CAN COME BETWEEN US (Master Chic Mix), Rain and thunder as ending. Thank you for listening from, Ken Steele.

The sweetest "I Ain't Shit" songs, real talk about generational financial literacy, a discussion about whether or not a wife should help with her husband's child support, talking through "When They See Us", and MORE! We do not own the rights to the music in this episode. Music Cred: "Where I Wanna Be" | Donell Jones "Player" | 112 "Un-Break My Heart" | Toni Braxton "No Diggity" | Blackstreet (feat. Dr. Dre) "Might Be" | Anderson .Paak Email: hustleprayrepeat@gmail.com Website: hustleprayrepeat.com Show Twitter: @HPRpod Facebook: /hustleprayrepeat

Greater Boston is written and produced by Alexander Danner and Jeff Van Dreason, with recording and technical assistance from Marck Harmon.   Thank you to Patreon supporters Jon Grilz, Amanda Robinson, Derek J. May, and Rasmus! We’ve reserved fine luxury Car-condos for each of you in the newly revitalized city of Red Line! And thank you to everyone who has supported Greater Boston, through Patreon, through sharing the show on Twitter on Tumblr, by joining the fan discord to share your reactions to each episode! We are grateful for all of it!   This episode featured:   Kelly McCabe as Nica Stamatis (she/her) James Johnston as Dimitri Stamatis (he/him) Johanna Bodnyk as Mallory (she/her) Braden Lamb as Leon Stamatis (he/him) Jeff Van Dreason as Chuck Octagon (he/him) Kristin DiMercurio as Nichole Fonzerelli (she/her) Julia Propp as Louisa Alvarez (she/her) James Oliva as Michael Tate (he/him) Rick Zieff as Lawyer (he/him) Mike Linden as Oliver West (he/him) Jim Johanson as Rusty (he/him) Sam Musher as Emily Bespin (she/her) Michael Melia as Philip West (he/him)   With special appearance by Briggon Snow as Ben Afleck.   And The Narrator (he/him)   Also featuring: David Rheinstrom Phoebe Joy Jordan Cobb Cole Burkhardt Fox Cooper Tina Daniels Christopher Dole Todd Faulkner Jack Pevyhouse Alma Roda-Gil Zane Sexton and Alex Welch as Legion.   With additional voices by James Hartley, Colin Kelly, and Brandy Danner.   Interviews with real Greater Boston residents.   Charlie on the MTA and Tosa Waltz by Emily Peterson and Dirk Tiede Broke Yeti by Ryan Estrada Drums by Jim Johanson This is Where I Wanna Be by Must Be Tuesday. You can find more of their music by following them on Twitter @mustbetuesday.   Extra special thanks to Karl Christian Krumpholtz, the artist who conceived the Nacho Flume when he created the three amazing prints we released at the beginning of the season.   Episode transcripts are available online at GreaterBostonShow.com.   Content Notes Strong language Feelings of abandonment Abusive classism Mass layoffs Imprisonment Metafictional evil Cliffhanger ending BUM BUM BUM

Tonight on Proper Propaganda:new tracks from John River, Intellect, Anderson Paak, and more, but first, new from Papoose, “University of the Streets.” “University of the Streets” Papoose “It Never Rains in South L.A.” Blu & Oh No “September 29th” John River “Veteran’s Day” Intellect Interlude: Stephen Colbert BG Music: “New Love” by Jansport J “Miss America” J Cole “They School” Dead PRez “War” Ron Solemn “King James” Anderson .Paak “From the 718” Pete Miser “Radio” Eazy-E feat. Dr. Dre & MC Ren “Latifah’s Law” Queen Latifah Interlude: The Simpsons “Coffee, Donuts & Death” Paris “Where I Wanna Be” Kururpt, Nate Dogg & Shade Sheist “Some Seek Stardom” The Fugees “Change” Fishbone “Keep it Locked” Pete Miser “Paper Planes” M.I.A.

Donell Jones (born May 22, 1973) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He is most notable for the hits "U Know What's Up," "Where I Wanna Be," and his cover of Stevie Wonder's "Knocks Me Off My Feet." Jones broke into the music scene in te late 1990s with the release of his second album, Where I Wanna Be.It wasn't until 1999, however, that Jones began to establish himself as a true R&B hit maker with his second album, Where I Wanna Be. The album yielded #1 R&B hits such as the title track and "U Know What's Up" which was produced by Eddie F and Darren Lighty and featured TLC member Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes. Other hits included "Shorty Got Her Eyes on Me" and "This Luv." The album went on to sell over one million copies and garnered Jones an American Music Award.[2] In 2000, Jones recorded the song "I'll Go" for the Love and Basketball soundtrack and received a Black Reel Award nomination.

EP087 - UBS Equity Research Analyst Michael Binetti An interview with Michael Binetti, Equity Research Analyst at UBS, covering apparel and footwear brands, department stores and speciality retailers.  His coverage universe includes:   Abercrombie & Fitch Co,, American Eagle Outfitters Inc, Chico's, Coach, Express Finish Line, Foot Locker Inc, Gap, Hanesbrands, J. Jill Inc, JC Penney Co ,Kohl's Corp, L Brands , Lululemon, Macy's, NIKE, Nordstrom, PVH Corp, Ralph Lauren Corp, Ross Stores Inc, TJX ,Under Armour Inc, Urban Outfitters and  VF Corp. In this interview, we discuss Omnichannel, Mallageddon, Brands vs Retailers, and of course Amazon. Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 87 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Tuesday, May 30, 2017.  http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. New beta feature - Amazon Automated Transcription of the show: Transcript Jason:  [0:25] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode is being recorded on Tuesday May 30th 2017 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot & Michael:  [0:39] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners Jason you're on the road again. Jason:  [0:46] I am I am in not Sunny New York City today. Scot & Michael:  [0:50] Cool well I finally get to ask if you've been to the Amazon store it's opened and there was a lot of Twitter activity over the weekend and I'm assuming that's going to be on your list of places to visit. Jason:  [1:02] It is today was my first day here and I did not make it today but I will over the next couple of days candidly, I'm not expecting to see anything that we haven't seen in the Chicago store and in fact it sounds like it may be a subset of the Chicago store so what for a full report in the next podcast. Scot & Michael:  [1:21] Copo listeners I'm sure on the edge of their seat for that, and what folks one of the topics we cover a lot here on the Jason Scott show is what I like to call mall again that's the Relentless drum beat in the last year year-and-a-half of store closures Mall closures and pressure pressure on physical brick-and-mortar retail, top listeners understand better what's going on out there in the exciting world of physical retail we decided to go right to Wall Street. Jason physically went but we're virtually going to take you there today on the show or excited to welcome Michael binetti, Michael is a managing director at UBS covering apparel and Footwear brands, department stores and Specialty retailers he has a very broad coverage universe and it may actually be simpler to list the things he doesn't cover but let me take a shot at this is a covered Universe includes Abercrombie & Fitch American Eagle Outfitters Chico's coach Express Finish Line Foot Locker, Gap hanesbrands J.Jill, JCPenney Kohl's L Brands Lululemon Macy's Nike Nordstrom PVH Corp Ralph Lauren Corp Ross stores TJ Maxx Under Armour Urban Outfitters and VF Corp, well that was a mouthful Michael were real excited to have you on the Jason and Scott show exercise 3 guys thanks so much for having me. [2:40] Cool and you are one of those rare while shooters that is not in New York is that right actually when we work at I work at in New York for a month and I'm in Chicago. Jason:  [2:51] I love to have Fellowship Coggins on the show of Michael good deal. Scot & Michael:  [2:55] Although you're not here very much I think. Jason:  [2:58] This is true I am not there as much as I would like to be but the next time I'm there we'll have to have you back on the show and we can make fun of Scott together. [3:07] Good deal so before we jump into it love to get the listeners a little bit of background about how you came to the retail business can you sort of walk us through your your background a bit. Scot & Michael:  [3:20] Absolutely so, quick intro on me and I want to go into research and Dustin research straight out of business school I'm about 14 years ago ready I got really lucky. Right out of school I got a job at a big global bank UBS I've been here the whole time I started out just randomly getting a job on the consumer and Retail team as an associate on the restaurant sector but that sector didn't have enough Amazon risk for me so about 9 years ago. Ask me if I wanted to cover some of the retail stocks and so I started out covering the Branded apparel and Footwear companies that you just mentioned Nike and Under Armour and Ralph Lauren and Coach it's been super fun in the best part of my job is. Even though we're just grinding it out here analyzing spreadsheets and income statement I cover the consumer sector, and not just any sector the apparel and Footwear names so when you tell people that they jump right in and everybody's got an opinion on these brand cuz we all interact with them every day and use them and I can't tell you how many times. Ghetto people outside of the industry to try to help me out with my stock calls with stories about how many kids on their kids soccer team or wearing Under Armour and Nike and versus what they used to be so it's great everybody knows he's breath. I'm about five years ago UBS asked me to have the department stores those guys have a lot of secular challenges today but they're still really big companies, and it's really important where American shop for these categories and then about two years ago we had of the off-price retailers you just mentioned like TJ Maxx and some of them all retailers like Lululemon American Eagle so pretty broad coverage at this point, we really liked at the heart of everything that's in the consumers closet the brands they buy and where they go to buy them. Jason:  [4:55] Nice and Michael is it's ironic if you would have stuck it out in the restaurant industry long enough I have a feeling the Amazon risk would have eventually gotten there. Scot & Michael:  [5:03] Tranchulas will get their boobs getting there too. Jason:  [5:06] Exactly. Scot & Michael:  [5:07] Yeah or you could have jumped to cloud computing and avoided it with nothing. Jason:  [5:14] Maybe like Logistics or telecommunications or something like that maybe. Scot & Michael:  [5:21] Cool what let's kick it off kind of it at thirty thousand foot level it's right in the middle of Q2 kind of 2/3 way, done with the quarter we've seen the q1 results come out and then we're starting to see the same store sales for May so we have pretty good read on the house 17 is shaping up for folks give us a, it was kind of broad overview of what you're seeing out there quite a disappointment. First quarter earnings season conference call this when we heard from. Anna management teams of these companies giving us their outlook for the year for second quarter and I would say the thing that's different is, that they're trying to embrace him more conservative posture and realize that you know they don't know what's coming as well as they thought they had the last few years so he's learned, and I'll from some painful quarters in retailer last 2 years it will become more conservative as they is they look at and the first quarter results which broadly, guest in our expectations the bad internally in our own expectations on Wall Street and they've taken a pretty conservative posture, for me the results of Ben mix a lot of these guys reported in a middle of months when they had you know. Sales numbers moving around around Mother's Day and things like that so I think people if it's tough to say if if, these companies are being conservative because they don't have a clear view with the calendar shifting around or they're just playing, not liking what they're seeing and wanting to stay on the very cautious side though say in general the same-store sales outlook for the near-term and for the year have moved down. [6:57] I from these companies as a gauge of what they think is going to be happening over the next three six nine months. Interesting are there so if you'll hear coverage Universe who's kind of on you know I don't know how you you do your ratings but you know, anyone anyone that you know when when you're out there talking to investors who do you usually kind of .2 is as someone that's kind of surviving or are doing well right now. [7:26] Yeah I would say probably the best example to be in a PVH Corp which listeners may remember the old Phillips Van Heusen company. Am980 PVH few years ago they own Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger name brands that they're much more well-known for these days and they're just really position themselves well it's it's privately you know within a group. Includes Nike it's the most Global name in our coverage of a full loan for region business Asia Latin America Europe so they've got a lot of global whitespace to attack and they're they're doing a really good job with it. I'm in and I would say the names of this mushroom animus is that right now are very few and far between. Ross stores at a good you know if prices everybody loves value America after all right he doesn't love low prices gas prices Ross stores and TJ Maxx headquarters. Mainstream retailers PVH is fairly limited story right now, pdhc sarson cuz when I think of Tommy I think Ralph Lauren Ralph Lauren you know is is not doing terribly well right now it isn't that Global diversification that they have or like what what is a dissenting apart. Yeah, some much you know is much as you listen to me be in the u.s. here and no no the brand here it's a much more powerful brand in in Europe even than it is here and now starting to expand pretty aggressively, into Asia for Tommy that has its Origins obviously in the u.s. in the in the 90s it was very popular and it kind of went by the wayside went out of fashion but they really restored a lot of strength to the Brandon. [9:06] And you're up and it's really a great sound Basics preppy red white and blue type brand and in Europe is got a lot of momentum there. Ralph Lauren on the other side I guess and tell me was coming from a lower base so you know for them to grow and succeed was a little bit a little bit easier during the most recent few years when Ralph got really big. And really broadly distributed selling lot of similar products in the red white and blues and you know what's happening in the end markets in the Retailer's I'm right now that are. Motion are going backwards I'm so if you were really big heading into the going backwards been even more painful for for Brands like Ralph Lauren. Jason:  [9:46] And Michael one of the things that that I've known as it sounds like in North America like the biggest compliment you give someone is that they're doing less badly than the than the industry is it. [9:59] I mean. [10:01] Is that right like are there any even like really small apparel brands that you think of and you say like wow they're really growing or bucking the trend or or is it like. Just answer the universal accent at the emit the moment that that apparel is pretty tough in North America. Scot & Michael:  [10:16] Yeah it's more Universal than it has been when I, first cover the sector in the late 2000 even in the recession there was there was moonshot little companies that were clearly going somewhere like Under Armour and Lululemon they were just moving really really fast, any big enough to be on people's Radars in the investing Community is not clear-cut set subset of small Brands and retailers like that, today the ones that are the most interesting are ones that are kind of got one foot across the bridge into. E-commerce and digital and they're not quite big enough to be public companies yet to recover Brands let we got cover company like VF Corp and owns about 30 brands. They're probably looking around for some Acquisitions in areas like that PVH which we mentioned before on recently bought in and online Intimates business, True & Co which is base pay, Mia women go on and do a fit quiz for their their bras and for some of their Intimates in and you come out of that quiz really feeling like I just retail ask me some really good intuitive questions I'm going to trust them with purchases in this category that's really specific, the teeny tiny brand you know there are just there just aren't that many. I'm Like You Under Armour to lose of a couple years ago that are a big enough SB public company stocks that still fit in that have very high growth rate today. Jason:  [11:36] Interesting it it it it seems like one of the potential challenges even on the acquisition front like some of the SharePoint the sort of the the pre public. [11:46] Play the pure digital plays the revolves are bonuses or something I know they're not pure digital but digitally native Brands the. [11:55] It almost seems like they're struggling to get big enough that they're even an interesting acquisition Target for the vfc of the world. Scot & Michael:  [12:03] That's a very very good point in, analyst Urbana bus Which whichever you prefer to grab that it had and I've had a relationship with Nordstrom for a long time so some people have wondered if, that would be something I would make a good pairing or if Knorr would want to have them in house for whatever their reasons are that hasn't even come about, that's the kind of model that people need to be thinking of scaling it up into the Brave New World or you know verses in the past Under Armour new how to become a big brand. Able to look at a lot of things Nike did and they had a booth blueprint a Michael Kors was able to look at. How to say here's how we're going to do this cuz he's guys are trying to figure out how to have inventory list stores and different kinds of shopping experiences and still you don't have, very strong online presence to your kind of wandering off into the Wilderness turn yourself in a lot of ways and it's not quite as easy as it was back in the day. [12:57] What's that scale need to be for this may we have some fledgling Brands out there listening what what do have to be for a one of these brand houses too kind of consider you to be interesting. [13:09] I guess there's a couple ways to think about that but or if he has since we brought them up I mean and we mentioned trueandco which is you know, TVH didn't mention how big it was my son says that is very small they characterize it is in significant earnings of a really that was a very small acquisition but they really wanted to latch onto the technology and the expertise inside of that company and frankly if they can. Take what they learn from that acquisition and use it for Calvin Klein's women. Intimates business and lay that Big Brand on top of a new capability while that that could end up being a homerun for them for VF Corp which is a much bigger. Company uses the last big acquisition they did was Timberland. And that was that years ago and why the big gap is now they said look we really, find something at the billion dollars and revenues are bigger we really want something that'll move the needle it or company that we can sink our teeth into and those billion dollar Acquisitions have proven very hard to come by. So I wouldn't I wouldn't be surprised if the industry shakes out and start settling on things closer to the three four hundred million dollar range on as being a very you know good sweet spot even the ones that thought in the past billions Where I Wanna Be. 2000 scale or business. Jason:  [14:23] We seeing some other segments where you could just pay a billion dollars for a company that's probably only worth three or four hundred million to get there too I'm not sure that's a good strategy but. Scot & Michael:  [14:32] TV tray you be trading some balance sheet flexibility be paying up for a brand and I'm to try and bolt on some earnings in that case and, can work your benefit that's about on yourself and your board of directors like letting you down on yourself you know, coach just bought Kate Spade in a lot of people's eyes are very similar Brands if you peel back the onion a little bit there fairly different cake too much younger brand and Coach to set look we think we can run this better we can put it on our supply chain. We can use our big Global Assets in China to to Really tap into these guys opportunity fast coach the thinks they can take it and they can extract or any doubt of this fashion the company could on a standalone basis. So you know definitely there's people out there looking for a particular environment to your point earlier if it's very very tough out there and the guys, we're feeling most comfortable with as stock Investments are the ones that don't necessarily need the economy to get better the consumer to get better for the stock to work they have internal projects like, coaches. Cuz they have to work on and pound some earnings out of that even if the consumer is pretty tough. Jason:  [15:41] Sure what are the things we hear from a lot of the traditional brands that have big investments in brick and mortar is. You know the beat the omni-channel drum they like a one of our competitive advantages is going to be on the channel and and you know there's all these unique advertising and customer experience advantages around, having physical stores super question, do you buy into that do you do you feel like there is a potential competitive advantage in having stores and if so are there any brands that you think of is doing. [16:14] Omni-channel particularly well. Scot & Michael:  [16:17] All those two answers to that there's there's the guys to have a lot of stores today that are saying you know stores are in advantage. But the reality is they probably need to go backwards, start app like you mentioned a couple of us like that it don't in stores today that don't have to distract themselves it how do we sublet these things how do we sell real estate in monetize it over the next two years they can just say look like we starting from scratch. We don't want to get you a thousand stores you want to get to 100 and that's a much cleaner path forward those are most of those are small company. I'm not as far as I think the second part of your question was just in our they was it are they good yummy channel breaking motor guys. Jason:  [16:57] Yeah or is there any particular brand you think of his being better than the pack in terms of of leveraging those stores for a competitive advantage. Scot & Michael:  [17:05] Yeah I would say that the sum of the, teenage brands that cater to a customer is a digital native and her much more digital fatty Urban Outfitters has a very very big e-commerce business I think it's up over over 30% which would be at the high end of, of the group that we cover one interesting little fact the way was I think American Eagle asking no smaller, Henry Taylor in the malls in the US on their first court all I think they said that. [17:37] Internet penetration as a percent of sales was up something like 700 basis points year-over-year. And I know just from listening to your show you know the average for overall retail in the US much less the apparel sector and much much lower in that so that's kind of a. Now that's kind of a heart-stopping comment when you hear small retailers hitting that much of their traffic Move online obviously speaks well to how well they're doing. I'm sure digital business but I'm fat that's kind of datapoint the stops if you cover your socks like I do to have several hundreds of thousands of stores at that kind of day point makes you stop and say well where where are we really headed here. Jason:  [18:14] Yeah even if you're starting it even if you're starting at a really nice and base that's a big number so. [18:22] That that's very interesting one of the the. [18:27] Certain narratives you hear a lot speaking of eCommerce and and seeing it get bigger for some of these these retailers in the e-commerce industry the story is All oh well the. Apparel is in the tank and department stores are going away largely because of. [18:44] Of the shift 2 online buying right and inside that you know the digital guys are convinced it's that that that's really the Big Driver and you know they're these Church floating around on the on the internet that show sort of you know. [18:58] 20 years ago department stores being 10% of of consumer spending and other down to a couple and and you know 20 years ago e-commerce was 2% of consumer spending and now it's up to 10 and so it sort of looks like they flip-flopped and you could say oh well. That's where it went but then I know, you you look at all the growth in those those discount stores in it you know that they've taken a bunch of market share from someplace and so is I'm guessing the answer is both but do you have a. [19:24] A sense for. [19:26] For where the consumer is Shifting is it going from from brick-and-mortar to digital or is it going from full price to off-price what's the. Scot & Michael:  [19:35] I mean both of those I would say those are very much both themes in a very both very very powerful obviously he Converses you're suitably powerful but if you look at if you just look at it. Big off prices you think about TJ Maxx and Ross and then Burlington which is gotten to be a bigger business your last few years and just look at what those those companies percentage of total, us consumption in in the apparel category. Can you look at the period before the Great Recession and there was kind of humming along as a small percent of the total industry and then when the recession hit it was just unbelievable ramp. Kids coming out of college with no job so maybe in the past they would have said to themselves you know I'm really a department store Macy's or Kohl's person. Yeah that's where I go to shopping and maybe TJ's like out of a secondary. Destination for me those days are over when you come out and you are on it an unbelievable budget that you never thought you'd be pressed to and and it became a very primary, call source of the primary destination for parallel for a lot of those consumers that were really stretched and you just saw the numbers hit the ramp and then the recession ended and the consumer just never left those stores. Today just kept growing boxes and it seems or sales growth I'm in there just in boxes that's been way on top of what the industry Trends are there, Panther outpacing the department stores by anywhere from. 606 10 percentage points as far as their growth rate every quarter that goes by at this point so that is you know it's not e-commerce which is the sexiest thing to talk about. [21:13] But it is a very powerful value equation and drives a lot of customers into those boxes on eCommerce is obviously the other one. And if there's different in again within my group there's the retailers that have to deal with their traffic being down significant amount and the Brand's figuring out look you think the consumers to once he's products we just got to figure out how, give it to them where they want to buy them and that they should be in OK shape longer-term but there's still it's not it's not a graceful transitional put it that way. When did ironic things about that is the Discounter is usually don't they under index on eCommerce so you mentioned like some of them all bass team folks are kind of in the thirties my understanding is department stores are pretty anemic when it comes to e-commerce. [21:58] Yeah I think they're around there many many years behind and again they're trying to they're trying to retrofit Legacy assets that were built to, yeah I have back rooms and some consumer and some customer service people on the floor and cash registers to trying to retrofit those things to be able to ship from the stores make their inventories more efficient, yeah I think. Tell very well aware of the situation they face trying to make the generator return off those old assets but if they you know if any one of the executives in these businesses had to add it to start over if you ask him how many stores would you have old you differently. [22:36] I know you hear a lot more discussion about building for the digital future from the ground-up hope there's no doubt that in their DNA and in their hearts they're very much trying to figure out what to do but I do know that it's obvious, just from looking at stock prices as a scorecard that it's here at your at a generational change in the pressure on that on that category right now. [22:58] Yeah I mention of the top of the show the mall again, you know there's there's been this I just read an article today that was on Business Insider that you know there's 3600 store closure so far this year and they I think they just straight line to that and they said all that equates probably 10,000 this year, do you have a model on that or like what's what's your point of you of your how bad is it is where are we are you know your Chicago and saw use a baseball analogy is this like just the first inning of this whole thing are where are we in the, the stretch what's going on here I mean for sure, Helen am I working on getting the department stores under a lot of pressure but they're still the center of the Wardrobe for a lot of, in the Middle America if you look at them as like a Bellwether you've had Macy's come out and say we're going to. Close 100 stores you that JCPenney come out and say we're going to close 138th and Sears is not a stock to recover their closing a bunch of stores. I'm struggling for a long time so you look at those you think about with those malls are going to do in the Macy's drops off the end of it you know. We're not even close but not everybody's announced. [24:08] Got everybody say after first quarter with just a little. Time to judge you know we have to bunch of these retailers have you noticed any impact in the malls where. Macy's or JCPenney went away and I say you know probably not enough time somebody that won't we can probably fast forward for you what's going to happen in that mall. And they just know it must sees companies have not yet, straight down analyze the data on come out to their investors and say look here's how many stores we're going to have to close based on what's going on base and all the traffic going to e-commerce based on our co-tenants me Smalls going away so there are there are. Hi Times of closures, I mean the article you read today. I wouldn't be surprised as a very close and and frankly even for Macy's and JCPenney the world that is in town so many stores, to tell you what they think they need to do today based on the situation that's still a moving Target I've you know I've no doubt in my mind they'll be closing more stores on as time goes on. Interesting Lee when we talked to retail experts about it and say you know Macy's going to go from. Call middle 700 stores down to Mid 650 store that I don't mean to pick on Macy's just that they're good bellwether, how did they know that's enough and do you know what an organizational undertaking it is to close 100 stores and so. You have a wanted to see Penny 1000 stores wanted to. [25:38] It's so physically hard I mean employment lawyers in the retail industry to go through each store and figure out how to unwind a very old lease agreement how to, I don't mind the coach energy cause you have a lot of these malls at Macy's goes away that lets store like the gap. [25:57] Abercrombie look at their lease and say hey we sign this you know under the agreement that you were going to have a Macy's here and look I'm going away we don't we can get out of this lease right it's it's a very very very much of a. Spider's web gets kicked off anything start, I'd no idea I had for bigger numbers explain that a little bit more so I'm I'm I'm in e-commerce guy so the co-tenants he thinks it sounds like what you're saying is the anchors they have their deal with them all but then like the small stores they have some way of attaching and saying, alright we'll pay you this rent but we want that anchor to stay is that a pretty common thing and, it is if they look at them all they say look them all desirable times has the set of characteristics they're going to want and I'll population surrounding them all within 20 minutes drive time to has so much in so many over 100,000. Income household incomes when you look in the mall and a market that's got to malls and one of them's older mall like if your coach think about it you say you know. Honestly you so agree to these terms that are at the top of the industry for good amols on rent but you know it's it's contingent on it being enough demand from consumers over time. In that mall and one way to become lock that in and she say what we want co-tenancy with. Call or some such as the following ten retailers and we want to see an Apple store they're going to the store that because we don't go to the store we don't go and open a Coach store in the mall. Populations moved on and all the guys in a nail salons and ice cream shops left it there by such a way of protecting themselves so. [27:31] When you go to say we're going to close on you stores boy there's a big group of people at the table for the sit down and stare at you know the Macy's closes. How many retailers it triggers Arco Tennessee cause it allows them to get out of here allows him to move 10 miles down the street to the newer shopping center that got better traffic or we can renegotiate the run slower. Turn down if we don't try to keep them it's just he becomes a very complex process and lots and lots of hands are at the table during those discussion. [28:02] Do you have a estimate of how many malls will close if if you're if you kind of think 10K is directionally right on stores do you guys look at kind of what them all Impact is. [28:13] You know our retail experts that we lean on to help us was thinking through that pointed to the maybe twenty 30% of the malls in the US eventually rule will go away. No time frame on it cuz it for example we hosted we hosted a dinner recently with a couple of very very prominent experts and in. Real estate in retail real estate II said just as an example and its much-talked-about you know if its ears was to end up going away. It would take ten full years to repurpose. Chose those Sears boxes is Sears literally just went lights out at some point and I don't have a view on whether they will but if they literally want lights out. It would take ten full years to sit down store by store and say what is this community need. Can we convert this into a Cheesecake Factory can we turn this into a bowling alley return a new brew pub. You need to be a call center Industrial Center or does it just need to be pulled down so it can if there's going to be. A lot of in a one-off evaluation what to do with each of these at the end of the day I wouldn't be surprised to get the 20 or 30% of the malls and not the numbers you were talking about. Call now to include things like obviously Sports Authority went away last year I put some of those stores or not, yeah those are all there's a mix there it just kind of put some balance on it 20 to 3% of miles how many malls are there in like fifteen hundred miles are in. [29:36] Yeah I've heard numbers like that it depends on how you get into definition like cold as a retail recover them they're largely off mall that there any power centers that include, you know a Lowe's or a Target or Best Buy a lot of times it's you know that the numbers changed a little bit depending on how you define it but I would say 1500 gas, so 30% would be like 500 Miles closing or some some period of time down the road. And probably several hundred of those you can't even if you live near one you probably forgot it was there like there's some pretty old real estate there. So that's pretty gloom-and-doom any any Silver Linings in there you know I think that you know in. [30:17] I think that I'm not a Retailer's is Dad kind of person but I do think we need to know. [30:24] Total industry store countdown much much lower before returns in margins can stabilize on note from a lower base of assets from smaller number of stores I'm so I think that. Who's going to be on right now on the retailers too. Remove a Crosley to reposition themselves to be able to kind of work through some of what's coming so next year's is a consumers continue shifting online, equilibrium of stocks will have a little bit easier time Brands like I said though the brands are sold within those part of it right like you think about. [30:56] You know Macy's or even a Sports Authority or Footlocker there's a lot of businesses selling other people's brands. And then you Grandpa Foot Locker Nike and Adidas and Under Armour they went and built big strong Cool website for the last five years - Question exist before she's got a brand that are sold inside your boxes. Available to Consumers elsewhere in some situations you going to work through that you can see some natural advantages for the Brand's who they don't have to worry about. And taking down all these brick-and-mortar that they set up over the last hundred years or whatever might be but they got to figure out how to get there. Product to where the consumer wants to buy it and big size and Ricky in in Europe they've got it. Big online retailers that are not cold Amazon believe it or not and they got like a midday so since the londos and things things that are. Call different names and Amazon it's not everybody wants to shop for everything on Amazon we don't really have any that's not have any public companies to cover. In better just retail apparel apparel and Footwear retailers online so that it's really about just figuring out, Mia where the consumers going to buy these products in 5 years and frankly that's the that's the question that would Flomax these Brands the most right now if you ask him the very simple question to a Big sophisticate Brand company, just say hey you know right now you're sold in everyone in Macy's doors or everyone of. With some other sporting good stores stores where is the consumer going to buy your product and five years. [32:27] Is it surprising to hear unsophisticated of an answer you get from some people and it just tells you the very smart people I really don't know exactly where the ball is headed right now. Jason:  [32:38] Yeah I mean it is the obvious answer for those brands that they have to go direct is that what you're saying or what are the answers do you. Scot & Michael:  [32:49] Some of them well yeah they should all they all have to have a direct there's no doubt about it you're your own website. Will be worried you know you have to skin the game to leave the Retailer's to show any third-party retail if your Nike you say look we we showcase this product this way it did really good here's a bunch of the day to behind it, let's build out some things on your website to maximize this opportunity came along I'm use it showcase your very best product you relief pentacle. Product you can use it to Showcase a very wide array of your product and then you have to go out to the brick-and-mortar world or to the. [33:28] Together by retailers any other thing with the product you got to make sure it's not the same, your Nike exercise shirt at Macy's that it is a Kohl's that is a JCPenney's got to be different product and consume any to get different things in different places so that it does you know I think the next five years will be easier for the brand cuz you don't have to deal with, they're not they're not free of things like that is scratch your head about and say okay this stuff is quite a bit of burden to us do we go to Amazon do we even go. A lot of a lot of the concerns they have at Amazon today or concerns they had with other blank you know insert name of huge retailer from the past. Hanesbrands recover they they've been dealing with in Walmart's temptation to want to carry this very strong brand at a lot of mericans like on their shelves. Same time it's really profitable for Walmart to go manufacture their own private label underwear and put it on the Shelf next to Hanes you know Amazon a lot of problems and concerns they have about going in the Amazon and what it means for them, not exactly brand new to them but it is the next round of old retail problems. Jason:  [34:32] Yeah that it's interesting so you know we've had a lot of brands on this show and obviously a big topic for them as is going direct like it feels like one of the big impediments to go Hinder. None impediments but downsides to going direct for them is they sort of benefit from the in efficiencies of the wholesale market so your your Nike and you you come out with a new skew and before there's any consumer demand for that skew. All the wholesalers have to buy enough to fill all their shelves and so when when your distribution channel gets way more efficient and you're you're selling through Amazon on Demand or through your own website on demand. Suddenly you're not selling those shoes until the consumers actually want them so that feels like that's a little bit of a challenge on the brand side and then. [35:17] At the same time those wholesale retailers are looking at their future and saying. [35:21] Shoot there aren't going to be a lot of middlemen in the future if we want to maintain a relationship with a consumer we need to build our own Brands and it seems like we're watching a lot of retailers. [35:32] Can a moving beyond private label and trying to build their own aspirational Brands and you know you certainly like Amazon's got a full complement of a of. [35:41] New apparel Brands but you also see. [35:44] Target and you know rumor BestBuy rumored Walmart Acquisitions and all these these. [35:52] Traditional wholesale retailers look like they're investing in the brand space are we on a collision course. Scot & Michael:  [35:59] I guess I knew problem you know I'd probably half of the products sold at JCPenney or Kohl's or private Brands private exclusive brands with a new design and develop in house so it won't be a new problem. But it's same time as you know I just have a natural bias when any company brand or retailer tells you here's this thing that we're going to do big part of our strategy and our growth and. Top really that related to what amazing at it's an encore saying we're going to do great and I got to develop. Luxury an aspirational brands in here. Hodges Companies got a lot of expertise in real estate selection and product you know procurement and interation of really cool questions of apparel for consumers all the sudden we're actually design and now we're going to find, relationships of factories in China to do this efficiently in and build sourcing offices on the ground neck it's a tricky it's a tricky game. The brand that there is Thursday you know Karen the stick to going to going to rock you on all the retail you own all the pain there's a lot you can make a lot of money if you your Nike and you sell a pair of shoes through your own website and it really efficient, and I really high price points and don't have to mark it down and sometimes that can be for example higher than you would sell it for at Footlocker or Finish Line and that that's great and you get all the rewards right what if it's really doesn't sell, you get all the pain, there's no one no one to share the pain with that scenario a lot of these realities wholesale Brands If the product doesn't perform they'll go. [37:37] They'll go back and it'll go back to the Retailer's know if they will offer you some money after the fact to help with marking down the product I didn't perform it will take them back when we Tire Factory Outlets will clearstone some through spell for consumers don't walk in here and see, stacks of shoes or shirts on sale and start thinking bad things about our brand on the brand want that either. So yeah that's when it kind of comes to Village and everybody's got a vested interest in not having a leftover inventory they didn't perform laying around. Jason:  [38:04] For sure I feel like some of the other. [38:08] Challenges you hear about apparel brands in particular is I've never to bunch of times that, did the trend is just that apparel like good apparel Casa lesson so you know pretend to be the consumers buying as much apparel as she ever did but it just. [38:24] Cost less and therefore less Revenue to those Brands than it used to be as by chains get more efficient to manufacturing gets more efficient than all of that is that a risk for these apparel Brands is that they're there a RVs are just going down. Scot & Michael:  [38:40] If you look at your point earlier about near the off-price there's our who Pride themselves on having product if you're 60% below equivalent product at department stores they've obviously occupied a lot of the incremental. Retail square footage in the country over last 10 years also you've had names like H&M. Zara Zara in a new one if you start a Primark is coming over from, call from the UK there you know to start a build stores on the East Coast never even lower price than any of these guys is if you think about it all every square foot of retail that's being added in the physical world and in the US, is charging lower prices than the square than the square footage that was here before there is pretty consistent downward. Pressure on on pricing and its industry. Overton over time these brands of been able to manage it when you have things like a big shock to the system like, Manufacturing in China and currency goes one way on you and all the sudden you're buying things a lot more expensive than you thought you were when you build a factory there then they can't really keep up, with some notification Airy pricing on Apparel in the US over time in Spanish been okay but if it's not a, can a great situation to be in when your ear pricing mechanism is going backwards on a consumer's, Sesame looking over their shoulder and saying look I can get this you know whatever Levi's are Skechers shoes whatever it is I can get these at TJ Maxx and Knots last season's. Product but it's so much lower on price point than enough going to win the day for me as that wind of my purchase. Jason:  [40:15] Yeah I got it and then I guess just one more on Brands the other thing you here is that the, just the basic model for creating desire for a particular apparel brand is. Dramatically getting disrupted right and so you know that you hear the old model, tell it you know yet the merchant princes the Mickey drexler's or whatever they decide what's going to be hot and they they. [40:38] You know go to Fashion Week and show that stuff and it takes him like nine months to get those products into the market and everyone buys the same thing because it has the same logo on it and you know that these days, it's a lot more likely to be some micro influencer on YouTube that's that's driving demand for something you know in a much shorter turn then then it is Mickey. Scot & Michael:  [40:59] Yeah that's a great Point example of Mickey Drexler J.Crew example, they own all their own products or they can say this is catching on Fast let's go quickly where's you think about the relationship you point to before with Leica, Ralph Lauren in the main cheese or Calvin Klein at Macy's so much can speed up when there's no more people in the decision-making chain so there's advantages and disadvantages to being able to speed up and Chase Trends these days and say that. There is a degree of every brand that opens their mouth and retails up in their mouth they've got a speed and issues going on to try and speed those things up to chase Trend faster I'm to your other point and back in the day what you know what you want to say to wear until I was cool as what. Okay, cuz they're good Dell Latitude to a good people at Macy's, found the product they brought to your town in the stores that and I'll meet you looked at it said that's an aspiration purchase me this when I want to look like it's what I want people think of me when I dress and. Remember being a kid and you know we had to go we had to go on vacation California for me to get a pair of vans that I saw in a movie on some guy or something like that right like those days are done. So now your point see somebody I didn't scream she somebody music video she somebody on YouTube that's an influencer or so you know like coach just signed Selena Gomez one of the most. The highest Instagram following as you can imagine the amount of viewership that they get by going through her and is also. [42:32] And with younger consumers there's a bit of a bit of social currency that happens within the first kid at your high school to show up at the party on Friday night with some Brandy song. Funny YouTube clip in the background and you know you figured out where to find it if some small retail in California on the internet and how to ship to you and I was yours you found it in your first and you want when call that social currency. I'll be in the first one to find that those kind of things just did not happen, 15 years ago or more so for sure these things are changing very very quickly it's a whole different mindset than one old Merchants who used to really do a great job of picking out very good collections with her own for 12 people. Thought about it some it is very different than it was. Jason:  [43:13] Yeah yeah God bless Sean Penn for wearing those vans in the Fast Times at Ridgemont High. [43:19] I'm tracking you know one of the insightful things I heard recently and I wish I could remember who I first heard it from but they were talking about that, Instagram problem and that like in the old days you were you know if you were a kid in high-school you were one of two hundred or maybe even one of 2000 and you know it was possible to be, pretty unique by just getting to a good store and you know spending a little bit more for the the premium product or whatever but but. Trying to be unique amongst your your pool of 10,000 Instagram friends is a is a whole new level of Challenge and you basically can't do it in a mall. Scot & Michael:  [43:59] Yeah it's pretty tough now it's um. [44:02] Yeah I'm a girl and going to school and then in the very clear Trends just ran through your school like wildfires like if this was the aspirational brand if you remember some of the Brand's eighties and nineties that ran through like in big big size, as friends you know like we just had a big one was already we still have on with you know with Adidas selling their very old decades-old 30 year old, Superstars and Stan Smith every kids got have a pair and I was like a clear, old school trying to me like I just came through and that's what everybody wanted that's how I used to be those are getting fewer and further between it's much more and micro merchandising and individuality. You know the formula for that is really not you know going to your traditional department store, and seeing you know what they got in in the stacks and racks in the stores he's this what num, one follow-up on Canada brand topic, what do you think the answer is in five years where is the consumer going to buy your product what brand and I know this isn't your business but if if you left Wall Street and went into Consulting and you're you're sitting there at McKenzie or, what else kind of Consulting places and debris and asked you what what what you think the answer is. [45:18] I do think we need I think we'll get to a point where there's going to be some platforming I think that right now if you and I wanted to go start a brand today. Very affordable relative to history to do that to find decent manufacturing capacity and in Asia or elsewhere bring it on to the US stores to get good distribution from. Yeah most of the digital native eCommerce sites with you know that are. Trying to be better brand your good best in the inspections good better best trying to be better and best there still you know they're still fighting for their namesake as well, so you can probably find pretty good butiki at distribution for a brand right now if you're a startup, no good better better best friend though so that guy was his barrier to entry right now is fairly low but I don't think it stays well I think it's going to go up I think it's getting and he's getting harder to compete I'm priming, everybody walking around with them all in their pocket these days straight you don't have to walk in the store and haggle with somebody I know the lowest price immediately thanks a lot to hear your good friends at Amazon I know the lowest price that I can find this thing on, quickly and I walk into the store armed with it I think it's going to get harder and you're going to see you know prices continue to compress and I don't know if manufacturing of it cheaper or more expensive but, listen to chasing low-cost manufacturing overtime, then you go through some of the things we were thinking about early in the year were a lot of these stocks got hit really hard when there was talk coming out of Washington they were going to put a tax on the border well guess what industry Imports just about everything. [46:51] From across the border to these stocks got hit really really hard. I'm at station one that was like a primary conversation you think about that and I think you're going to get to a point where you going to find more these brand saying you know what, I want to get myself attached to a big supply chain like a VF Corp mph owns a basket of brands are coaches now certain owns and Brands I want to leverage their manufacturing efficiency, relationships in Asia there and branding internal consultancy whatever the hell you know if you have courses very good at building, you have them on the show before like North Face and Timberland and vans they're very good a Consulting these guys on on their marketing strategies in their distribution strategies I think the value of that is going to go up. I won't be surprised they're still companies of some size but I wouldn't be surprised if you see much more fragmented apparel and Footwear Market going forward. [47:45] Got it that's a good Segway the you know what kind of nibble around the edges and it wouldn't be a Jason Scott show if we didn't spend a fair amount of time directly talk about Amazon I realize they're not in your coverage universe so I'm not going to ask you like Eva. A three decimal places or anything but, you know how from, The Winds of your coverage Universe you had kind of Macy's probably 3 years ago Terry Lumber and kind of famously said oh good luck and apparel you know you guys won't be able to, deal with returns without having stores and now that that that turned out to be a bit of a bad call are these guys still in denial about Amazon do they have a strategy or where where are retailers when it comes to their their Amazon strategy. You know there's been a lot of turnover among Executives in the space lately and one of them on our way out the door actually said to me recently. [48:35] I sexy and I probably a lot of headaches and over next few years probably retiring a great times I like that, Amazon the competitor to corrected me on that answer you know or Amazon is just you know if you think about your Harvard case study were the four drivers of consumer purchase and think about how big convenience is in the fact that everything can get delivered to you. Today's our last now that's a real kick in the gut have to deal with for anybody so I would say though I don't think Terry was, strong though I don't say no I think that the consumer does like having a place nearby to go return things and you think there is value in brick and mortar it doesn't look like it and looking at some of the stock prices in my group. Because they're all got to go from a lot of brick-and-mortar to a lot less brick-and-mortar but I do think there's value in store count of a certain size and then there's a lot of. There's a lot of reality in in his comment that you know about what Amazon has been are not going to want to deal with and look they're not going to go away it's a high margin category and you can make a lot of money on it but. [49:40] Right now if you look on their on their website it really looks like it's it's much more focused on predictable. Inventories and in categories that are more basic that they can look at and say we know with some certainty, how much is it going to go out the door and it's much less in categories like you would expect to see at like Nordstrom, make an example of those guys got a nail fashion every quarter it's like we're a very fluent person who cares a lot about this season, does the shop for their clothes and when that stuff doesn't sell, spring they got to sit down and come up with a markdown strategy get it out the door figure out how to work with friends to you know move product Crown all those things that's a whole different part of retail and just figure it out you know, predictable inventory flows and categories like you're basically vies jeans or basic hanesbrands, underwear and t-shirts and stuff like that but a little left over at the end of the season, coin in Iran this a Tad earlier but I want to drill into it you've you've done some really interesting research on you know what, lbrands dagradi Amazon be kind of the in your coverage Universe you have the book in so you have Under Armour who is dramatically embraced Amazon and you have Nike that's essentially shunned Amazon yeah what. [51:00] Where do you think bran should fall on that Spectrum or you know what are they talking about what are the kinds of topics that the brands are thinking about in this hole kind of Amazon dilemma. [51:09] How's it going question we do a lot of work on that and talk to a lot of people in the Amazon ecosystem on that at the end of the day in this category would specific is Brands care the most about what their product. Looks like and and pricing of spray there because our pricing but. I want name brand but she go on Amazon right now and search on one of the Brand's I covers very very. Basic product and is it in one of Ryan's doesn't have a relationship with Amazon the search that it comes that comes up on Amazon is, it won't take you long to realize that is not what that company wants its product looking like a lot of it is like doo took a shirt out of a box, it's like rain cold and they just threw it on table and took a picture of it now it's on Amazon instead there's a lot like there's not like a wrinkled shirt. I am at the top of the searching right so. Those are the things that these Brands care about like they need to inspire you to like live a better life by the clothing that you wear and that's what he seen all the Billboards right and that's not always reflect and I am so, that's what I'm thinking about there's trying to think of it then you go like I'll call it out because it's writing it down really nice job but like Levi's, research on Levi's on Amazon and you click on the red Levi's logo itwist you away to a virtual Levi's shop and shop at Scot. They're advertising campaign videos that they created at Levis that show the product exactly how they want on their models you put into the product full size runs full color runs it's like you know you're actually dealing with like. [52:44] Hundred percent legitimate Levi sales and leveraging all the great things about Amazon same time. [52:50] That's what all the brands are trying to figure out now I don't know if if it is Levis just happens we first there because they cut some kind of a different deal or accept less profits upfront or anything like that but, they're in their first brand of the great example of really doing Amazon well in the consumers us, consumers I think everybody wants to figure I will have to figure out how to do that, eventually because look there's not a lot of transaction growth in the US you're either talking to folks like you J Max and Rossiter. Drawing category you talking Amazon if you want category gross everything I have to wrestle with this eventually. But those are things that they care about the most and probably the things that you know the only sit down to table impound out fama's on the most of the next few years, yep and then I'm by no means a fashion Guru but I figured you'd have a point of you on this they just announced today that they've hired, I'm going to totally butcher this but Christine Beauchamp is that it, and I think she's been around a lot of your coverage universe as kind of a well-known fashion executive Williston It Ralph Lauren and other places maybe Jason, nose better not do that is that a what's that mean to have her at Amazon. [54:03] Go to the point of seeing when I said earlier that they're not going away in this category and there's some things that there maybe not the best at. But in no way should anyone expect them to go away they're going to keep investing in it I think they bought a full. Square Block in Brooklyn to build a photo studio for their apparel business a few years ago and I remember riding around in cabs in New York and half the taxis in town had a Amazon fashion. Advertising on the top of the cab there you know you're not going to go away I don't I don't I don't think I was foolish enough to think that they're going to go away and stop pushing in this category. But you do see you just keep moments like that go by and you're like well this is a turning point this is the datapoint to they're getting more not less. Serious about this category they want these brands in I guarantee you they're circling the Nikes and Ralph Lauren's of the world of European luxury guys they want they want those guys on Amazon, very very badly and I'm sure some extent all those guys want to figure out how to have a very and profitable relationship with Amazon to, recently back around like firing her like a reminder very serious about this. Jason:  [55:07] Yep in that. I'm always trepidatious when I anytime I hear this sentence yeah but this this next category will be extra hard for Amazon and have unique barriers because I just feel like they've. Knock down so many barriers in categories that they moved into. [55:23] The one you do hear about a lot lately is that the higher fashion guys go yeah Amazon has totally done great in apparel but. [55:35] Fashion is a whole different thing from apparel and and you know Amazon doesn't have the right DNA to win in fashion like. [55:42] Do you hear that and what what what's your point of view there is like should the fashion guys be worried about Amazon. Scot & Michael:  [55:49] Absolutely you know there's there's a bit there's a bit of a stigma about being you know what, how do you call the everything store for anybody right like what I'm Walmart or Target or any retailers in the past is the commonly everything store in the country there's a certain amount of like you know I'm going to, going to go to the new store in town called cold cuz I don't, I don't really like buying my shirts at the same place I buy my dog food in toothpaste and I want to feel like a fashion relevant human being and and things like that but you know at the end of the day if you kick out that. [56:22] A leg under the stool that is convenient it's just so easy to get the stuff and it kind of got the product that I want anyway and it's called fashion and and high fashion stuff if they get their hands on it and they can. And they can sell it to me in this way that I like buying things, I would not assume that they're not going to be able to figure out fast and look a lot of stuff at shirts and pants at lightweight foldable it's very easy to ship it's you know I think I'm on your last so you were talking about them getting into Pharmaceuticals and stuff. What can seem Easier by comparison and selling high-end shirts on you talk about trying to figure out how to get into Pharmaceuticals. Jason:  [56:57] That absolutely one of the X and a gun. [57:00] Amazonians on the show was talking about a category like live plants being a little tougher and then I finish that show only to find out that my wife had ordered a bunch of live plants for aquarium from Amis. Scot & Michael:  [57:13] Nothing safe yeah I got a life plan for Mother's Day on Prime now it it came it was really well done. Jason:  [57:25] Impress events Garrett. [57:28] A couple things I just want to cover up quickly one of the plays were seeing from a lot of the traditional department stores is the if you can't beat them join them strategy and it seems like every department store now has a, in an off-price concept is that. [57:45] Of a long-term viable strategy for those guys is that you know they they they make a lot of noise about it not being cannibalistic and and stuff but. [57:54] That that seems questionable. Scot & Michael:  [57:57] Yeah we'll see I say it's now it's it's always easy to set up 10 or 20 stores in and look at the economics and said he was first time 20 that we put in the very best markets we could think of to do this they're going really is going really well what's going to the next 20 that's fine, mistake to think like that that's good economics but you know we'll see when it when it become you know to become a scalable business you know what. [58:20] If it's tough to think about you think about it like what people at TJ Maxx and Ross to their kind of like you know there's other Like the Wolf in Pulp Fiction either here to fix problems for you if you got too much inventory at the end of the season, or TJ Maxx we can buy some of this leftover stuff from you Levi's or PVH Calvin Klein whatever it is we can buy, a lot of it we got a lot of stores and we can break it up and then do it we call camouflages for you across thousands of stores that consumer doesn't come in and see. Tile to the ceiling of Calvin Klein shirts in there like there's a problem with Calvin Klein based on the small number of units in here right so, that's a lot of value for them to you know that they put cash on the barrelhead take a huge amount of inventory off your hand at the end of season and they never come back from Mark talamonti so the off-price there's a lot of value like that you know I think about. Your Kohl's or Macy's or even Stacy Penny tries to get in something like that different animal, same guys that are buying NC's and stuff from you her going to coming back to you and saying every want to cut it also serve this functionality of like solving problems but likes on the problems occur in our other stores so we're going to, figure out the sitter's processes you it's it's a much more complicated say. [59:33] Got it one of the so one of the other Trends who wanted to kind of. Check in with you on is this athleisure kind of trend it is very hot and and going really well and you glue lemons in there you put Nike and Under Armour in there and there's a lot of other kind of things going on there but it seems like Nike and Under Armour have kind of, slow down is that something else going on there or is athleisure kind of run its course. [1:00:00] I don't think I've leaders down there still a lotta man from the retailers who are, questions like that I was think about who's standing closest to the consumer and has good insights as to what consumers town and they want in your calls in your Macy's in your JCPenney's or they're all you know still expanding their, space dedicated to these Brands you talking about and Lululemon slow down a bit and on most recent quarter but if you know I would say there there, far from the worst situation I have in my in my coverage groups I still think athleisure is very much a, Megatron it's been going on with a Lulu Lulu I killed in 2007 Under Armour 2005 it's a little it went on for a little too long they call it a fad or Trend I happen to think that a lot of problems right now, yeah even the best of the brands we have trouble when the top 5 retailer in the US goes bankrupt and that's what happened last year was Sports Authority. Search all kinds of extra inventory sitting around there's there's unplanned liquidation sales going on here and there that are causing distractions and you know, your point earlier it's an industry that has a long lead times Brands order stuff from factories 9 months ahead of time if I'm boats coming over from Asia, right after retailer shut down and we are shut down in middle of last year already ordered Christmas. Ernesto shows up in the stores and I think that's causing a little bit of pressure on pricing. [1:01:30] I would say that there is to be share a little bit of complaining from the From The Trenches about the impact of some of the Innovation coming out. Lately from the brand hasn't been a splashy to really give the consumer a compelling reason to come on into the stores so that a split between the two, Jason are doing our best I think we both. That's a lot in yoga pants so hopefully that'll that hoe. Jason:  [1:01:59] Straight that's that's an image I won't be able to unimagined what about Footwear is

0:55: Chris Brown announces double album with 40 new songs 4:30: TLC's new album cover 10:00: New single releases Marsha Ambrosius, Goapele and En Vogue 14:35: Upcoming albums from LeToya Luckett and Faith Evans 24:10: Legends in R&B that would struggle in 2017 based on physical appearance 33:40: R&B Hall Of Fame nominations: Destiny's Child and Monica 56:10: Love Letter feature 1:00:00: #AskYKIGS We're back on track with episode #51. We start off the podcast by talking about the news that Chris Brown's upcoming album "Heartbreak On A Full Moon" is going to contain 40 songs. One of the songs is called "Juicy Booty" which has everyone excited. We also talk about his documentary "Welcome To My Life" which will be playing in theaters all over the country on June 8th. Afterwards we talk about the new TLC album as they recently showed the tracklist for it. They also posted the album cover for the album which looks like a combination of bubblegum wrappers and Popsicle sticks. Then we talk about upcoming releases in R&B from the likes of Marsha, Goapele and LeToya. For our main discussion, we talk about the standards of music in 2017 and which R&B legends wouldn't make the cut if they debuted today. Some names included Boyz II Men, Robin Thicke and Chico DeBarge. For our hall of fame, we try to figure out if Destiny's Child and Monica should be inducted. The conversation gets extremely heated as some people don't believe Destiny's Child deserves to be in the hall of fame. Monica gets some heat as well, but you'll have to tune into the podcast to find out what happens. For our newest feature, we analyze Donnell Jones' classic song "Where I Wanna Be" and how flawed the lyrics are. We also answer questions from some of our readers. Check out the latest episode of our podcast!

iTunes  Dj Kingstone Paris - Deep House 46 1.Feel For You 2. I Got You 3. Remember Me 4. Love Like This 5. Adore 6. Shape Of You 7. Scars To Your Beautiful 8. Yeah! 9. Gold 10. This Is What You Came For 11. This World 12. Starboy 13. Banho De Chuva 14. Rockabye 15. Love Me Now 16. I Feel It Coming 17. Automatic 18. Luar 19. I Feel Loved 20. Scared To Be Lonely 21. Where I Wanna Be 22. Est Ce Que Tu M’aimes 23. Desert Rose 24. Beautiful Things 25. Holdin’on 26. Lullaby 27. Start Again 28. Lost 29. The Titanium 30. Million Reasons

  2:25: New Mariah Carey single “I Don't” 4:46: Legends trying to cater to a younger generation 6:06: Incorporating current Hip Hop/Trap artists into R&B songs 9:24: Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige on Urban AC format today 14:20: Evolution vs trends 16:11: Timbaland's contribution to the genre 22:25: The emergence of Trap music in R&B 24:00: New Edition biopic on BET 25:35: Bell Biv DeVoe's latest album “Three Stripes” 27:09: Musiq Soulchild's latest single “Simple Things” and label situation 32:12: The emergence of new artist Kevin Ross and his single “Long Song Away” 34:45: Food discussion There's nothing better to talk about than old and new R&B music with the YouKnowIGotSoul team. We start off the podcast talking about the new Mariah Carey single “I Don't” which samples Donell Jones' classic song “Where I Wanna Be”. Afterwards we talk about artists such as Mariah Carey, Usher (“No Limit”) and Mary J. Blige (“Thick Of It”) who have attempted to adapt to the music today. The purpose is to cater to the younger generation, so we discuss whether it's necessary for legends to even do that. Speaking of adapting to the music industry, we talk about the key differences between a trend in music versus the genre evolving. We view New Jack Swing as a trend (a very good one) based on its short longevity. We also dissect Timbaland's contributions in R&B to see if his sound would be considered a trend or not. Lastly we talk about the inclusion of Hip Hop into R&B and how that has affected the genre as evidenced by the influx of trap music on the radio right now. We also discuss some new music that has come out from the likes of Bell Biv Devoe (“Three Stripes” album), Musiq Soulchild(“Simple Things”) and Omarion. We also talk about an album that we are looking forward to this year which is Kevin Ross' debut “The Awakening”. The project is set to come out on Motown Records in March.  

LMG: The Soul Eclectics’ Mix - Winter Anniversary Soulful – Part I (starts @ 00:42) 1) I Found A Groove – Rogiérs 2) Leave Love (Feat. Alex Isley & Moonchild) – Brandon Williams 3) Request – Teyana Taylor 4) Gonna Cost – Johnny Gill 5) Hold Up Wait A Minute (Woo Woo) – Antonique Smith 6) I.R.S. – Angie Fisher 7) Unreasonable – Calvin Richardson 8) Nature’s Call – Shaun Escoffery 9) Another Life – D’Angelo and the Vanguard 10) Got My Back – Ben L’oncle Soul 11) Like Rain (ft. Alison Crockett) – Wah Wah 45s Dance – Part II (50:02) 12) Where I Wanna Be – Meleka 13) Pick Me Up – Mary J Blige 14) Shine – The Dangerfeel Newbies 15) Cloud IX – Portia Monique 16) Perfect Love Affair –Shaun Escoffery 17) Something ‘bout July (ft. Tony Momrelle) – Incognito 18) Most Beautiful – Elements of Life 19) Superstar (Remix) – Reel People 20) Farsighted (ft. Ramona - Vocal Remix) – Applejac Grown Folks Radio R&B – Part III (1:29:52) 21) Wings — Emerson Brooks 22) Look in the Sky –Electric Wire Hustle 23) Let It Be — Labrinth 24) Lies — Gene Nobel 25) Mascara – Jazmine Sullivan 26) I Gotta Have It –Tank 27) Don’t Stop –Boyz II Men 28) Back 2 Love (Ft. Ruben Studdard) – Kelly Price 29) My Love (ft. Eric Benet) – Goapele 30) Make Love (ft. KeKe Wyatt) – Faith Evans 31) Spent The Night (Teddy Riley Remix) – Dave Hollister Ballads and Mid-Tempo Grooves – Part IV (02:10:40) 32) Can We Talk – Meleka 33) Make Beautiful – Teri Tobin 34) You Got Me – Conya Doss 35) Dreamin’ – Chester Gregory 36) Just Like That – R Kelly 37) Heaven – Laurone Mclendon 38) Cry –YahZarah 39) Bye Bye Angel –Valencia Robinson 40) Something About You (Live Acoustic) – Anthony David 41) When Will You Call (Live - Bilal Cover) – Jarrod Lawson 42) Let Me Keep You (ft. Robert Glasper) – Morgan James

R&B recording artist Donell Jones has brought us major hits such as U Know What's Up (1999) and Where I Wanna Be (1999). Donell hit the music scene  in 1996 with his debut release, My Heart (LaFace), after a chance meeting with music producer Eddie F.   Often referred to as an artist who offers "true" R&B, Donell's style is smooth and his music is timeless. Also an accomplished songwriter/producer, he has worked with artists such as Usher and 702.  

01.Last Prayer 02.Kiss Is Spittin 03.Regulate (Jammin' Remix) 04.Friends ft Snoop Dogg and Warren G 05.Why 06.These Days ft Daz Dillinger 07.G-Funk 08.Child Of The Night 09.Good Relationships 10.So Fly 11.Xxplosive 12.Like This 13.LA 14.Till I Collapse 15.Warrior pt II 16.Right Back Where You Are 17.My Dirty Ho 18.Look In My Eyes 19.All My Life 20.Me and My Homies ft 2Pac 21.Leave Her Alone 22.Bag O'Weed ft Tray Dee 23.What Would You Do (Remix) 24.Hardest Man In Town 25.It's Only Love Doing Its Thing 26.21 Questions 27.Set It Off 28.Can't Deny It 29.Boss Life 30.Easin In 31.Big Pimpin 32.Hard On A Hoe 33.Dump 34.I Got Love 35.I Got Love ft Fabolous (Remix) 36.Let's Play House 37.Skandalouz 38.Drank Anthem 39.Dogg Pound Gangstaville ft Snoop Doggy Dogg & Warren G 40.Keep It Gangsta 41.Hey Ya'll 42.Where I'm From 43.The Champ Is Here (Times Up Remix) 44.Time's Up 45.Annie Mae 46.Next Boyfriend ft Knoc-Turn Al 47.Get Up ft Eve 48.Dolla Dolla Bill 49.The Next Episode 50.I Need A Bitch 51.Twist Yo Body 52.U Need Me In Your Life 53.The Set Up 54.Deeez Nuuuts 55.Black Mercedes 56.In The Midnite Hour 57.Bad Girls ft Redman 58.Gangsta Wit It 59.Groupie ft The Dogg Pound 60.Your Wife ft Dr Dre 61.Because I Got A Girl 62.Yo Sassy Ways 63.Crazy 64.Bitch Please 65.Merry Jane 66.Round and Round 67.Seven Days (DJ Premier Remix) 68.Oh No 69.Game Don't Wait (Remix) 70.Where I Wanna Be 71.Real Soon 72.What They Think 73.Ain't No Fun 74.Enjoy Yourself with Cee-lo, Jazze Pha 75.Never Leave Me Alone 76.The Streets (Re-Twist) 77.All Night Long 78.Coming Home To U 79.Area Codes 80.Joysticc 81.There She Goes 82.Girls All Pause 83.All About U 84.The Game/ DJ Skee - All Doggs Go To Heaven (R.I.P. Nate Dogg)

Direct V-Day Show DownloadOkay, maybe it's not completely lovey-dovey, but upon examination of the songs I've predominantly used in this episode, some might think it's close... I'm a sap, n' it shows. ;)I tried over and over and over again to make the music I wanted to use in this episode line up to create a storytelling ep. of sorts, but nothing ever quiiite worked out- so I just used a refinement of my first list; where the items have been lined up the way they are because they just sound good that way. :) One could say that they're now in little thematic groupings of things like "love lost," "love gained" and "love sought," but the only two pieces w/real placement meaning are those placed at the very end. ("Where Beauty Moves" and "Breakable.")Upon final examination (and the nagging feeling that I was missing something- which inspired this realization) I kind of wish I'd put "Where Beauty Moves" before "Strict Machine" (as the feelings of the song would go better together, it'd be a better transition from "Beauty" to "Machine," and it wouldn't be such a jarring change from "Sadeness" to "Beauty.."), but at this point the work is done, and I'm not up for re-doing the whole end of the show again, like I've already done once. ;) (It's a LOT of work! :)) Perhaps you'll decide to buy these tunes online or in your local area somewhere, and you can make your own fantabulous playlist. :):)Big props go out to ArielPublicity for access to so many songs for this episode, and as always to IodaPromonet n' the PMN!I hope this show inspires you and makes your heart grow fonder, and that you dig all the tunes herein. :)♥♥♥DJ Selchie, Your Siren of Song ;)Track List1. Amy Speace - Two (So romantic!!)2. The Shanghai Restoration Project -Miss Shanghai Revealed (SOO sweet!!)3. Tori Lewis feat. Talent - Where I Wanna Be (How you should feel when you're in love. :))4. The Latin Soul Syndicate - El Gitano del Amor (You GOTTA have some Latin music on a show about love n' passion!!!)5. Donna Lewis - Shout (How so many of us feel when we're in love.. :))6. Peter Bradley Adams - Under My Skin (SUCH a beautifully intense, romantic song!! -Almost sounds like Allison Krause in the background.. no?)7. The Silentreatment - Sweet Ending (A yearning heart hoping for what we all hope for... :))8. Deirdre Flint - I'm Single (How some of us feel during this holiday. ;))9. Enigma - The Principles of Lust (The Everlasting Lust Remix) ('Cause love is more than just candy hearts and sonnets. -Ah yes- and show correction, they're German. :))10. Lothlorien - Willie and Mary (Love is often crossed with hardship. We can only nurture hope & follow our hearts.)11. Andy Davis - Earth and Venus (Sometimes we don't know how to handle love when we find it...) 12. Goldfrapp - Strict Machine (Love is not always the same for everyone... ;))13. Enigma - Sadeness Part 1 (The US Violent Remix) (Love can be painful- & some folks like it that way. ;))14. The New World Renaissance Band - Where Beauty Moves & Wit Delights (One of the loveliest male voices I've ever heard sings of how love doesn't always turn out the way we wish it would...)15. Ingrid Michaelson - Breakable (Both love and Life are two supremely precious commodities.)Background Music: Enigma - Sadeness Part 1 (The US Violent Remix)Overall message: We need to be careful with each other. Love is a treasure and so are the hearts and lives of the people around us in our lives. We should treat them accordingly. :) Lastly; I know that the quality of my microphone is still drek, but I hope that the quality of my music more than makes up for that. :):) Also, I hope that this Valentine's Day you find love in your life- no matter what form it takes. And that if you don't, you might at least find some cheer w/the music in this show, and that you keep your heart and hope open for love soon to come. :):)♥♥♥-DJS