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VIP Records
VIP Records is a record store chain from South Central Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1967 by Cletus Anderson (April 5, 1941 – January 28, 2024), and at its height had fourteen locations across the Los Angeles area.
The Long Beach location opened in 1978 and is currently managed by Kelvin Anderson.
VIP Records was founded in 1967 by Cletus Anderson, a Mississippi native who relocated to Los Angeles. Before entering the music business, Anderson worked as a painter for companies such as Honeywell, McDonnell Douglas, and General Motors. He opened Triple B Dry Cleaners.
The first VIP Records store opened at 108th Street and Broadway in South Central Los Angeles, eventually expanding to fourteen stores in Southern California, specifically in cities with a growing Black community: in Inglewood, Pasadena, Compton, and Crenshaw. The business also included three wholesale distribution locations—Robot Records, Magic Disc, and Music Merchandisers—as well as two in-house record labels, Magic Disc Records and Saturn Records.
In 1982, VIP’s Saturn Records released Ice-T’s debut single, “The Coldest Rap.”
In 1978, Anderson opened a VIP Records location in Long Beach, California. His brother Kelvin, who had been working in the business for several years, bought the Long Beach store from Cletus in early 1979.
During the 1980s, as gang violence increased in Long Beach, particularly between the Bloods and Crips, Kelvin Anderson converted a section of the store into a recording studio. Music producer Sir Jinx, a cousin of Dr. Dre, assisted in upgrading the studio’s equipment, introducing the Emu SP-1200 sampling drum machine. The studio became a hub for hip-hop trio 213 (Snoop Dogg, his cousin Nate Dogg, and friend Warren G), who recorded their first four-song demo at VIP. Anderson shopped the demo at record labels Jive, Tommy Boy, Profile, and Priority without success.
Other artists and groups associated with VIP Records include DJ Quik, The Dogg Pound, Domino, The Twinz, Dove Shack, and Tha Eastsidaz.
VIP Records
VIP Records is a record store chain from South Central Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1967 by Cletus Anderson (April 5, 1941 – January 28, 2024), and at its height had fourteen locations across the Los Angeles area.
The Long Beach location opened in 1978 and is currently managed by Kelvin Anderson.
VIP Records was founded in 1967 by Cletus Anderson, a Mississippi native who relocated to Los Angeles. Before entering the music business, Anderson worked as a painter for companies such as Honeywell, McDonnell Douglas, and General Motors. He opened Triple B Dry Cleaners.
The first VIP Records store opened at 108th Street and Broadway in South Central Los Angeles, eventually expanding to fourteen stores in Southern California, specifically in cities with a growing Black community: in Inglewood, Pasadena, Compton, and Crenshaw. The business also included three wholesale distribution locations—Robot Records, Magic Disc, and Music Merchandisers—as well as two in-house record labels, Magic Disc Records and Saturn Records.
In 1982, VIP’s Saturn Records released Ice-T’s debut single, “The Coldest Rap.”
In 1978, Anderson opened a VIP Records location in Long Beach, California. His brother Kelvin, who had been working in the business for several years, bought the Long Beach store from Cletus in early 1979.
During the 1980s, as gang violence increased in Long Beach, particularly between the Bloods and Crips, Kelvin Anderson converted a section of the store into a recording studio. Music producer Sir Jinx, a cousin of Dr. Dre, assisted in upgrading the studio’s equipment, introducing the Emu SP-1200 sampling drum machine. The studio became a hub for hip-hop trio 213 (Snoop Dogg, his cousin Nate Dogg, and friend Warren G), who recorded their first four-song demo at VIP. Anderson shopped the demo at record labels Jive, Tommy Boy, Profile, and Priority without success.
Other artists and groups associated with VIP Records include DJ Quik, The Dogg Pound, Domino, The Twinz, Dove Shack, and Tha Eastsidaz.