PAULA BRION EP #129 | Duane Knight, affectionately known as Dr. D or "D-Night," and Marc Stallworth, a gospel DJ and visionary leader - DA TESTIMONY WITH PAULA BRION

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 5 (01:19):
You don't want to know because Praise the Lord. Praise
the Lord, God, bless you everybody. We are here into

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the buildings. Yes, this is full of Brion the diva
for Christ. And you know we do nothing before we
go to the throne of God, Father God. I just
asked that you just give us the strength on today
we have uh. At this point, we are lifting up
two families that are very near and dear to me,

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the Trim family and Christine Gonzales. Who are They just
transitioned this week and I've just been going through it. Lord,
So just please, I'll just ask that you just hold
me up, hold me up. Lord, only you can do it.
And I know this platform is your platform, and I

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know anything coming on this platform is gonna be about
you and doing what we need to do in your business,
for your business, for your kingdom building purpose. Bather, God,
I just thank you for allowing me to be the
vessel used to bring this every Tuesday at nine pm
Eastern Standard time, just to elevate you and uplist you.

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And God, I oh, it's an honor to be able
to do this for you. There's nothing I won't do
for you. But today we just love on you. We
love on you like we always do every Tuesday, and beyond.
Thank you Lord, you know, and we ask that you
have your way with this platform and the precious name

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above all names, Jesus Christ. Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. We
bring in hearts too of this wonderful, wonderful, and I
do say wonderful DJ experience. It is a movement for
our gospel DJs. We celebrate them for this wonderful month

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of black history of the music industry, you know. So
we're just gonna celebrate on our DJs that bring all
our wonderful, wonderful, wonderful music. And whether it be the
cookouts you know on the summer or whatever, but they
out there and they are supporting and pushing our music.

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And I just I just bless God for our DJ
But we have a crew who on this platform today.
We brought them two weeks ago and we're bringing them
back so you can hear some more wonderfulness about this
DJ this fifty year anniversary of Great Gospel DJ movement.

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And we bring onto you the first guest that has
been here. He has been on this platform many times.
He goes by Dwayne Knight, aka my doctor D. Mister
Damascus is this year and that.

Speaker 6 (04:31):
Half that's right, that's right, yes, bro, bro, I just
bless you, just would come in and blessing this platform
like you always do.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
But you know, we do nothing without you. Just give
a little excerpt of a little taste of what who
is Doctor D? Who is the Last Night a Game?

Speaker 7 (05:00):
Thank you Pauler Brion Indva for Christ for having us
on your your program once again. Is always an honor.
I never take you for granted. It's always on time
and I appreciate you your ministry and you are definitely
my little sister in life, in life period, definitely family.

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But in short, we the God has blessed me to
celebrate my fiftieth anniversary this year in twenty twenty five.
It was back in nineteen seventy six when six brothers
in a Nazareene church felt the calling of the Lord

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in the midst of the whole hip hop movement growing
from seventy three on, DJs were all around and we
felt the call to six of us. We felt the
call to do the DJ thing, but for Christ. So
this day one on Ron and Monty and Benson and

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Cyro and Basil and myself we answered the.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Call of the Lord.

Speaker 7 (06:17):
And I always joke with them that I'm the baby
of the bunch. So I was fifteen at the time
that we felt there was a need in gospel music industry.
At the time, you know, Sundays was most of the
time you had your gospel radio shows, not really during
the week, and the music at that time was very

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limited to mostly choirs and quartets and that kind of stuff.
But with the arise of hip hop and the rise
of gospel music and itself, there was so many other
genres of gospel music that was out there. You had
the reggae, you had the jazz, you had the contemporary,

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you had the calypso but they were not even had
a little bit of a house, but they did not
they were not getting the airplay that that they needed.
And so during the week we felt the need to
do the DJ thing and create mixtapes and give it out,

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starting with the young people at my church. At the
church we went to also that during the week they
were able to listen to other genres of music that
they were they were listen to on a regular So
if they listened to the reggae, we wanted them to
listen to the gospel reggae.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
They listened to.

Speaker 7 (07:47):
The contemporary, you know, the R and B we call
it sometimes. We wanted them to have the R and
P rhythm and praise uh in gospel so that during
the week they would have music that matched their faith
in their soul and their walk with Christ. So that's
basically how we started. We thought there was a need

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to expose, break, and release more music that was able
to be or that was being played at the time
on the air.

Speaker 5 (08:23):
Wow that, I mean, that's a heavy order, I know.
You know, that's where it all began with me. With you.
I was always a house artist, but I really got
introduced to the gospel house arena through you, and I've
oftentimes thank you for that so much because it's very important.

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You know, your mouth is powerful and you know, you
just from introducing me to that just allowed me to
be more free spirited, even though house music is free
spirited in itself, but to do it in a gospel
level and bring the Lord into the platform, it just
took it to my house music to a whole other level.

(09:07):
So I just thank you for that, because again, it's
just a wonderful thing when you're doing things and you're
uplifting and uh bringing people to Christ through what you
do in ministry in itself, you know, be a DJ
and be a singer. But you know, just thank you
so much because of your gospel lighthouse as to bring

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us together to dance and shake. And we didn't feel compelled,
you know, because back then there was a lot of
clubbing going on, you know, so to know that we
could go to a place and and really dance for
the Lord. You know what I'm saying, Kudos kudos to
the six men that really did that, including you, the
original gospel DJ. So I thank you so much for

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just being on this platform. When we brought you last time,
you know, you were speaking in terms of the movie
and again you're speaking on how it's all began. Why
now do you what made this such a special moment,
a pivotal moment to basically celebrate these gospel DJs.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
That's a good, good question.

Speaker 7 (10:17):
And again doing it's a question that apropos at this
time doing Black History, Black Music Month, Black Music Month,
right about music, we're talking about the DJ. We were
talking about the gospel DJ. And to answer your question,
we just passed. We just celebrated Father's Day last Sunday.

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And what happened with about two years ago? About two
years ago, I think it was twenty about twenty three,
twenty three. On Father's Day, I was home and I
was was in my word and I felt in the spirit,

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for the Spirit spoke to me, and Father God spoke
to me through the Holy Spirit, and he said that.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (11:14):
And he said that basically, he said that one, I'm
giving you a new name. And just as I gave
Abraham a name and I called him the Father of
all nations, he said, I'm calling you giving you a name,
the father of the Gospel DJ movement. And he said,

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with that assignment that I'm about to uh and send
you on. I want you to do to several things.
Number one, I need you to go back and let
and let the world know the gospel Let the music
industry know who other pioneers that I called originally to

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start the gospel DJ movement and what they did.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
And who they were.

Speaker 7 (12:09):
That was number one, and celebrate them. Number two. I
need you to celebrate other gospel DJs who have along
within this fifty year span, whether they DJ for five
minutes or whether they DJ for fifty years or anywhere

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in between. I want you to celebrate them for what
they did for me through gospel music. And there are
some pioneers that have went on that I want the
industry to know who they were. And the last thing
he told me to do. I need you to document
the gospel DJ movement because people do not know who

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they are. Unlike our our brothers and sisters in hip
hop industry, many of the DJs that founding DJs are
known throughout the world, and even the DJs that are
current are known. But in gospel music, you might come

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pick up maybe ten of fifteen DJs that the gospel
music kind of know and kind of favor to break
music and stuff like that, if that many, But there
are more than fen or fifteen DJs out there spending
for the Lord. In my roller Decks alone. I had

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come across one hundred and fifteen DJs in the course
of my fifty year span, so and many of them
again we do not know who they are.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
So that was the.

Speaker 7 (13:50):
Assignment that Father God gave me about two years ago
on Father's Day. And that's what the whole purpose of
what we're doing now now coming into the fiftieth anniversary
in August.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
Praise God, Praise God. That's a tool order and just
the man to do it. God, you will do it.
Uh And and God knows that, and that's why he
gave you that that He gave you that job.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Bro.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
But we are on the line. We have but too,
we have Mark. You want to introduce Mark to the
to the peoples.

Speaker 7 (14:30):
Oh yeah, I definitely love to do the introduce my
brother DJ brother Mark from Boston. One of the assignments
coming out of for the DJ movement was to create
a body, a to create a point where we can
all move together as a unit, which was never done before.

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And building that unit and building that unification of the
of the gospel deeds, the mobile as the DJs out
there into a unit on one of the people that
God has called that called to help me do that.
His brother Mark star Wark of this in the Boston area.
So ladies and gentlemen at the time, introducing this some

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and you know, introducing the some and how it goes,
introducing the s and let others know about him at
this point brother the d D Mark star Wars.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
Mark, but the others there you go, I got it right.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Can you'll hear me?

Speaker 7 (15:43):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (15:47):
First of all, we got a nickname. It's it's no
longer doctor d It's D Night. That's doctor d He
got to do nick name Doctor D Night. That's the man.
And I definitely want to thank you all everybody. It's
a great opportunity to be here. So much is going
on and I'm I'm not going to say I feel

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like a preacher, but I know Tonight's message I have.
It's kind of going to tie everything into what's going on.
And you know, the one thing that really appealed to
me when I met D Night was the fact that
his mission was to bring reverency back to the gospel DJs.

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And we know that when we were in the world
how important the DJs were to the scene. Knowing that
the club, the radio were coming to the club to
see what we were playing and in light of recent events,
because in Paula, you're going to bring this back for
another topic on another time. But what happened, what happened
that these b ET Awards the other night was a sham.

(16:52):
You know what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't know how
many people know about it, but they are really really
testing to see what they can get away with. You
understand what I'm saying. To give the Album of the
Year to somebody, a gospel album of the Year to
someone who's not even gospel, not call not that that's
like more than abrupt, a blatant slap in the face

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for us. But I see the reverency of what we're
getting ready to do to come back, because now you
have put things in a bigger light for us, and
I hope that we position ourselves as key pieces in
the industry that people are gonna look for when they
look for integrity, accountability, and responsibility. You understand what I'm saying,

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because because you know, too many envelopes are running things
and they're so busy trying to make everything the way
man did it as opposed to what God is doing.
And I'm here because God is doing it. And so
that being said, this thing with the DJ movement, it's
going to be more than a movement. It's going to
be like a DJ tsunami. And I think it's gonna

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bring a lot of people in once we hit, Once
we hit, you know, hit the shores with it because
of what's happening in gospel. There are too many artists
out there that could have gotten that award easily, that
that that deserve it, you understand, but that's blatant that
that was so blatant for them to do that. That's
like saying, well, we paid the biggest envelope and our

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artist is getting the award, and she does not. She's
not gospel, and it's okay. It's not okay. You know,
when I think about the gospel DJs, When I think
about gospel DJs, go with the heath. It's a Saturday afternoon,
I'm running my errands. It's a beautiful day. I got
my windows down, and I'm listening to some gospel music

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that I want people to walk up and say, what
are you listening to?

Speaker 1 (18:45):
You know what I'm saying, it's not it's not.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
About you know, we we as a society today have
come too judgmental towards the gospel music. Well, first of all,
the way you sang Amazing Grace definitely ain't the way
Jesus was singing it back in the day. So where
are you to draw a line here? That's number one.
Number two, if I'm driving up in somebody who's not
saved is asking me what I'm listening to, and I'm

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telling them it's gospel, I want them to understand that.
You know, when you tell somebody you saved, they think
you're going to go to church, eat chicken fellowship and
go to Bobby Study.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
Like that.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
We have a life too. And when I pull up
into the gas station or pull up into the mall
or the store or whatever, and I'm pumping something nice
and they ask me, and I tell them this is
gospel music. They don't have to sound like what you
think it sound like. This could be it because the
marble says, let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
You show me in the Bible where it says you're

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supposed to listen to Christian hip hop, Christian house music,
Christian R and B. You show me that in the
Bible and then our back then. But that being said
that news has been promoted by the gospel DJs because
they ain't gonna play it in the church. They're not
going to play it in the church. And it's funny.
It's funny, not funny, but a coincidence. One of the

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hardest projects that I'm listening to this summer is a
sister out of Louisiana called Lady Harmony. But the title
of her project is too Street for the Church and
two church for the Street. And I'm telling you, her
product is hitting it right on all cylinders. But again,
it's the gospel DJs that's gonna be promoting this music.

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It's not gonna be the labels. It's not gonna be
the radio. It's gonna be the gospel of DJs. Yeah,
And that's where I see things going right now, because
it's not like we have to break that stigma of
you know, oh you saved. All you do is go
to church and carry a Bible and stream Jesus. No,
that's not so. I look like you, you look like me.
I'm gonna have my gear on. But at the end

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of the day, I know who I serve, and you
should come serve who I serve so you can get
the blessings that I get. And that's the way I
see it. Yeah, you know what I mean, that's evangelism
right there. When somebody walks up and says to you,
what you listening to you? That's banging. You know what,
I'm like, Well, this is gospel music, you know what
I'm saying, And it lets them know, like hmm, it's

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okay to sound like that, you know what I mean,
It's okay to have it because at the end of
the day, if this music is going to get your
son or daughter or grandson or niece and nephew in
church and recognizing God, then we did our job. That's right, right,
right job. We did what we were trying to do.
We evandualize it. It says go out into the world

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and what you know what I'm saying. So that's that's
where I see And I don't have a problem with
all these different genres of gospel music because the keyword
is it's gospel music. It's pointing to our Lord and Savior. Now,
there's some people out there that try to stay safe
and don't want to use the word or as they say, CCM.
But at the end of the day, you give me

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some Dietrich Hadden, some Lady Harmony, some Caleb McCoy, you
give me some some you know, some Lacree, you can
give me some any of that, you know what I'm saying.
So so at the end of the day, that's what

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we're about. But I'm telling you right now you don't
sleep on the gospel DJ movement because this get made
it come back like the tsunami.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
Well, let me say this. You know, as an as
an artist, you know, I have to stand up for
this movement. And the reason why I'm so blessed to
be a part of it is because I'm a recording
artist from secular right, and it always took a DJ
to bring the music where it needed to be. Be

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it R and b be it. I mean, it happened
to the best where music was transformed into dance mode,
just so so that the dance can happen, so that
the praise can happen. And and and just going into
like I said, going into from secular to the gospel community,

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it just was amazing, you know, to be able to
uplift the Lord and and do it on a platform
and taking back the music that the devil has stole
for so long. It just felt so good to be
able to know that I could go into a platform
and these songs could be heard any and everywhere and

(23:20):
be accepted. Because again, it's about what you say. It's
about you know, what you come out your mouth with.
And I truly believe that that that means all. You know,
that that makes a major major difference in the music industry. So,
you know, the gospel just to do gospel house, you know,
and after being one of the first house artists out,

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you know, and then be able to flip it and
it become gospel and be acceptable, I'm down with this movement.
That that that's all in all I needed, you know,
because this is what my walk is about, you know,
being about God's business, and it starts with what I'm doing,
you know. And if I'm you know, doing music, then
I need to be doing what God saith to do

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with his music, and that is to lift it up
and do what you have to do.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
You know.

Speaker 5 (24:09):
I used to sing the best thing that ever happened,
you know, and that you know, that was that was
glad as night, right everybody. But when James Cleveland got
a whold of that thing, you know what I'm saying
it just it just made such a difference, you know
what I'm saying. So, you know, taking back and that's
my my real ministry is just taking back with the
devil soul you know, in music, in his music, in

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the sound, bringing it back old school, like you spoke
about Mark, you know, hearing it. You know, we grew
up in the era where music was played throughout our
the mom's cleaning, the grandma cleaning. You know, you hearved
the choice. That's why you know so much about all
the old school stuff. I know, or I know more
about the old school stuffing I did about the music

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that came up when I was growing up, you know
what I'm saying, because of the parents, because of the
grandma cleaning in the house, and you was gonna listen
to some eyes of case, whether you liked it or not.
That he found out about Mahelia Jackson. My mother was like,
oh no, you're gonna listen, and it is. You know,
it wasn't about putting on any other music but that

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so you know, whodos to everything that you're saying. And
I just want to say this, you know, before we
finished with this, thank you, Thank you guys for being
that that that uh seeing the vision of what the
music industry needs and that and that's a pus because
like I said, I've been on major labels, independent labels,

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you name it, I've been there. But it takes DJs.
It takes DJs to make people listen to the real,
true artistic of an artist. And I and I want
to thank you for being all the job been to
the industry, especially music industry as we call it docspel industry.

(25:54):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
I mean that man.

Speaker 7 (26:01):
And it's and one of like you said, like you said,
what we're doing is we're creating a movement something that
has never been created before for for the gospel DJs.
And once the gospel DJs, the mobile gospel DJs unify
and we start to move at one a as a

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as one body, there will be you will see a
shift and how how gospel music is exposed, how gospel
music is played, and how our gospel artists are promoted.
And one of the things that we we we like

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to say about the gospel DJs, the mobile gospel dj
those who spend on the turntables and stuff like that,
is that we have a fivefold ministry. And and those
in the church understand where the five fold ministry is,
but the gospel DJ also has.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
A five to four ministry.

Speaker 7 (27:05):
We call it the five RS.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Five RS.

Speaker 7 (27:09):
The first one is released where we as the DJs
with our air to the streets. A lot of time
we get music first before radio does. And whether like
butl Maark and yourself was saying, it's whether it's in
the club. For these days, it could be a skating party,
it could be at a wedding, it could be at

(27:30):
a block party. But because we're recessible to artists, a
lot of times we get that music first and we're
able to release that music before radio does. And then
the other R is replay, and replay means that we
play it simultaneously as radio. So now that radio has it,

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we're both planning together. Given the artists that double exposed
at the same time. Then the other thing about being
a DJ. The other R, the third R is remixed.
We mean that we can remix that song on the spot,
on the fly, so that you can give us a

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song and we can hook it. We can play the
intro a little more, we can play the body a
little more, the chorus a little more, while we're playing
live in the audience, so we can we have that
chance to remix it and give an audience something different
than they were here normally on radio. And the fourth

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R in the five four ministry of the gospel, DJ
is called reproduce and that's when the artist, that's when
the artists will come and say, hey, doc, this is
the original, these are the vocals, this is the instrumental
pract track. You know you and mark once you guys
go into the studio and give us a remix of

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the song. And that's what DJ is also do. Can
can also do with the fourth r. UH And as
matter of fact, I had to have the opportunity and
UH this past month one of somebody, I had three
artists to send me three songs and I had an

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opportunity to mix two of them, mix one of them
on the fly and then the other one I told.
I was able to tell the artist, Brother Kevin in Fatton.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
He came out with a house.

Speaker 7 (29:30):
Song and I was like, Yo, cav you need to
add this, you need to do this, you need to
DJ a little something extra, hook on the graph them
on and he did it. And also like brother Marshall
Williams he has a new song if you guys love Commission,
Oh my God, you need to look up. I would trust,
I would trust, Love Out Marshall Williams. And the other

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one is a song that I just did on the fly.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
I heard it one time.

Speaker 7 (29:55):
I was like, no, I gotta do this, and that
was an artist called Brent Jones. He has a new
new song out the Praise in the Choir Stand, and
we're just able to mix that up so the DJs
can mix on the spot, go on to the studio,
mix it and the final R In the five Fold
Ministry of a gospel DJ, it's called rejuvenate and that's

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when radio is not playing the more it's kind of
passed out, you know, nobody's really hitting. And then the
DJs at a party, is at a block party, is
at a wedding, and the DJ we call it digging
into the crates and we pull up some old school
or something like that that's not being played and boom,
we give that song life once again. So one of

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the things that I do love about the mobile ministry
of the gospel DJ is the fivefold ministry or the
five rs as we call it. That makes the ministry
of a DJ so different than any other way of
artist music can be promoted.

Speaker 5 (31:00):
I definitely can speak on that as well, you know,
because I know that I've had you know, uh songs
that was remixed, you know, by wonderful DJs and it
just gave it a whole nother life, you know what
I'm saying, where the song may have been on an
R and B tip, or it might have been just
a gospel song like uh, but then once they get

(31:23):
a tale of it, it becomes a house classic. And
I've had a number of those, so you know, it's
just a blessing Again what given kudos to DJs that
really make all the difference for artists, you know, So
I could definitely speak for that, and it's a wonderful
place to be because you know, when you have to,

(31:44):
like you said, the picnics and the family reunions, you know,
and that music that dance music comes on, it's it
just takes their hazard, It just takes on its own
thing and a real good example of it. And I
you know, I love me some Kenny Bobian, So you
know you are my friend. You know that that that
that's my song and when you always play homes by
Stephanie Millers. That's another one of my love I love

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that song, so you know with your shows with that yeah,
with that house version, so it's nothing like it. And
and what I think the biggest thing about this, and
I don't know if anyone's ever said this, but let
me tell you something, gospel gospel DJs are the ones
that bring together secular and gospel. No one else done

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that because oftentimes, if you get a DJ who's playing
R and B or or you know, some other form
of music, that's what they play. But it's not until
the gospel DJ gets a hold of your music and
they will take, like you said, a classic and they

(32:52):
will put that spin on it and most times it'll
make it even bigger. But only the gospel DJs do that.
I'm telling you very few DJs that have the ability
to do that, to take and we and this is
what I talk about on this platform all the time,
bridging the gap between our secular community and the gospel

(33:15):
the church. We need to come together, and gospel DJs
do that, right right, I walk in there.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
And inject on that too. Yes we can. There's there's
one thing I want to say as an artist when
you go in and you want to have your song
drop right, and you go into the radio people you
give them this song. They got to go through all
this red tape to promote your music or to play
your song. You can you can walk up to a

(33:47):
gospel DJ at an event and if your music is hot,
we gonna play it right away. We ain't even gonna wait.
We ain't got nobody to ask. We don't have to,
you know, Oh, I got to check out my program director.

Speaker 5 (33:58):
Yeah, right, right, right, that's right, that's right.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
We'll listen. We'll take a listen to your music for
thirty seconds, and if it's good, we're gonna drop it
right on the spot.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
You don't know that that's right, that's right, that's right.
And that's the that's the thing. You know, we as artists,
we would go if you even had a manager, your
manager will go to a club and give the record
to the DJ so that he can get a feel
of what or we could get a feel of what
it feels like, you know, to be for this song

(34:32):
to play. And you'll know once he put drops that
that song, you will know if it's a hit or not.
You will know. And that's because the DJ has set
that platform. So that's the reason why a lot of
A and R people and order they would come to
the club just to see what was gonna happen when

(34:53):
they put that song on. So see, like I said,
I'm a house artist legend, you know what I'm saying.
So it's like I know where that is is to
be on that platform. So I was one of the
ones that went to the clubs and and and played
my got the DJs that that was willing to pay
play my music. So and and and you knew. You
knew from the way they got on that floor and dance.

(35:14):
You know what I'm saying, what was going on?

Speaker 2 (35:17):
And let me ask you, did you ever once have
to play, okay, a gospel DJ your music? You see
what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (35:26):
Hell Nope, I never had to. But but I will
tell you Mark, there are DJs that are taking money
just like the record comes in that take money. Now
I know the business man, but a praise.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Actually the line back in the day he said, I
ain't no pip, but I'll take it. So you know
there's some books out there like that, you know what
I mean. But at the end of the day, at
the end of the day with my integrity and what
I you with the business. If Paula, you walk in
the door and you said, Hey, this is my new joint.

(36:05):
Can you check it out? And I listened to it
in my headphones and you see me nod to ten
twelve seconds? Are we dropping it that night?

Speaker 5 (36:13):
But let me tell you something I can attest to that.
I could attested that for both of y'all. Both of
y'all do that. You know, doctor d don't. He don't.
He's always spending my stuff.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
On his shoulders, you know.

Speaker 5 (36:24):
So it's like it's just a blessing for an artist
to have. Again, DJs make the difference, and it's a
blessing that those platforms are there and that this movement,
this movement is pushing that because this is the real,
real ministry. This is real stuff right here.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
You know.

Speaker 5 (36:43):
So I'm yep, yep, we don't play, we don't have
no It's okay, no, I was saying, go ahead. I
was just saying, we don't have one of the.

Speaker 7 (36:56):
Yeah, one of one of the things that we people
have to understand. And then the the things I've been
pushing ever since I got into the gospel music industry
in ninety five when I was when I got on
radio on WHR ninety point three FM and Harlem, I
I praised God. I celebrated thirty years on WHR this year,

(37:19):
but with my first show on WHR and that that
launched me into gospel music. With the Gospel Music Workshop
we went every year. We was with the artists and
we met all the artists and stuff like that. One
of the first things I said when I stood in
front of the gospel announcers guilt at the Gospel Music Workshop.

(37:42):
And it was a room full of radio announces and
artists and labels and I was the only one, only
gospel DJ there and Missus Sam Williams introduced me, which
is like he's my godfather when it comes to this,
my mentor. But he introduced me in as soon as
things said the.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Gospel DJ, all you heard was boom boo boo, you know, And.

Speaker 7 (38:04):
It actually moved me because again they didn't understand what
a DJ was. But the thing I said to them
from day one, I said to radio announcers and gospel
DJs are like apples and oranges. They do things differently.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
They both have their.

Speaker 7 (38:23):
Own lane, they both have their own way of doing things,
but together we can make a nice fruit salad.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
And I said, the DJs are here to work along
with radio, and our whole goal.

Speaker 7 (38:38):
Is to promote the artists. So never see us as
your enemy. Will see us as your brother and sister
and the Lord that are fulfilling the purpose of what
we do, and that is to promote the artists to
get their music out there, to get it into the
ears of the listeners, and let the listeners going to

(38:58):
the stores or screaming these days and purchase the music.
And that's one of the things that you know from
day one was the mission and the mission and the
vision that I that I spoke about. But we really
want to boll if we can't just jump into August
coming up. And I'm so happy to be able to

(39:20):
for me and Mark to be able to talk about
this doing Black Music Month on your show that coming
up in August from the sixth to the tenth. We
have a historic events, the events that are happening on
to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Gospel DJA. And again,

(39:41):
as I said before, it doesn't matter if you play
for five minutes for the Lord or you played for
five years for the Lord or fifty years for the Lord.
We want you to come up to New York to
Harlem and we are going to celebrate you. And how
we're going to do that. We have four events that.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
We're working on.

Speaker 7 (39:59):
On that wind day, we're asking one hundred DJs where
we put out the clarion call Brother Mark and I
and the people that are working with we are working
with somebody from people like yourself, UH, and they're helping
us put out the clarion call for one hundred gospel
mobile gospel DJs to merge on Harlem, New York. And

(40:24):
the reason we're doing that is number one, on the
seventh of August, we are going to create the third
historical picture in a music genre. In nineteen fifty eight, jazz,
about fifty fifty two jazz artists got together in Harlem,
UH and took a picture they called a great Day

(40:47):
and and in Harlem and I was fifty about fifty
some jazz artists got together and took a picture.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
The only time that ever.

Speaker 7 (40:55):
Happened again was in nineteen ninety eight when hip hop
went to the same location and they had about almost
two hundred artists came out and they created the image
which is known as the Great Day and Hip Hop.
So only twice in history have a job has a

(41:15):
gin gotten together.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
To take such a picture.

Speaker 7 (41:19):
So this year on August seventh, we are going to
make history and be the third group. The mobile gospel
DJs are gonna be the third group to.

Speaker 5 (41:31):
Again go to the.

Speaker 7 (41:33):
Same location as the jazz and the hip hop artists,
and we're gonna have take a picture of a photo
called the Great Day in Gospel and it's gonna have
one hundred mobile gospel DJs and probably some friends too,
and probably some friends, Yeah, some friends up in there,
and we're.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Gonna create this historic picture.

Speaker 7 (41:54):
And also what we're doing, we're looking through do a
awards and honors gala, which is something that I picked
up for my my brothers and sisters at the gen
convention under Bishop Wells. They talked about honoring artists and
stuff like that. So I'm just taking a thing out

(42:15):
of their playbook about honor. During Awards and Honors gala
on August eighth, where every gospel DJ mobile gospel DJ
that comes, we are going to give them a certificate of.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Honor for what they've done. For the Lord anywhere in
the last fifty years.

Speaker 7 (42:33):
And then we're gonna we're also gonna give special recognition
and plaques to the pioneers, the fathers of the gospel
music DJs, and that's uh brother Vincent Stokes, the Cyril Stokes,
Basil Jones, May Machey Pennow and Uh unfortunately and myself.

(42:57):
But unfortunately, we just lost the sixth member, Ron Lawrence.
We just lost some like last week and so he
won't be able to make it, but we're gonna honor
him and some other people who passed away, like DJ
Lais and other DJs, and we also want to honor.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
DJ Scott Blackwell.

Speaker 7 (43:19):
Now, Scott Blackwell was one of the first DJs who
came out of a club, came out of New York radio,
who put when he did it, when he did house music,
he called it sanctified dance. And he was the first
DJs that brought house music into gospel, into the CCM

(43:41):
world really and he called it sanctified dance. So we
want to honor another legend, Scott Blackwell, as well as
other DJs on August eighth and Harlem, and then after
that we're gonna close it out with a marathon twelve
hour firm at my station w ACR ninety point three

(44:03):
in Harlem. Big shout out to the Zaire and.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Tina.

Speaker 7 (44:10):
They've been behind me.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
From day one.

Speaker 7 (44:14):
Matter of fact, our meeting greet on August sixth is
going to be at the radio station, so we're we're
we're showing out my station.

Speaker 5 (44:22):
Love.

Speaker 7 (44:23):
On the twelve, we're gonna have a twelve hour from
Asia from ten in the morning to ten at night
where we're gonna have DJs spending for at least forty minutes,
artists coming up. Some of our sponsors are gonna come
up and talk about what they're doing. And I just
before I give it tomorrow, I just got to give
a big shout out to our sponsors. We have sponsors

(44:44):
like the Christian Times newspaper up here in New York City. Again,
my station w ACR ninety point three are from the
Boss of Harlem. We have the gin or our our
music convention that Mark and I and some of the
other DJs are part of. The so Well I Want
to Praise Party is a group of guys that in

(45:08):
Connecticut with Beter, Lannel, Larry and Butter Rob DJ Lne Larry,
who have their own platform in promoting gospel music. And
of course I gotta give a big shout out to
myself to DJ BBJ, not DJ, but my artist, my
friend BBJ who with God Core, he's been a sponsor

(45:31):
from day one. And also once we take this historical
picture on August August seventh, Roots Magazine, the number one
gospel magazine in gospel music, has already said that they
are going to run a feature story on the Gospel

(45:52):
DJ movement, our pioneers, our legends that passed on, and
they're gonna run this a full page of this historic
photo in their issue that they're going to release in
October doing the Double Wars and the GMA in Nashville. Now,
if anybody know about the spell A Wars or the

(46:12):
Double Wars for gospel music, those are the two biggest
and for that magazine to release this historic picture doing
the GMA and the Double Wars in Nashville, that is
a historic. So they set out to Roost Magazine, who
is also one of the sponsors of what's going on

(46:33):
what we call the fiftieth anniversary weekend August sixth through
the tenth in Harlem in New York City.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
And can I just pick the back off of that
that is made absolutely and just listening to you, you know,
you got me reinvigorated. I'm i gotta I want to
I want to go back to something that Paula said
earlier and just fation off of what was said last
night at the GIN President's meeting, because this, like I

(47:04):
said tonight, is more like a preach message where it
all comes home. So you've got all of these different organizations.
You've got the GAG, You've got the GMWA, you've got
the GIN, You've got the Gospel DJs. And one of
the things that was said last night by our brother
Earl Biden was the fact that you know, all of

(47:25):
these organizations are good and can survive on their own,
but at the end of the day, we were to
come together, we would have a much more powerful voice.
And the part about what Paula said earlier is the
Gospel DJ movement is going to be the foundation in

(47:46):
the corner piece for making all of these other organizations
come to the table because we have the bidas reach.
Once it's respected, and what I mean by that, we
have the ability to make the end path in the
streets and inside the buildings at the same time. That's right,
and so that's being said, And so that being said,

(48:09):
I feel like the Gospel DJs are going to bring
some of these organizations together as a whole, and it
is our mission to make them understand the importance of
the integrity that is needed to do this thing for
us to go forward. Ye, it's about integrity, it's about accountability,
and it's about respect for what God's business is really

(48:32):
all about. And I see that, you know, I see
that clear as a belt right now. Because again, we
don't need no payoverer. We like dropping it. We like
dropping God's stuff so people can get it. And that's
what I like about this movement. That's why I like
about who we really are. There's no envelope. I don't

(48:54):
I can't tell you not one time have I ever
accepted an envelope from somebody to drop some music I
knew already was gonna be off the hook. I like
the fast. I get a rush for that. We're the
one that's breaking that music. And that's what we're gonna
get back to basics. So when we do this cossroom,
doing the after party and the thing I can tell

(49:15):
you right now, the first one may be a little
rough to get started, but when we get the momentum,
we're gonna be twy folks away. Sorry, can't you know
we open up a little three thousand.

Speaker 7 (49:25):
We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna get We are giving
the word after party a new meaning in gospel music before.
When you say after party and gospel music, all that
means is the second concert for the artists that they
couldn't feel fit on the first concert, so now they're

(49:48):
gonna have a second, you know, second stage with those artists.
We were totally changing that for the after party that
the gospel DJ movement is doing. We're gonna have because
and six gossop DJs at the same party, each one
spending a different genre of gossip music, whether it's house,

(50:08):
whether it's hip hop, whether it's reggae, whether it's contemporary,
and it.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
Will be some of the old school music that we know.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
We're going.

Speaker 7 (50:17):
We're gonna be doing line dancing, We're gonna be dropping
boots on the ground, We're gonna get everybody up and
partying because the after party will be the party after
the event. That's our goal. That's what we're doing. And
we're also taking some artists with us, like we did
in Nashville last year. We had Paula, we had Chris Stuh,

(50:40):
they came with it. We had BBJ and a couple
other artists and people had a phenomenal time. They they
listen to music and it was like everybody was like, Wow,
We've never seen anything like that where the DJ with
the mobile DJ.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
Is the main artist on the stage.

Speaker 7 (51:00):
Yes, right, and everybody else is supporting us and together
working together. We had a one stub but before we end,
I just paul, I gotta I know you're gonna ask
to give all our information, but I gotta send everybody
to the website.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
If you want to hear anything, see anything that Mark.

Speaker 7 (51:18):
And I we talked about and we didn't get a
chance to talk about, go to our website on a
regular but now on on on updates and information will
be on our website, which is and I hope you
gotta pen with some ink in it because it's kind
of long for now, all right.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
So it's wwwd thhe Gospel DJ fiftieth I've ot H
Anniversary twenty twenty five dot com. I'm gonna stay it
one more time. The Gospel DJ.

Speaker 7 (51:56):
Fiftieth Anniversary twenty twenty five, UH dot com. If you
want to know what we're doing for the weekend coming
up in August, that's the place where you want to
you want to know what we're doing in September at
our at the JEN Convention. And I've already got a
sleek peak that in September the Praise Awards, the Praise

(52:17):
Factor Awards is already going to honor me with another
Legends Awards. So I'm I'm just like ecstatic about that
because people don't have to show you love, but they
they said that this is something they're going to So
it's it's going to be hot.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
It's gonna be hot. But but Mark, recorded.

Speaker 5 (52:44):
You really do God bless you. I tell you, it's
always rewarding having you guys come on because there's always
so much to say.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (52:55):
Just for note, there also is a hotel if you
plan on coming New York and staying for a while
for that on the website. Please go on the website.
So go to the website. But again, we're gonna go
out in prayer like we do every every Tuesday, not
to cut you off, but I know there's other folks
gotta come on. But you know I'm gonna ask one

(53:17):
of y'all to say a prayer and just close this
wonderful session out and again, thank you so much just
for coming on this platform and offering the listeners the
opportunity to know what it is to be a gospel
DJ legend and a gospel DJU in the coming. So
I thank you so much because there's DJ's out there listening.

(53:39):
But can you take us to the throne.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Myself, but the Mark, it doesn't matter, Let the spirit move,
let them off.

Speaker 7 (53:53):
You there, I means out there probably got an your questions.
Thank you for another opportunity to come before your throne.
We thank you, fatherly God for just giving us a
chance to talk about what you're doing, the great things
that you're doing to your people, to your artists called

(54:13):
the gospel DJ again doing black music. Mark. We thank
you that your daughter, your child, the Diva Paul, give
us an opportunity to say on this platform what you're
doing with Mark, with myself, for some other DJs and people,

(54:34):
for the fiftieth anniversary of the Gospel DJ moving. So probaly,
God will give you all the honor and the glory
and Jesus name, we pray.

Speaker 5 (54:43):
Amen, Amen, Amen, listeners, you have just been blessed. Huh
doctor d oh walking back and mark yes being this
uh uh. And it really means so much to me

(55:04):
to have you guys come on, because it's always a
lot of fun, it's always a lot of knowledge and
you know it. Just thank you so much for bringing
this to the platform. The listeners have truly been blessed.
And I again just want to thank Positive Power twenty
one for having me here. Derry Royce, Derry Royce, my
tech man, the man that makes it happen every Tuesday now,

(55:27):
But thank you so much. God bless you, God bless you.
We're gonna keep bringing you back because we want people
to understand this thing is a movement, is real. You
gotta be in it to win it. So we're gonna
bring you back again. Give you a couple of weeks,
give you a breather, but I know you're gonna have
a lot more to say, So we're gonna bring you back, guys,
So get ready, get ready. Yes, definitely, God bless you.

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