Now You Know You in Trouble

"At one point, the V.I.P. name was attached to a dozen outposts in Southern California. The chain's original location in South Central was founded by Anderson's older brother Cletus in the late 1960s; it specialized in gospel, Motown and R&B.
"After graduating from high school in Brandon, Miss., in 1972, a teenage Anderson followed Cletus to Los Angeles and got into the business. Together they opened V.I.P.'s Long Beach location—their 12th—in 1978; Anderson bought it shortly thereafter.
"'Some kids go to college, but I got my degree in the music industry working at V.I.P.,' he says."

In the LA Weekly, Andrea Domanick reports on the fall of World Famous V.I.P. Records