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Dive into the world of Magic City - An American Fantasy, a captivating series where the mystical intertwines with urban life. This episode continues the unfolding saga of its unique characters as they navigate challenges in a city brimming with enchantment and peril. Discover the latest developments in this intriguing American fantasy.
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00:00previously on magic city when people think bmf they're thinking of the greatest show on earth
00:21throwing money in the air not giving a fuck definitely bmf we danced on hundreds 20s 50s
00:27it would just be a pile of money u.s marshals and atlanta police have arrested a total of four
00:32bmf members it was like a funeral so i came over i guess at the end of bmf club had changed dramatically
00:40after eight years a lot had changed we naturally try to strive to be like him i had to get used to
00:49not having the power anymore and that's where i think the divide came
00:54georgia
00:57georgia
01:01georgia
01:04georgia
01:08we on the grind in georgia all the time it ain't nothing on my mind but georgia
01:15we ain't playing with you we on the grind in georgia all the time it ain't nothing on my mind but
01:21georgia
01:22country name country slang fiends at the liquor store black cruising crap shooting 50 on the 10 to 4
01:30overcast the forecast shows clouds from plenty and we ready for war in the state of
01:36georgia
01:43mikey's born in 1981 and it's our first child
01:49we're super excited he was a lovely child a sweet child
01:55and you know i felt like a mom i felt like i was doing something really special
02:01my mom's uh super mom she held it down when my dad went to jail he should have been able to be with
02:08his father that was taken from him and after this i was like we're done that we're absolutely
02:18finished with that club thing it stole so much you know the effect it had especially on mikey
02:26especially the effect it had on him so i wasn't trying to hear nothing about magic city anymore
02:38it's just something weird about this magic city man i was just trying to keep my family from feeling my
02:46my stupidity um i just didn't want it to affect them
02:50it meant a lot to my dad to become
02:53back involved in magic it's a baby you don't let go
02:57you don't let go of if they had any issues i never knew about it they did a good job of keeping that
03:03to themselves
03:04people go through things it's just the bumps in the road
03:07i think every man and every woman has
03:10we separated but mike and i were great friends i wanted him to be happy i did but i didn't want to
03:21sacrifice my own happiness
03:23sometimes i look at my little problems there's nothing when i see what some women go through
03:29when men leave them when they had a child and she weathered them storms there's something different in
03:34them that i don't think men have
03:37you know
03:42my dad got back when i was 20. i never really said i wanted to be in the club business and it was never discussed
03:54mikey work for me at the bonding company for years and then when his father came home
04:02never saw mikey again after that
04:04He was like, damn, come on, man, you've been gone.
04:06Let me stay with you. Let me hang out.
04:10He's also allowed me to live and learn.
04:12You grow up quick.
04:13So I saw areas that I felt were lacking.
04:16You had a lot of younger people that was trying to go to other clubs in the city.
04:19Back in the day, it was a lot more difficult because you didn't have as many prime dancers.
04:23You didn't have as many quality talents.
04:28There's been times when Magic City been real slow and been on fumes.
04:32And then Gigi McGuire came.
04:36Gigi, she's a legend.
04:38The acrobatics with the pole trips, the Cirque du Soleil effect of it.
04:42That became the draw.
04:46So this is my history-making moment in the world of Magic City.
04:49I became part of their first feature stage set.
04:52Gigi started the most famous pole group ever, Snack Pack.
04:58We're doing all these crazy pole tricks and we're giving these performances.
05:01We always try to, like, be trendsetters and, like, kind of set ourselves apart from everybody else.
05:06And it worked for us.
05:14When Snack Pack was created at Magic City, we changed the game, baby.
05:19Well, we put the sauce on these tricks.
05:20I'm talking about giving you sit-ups and we don't stop until we get to 10.
05:25I'm talking about climb to the top of the pole, get a good thigh grip and lean back, and then we're going in with the United We Stand.
05:33I'm talking stacking each other up on the pole at the same damn time.
05:37Two, three, four, five girls on one pole at one time.
05:41We came with our technical ballet training.
05:43We came with our gymnastics background.
05:45And we added that and put it in the mix with the strip, and boom.
05:49We created something that was never done before we came along.
05:58This Snack Pack just, like, took off.
06:01We started getting flown out to different cities to perform at clubs.
06:05We was giving Magic City to these other cities who weren't able to come to Atlanta.
06:08We'd just be watching from Canada, like, what the fuck?
06:13I, like, closed my eyes one day, and I was there.
06:16I lived in Atlanta when I first got with Wayne.
06:20I feel like I was there for, like, the end of an era and the beginning of, like, the glory days of Atlanta.
06:28It became the hub for all things music-related.
06:32You guys can't have this documentary without Esco.
06:36He's such a staple.
06:38For curation of Sonics of Atlanta.
06:42You know, I probably had better DJs, but they're not Esco.
06:47Yeah, that's that old school Atlanta South.
06:51They don't ride like this no more.
06:53I'm DJ Esco, man.
06:55The coolest DJ in the world.
06:56From Atlanta, Georgia, man.
06:58From Southside.
06:59By a way, Zone 4, Southwest Atlanta.
07:02I used to sneak and watch DJ Fernando rocking Magic City Monday.
07:06Got in touch with Lil' Magic.
07:07And he said, hey, man.
07:09Monday Day shift at Magic City.
07:12Nobody wants to work it.
07:14You got it.
07:14I'm like, yes.
07:16I'm in.
07:17You know what I mean?
07:19Monday Day turned into Tuesday Day turned into Wednesday Day.
07:23And so when I found myself, it hit me that what I'm going to need to do is find an artist.
07:35And that's going to change my legacy of Magic City.
07:38The first time I ever heard Future in some bum-ass studio in Toronto, I was just like, how high is this guy?
07:47Like, this guy has to be high as fuck.
07:49They were just on some next planet.
07:52Esco was telling me just stories about how he broke Future's music in Magic City.
07:56Future pulled up to Magic City on a Monday.
08:00And I immediately started playing his records.
08:05Yeah, I'd be on the microphone like, new Future.
08:07Is Atlanta new artists the hottest?
08:09Is the hottest artists in Atlanta?
08:11Future!
08:12He would sit there and be like, no, you got to hear this one.
08:14Tony Mundane.
08:15And I was like, you keep saying the same shit over and over again.
08:18And I told him, I was like, don't play that shit in here no more.
08:21I called Future, I said, nigga, they about to fire me.
08:24I said, don't stop playing that motherfucking music.
08:26You keep Future going.
08:28And next thing you know, everywhere I go, I'll keep hearing this.
08:31Tony Mundane.
08:32Tony Mundane.
08:34Tony Mundane.
08:36Tony Mundane.
08:37Check it by my ear.
08:39Tony Mundane.
08:41Tony Mundane.
08:43Tony Mundane.
08:44I remember being so fucking high on this song, I couldn't even open my fucking mouth.
08:51Thank you, Magic City.
08:54I think you can't overstate what Future has meant to the club.
08:59But when you're talking about who in New Atlanta has more songs that go off in a place like Magic City,
09:05I think there's a real arms race between Future and Migos.
09:10Three young niggas from the north side.
09:12Not technically from Atlanta, being embraced by the city of Atlanta.
09:16Migos had this great music, and we started our campaign.
09:20We were just very, very hungry and not taking no for an answer.
09:24Sleeping on each other's couch.
09:25Sleeping in the flow in the studio.
09:27And then making five, six songs just to hear them in Magic City.
09:30I heard that you took Bad and Bougie there.
09:32I did take Bad and Bougie there.
09:34That was our thing.
09:35You know, let's just go out and catch a vibe and see how it feel.
09:40He walked straight to the DJ, bro.
09:42I knew he was on the something.
09:43You know you got something.
09:45You get a record, right?
09:46And they put it on.
09:48And instantly.
09:49How you know people fucking with it is the money.
09:53They're throwing money when the hook start coming.
09:54She getting on the pole.
09:55She climbing the ceiling when I said this bar.
09:59Oh, shit.
10:01We got one.
10:02And I really want to thank the Migos for making Bad and Bougie.
10:14Like, that's the best song ever.
10:17It wouldn't be a Migos without the city of Atlanta and Magic City.
10:20This is where Atlanta really becomes undisputed rap capital.
10:25This new crop of young artists, Migos, future, become international stars.
10:32New Atlanta!
10:36Obviously, there's something in Atlanta that, like, breeds these guys who are always just so innovative.
10:42If you want to make it in music, you have to kind of be accepted in Atlanta or be working with someone in Atlanta.
10:49My memories of Atlanta, it's all joy.
10:54Definitely sunk a good million into Magic City for sure over the years.
10:58I remember Christmas Eve one night.
11:02I wasn't home with my family, and we had brought, like, a bunch of Magic City dancers to this hotel room that was way too small.
11:11We had made it, like, a Christmas theme.
11:13Merry Christmas!
11:14It was just, like, I have this photo of, like, the entire room covered in ones with, like, this Christmas tree.
11:20Just, like, why are you girls not with your families, and why am I not with mine?
11:23Like, it was, like, it was in Atlanta.
11:29I make my music for those girls.
11:32I care so little about, you know, another artist that someone might respect not liking my music.
11:39I don't give a fuck.
11:42I think maybe that's why I've been here so long.
11:45Probably because I only care about them.
11:47You probably know my next question.
11:48How many strippers have I...
11:50I was working at a bail bonding company with my mom, and I used to hate it, and I used to, um, always be like, come on, man.
12:05You can't have me sitting in this office with mom.
12:06You down here.
12:07You and Mikey doing this shit, and I'm over here doing this shit.
12:09Julian left the bonding company.
12:12I was like, wow.
12:14That's interesting.
12:20Welcome to Magic, sir.
12:21Thank you, sir.
12:21Thank you for coming out.
12:22Thank you for having me.
12:23All right.
12:23Thank you, man.
12:26Who runs Magic City?
12:28So, on a day-to-day basis, Little Madge might have something to say.
12:32Shit.
12:32There's no one person that runs Magic City.
12:34Juju might tell you a thing or two.
12:36I'm in charge, and you got Madge.
12:37They can't beat me still, I don't think.
12:39And then my brother.
12:40I asked Juju who runs Magic City.
12:42Oh, he would have said me.
12:44What'd he say?
12:45He a weird nigga.
12:45You gotta ask him.
12:48My burden is to figure out the brand.
12:52Proving our culture is our goal.
12:54There was a time period when the strip club was the place where you would go for privacy.
13:01It was all kept as a secret.
13:04Now, everybody want to be seen.
13:08Everybody want to front.
13:09You have to make an adaption.
13:11And that's just, that's life.
13:13They bring in different looks to the club, different types of people.
13:17It's really changing.
13:19I mean, it's always hard to tell an old dog that new chicks are coming.
13:23Me and my brother, we stay in our lanes.
13:26Juju's role is unique.
13:28When I was young, I was only thinking about fucking strippers.
13:31I wasn't thinking about helping the business.
13:33I hire about 80% of their dancers.
13:39It's kind of like a Genesee quad kind of thing.
13:43It's kind of like you don't really, you got it, you got it, you don't, you don't.
13:47He's going to kill me for this.
13:52Juju loves white girls, okay?
13:53Hello, my name is Jordan.
14:00I go by the name White Russian.
14:02I dance at Magic City.
14:03I started dancing there in 2014.
14:05I'm from Mississippi, and I'm just, you know, I'm a country girl.
14:08In my beginning days, two, three, four years of me dancing, yeah.
14:14I'm posting the most fire pictures of me in the club.
14:17Come see me tonight.
14:18Come throw some money on me.
14:19Did you get your income taxes yet?
14:21Like.
14:25These new younger girls more just think they're going to just come in and get money.
14:31It's a lot easier now where they used to have to sit down and talk to you for 30, 40 minutes.
14:37I'm not interested in how your day went, what your name is, when's your birthday, what
14:41do you do for a living?
14:43Do you want me to dance?
14:44Yes or no?
14:46I learned to do all of these acrobatic tricks just by watching the previous stage groups.
14:54We do all the crazy swing, pose tricks, and of course we make more money than the girls
15:00that just get up there and two-step.
15:03What in the world?
15:05Girl.
15:05We didn't have to be up on the things twisting, three of us, you know, one acting like we
15:10eating each other and then the other one doing something else.
15:14The dancers change because they don't get fantasy anymore.
15:17It's not the same.
15:19Back then was.
15:21Young ladies molded into women and with respect.
15:26These girls is retrous.
15:30You can't even talk to them because you don't know if they're going to try to sue you.
15:33Honestly, Magic City made us feel like a family, but it's all business.
15:47You come in the door and you pay bar fee.
15:55You always have to pay the DJ.
15:58It's supposed to be $10.
15:59But, like, if you see that you done got a lot of money on your stage set, he's expecting more
16:05than $10.
16:07Then you have the house moms, and they have a minimum of $10, too.
16:14Around 2013, it started getting slow.
16:17Next thing you know, oh, bar fee's now $100.
16:20Oh, slow days, yeah, they used to be $25.
16:23Now they're $50.
16:25I came out in the hole a few times.
16:29So it's 2014, and my friend comes in to dance me.
16:35Trees, get ready, shit about to hit the fan.
16:39She's like, well, we still in Magic City.
16:41So I'm like, whoa.
16:42Since 2015 or so, lawsuits by dancers started popping up all over the country.
16:52Exotic dancers suing the owner of a Grand Junction strip club.
16:56The women claim the club considers their tips to be a service charge, which Shella says is
17:02against the law.
17:04She said, you all are independent contractors, and they're not supposed to be fining you,
17:09taxing you.
17:09In my personal opinion, people solicited our industry for financial gain.
17:17The new schoolgirls sued them.
17:20I couldn't understand why.
17:22But I see how the world is now.
17:24It's just greed.
17:25To sue a man who provides a way, how dare you?
17:31What they were doing wasn't correct.
17:33It wasn't personal.
17:34It was what I had to do for me.
17:35One of the lawyers called me, and she's like, we won, and I want to tell you your number.
17:45I'm like, okay.
17:47It was close to $100,000 for me.
17:49He ultimately ended up having to pay out over a million dollars to those women.
18:00At the time, it was scary.
18:03It's like a breakup, a relationship.
18:05They can love you or they can hate you.
18:07Sometimes they hate you for the moment, and then later on they find something better or
18:11they find something good, and then they can, oh, and then they talk nice.
18:17Breaking news.
18:18Stay at home.
18:18That is the order tonight as the coronavirus pandemic spreads.
18:22COVID was a unique situation for everybody.
18:31We didn't know what we were dealing with, and we had some of the highest numbers in the country.
18:37The governor made the decision to open back up very early.
18:43Theaters, private social clubs, and restaurant dine-in services will be allowed to reopen.
18:49When the governor says the nightclubs are open, it was costing people their lives.
18:57You know, you had like a random death phase.
18:58You'd be like, damn, is that from COVID?
19:00And then you had the, okay, we need to take the serious phase.
19:02Yeah, you got six feet twerks now.
19:04And, you know, it's better than no twerks.
19:07Usually you had the baby oil, and now it's hand sanitizer everywhere.
19:10The pandemic, of course it sucked.
19:14I tried the OnlyFans thing.
19:16I signed up.
19:18I made like 10,000 of OnlyFans, and I was like, this is not for me.
19:22Like, I know what these girls are on OnlyFans doing.
19:26I'm not willing to do that.
19:27But that kind of spiked our kitchen, so the majesty became real restaurant-y during COVID.
19:41Oh, what should I want to talk about?
19:44The Lemon Pebble Lou incident, NBA was in the bubble.
19:48And they had quarantines in certain times and nights that they were supposed to be in the house and curfews and stuff like that.
19:54Him coming in and getting food was like a normal, everyday thing.
19:56Eating in the corner in the Lou Will section.
20:00Lou was here probably at a time when he shouldn't have been.
20:02I'm sitting there waiting for my food.
20:04I'm masked up.
20:05I'm following all the protocols.
20:08Good friend of mine walks in, and he did something really special.
20:11He had a number one record on Billboard at that time.
20:14And I wanted to celebrate my friend.
20:15I wanted to take a shot with him.
20:18What's poppin'?
20:18Brand new whip just hopped in.
20:20We took a shot.
20:21He posted it.
20:23He's hella famous, so it went viral.
20:25That picture went viral.
20:27Like, holy shit, who posted that shit?
20:28How'd it get out?
20:30I just remember getting a call from my agent, and his exact words was,
20:36what the fuck did you just do?
20:39We hate it for Lou.
20:41We don't want to deal with this shit.
20:42It wasn't positive at the time.
20:44Lou was wrong for this.
20:45Fucking Twitter was going crazy.
20:47Lou Williams sneaks out of the bubble to party in Magic City.
20:51Not only did you leave, but you went to Magic City.
20:54That is the ultimate selfish act of betrayal.
20:58It spun itself into this meme.
21:00It was supposed to be the playoff he had with that Magic City eating wings.
21:03The first time I'd ever heard of lemon pepper wings was in Magic City.
21:07I like his cover-up.
21:08He said he was there for the chicken wings.
21:09They do have great chicken wings.
21:11Weet Lou, lemon pepper barbecue.
21:13It just turned into this whole thing.
21:17It turned into lemon pepper Lou.
21:20And I, um, that shit stuck.
21:23It stuck.
21:25So, I'm going there when I leave here, honestly.
21:29You're going to give me another 10-piece to put under my belt.
21:34For sure.
21:35We need more light put on the beauty of Atlanta.
21:52It's an energy in this city that moves the mind in a space where if you put your mind to it in Atlanta, it could damn near happen.
22:01Atlanta's a city of second chances.
22:04There is this threat of redemption in our city.
22:07We got a place for you here.
22:10Atlanta is Atlanta.
22:11It's no new, old, whatever it is.
22:13We all got to go through the same struggles.
22:15By the way, in the city of Atlanta today, as crazy as it is, I feel the most comfortable going to Magic City.
22:24Because of Magic City, so many things have transpired.
22:27And it can't go without getting its flowers.
22:31It's one of the wonders of the world, if you care about our world.
22:36I mean, to me, it's the greatest strip club on planet Earth.
22:39This is for free.
22:39I ain't getting paid shit.
22:41Magic City is absolutely necessary.
22:43It's beautiful.
22:43It provides an environment where women can be free in ways that other people might turn their nose up at.
22:48But it's not in black and white, either.
22:51Magic City is like a, just a false world for some of the young ladies.
22:56It's not a place you can turn it into a 30-year career.
23:01I love entertaining people.
23:02But once you get sucked in that lifestyle and you realize that, okay, I can go to work.
23:07I can make $1,000 tonight.
23:08I can make $2,000 tonight.
23:10It's so very hard to really just stop.
23:13As a mentor, as a coach, you want to see him go.
23:16I tell him, I don't want to see you again.
23:18You know, if you come back here, that means something ain't going well.
23:21We tried to get him to go to school or do something besides dance.
23:26He was always saying, have an exit plan.
23:28That's what his words, have an exit plan.
23:30I went to school for business management because I owned a restaurant.
23:34In my era, it was a lot of girls that were successful that was going to school like white chocolate.
23:39You know, my knees were starting to give out.
23:41My body was starting to ache.
23:43So I purchased a home I had to build over several years.
23:46I couldn't see myself not being a dancer because I loved it so much, you know.
23:50My first job when I left, the club was at a dry cleaners and I was pregnant.
23:59And I was making like $168 a week.
24:08You go from making $3,000 or $4,000 a night to that.
24:13I had to walk away to save my life.
24:19You understand?
24:20I had to pay attention to my dreams.
24:22I had to pay attention to what God was telling me.
24:24Do I have any regrets?
24:26If I could do it two times over, I would.
24:28We lived a good life.
24:31And guess what?
24:32It wasn't given to us.
24:33We hustled for it.
24:34From Magic City, I learned self-love, self-confidence.
24:41Changed my life, for sure.
24:44My mom and dad been married for 54 years.
24:48But in the street, out there, Magic was my dad.
24:53And all the girls was my sisters that I didn't have.
24:58That's how we were.
25:00You know, we stuck together like sisters for real.
25:02So they are 150 of them, like my sisters.
25:18Was Magic City's impact on Atlanta?
25:22Magic is Joe Kennedy.
25:25He is the cornerstone of generational wealth and power and influence.
25:29The economic impact is real.
25:32But at its core, it's about,
25:37I want my kids to have something that makes life a little easier for them.
25:41If they want to turn it and tweak it and do something else with it,
25:45that's on them.
25:46But I don't know a parent who then want to leave something for their kids.
25:50He went, and he put his all into it until he achieved whatever he set out to accomplish.
25:59I could only stand back and watch at some points.
26:04I had to watch.
26:05Acquiesce how I feel about that.
26:07I couldn't tell you, really.
26:12It's a blessing and a curse.
26:13It stole so much.
26:15Even though it gave a lot, it stole a lot, too.
26:19Julian should have been a veterinarian.
26:21Mikey could have been an IT person.
26:23My mom stuck through thick and thin.
26:26You know, Magic City has probably been the only constant in her life.
26:31The impact that he had on the community and the people he's touched will speak for itself.
26:35Ah, the old man, be remembered in Atlanta.
26:40I want to be remembered as a guy that has respect for all people.
26:45I stopped, shake their hands.
26:47I think that's what made me.
26:49That's how I started off, that little card, that little handshake.
26:52I'm going to end it that way.
26:54It's some kind of a vibe you have to catch in here,
26:57and then you'll know when you hit that Magic City peak moment
27:01and you've had the time of your life.
27:05I can't think of a better enough time.
27:10All right.
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