Dive into the captivating world of Magic City - An American Fantasy. This episode continues the intricate narrative, exploring the lives and struggles of its characters in a fantastical American setting. Discover new twists and turns as the story unfolds.
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00:00You
00:15Previously on Magic City
00:19Magic City is the strip club in Atlanta. Mr. Magic is the boss, okay? I'm Michael Barney aka Mr. Magic
00:28The club blew up so fast and it became an icon in the city
00:33It became the place to be what we started as athletes was the launching pad to the entertainment world
00:39That's Charles Oakley and Michael Jordan. I didn't care who he was. They came to see us
00:44We didn't come to see you. I signed the hundred twenty million dollar contract in Magic City
00:50My jaw dropped. Well, I used to tell him though when I felt the vibe when this Magic City started getting out of control
00:55It's like Cirque du Soleil. It's all joy
01:02Something's gonna hit you. It's just matter of when
01:06Georgia
01:10Georgia
01:14Georgia
01:17Georgia
01:19We only find it
01:21Georgia
01:22All the time it ain't
01:23Nothing on my mind, boy
01:24Georgia
01:25We ain't playin' with you
01:26We only find it
01:27Georgia
01:28All the time it ain't
01:30Nothing on my mind, boy
01:31Georgia
01:32We ain't playin' with you
01:33Country name, country slang, fiends at the liquor store
01:37Black cruising, crap shooting, fifty on the ten of four
01:40Overcast the forecast shows clouds from plenty
01:43And we ready for war in the state of
01:45I don't know
01:47I don't know
01:57Atlanta was growing fast
01:58Everybody was coming to Atlanta
02:00We were rolling
02:0190 through 96
02:02I think the greatest time is in that era
02:04It was an era I wish everybody could have experienced
02:07everybody could have experienced MC hammer was hot back then he was probably my hottest artist at
02:14that time this kept escalating from there this is a picture of me and Tupac oh that is my baby
02:20because we were Gemini's I can relate we laid in the back at sugar house in Vegas we had known
02:27them before they became like the supersonic star ice cube ice tea I danced on stage with Prince
02:34all the Falcon players some of the Braves players just everybody Magic City was the place to be money
02:41had hit the ladder a lot more we had been staying in apartments we decided to buy our first home and
02:47it was a beautiful brick house and I couldn't believe that we could buy it it was a game changer
02:54just to own that property was big for me at that time created a lot of good memories there Mikey
03:01grew up there I was born maybe three years before magic was open I didn't know adult entertainment
03:08was even adult entertainment I didn't know anything dad went to work everything's normal I didn't want
03:13him to know so I protected that from him for a long time started to get where it got bigger than me and
03:20I came way bigger than me Atlanta is one of the top cities in the country and with good reason drugs
03:34were big cocaine was big back then MC hammer I was partying a lot in Atlanta and then in the background
03:41you have Freak Nick which is like the the youth culture sort of rising up Freak Nick was out of control
03:47it was like having a city-wide party all night all day for days I have to just emphasize it was so
03:58much drugs out that's when it really first started so we was getting some of that drug money you know
04:04what I'm saying you had cocaine eggs pills and stuff like that all kind of people came in Magic City
04:10my name is Dr. Dax I'm from here in Atlanta Georgia I sold drugs and I had a lot of money and a lot of time I
04:20spent a lot of it Magic City music in the early 90s when everybody was smoking chronic and weed
04:25shit's slow and then some people from San Francisco gave me an x-pill and it was the first time I felt
04:32affectionate compassionate everybody needs to eat these things I started selling them to strippers and
04:37girls that worked in the strip club the house moms all that shit girls started dancing faster and a
04:45little bit more promiscuous things in the strip club seemed like they were being tolerated further
04:49because money was growing that's kind of the foundation for what Atlanta music was where we
04:55were like I'm not looking for a life lesson in the music I'm just looking to elevate make my heart
04:59everything was kind of based off a tempo radiating and sex the music was booty shake you know very
05:08sub heavy and what a dance it would be bass party oriented it was music based off the inspiration of
05:14Miami it differed a lot from what was happening in New York Los Angeles you need a different soundtrack
05:20for life in the south Magic City was the epicenter of booty shaking booty music becomes really the
05:28foundation for how southern hip-hop particularly in Atlanta begins to develop itself we hope this
05:37is made getting to know Atlanta a little easier but this is just a sample of what's out there the
05:43independent nature of southern hip-hop is very much in alignment with the independent space of a
05:49of a club the environment of a gentleman's club is built around the DJ do you see the brain supreme
05:58interview take one mark that's funny this weird hearing me called DC the brain supreme in a professional
06:06interview I first got to Magic City on an accident and I was listening to the DJ and the girls were
06:15complaining about him so I was like Magic you need a DJ man like no I don't need no DJ can you cook I was
06:23like yeah I can share because I do cook better than most people's mamas for real the daytime DJ is like
06:31hey man I gotta go run some errands can you cover for me and I get up there and go hard
06:38it's like who's this big sexy articulate black DJ who's this and it was a different style that they had
06:51ever heard DC he probably was the first highlight DJ DC was like our big brother he always looked out for
07:00guys I knew how to rock a party I was writing a song for about Friday nights in Magic City and Steve
07:06Rowland other half of the tag team we was called the tag team crew our first attempt at a booty shake
07:11record was won't there it is song was about magic city tag team back again check it to make it let's
07:22begin party on party people let me hear some noise we went to the studio I had magic city girls on
07:28that's me in the room there it is I was supposed to be in his video but that night I got real high so I
07:38couldn't wake up that morning so I missed the video
07:42we made the record the original cassette the original record the last verse was
07:47about the girls in Magic City because it was pride in that right
07:53when the song actually came out there it is I'm like no that's not that supposed to be magic city
08:08and in a month and a half tag team was platinum the rest is history you can trace that song directly
08:20back through the streets directly back through these clubs it's one of the only adult entertainment club
08:25scenes in the world in which the talent looks like the ownership looks like the audience
08:30a great strip club record first of all the beat needs to be better than the rapper it has to be
08:42something that a girl want to dance not aggressive but aggressive you hit a vibe and the lady start
08:47vibing to the beat the beat that would last that could hold the energy the production is just nasty as
08:53some blow your wig off type shit girl dancing all hard about to move and the wig fly all over there
08:58you need to say some super ratchet shit they gotta be joking they gotta be jamming they gotta be slung
09:04back in the day ice ice baby was the hottest record in the club I'm telling you I didn't even know
09:10vanilla ice was white you're almost looking for awkwardness to be honest you're looking for like a
09:15stopping conversation all it takes is for one girl to like that record now it's in rotation
09:20and everybody keep running to the DJ booth saying who is this who is this who is this I've been with
09:25DJs in clubs where you can pay them 20 bucks and they'll play whatever song you want you know this
09:31isn't all pure nor should it be it's the music business there's an economy between the people
09:36picking the music people boosting music managers labels street patrons by the way at our strip clubs in
09:44Canada still to this day you can't throw money you like pay for lap dances like it's like 1982 or
09:51something so it's a different culture
09:53my earliest memory in this building would be something like that you know people trying to
10:07like walk you downstairs trying to look still through right through the eyes or whatever Mike
10:13started off running across the stage at five and six he was here he's been raised around the strip
10:18or something he was a little beady boy yeah we used to bring him up there used to run around some of them
10:25used to chase me around the club fun stuff like that but they just loved me because I was magic's kid
10:29you know they call me richie rich you know pick you up talk you around that kind of thing
10:32I didn't know about that see I found about that later I'm like took my son to the club
10:38oh he's only in there for a minute there was nobody he's in my office the whole time I had his eyes
10:43closed and he didn't see anything I'm like took my son to the club so I just involved myself in things
10:52that I needed to involve myself in that would you know help me keep a grip on things
10:59I didn't hang out in the club it wasn't my cup of tea I don't have anything against strippers
11:07I don't it's some means to an end for those ladies they're beautiful
11:11the joy for me was all the money I was making when I first got into the game I didn't have any money
11:21telling my mom my it's not as bad as you think it is and I know that's not the life you want me
11:27leave but it's leaving me somewhere I would chat with them or have a drink with them before I went
11:31home or whatever I would tell them you know you don't have to do this you could do something else
11:36women that wasn't dancers they look down at the women that were dancers it's just
11:45it just wasn't for me they looked at what we was doing as foolishness it really was a blessing
11:52because if they learn how to do what we did they probably keep that man and a man won't have to
11:57come out here it was hard on the family it was hard but I tried to find the positive in it and the
12:06only positive was the money to me what he did he's very smart he would bring the money home so we can
12:13count together it was an eye-opener because I hadn't experienced that before Mike senior bought
12:22a limo and we would go to dinner in the limo it was just fabulous fur coats diamonds magic made sure
12:30we had the best of everything it was like a sex or a name of market all the stones and not being
12:38bourgeois this is not bougie is bourgeois French not being bourgeois but I already knew I dreamed of
12:44this life a long time ago my fantasy became my reality let's talk investments because at the end
12:56of the day the bottom line is always the coin everything costs money these clothes our wardrobe the
13:06shoes too if you give a thigh boots with the rhinestone razzle-dazz and all of the extra hoop the lock
13:11you're talking just up your number on a stripper boot hold on my phone ring you may show me the money
13:16you ain't got it anywho it's adding up in the math ain't mathin because guess what we're not done
13:25if you are mother none of it is cheap access denied hair three hundred dollars skin gotta be right
13:31four hundred dollars the nails five hundred dollars the titties ten thousand excuse me it keeps going
13:37up to change the change the point is adding up baby it ain't easy and it ain't cheap and it all adds up
13:47mr. magic he's in the business of entertaining entertainers those entertainers are part of the
13:58draw to why the audience goes there dominique wilkins deon sanders mc breed tupac I could see
14:04them on television but to be in magic city and to be 50 feet away from him in the club that's what made
14:10magic city kind of different people could come take your hat off have a good time over in that corner
14:14I'm over in that corner and we all having our fun the next day was no talk about it you know
14:20as a dj I get to watch how people treat each other I get to watch how people hustle each other
14:28you know we stuck together like sisters for real there has always been a sisterhood within a community
14:35we was a family we hustled together we got money together don't act like getting money is the happiest
14:41go lucky thing we end up singing songs and having a good time making money making money
14:47money is cutthroat it's always going to be an offer you can't refuse
14:51I also heard that deon sanders offered you a watch one night was it for a dance no it wasn't for a dance
15:10um strawberry she used to joan him and so joan means crack jokes this lingo I'm saying is from the south
15:20she used to joan him by his jerry curls and all his jewelry so he got really really tired of it
15:26when he was like look I'm gonna give you my watch this watch is worth 55,000 and just put it in my
15:33ass and beat her up why because she got on his nerve I was like drop it here you know what I'm gonna hit
15:39you and just knock you out girl he's gonna give me this money I'm gonna give you 10,000 tomorrow let
15:43me beat your ass mad stopped all that I had my white boots on girl I was ready see I still never
15:48asked him how did he find that out
15:50uh like our watch this is where you're getting your bills
15:53nah that don't ring no bells to me
15:55yeah I got an idea what I'm talking about
15:56nah I don't know but I know
15:59he's like you are absolutely not taking that watch give me that watch so he made me get a watch back
16:04uh why would she say that I don't want to talk about what somebody said because I can't verify
16:14that it wasn't told to me and I really don't want to tell the story but
16:22he came over to me and he was like somebody said you was talking about me
16:27and I'm like well I don't even know you and I think it was because I was talking to all the other
16:34players and not him I think that was the root of it we had a little confrontation and I'm gonna leave
16:40it at that magic made me get up in front of all his friends and apologize he would give her a watch
16:48if she slapped me if that was the case she should have slapped me but would it have been worth it in
16:57the end to lose a long time free and offer something like that you understand and I grew up fighting so
17:06that was my element
17:12club environments create ecosystems that provide different illusions of power so the dancers have
17:19power the customers have power because they have the money the establishment has power because they
17:24have power to regulate the trade I think what becomes dangerous with customers is when that power
17:33is enmeshed with entitlement and that's when dancers can be vulnerable entitlement I think is the biggest threat
17:43it was a dangerous life for the girls right yes um I had a lot of friends that get killed two girls in particular um
17:58that I still think about brown sugar her name was brown sugar and then obsession was her best friend
18:06of what we were in a war room in jail um uh okay we were in a car uh yeah we were all in a dress room getting dressed
18:10everything was good you know but the next morning they found him in a rent a car tortured
18:22and killed um
18:27we went to the funeral and her mom
18:29left the casket open for us to see what they did to our daughter and she felt
18:36like that was scare us from being out there but it didn't affect me not for
18:43me to stop doing what I was doing I couldn't see myself not being a dancer I
18:48could never see myself not being out there like that because I loved it so
18:53much you know dancing is the only place that has no doors but it's the hardest
19:01thing to walk out of or walk away from
19:23hey I'm Jermaine Dupree and I produce records rap records 17 18 I have money
19:48the money he says is being put to good use I was driving around Atlanta nice cars
19:55definitely thought I was going to get into Magic City at an earlier age people were going to be
20:01like oh Jermaine we thought you was 21 no so Jermaine Dupree owned Atlanta you know for a long time that's
20:08all I thought of was just Jermaine Dupree Atlanta they were like the same thing but I feel like
20:14New York and LA never took Atlanta hip-hop serious yeah there's no respect for Southern hip-hop in 94
20:21from New Yorkers I mean you know this is the source of words when poor little Andre comes up on stage
20:27and said we love you why don't you love us or whatever he said I'm tired of folks you're saying
20:32closed-minded folks you know I'm saying it's like we got a demo table nobody want to hear but it's like
20:36did the South got something to say that's all I got to say they didn't care about what was
20:41happening in the South that's not where their brains were attuned to yeah the funny thing about
20:46that source of words made me actually feel how disconnected Southern hip-hop was I was trying
20:53to find what was our mixtape what was the thing in Atlanta that we were gonna do that would break
20:59music all right my name is big boy aka daddy fat sex aka L Sir Lucius L left foot the L stand for
21:08Latin because the ladies like to put lip gloss on my lapel I used to be married not no more what's
21:13happening baby source awards when they booed us that's when they really fucked up because it really
21:20made us man open your mind if the city's like light years ahead we were recording working on music like
21:26you know it'd be late and the kitchen was still open and messy you know I mean we might have just
21:30record a song and then take it in there and just test it I distinctly remember one of the songs that
21:36we knew was gonna be the one was bombs over Baghdad sort of ashamed to say this now but I remember going to
21:45outcasts label to listen to their new album they put on bombs over Baghdad and I was like is this a joke
21:55is this a real song I'm looking at my fellow sources and they're like we did not get that record period
22:04we like okay we take this crazy mother fucker to the club and see how they gonna act and they went crazy
22:09we didn't understand it we didn't see the genius in it that we would see later we just didn't get it
22:19and fun fact the girls that are in the bombs over Baghdad videos are some of Magic City's finest we went right to the
22:25source we had to bring the girls out
22:33I had to rediscover them as an adult hip-hop band who now knows better than to just be like ugh and for the record I would never do that today
22:42Magic City has been magical I think it's more magical than Disney World
22:49uh let me read you a quote one quote she says Jermaine has taken me places I haven't been before
22:59please explain that for the people
23:00so at this time I was dating Janet Jackson she always heard me say I was going to Magic City every
23:10Monday she came to town I told I was going to Magic City and she was like well I'm coming and I'm like
23:16nah you're not coming to me why am I not going what's going on in Magic City that you don't want me to see
23:22well I'm thinking man I can't take Janet in here something happening and be crazy but I have to take her
23:27this is my girlfriend I'm like fuck it okay let's go so we come in and we was drinking we was eating we
23:34was having fun and this guy his name is managed man he had created this thing with him and a DJ
23:42every time Jermaine comes in here play my song he and Janet in there with about 25 dancers
23:48she was having fun I'm feeling the energy I hear this rules of the game and I'm like yo
23:58what song is this I go to the stage I start throwing the money because it was just like
24:04so much money there's a brilliant plan at work I put it on my album I signed him I gave him a deal
24:10and everything and then I started realizing the strip club did the exact same thing that the mixtape did
24:15and brought awareness to the artists the strip club was our mixtape
24:27the international olympic committee has awarded the 1996 olympic games to the city of Atlanta
24:36Atlanta's got its arms around it ready for it prepared to put on the best olympics the world's ever
24:45seen the olympics was uh it was a big deal coming to Atlanta this whole city changed just nobody could
24:52see it yet amongst all of this black entrepreneurship a lot of poverty a lot of homelessness this is all
24:59happening at the same time that the city is being gifted this opportunity to become that international
25:07city that Maynard Jackson predicted it to be and that creates attention they were on the streets heavy
25:14red dog was big back then the police department has a unit called the red dog unit in place to run every
25:22drug dealer out of Georgia it was much easier once the olympics actually was locked in here that they were
25:28like now we have the excuse to tear down everything everything that was happening around 94 95 prior to
25:34the olympics felt like a push toward getting old remnants of Atlanta out that may not be as accepted by
25:45corporations my perspective is truth the way it went down was
25:51we flown to tennessee to a party someone called mike saying that vea agents had been in our house
26:07again mike didn't tell me i found this out later so he says hey you want to get out of here
26:13let's go home nothing really we're having a great time okay so we get to the airport and they put us in
26:22first class okay they just know who we are sure did all right we get to Atlanta agents came out of
26:33everywhere ceilings seem like they came out the floor out the windows and came up on us and handcuffed mike
26:50so it's definitely a process having to get ready you know got to make sure i got my smell good
26:54all my oils my lips are good my teeth is clean you know i'm saying gotta be a bad
27:00bitch before you go upstairs there i'm looking y'all ready to go see where the magic happens
27:05the magic i just feel like i'm performing somewhere i just feel good like this me
27:14i felt like i wasn't even here i don't know where my mind went i honestly feel like i'm closer and
27:20closer to my dream every time it like really amazes me i'm just like wow i definitely feel like
27:28like medic city is a gateway for you to be great we got 30 more minutes we got a last leg in here
27:33i don't think we had any sense that
28:03it would blow up the way that it did this guy didn't die did you must have the wrong mic
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