Mc Magic Talks 'So Fly' & 'Pretty Girl', Meeting Lil Rob, Labels Taking Advantage Of Artists & More

Published: Aug. 20, 2022, 5:43 p.m.

b'Mc Magic talks about his early days, becoming a DJ, producer, labels, Bootleg Kev, Snow Tha Product, and more!\\n-----\\n00:00 Intro\\n0:44 - MC Magic on why he\\u2019s so passionate about making love songs\\n2:08 - Taking it as a compliment when everyone thinks he is from LA. DoKnow was heartbroken when he found out\\n3:57 - Watching his older sisters run away with their boyfriends after their father left\\n4:52 - Teaching himself about music as a kid by studying pop music on the radio\\n6:23 - Magic sings the first song he ever wrote at 10 yrs old\\n7:18 - Being one of the few Latinos in a band in high school, became a DJ after getting kicked out of the band. Making his own turntables\\n9:27 - Lying to get his first DJ gig. Experiencing \\u201cRappers Delight\\u201d and the beginning of hip hop in the 80s\\n12:45 - Bringing out 2,000 kids to Teen Night every week at his first club gig in Phoenix\\n13:38 - Originally DJing as \\u201cThe Magic Mixer\\u201d and shortened to \\u201cMC Magic\\u201d when he started rapping\\n14:03 - Life changed after \\u201cLost in Love\\u201d in 1990. Holding on to it for 2 years and recording the final version in one take\\n15:45 - Origins of NB Ridaz. Accidentally formed \\u2018Nasty Boy Klique\\u2019 with his second album. Leaving his record label forced him to change the name to NB Ridaz\\n17:05 - Rejoining his original record label with better terms after NB Ridaz\'s first big song \\u201cRunaway\\u201d blew up in 1999\\n18:18 - Magic explains how he wrote the legendary intro on \\u201cPretty Girl"\\n25:26 - The difference between music today is the people try to sound like whoever\\u2019s hot\\n26:05 - Being inspired to do talkbox Roger Troutman. Borrowing 10K to get Roger on his song. Being blessed with a talkbox from Roger\\u2019s family after he passed away\\n29:12 - Working at the same swap meet as Bootleg Kev where he would bootleg MC Magic CDs. Magic admits he also bootlegged CDs as a DJ\\n30:24 - Dominating LA radio in 2004 led to the first NB Ridaz show in LA in 2005\\n32:36 - Magic remembers recording \\u201cLove Again\\u201d with Jenny Rivera and shooting the music video with Estevan Oriol\\n37:53 - Only regret from his career is that Twista couldn\\u2019t be in the music video for \\u201cDiggin\\u201d with Snow Tha Product\\n39:10 - First meeting Snow Tha Product and giving her her first shot when she was still known as Snow White\\n43:33 - Magic explains how his label cut him out when he tried to get Lil Rob signed. Got no money after producing some of Rob\\u2019s biggest hits\\n46:54 - How labels taking advantage of artists, and force them to tour to make money\\n54:36 - Magic breaks out the Talkbox\\n56:14 - DoKnow and Magic sing \\u201cPretty Girl\\u201d and \\u201cLies\\u201d together\\n58:42 - Magic brought special gifts for DoKnow. Turning his songs into makeup palettes\\n\\n-----\\n\\nNO JUMPER PATREON\\nhttp://www.patreon.com/nojumper\\n\\nCHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST\\nhttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te...\\n\\nFOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES\\nhttps://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_...\\n\\nCHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! nojumper.com\\n\\nSUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz\\xa0\\n\\nFollow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B...\\n\\niTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n...\\n\\nFollow us on Social Media:\\nhttps://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_...\\nhttp://www.twitter.com/nojumper\\nhttp://www.instagram.com/nojumper\\nhttps://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI...\\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper\\nJOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm\\n\\nFollow Adam22:\\nhttps://www.tiktok.com/@adam22\\nhttp://www.twitter.com/adam22\\nhttp://www.instagram.com/adam22\\nadam22hoe on Snapchat\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'