Speaker 1: Mamaita, Sexy Chico the room.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 3: You bought my mom and my.
Speaker 1: Every day, the Magic Man from my this so and
Speaker 1: I got a tour and again have you ever loved.
Speaker 4: Somebody so much you can't sleep every mining by your side?
Speaker 4: It's like heaven to me, baby girl, I.
Speaker 3: Would give my life for you. You mean the world
Speaker 3: to me. About you big.
Speaker 5: Something about this, y'all y'all know we got that bonce
Speaker 5: that it's magic in the house.
Speaker 3: Y'all know that, babe, y'all, MC magic is on the
Speaker 3: cruise show Man. Let's go by DJ few you.
Speaker 1: Man, I'm honored, brotherppreciate that.
Speaker 4: Send me top three fleet.
Speaker 3: It's yours. Use it for a real you feel me? Yes,
Speaker 3: I got DJ fused We straight. That's love.
Speaker 4: That's love. Thank you guys, thank you.
Speaker 3: For being here. Man bro one time, magic, living legend, Man,
Speaker 3: God blessed Chicanos always always always Brother, Why that title?
Speaker 3: Talk to me about it?
Speaker 4: I think that's who I am.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's what.
Speaker 4: I was born in Mexico, but I was raised in
Speaker 4: the USA.
Speaker 3: And so, uh, weren't we all right? Right? Right?
Speaker 1: At least that's my that's my inert and at all
Speaker 1: my concerts. That's who has made MC magic. You know
Speaker 1: who I am today are Cheekanod's you know.
Speaker 3: You know you go to MC magic show Chicanos right,
Speaker 3: left and right all around. You go to hip hop shows,
Speaker 3: Chicanos freewhere. We make up the biggest consumer when it
Speaker 3: comes to music. And it seems like it's a word.
Speaker 4: I know it started as a derogatory term.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's a word that like a lot of
Speaker 1: people are not proud to you took it unless you're
Speaker 1: going to the low rid of carsion, that's right. But
Speaker 1: I'm Chikano twenty four hours rest right, Yeah, and God
Speaker 1: bless Chicano.
Speaker 3: Unless you hang with Danny Treyjill You you know, amen,
Speaker 3: Danny baby bashed Little Rob the whole squad Baby, Yes, sir, Yes,
Speaker 3: an old t Mexican that Mexican ot, Yes sir, that's
Speaker 3: my guy. Man. Yes, Coyotes as well. Man, great dudes
Speaker 3: right there, man, shout shout out to Ricky and Guapo
Speaker 3: man the video crazy bounce house man.
Speaker 1: We had such a good time and I was I
Speaker 1: was telling somebody another interview. I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: we were late to the video because of the airlines.
Speaker 1: It delayed us four hours and o t you know,
Speaker 1: he's the star, you know, he's he's the guy at
Speaker 1: the moment. But he waited four hours and so we
Speaker 1: could start the video where we finally got there.
Speaker 4: It was a lot of love.
Speaker 1: Man shout out that Mexican ot, shout out Coyote, Chicano's baby.
Speaker 3: Let's go, Yes, sir man MC magic is here, you know,
Speaker 3: let you right.
Speaker 1: You know Jackie that is the one that said Magic,
Speaker 1: you gotta come to the cruise show.
Speaker 4: Yes he did.
Speaker 5: I put I put up on him person square and
Speaker 5: I was like, I gotta, I gotta check this for
Speaker 5: a hour and be I never checked checked you out
Speaker 5: the first time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a moment, right, let's yeah. And then we
Speaker 3: had a moment you know in.
Speaker 5: The trailer afterwards we were just talking yeah and sharing
Speaker 5: ideas and I was very passionate when I was speaking
Speaker 5: to you that I won't forget.
Speaker 3: But thank you for your time. I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: You're welcome, your your your your ears were just like
Speaker 5: thank you for just being so receptive to you, Thanks
Speaker 5: for listening.
Speaker 3: Like none.
Speaker 1: But you know, he made a great point. You made
Speaker 1: a lot of great points. Actually, and I think I
Speaker 1: think passion is so important. You gotta feed passion because
Speaker 1: if you shut somebody down, and that's an ugly situation,
Speaker 1: that's all bad, right.
Speaker 3: And you never know who you're meeting, right, and you
Speaker 3: never know where they're going in their life and their
Speaker 3: in their journey where you might meet them. You might
Speaker 3: meet them somewhere.
Speaker 4: Down and they could they could make or break your career.
Speaker 3: That yo, you know, I'm magic. Did radio, did mornings
Speaker 3: in Phoenix, YEP.
Speaker 1: I used to work doing mornings in Phoenix, my hometown,
Speaker 1: and uh, it just got too I got too busy
Speaker 1: for it and I had to let it go. So
Speaker 1: shout out to my brother Mikey for at this.
Speaker 4: Pulled me into radio. He says, you can do it.
Speaker 3: I was so happy to see that. When that was
Speaker 3: going down, I'm like, yeah, who better? Who better to
Speaker 3: hold down their hometown we had.
Speaker 1: It was a great era for me and I learned
Speaker 1: a lot. Actually, I got better at social media because
Speaker 1: of the teachings that they were giving us at at
Speaker 1: the radio.
Speaker 3: What was the worst part about it? The worst part
Speaker 3: about radio? Listen, we're in radio. We know you can
Speaker 3: tell us no.
Speaker 4: Mine is different than y'all getting up early. I do
Speaker 4: that anyway.
Speaker 1: So the hardest part of me was that I'm so
Speaker 1: hyper when I'm in your position that I don't talk
Speaker 1: like this. I'm like, Yo, check this out, man, we're
Speaker 1: gonna do this. My energy goes really high doing that.
Speaker 1: Every day I was I was killing my throat. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: but I need I need that for the shows. And
Speaker 1: so I told Mike, yes, is my brother.
Speaker 4: I gotta go.
Speaker 1: And then and he's like, well, double your pay, bro,
Speaker 1: I'll stay another couple of months, and then and then
Speaker 1: double They doubled my pay, and I was like, it
Speaker 1: ain't worth did I got to get back to being me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because your bread and butter is these shows, recording
Speaker 3: music and you need your instrument. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Man, who would have thought thirty years later, thirty years later,
Speaker 1: still selling our shows, still independent.
Speaker 4: So blessed God, bless you kin.
Speaker 6: How does not make you feel though, like, thirty years
Speaker 6: later you're still able to it's your music's generational.
Speaker 4: I feel grateful attitude of gratitude.
Speaker 1: You know, the most beautiful things to me is when
Speaker 1: fans come up and they tell me their story about,
Speaker 1: you know, how they fell in love with lost in
Speaker 1: love or how their man or their or their thia
Speaker 1: that already passed away, the reminders of them, and then
Speaker 1: the fans that get so wrapped up and telling me
Speaker 1: their story that they start crying and it touches my
Speaker 1: heart and it's just a beautiful moment as a fan.
Speaker 3: Ever walked up and like, hey, your faces on their arms.
Speaker 1: I've got my name, but not my face. Definitely a
Speaker 1: lot of mc magic tattoos out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah right yeah.
Speaker 1: Lyrics as well, Yeah, oh yeah, lost in love, I'm
Speaker 1: missing you all that kind of one.
Speaker 3: Girl.
Speaker 1: I remember Becky she's from here from La. Shout out
Speaker 1: Becky V. She's got I cried a million tears, I
Speaker 1: cried so many nights to something a million tiers it was.
Speaker 4: That's lyrics from my song I'm Missing You.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know who Becky V is now? Becky G.
Speaker 3: Isn't that great she grew up to be.
Speaker 4: When I worked at radio, one of the first interviews
Speaker 4: that I ever did was Becky G.
Speaker 3: That's right, she came by.
Speaker 4: She was like fourteen years old, rapping. I'm gonna be
Speaker 4: the next Jlo. Look at her now, right y yeah? Now,
Speaker 4: Jaylo wants to get a featured that's it.
Speaker 3: That's real talk. God bless your Connell's.
Speaker 4: That's right, you feel me, that's right.
Speaker 3: The project is wild man. How long did the project
Speaker 3: take to me?
Speaker 1: Well, to be honest with some of those songs are
Speaker 1: up to two years old because because I never rushed,
Speaker 1: you were sitting on these Yeah. Well yeah, yeah that
Speaker 1: that and uh and and also waiting waiting the legal
Speaker 1: game because it's a little difficult to get clearance for
Speaker 1: an artist that signed with a major label and I'm
Speaker 1: a nobody label, at least in from their point of view,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, And so that took
Speaker 1: a little bit. Was give and take, and give and take.
Speaker 1: Finally they said, you know, you've been beating us up
Speaker 1: for six months. You can you can release this Friday.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, let's go.
Speaker 3: Done right, But has a has a major? I'm sure
Speaker 3: a major has approached you and said we want to
Speaker 3: be in the MC magic business.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't think so they haven't.
Speaker 1: I was side with a major label for a short
Speaker 1: a short while when I had down for yours if
Speaker 1: you down for mine, and I don't think they even
Speaker 1: understood the demographic back then. So we didn't perform to
Speaker 1: their standards. And then now I'm too old of an
Speaker 1: artist for them to be interested in me.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: Now there's there, there's publishing companies that would like to
Speaker 1: buy my catalog from me, you know, but I'm not
Speaker 1: interested in that right now. They offer seven million, seven million, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I passed on it.
Speaker 3: We'll take it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I passed on it because it's a legacy
Speaker 1: thing and I'm going to leave it to my kids.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we'll talk.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know, the talk box Man is such a
Speaker 2: beautiful art to me, you know, like because it just signifies,
Speaker 2: you know, the sound right that that we all grew
Speaker 2: up with. And you start with Roger. I remember working
Speaker 2: with Quick and and he learned from Roger. You know,
Speaker 2: the talk box How where did you find that passion
Speaker 2: to do that? And and how did you perfect it?
Speaker 2: Because there are a lot of you know a lot
Speaker 2: of people that are interested in that but can't get right,
Speaker 2: you know, but you get it right. That's not an
Speaker 2: easy thing to do, thank you, Jeff uh.
Speaker 1: You know, first of all, there's a there's a lyric
Speaker 1: that goes, yo wish the magic Man. When it comes
Speaker 1: to Azilla, I'm the I'm king of when it comes
Speaker 1: to talk box, I'm the new lady thriller. No disrepect,
Speaker 1: disrespect to Roger Trump, and he's the king. That's why
Speaker 1: I rocked the crown because I know he's watching over me.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: Welcome to Magic City, my two thousand and six album
Speaker 4: and so and so.
Speaker 1: I say that to let you know how important Roger
Speaker 1: has been in my life. When I fell in love
Speaker 1: with the talk box, it was watching him live. A
Speaker 1: ten year old kid that got into the fairgrounds by himself,
Speaker 1: went to the to the Arizona State Fair where they
Speaker 1: were playing, and I'm in the nosebleed section and he's going.
Speaker 4: Arizona Mama, Like, what does he doing? He's reetrating my soul.
Speaker 4: And so I fell in love with the talk box.
Speaker 4: But I didn't think right then.
Speaker 1: I didn't think I'm gonna be a talk box player.
Speaker 1: It was later in life, like many years later, in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven, when I reached out to his team
Speaker 1: and said, can I feature Roger and Roger and U
Speaker 1: and Lester says, oh, Magic, If you want to get
Speaker 1: a feature, you know you can book the group, no problem.
Speaker 1: But if you want to work with him in the studio.
Speaker 1: You got to talk to Roger directly, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: how do I do that? I said, I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you his number. So after he connected me with Roger,
Speaker 1: Roger said, okay, okay, uh huh yeah, yep, yep, just
Speaker 1: like that, Yep, yep, Okay, Yeah, we can do it.
Speaker 1: He goes, but you know, I just did a song
Speaker 1: for Doctor Dre and Tupac. He did he had just
Speaker 1: done California Love.
Speaker 4: I go, yeah, I heard it.
Speaker 3: I've heard it a couple of times. Yeah, yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: aware of it.
Speaker 1: And then Roger went on to say that he charged
Speaker 1: that Doctor Dre paid him eighteen thousand dollars to do that, to.
Speaker 4: Do California Love.
Speaker 1: I mean three zillion off of it, but he only
Speaker 1: got paid eighten rant. That's not the point. The point
Speaker 1: is he charged me. He said, he said, it'll be
Speaker 1: ten grand for you, though I'll give you a discount.
Speaker 1: We made it happen. It was tough because I didn't
Speaker 1: have ten grand, but I committed anyway. So we went
Speaker 1: ahead and did that. And then after Roger Troutman died
Speaker 1: a few years after that, I think it was ninety nine,
Speaker 1: and when he died, so we recorded ninety seven and
Speaker 1: ninety nine.
Speaker 4: He passes away.
Speaker 1: I felt like I lost something because I can never
Speaker 1: feature Roger on a song no more, you can never
Speaker 1: have no more talk box. And one day this little
Speaker 1: Mexican kid had a crazy idea, how about if you
Speaker 1: asked them to build you a talk box like Rogers?
Speaker 3: And I did a custom.
Speaker 1: It actually came from the Troutman family and later Larry
Speaker 1: trout Zap himself.
Speaker 4: He said, magic, you.
Speaker 1: Know that driver you got, that was dude's driver. I
Speaker 1: was like, so to be able to carry the legacy
Speaker 1: with the driver that he used the talk boxes? What
Speaker 1: that's the heart of the talkboxes driver? It was just amazing.
Speaker 1: So I know, I'll give you a long answer to.
Speaker 3: A short question, but that's what it deserves.
Speaker 1: But and that's where it came from. So it was
Speaker 1: handed down to me directly from Zap. And I never
Speaker 1: do covers of their songs because I just don't feel
Speaker 1: worthy of it.
Speaker 4: I have to feel it.
Speaker 3: I feel it, I feel it. You got to respect
Speaker 3: the old k Yeah, right man. What a blessing though, amazing,
Speaker 3: what a blessing, amazing? Where did you get the ten
Speaker 3: thousand from you.
Speaker 4: Know, we had to do some things.
Speaker 3: We had to do something and that's a short answer.
Speaker 3: But I've been there all the things you speak of,
Speaker 3: of course, been there to come up with it.
Speaker 1: We got it together, man, through the grace of God,
Speaker 1: Brother God. It was meant to happen, and it changed
Speaker 1: my life. How many babies have you made in your lifetime?
Speaker 3: I have three? You have three?
Speaker 4: Have three children?
Speaker 3: Only three? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I have three boys, eleven kids. He said, you're not
Speaker 1: real Mexican, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, three boys. Me and my wife are married thirty years.
Speaker 3: That's right, beautiful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what up?
Speaker 3: Man, that's amazing. That's gotta be tough though, right for her, her,
Speaker 3: because she makes it easy for me.
Speaker 1: She makes it easy for me. And that's why. That's
Speaker 1: why she's the queen. She deserves everything and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know she's everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's every Magic has merch as well, I do.
Speaker 3: You can get backpacks, I mean there's so much backpacks, makeup, palettes, tumblers.
Speaker 4: I brought some makeup. I thought you might have a
Speaker 4: young lady in the house.
Speaker 3: That's right, Jackie. I've brought some momental magic. I got
Speaker 3: a few blemishes. I might have to cover up to.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, this is a T shirt God Blessed
Speaker 1: Chicano's T shirt like album.
Speaker 4: See what size is? It's it's a medium guys, all.
Speaker 3: Right, who's a medium? Jackie jacket? Gotcha medium large? There's
Speaker 3: a medium here? Oh?
Speaker 4: I got another way.
Speaker 3: I gotta know you, Magic.
Speaker 4: This is a double X right here.
Speaker 3: True Latino shows up with gifts. That's right, Like, I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna We're not going to show up empty handed.
Speaker 3: I'll take that man, double X. I'm sure I'll grow
Speaker 3: into it.
Speaker 4: And my son designed. My son designed the artwork.
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 4: For the God Blessed Shiganos.
Speaker 1: He actually has his own brand called Northern Northern Dot Limited,
Speaker 1: and he did the design for his company.
Speaker 4: And when I saw it, I'm like, let me borrow
Speaker 4: that like that.
Speaker 3: I like that family.
Speaker 1: See this one right here has called something about that
Speaker 1: pretty good?
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: I designed my palettes. I choose the shades, the match.
Speaker 3: So it's not just something that's something that mailed in
Speaker 3: with your name on it.
Speaker 4: Right now, you're this is your va you Jackie. And
Speaker 4: see what else I got it?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 3: You know what's crazy?
Speaker 2: Magic?
Speaker 3: I always considered that starting to cost medical line. I
Speaker 3: feel like there's so much money in that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, yeah, I got the face for that too,
Speaker 1: But no, I'm just kidding, Jackie.
Speaker 3: Are you gonna let's just make up that time?
Speaker 1: And this and this is one of my favorites right here.
Speaker 1: It's the Diamond Tumblr. She she's she's prettier than pretty Magic.
Speaker 3: Let them know where they can get this right now.
Speaker 1: MC magic dot World www dot Magic Dog World.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's a legend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, see it might be a little fancy, but
Speaker 1: you know the majority of my fans are girls, and
Speaker 1: that's why the design is so.
Speaker 3: You know, imagine funny you say that, right. I've been
Speaker 3: to many shows, bro, and of course the women are
Speaker 3: going crazy. The girls are going crazy, but then there's
Speaker 3: a section of dudes that are crying and singing every
Speaker 3: lyric as well. That's got to be great too, because
Speaker 3: both men and women are now joining your music.
Speaker 1: That's that's cool that you say that, because nowadays we're
Speaker 1: getting we're getting men who bring their two daughters to
Speaker 1: this show, or a mom and a dad who bring
Speaker 1: you know, their daughters and the mom's sister. It's a
Speaker 1: family affair, guys. It's a family affair.
Speaker 3: You hit it on the head. It's generational.
Speaker 4: Such a blessing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, one thousand percent, because we like, I feel like
Speaker 6: my generation, like our parents, they listen to you, and
Speaker 6: then it just trickles on and keeps on going. And
Speaker 6: then I show my cousins and then it just keeps
Speaker 6: on going.
Speaker 1: Man, we get ten twelve year old fans at the
Speaker 1: show singing every word I was in. I was in
Speaker 1: Albuquerque over the over the weekend and one of the
Speaker 1: jocks at the station, a black guy named bug De,
Speaker 1: he said, Magic, my daughter loves your music. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm used to Chicano's, you know, and like Buck is
Speaker 1: a cool dude. He's a comedian and on our on
Speaker 1: air jock, and he said, uh, he says yeah. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring it to this show. I didn't know
Speaker 1: his daughter was like five years old.
Speaker 4: So she's on stage singing and is loud.
Speaker 1: But he said, he said, she watched you on TikTok
Speaker 1: all the time. What a powerful tool TikTok has been.
Speaker 3: TikTok. Yeah, TikTok has expanded your brand. Yes, sir, I
Speaker 3: see you going live on TikTok and all your talk calls.
Speaker 4: Taking your own show.
Speaker 1: It's my own radio show, the TikTok Magic Radio Show.
Speaker 3: I like that. I like that. Has there been an
Speaker 3: athlete or celebrity that you were surprised when they came
Speaker 3: up to you and said, hey, I'm a fan.
Speaker 1: I can't I can't recall anyone. Uh maybe Jenny Rivetta.
Speaker 1: When I met Jenny Livetta, she goes, I know who
Speaker 1: you are, me whole. I was like, oh, that was
Speaker 1: for her to say that, you know. And then we
Speaker 1: recorded a song and a music video together, so not
Speaker 1: say rest in.
Speaker 3: Peace Jenny's Pie. You guys got the work. Yeah, there's
Speaker 3: something about when like lin I calls you me whole.
Speaker 4: It's just everything, it really is. And you know what.
Speaker 1: You know what was even crazier is that in the studio.
Speaker 1: I mean the song that we did together. I wrote it,
Speaker 1: and so she's in there singing it. She had a
Speaker 1: demo that we had for her. She's in the singing
Speaker 1: it and then she looks through the window. She goes me, Oh,
Speaker 1: tell me if I'm doing it right, this is your song.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna direct Jennyvedo, it was nervous. Usually like Jenny
Speaker 1: Rivera right, God bless right.
Speaker 3: She'd be like, Hey, if you're gonna talk ship, talk
Speaker 3: shit to my fucking face, yes, and all like that.
Speaker 1: But she definitely was that but a genuine person. Genuine
Speaker 1: person because the way she treated me and my homie
Speaker 1: Chino Brown.
Speaker 4: We recorded that record Brown, that's right.
Speaker 1: I love Chino man, he's a man. Shout out Chino, Breezy.
Speaker 3: Magic. Where's the best place, Like, where's the best place
Speaker 3: you've ever performed at? Where the crowdles on point, the
Speaker 3: venues on point, the sound, everything was just there, I
Speaker 3: like to say on stage because people ask me about locations,
Speaker 3: but everywhere.
Speaker 4: I go, my fans they have a similar look.
Speaker 1: You know, whether it's Chicano's in North Carolina and Tampa,
Speaker 1: Florida and East la or in San Jose or in
Speaker 1: Arizona at my hometown, the Chicanos, there's a certain thread
Speaker 1: that holds us all together. So there's no one city
Speaker 1: to me that's more special. Obviously, my hometown is always
Speaker 1: a homecoming for me.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: When we do the show there, it's at the Cardinal Stadium,
Speaker 1: so it's a big deal. Yeah, it's a big deal
Speaker 1: for us, And but I think just in general on
Speaker 1: stage is the best place.
Speaker 3: And say that's the best You just feel it come alive.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it energizes my my mom my, mom my.
Speaker 3: Wife, she says, She says, to get yeah, she says,
Speaker 3: she says today.
Speaker 1: You know how when somebody's addicted to their mom, they
Speaker 1: call them Mandy Loon or meet thes right she and forever,
Speaker 1: She says to me, these well talk.
Speaker 2: Hey, we're talking about like nostalgia and passing things along
Speaker 2: to the younger generations, you know, and that happened to
Speaker 2: us too, right, moms cleaning on Sundays and all that
Speaker 2: great music they passed on to us. If you had
Speaker 2: to name three top oldies that you grew up listening
Speaker 2: to that shaped you as a person and as an artist,
Speaker 2: what are your top three oldiest artists and title?
Speaker 1: So start, let's start with the King Roger Troutman himself,
Speaker 1: Computer Love and more Bounce than It is going to
Speaker 1: take one and two called computer and then another one
Speaker 1: that I really like a lot, and it's not the
Speaker 1: original version, it's the one that GQ made was.
Speaker 4: I do love you, I love you, I love you
Speaker 4: soul right now Mama baby bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he go, that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Raheem
Speaker 3: killed that one. Yeah, man, yeah, I would have joined
Speaker 3: you right now.
Speaker 4: I didn't want to ruin the moment, so I didn't
Speaker 4: go for the high note.
Speaker 1: I'm like I would Yeah, absolutely, Raheem would have been
Speaker 1: like Magic that song of mine.
Speaker 3: Don't sing it? Stop stop singing it please. Yeah. I
Speaker 3: appreciate the love, though, is that hoodie? Is that a customer?
Speaker 3: Are you selling that? This is merch? That's right, this
Speaker 3: is merch.
Speaker 4: This is not a brand new one. I just pulled
Speaker 4: it off the hangar, But yeah, you can get him
Speaker 4: on the website MC magic dot world.
Speaker 3: Man. The the entrepreneurial spirit, right to own your own business.
Speaker 3: You push that on love your kids obviously.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, my son's got his own brand, and my
Speaker 1: other son he's a singer as well. He's SCO's romanticos
Speaker 1: Antonio got the notas.
Speaker 4: He's everywhere guys download check him out. He's kind of.
Speaker 1: Influenced by Junior Rache and Ivan. That's kind of like
Speaker 1: the mix of his sound. Okay, does he come to
Speaker 1: you for advice or does he think?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: He thinks he knows everything.
Speaker 3: Didn't we all though, yet? You know?
Speaker 4: Except when he's having troubles with the software, He's like, Bobs,
Speaker 4: I can't get it.
Speaker 3: How do we do this?
Speaker 4: So yeah, go help you.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I I'm blessed with wonderful kids, hard workers, very respectable.
Speaker 4: You know, they grew up in Catholic education, so you
Speaker 4: know they got they.
Speaker 3: And they grew up watching their parents work for everything.
Speaker 1: Hey man, well mommy did all the work. Come on,
Speaker 1: mommy did all the work. So I gave her all
Speaker 1: the credit. The reason my kids are good when.
Speaker 3: They're growing up and you're gone all weekend because you're performing,
Speaker 3: you're across the.
Speaker 4: Country, don't it wasn't tough.
Speaker 1: It was. It wasn't tough because we because listen, even
Speaker 1: if I work all weekend, I'm still home all week
Speaker 1: to take them to school, to pick them up, to
Speaker 1: eat bad before we go to school, to run laid
Speaker 1: or you know, one of our favorite things to do.
Speaker 1: Me and my wife love eating Benny Hannah. Right, So
Speaker 1: we would go take him out of school so we
Speaker 1: didn't have to come back early from Beni Hannah. And
Speaker 1: we just get him out like at noon or at
Speaker 1: one go to Beni Hanna. So these fools got used
Speaker 1: to go in Beniana, like you.
Speaker 3: Had their whole life. Yeah, to go to Benihannah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had a good life. I don't think. I
Speaker 4: don't think it was tough for me at least.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe for my wife because because when I do travel,
Speaker 1: it was her that was taking care of the house,
Speaker 1: the kids and everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: God bless Mikey Gita.
Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah. Did you ever did you ever have
Speaker 3: a regular job growing up?
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 1: I used to be a payroll accountant. Yeah, I worked
Speaker 1: for U Haul International. I was pushing numbers, balancing the
Speaker 1: check book. And then one of my homies came over
Speaker 1: Rest in Peace of Tim Reid and he told me.
Speaker 1: He's like, I was working on a beat on the
Speaker 1: on the sampling machine. He's like, did you make that?
Speaker 1: I go yeah, yeah. He goes, how long did it
Speaker 1: take you? It was about fifteen minutes. He goes, you know,
Speaker 1: if we go to the swap meet, everybody buy a
Speaker 1: beat from you, he says, because everybody want to be
Speaker 1: a rapper. And I was like, yeah you think so
Speaker 1: He's like, come on me, let's go. I'll pay for
Speaker 1: the booth.
Speaker 4: So we went to the swap meet and we didn't
Speaker 4: sell no beats. But one guy and.
Speaker 1: His girlfriend did step up and he's like, I'll take
Speaker 1: one from you, broh blah blah blah blah blah blah, and.
Speaker 3: Like, okay.
Speaker 1: So I was recording his beat to a cassette. I go,
Speaker 1: he goes, hold up, aren't you going to wrap on it?
Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, I can. What do you want
Speaker 4: me to say on it? He said, wrap up bout
Speaker 4: my heina.
Speaker 1: So we we wrapped about Jessica and blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and we When I started doing that, I got a crowd.
Speaker 1: Now everybody wanted a custom wrap by MC magic. I
Speaker 1: did that for over ten years at the swap Meet,
Speaker 1: and that funded my record company.
Speaker 3: Crazy, that's what That's when.
Speaker 4: I left my day job.
Speaker 3: That's it. That was it. Yeah, And at that time,
Speaker 3: we were trying to work your way in, like work
Speaker 3: your way up in the day job.
Speaker 1: Not really, I didn't like that job. Number Well, you know,
Speaker 1: creative people don't like to do paperwork.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, if you're creating, that's right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't want to do paperwork.
Speaker 5: I could do paperwork, paper you get it, you get it.
Speaker 3: That was like the start of it all. Then the
Speaker 3: Swap Meet that was the birthplace.
Speaker 1: That was the funding because I already knew I wanted
Speaker 1: to write songs. I had already started on songs like
Speaker 1: lost in Love, so I was already trying to mess
Speaker 1: with it. But that gave me the funding to free
Speaker 1: up my week and really focus on getting a CD out, Okay,
Speaker 1: And that's when in nineteen ninety five, I finally got
Speaker 1: enough songs together to put an album.
Speaker 3: Wo wow, look at it now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, whoa what was that booth?
Speaker 3: Got? What was the proper jump?
Speaker 4: I think we probably paid.
Speaker 1: Like forty bucks for the booth. Damn, maybe twenty, I
Speaker 1: don't know it. It was a long time ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was way before inflation. Yeah yeah, man, but
Speaker 3: that swap meets where it sat, that's where.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's where.
Speaker 1: And even to this day, I'll be in any state,
Speaker 1: any state, including.
Speaker 4: Hawaii, I'll be out there. Hey, you made a song
Speaker 4: for my uncle Joe rest in peace. I get that
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 1: Or you made me a song when I was a
Speaker 1: little girl, when I was five, you made me a
Speaker 1: birthday song.
Speaker 4: And I was like, yeah, I made over one hundred
Speaker 4: thousand of those. Wow, one at a time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one out of a time. A bar at a
Speaker 3: time for real. What's the pre show like for you?
Speaker 3: MC magic.
Speaker 1: I like peace and quiet, getting my element, and I
Speaker 1: take a nap because you know, I yo, you know
Speaker 1: fifty seven there's no wag fifty seven fifty seven.
Speaker 3: Brother, you're lying to me. Yeah, you're lying. You're lying.
Speaker 3: There's no way. I don't believe you. I'm sorry. I
Speaker 3: love you, but I'm all love. We're gonna do that
Speaker 3: and your heato to her next year. So we need
Speaker 3: a nap, We need piece of pieace and quiet. Yeah,
Speaker 3: any vices, No, No, just maybe a drink or two.
Speaker 4: No, don't drink. Never never being hired drunk in my life.
Speaker 1: So I say that to kids because I think it's
Speaker 1: it's important to set a good example for kids. You know,
Speaker 1: when they invite me to go speak at little schools,
Speaker 1: career days and stuff, I say, make good decisions. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes the one decision could cost you your whole career,
Speaker 1: your whole life, for ten years in jail, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And so that's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: I decided not to drink and not to smoke, was
Speaker 1: because I saw bad things coming from it.
Speaker 4: When I was a kid. In projects, I would see
Speaker 4: some bad things.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, ch that's that's right, that's right. And
Speaker 1: so then I just try to pass that on to
Speaker 1: my children as well, to be men of honor and
Speaker 1: have fun without being a throne.
Speaker 3: Are they paying attention or did you catch them? Have
Speaker 3: you caught them smoking or drinking?
Speaker 4: Nope?
Speaker 3: If they did it, would you be disappointed? I would
Speaker 3: be hurt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would be hurt because they're old enough to
Speaker 1: make their own decisions, now, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, you got to let an adult
Speaker 1: be an adult.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. They're all old enough to
Speaker 4: make their decisions. But it would just it would be
Speaker 4: like ah, damn it.
Speaker 3: Would it would hurt?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah. As a father, yeah, I'm saying.
Speaker 3: This is why I look older than MC magic Life crew.
Speaker 1: Hey Cruse, congratulations to you tube because you've been you've
Speaker 1: been gang banging and radio for a long time.
Speaker 3: Long time, long time. You know, there was there there
Speaker 3: was once I was telling this MC magic off the
Speaker 3: airs one time where I'd gotten to a small radio
Speaker 3: station in Monterey Salinas and I was very uncomfortable. I
Speaker 3: was uncomfortable going there. Once I moved there, I was
Speaker 3: even more uncomfortable. And uh, I didn't have anybody. I
Speaker 3: was there by myself. And it's nine pm. The phone rings.
Speaker 3: It's MC Magic, Who's like, yo, Jay Crews. I'm like yeah,
Speaker 3: or J Noise J Noyle. He's like, yeah, I just
Speaker 3: want to congratulate you, man, and welcome you to that city.
Speaker 3: I'm not from there, but you know, and I'm sure
Speaker 3: you know as an artist, he's doing the smart thing,
Speaker 3: you know, but it he sounded and felt so familiar
Speaker 3: that it felt like I was talking to someone who
Speaker 3: I've known for a long time and was telling me
Speaker 3: that everything's going to be okay. Amen, my gosh, Amen, man,
Speaker 3: I appreciate that Magic.
Speaker 1: That's love, brother, that's love. Because I remember you were
Speaker 1: before that in Vegas. In Vegas, you were doing like
Speaker 1: the Latin Fuego Show and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I was producing that show with my guy Chop,
Speaker 3: you know Chopp in Vegas, right of course, So we
Speaker 3: did that, Yeah, the Street Fago show and that show
Speaker 3: I supported a lot of my muses one hundred percent. Nah,
Speaker 3: I mean you were you were the core artist for
Speaker 3: that show. You know what I'm saying. You and many others, yes, sir,
Speaker 3: but yeah, and then I was also doing every shift
Speaker 3: possible out that radio station, just getting a dog. You know,
Speaker 3: sometimes we gotta fake it till we make it, brother man,
Speaker 3: and we got to get to it, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. But you know about that hard work, and
Speaker 3: it's great that you show your kids what hard work
Speaker 3: really is as well. We got to do that as.
Speaker 1: Parents, right, absolutely, absolutely, And I'm proud of my children
Speaker 1: because they you know, they've all gone out and created
Speaker 1: something amazing.
Speaker 3: Ye have their own lanes. You have your kid here now. Yep.
Speaker 1: My son Daniels right here like he like I said,
Speaker 1: he helped me create the album cover of God Blessed
Speaker 1: Chicanos When I told him it says God Blessed Northern
Speaker 1: because that's his brand, I said, I said, if it
Speaker 1: said God Blessed Chicanos, he said it felt. I felt
Speaker 1: something there, Pops. I did feel something and it is
Speaker 1: a's dope, you know.
Speaker 3: And that's Pops. You're like, yo, that's mine now.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: No, by the way, we're also going to drop the
Speaker 1: clothing line, the God Blessed Chic clothing line, and it's
Speaker 1: going to be our brand together.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. Congratulations, God, absolutely jack.
Speaker 6: How many proposals have you witnessed at your show?
Speaker 4: A lot, A lot, A lot. They said no question, No,
Speaker 4: they've never said no. Yeah, they always said they might
Speaker 4: change up nine later. But right, yeah, no, As far.
Speaker 6: As you know, you have one hundred percent success.
Speaker 4: Success rate with proposals.
Speaker 3: Can Jackie's man propose to her at your show on stage?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 3: I don't think she wants that.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to l A, you got three choices, Okay,
Speaker 1: will be August twenty downtown. I'll be at a fool
Speaker 1: in Love concert at the Sofi Stadium and the Novo
Speaker 1: in in December.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna send them those dates he's got.
Speaker 4: Make sure he's got that ring ready. I know.
Speaker 5: I do want to say that the show that I
Speaker 5: went to a person Square first show and I was
Speaker 5: already bumping and grinder know what it is, I'll say,
Speaker 5: So go to MC magic.
Speaker 3: So you're gonta fit the Magic in the air. Yeah yeah, man,
Speaker 3: it's a good place to go, said Mingo.
Speaker 4: I got this one.
Speaker 1: I got this one little thing I say on stage
Speaker 1: before before I play Lost in Love. I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, you know my fans. They always confess this
Speaker 1: and that to me. One fan told me, it's your fault, Magic,
Speaker 1: I have three kids.
Speaker 4: I'm like, hold up, I was at my fault.
Speaker 3: Hey listen, I'm not paying nobody.
Speaker 1: He said, well, every time I played that song she
Speaker 1: got pregnant and then.
Speaker 3: We dropped was.
Speaker 4: Lost in Love Love.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's classic. That's yes, that's a timeless song.
Speaker 3: It's legendary. Yes, that is that. I mean, I know
Speaker 3: you're proud of all your songs. Yes, is that one
Speaker 3: of them that you're most proud of? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I am because that that that little song has helped me,
Speaker 1: not only in situations where people heard it for the
Speaker 1: first time and they bought my album, but then other
Speaker 1: situations like we had just finished the Down for Yours
Speaker 1: Run and there was there was no more songs on
Speaker 1: that album that sounded had that love feeling, and so
Speaker 1: someone at radio says, you need more songs like this,
Speaker 1: and the program director in Phoenix, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I got this old song on my on my on
Speaker 1: my first CD called Lost in Love. He goes, let
Speaker 1: me hear it. So when he when he when he
Speaker 1: heard He's like, oh, this is it? So he played
Speaker 1: it and that got assigned to another deal, and so
Speaker 1: Lost in Love has been a.
Speaker 4: Little the little engine that could.
Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, what a blessing. Right. Have you ever
Speaker 3: been heard on stage?
Speaker 1: Nah? I don't think so. I've fallen. I have fallen
Speaker 1: on stage, not off the stage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not in front of the crowd on a wire. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of times that, you know, because I
Speaker 1: have an AC box right there to feed my equipment
Speaker 1: and sometimes they leave that a C box too too
Speaker 1: far out and I trip over it, or they when
Speaker 1: they don't tape it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I have followen a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Great man, what's the best gift you've ever received from
Speaker 1: a fan? The best gift of man? There's too many
Speaker 1: to mention, but right off the time, right, yeah. Art
Speaker 1: they drawings of me, paintings of me. I think the
Speaker 1: chocolate covered strawberries take the cake. Yeah, and then they
Speaker 1: put the little letters on their MC magic I love you.
Speaker 1: So it makes a lot. So And that was Becky G.
Speaker 1: Also not Becky G. Becky V. Yeah, so she she
Speaker 1: she knew that I like them so much the first
Speaker 1: time she brought that.
Speaker 4: Every time I'm in l A. She brings me chocolate cover.
Speaker 3: That's why is it so important for you to remember
Speaker 3: fans names and their cities and their stories and what
Speaker 3: they tell you that I do.
Speaker 1: I do, And the reason is because it's nice to
Speaker 1: be important, but it's more important to be nice. And
Speaker 1: so when you show your fans that you actually do
Speaker 1: appreciate them, it goes a long way. It goes a
Speaker 1: long way, because I've been treated good by artists that
Speaker 1: I meet, and I've been treated bad. And so when
Speaker 1: the artist treats me bad for some reason, I don't
Speaker 1: want to be a fan no more. When their song
Speaker 1: comes on im like a skip that you know, this
Speaker 1: personal that it is, it becomes a personal memory, you know,
Speaker 1: not for sure?
Speaker 3: Is there anyone you would want to work with? Now?
Speaker 3: Who's doing music now?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: I got the two hottest uh latinos in rap on
Speaker 1: the on on that bounce, We got the Yodi's and
Speaker 1: that Mexican o T.
Speaker 4: But I am a fan of rowdy racks.
Speaker 1: I like his flow uh and also directs the joint
Speaker 1: he gets down really dope. I like them shout out
Speaker 1: to sell one fo o se and but my ultimate
Speaker 1: collaboration uh, I've said this many times would be shadd Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love Shad, y'all, I love shod.
Speaker 3: You know man, y'all would control the population, you know
Speaker 3: ho many children being born?
Speaker 4: Not really respond.
Speaker 3: Yeah, support for yeah Yo. God bless Chicanos man, MC
Speaker 3: magic our guy, You're welcome here anytime I said thanks.
Speaker 1: For putting it together. Such a pleasure meeting you, Jeff Garcia.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that DJ mix DJ Fuse Fuse.
Speaker 3: You killed it for his brother and Cruise love Brother.
Speaker 3: It's love, EMC Magic Cruise Show. God bless you, e'conalds
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Speaker 3: to three MC match Amen.
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