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00:00Previously on Magic City.
00:17Atlanta was growing fast.
00:19Hip-hop, everybody was coming to Atlanta.
00:22A great strip club record, the beat needs to be nasty.
00:25We took bombs over Bad Day to Magic City.
00:28Mike Sr. brought a limo, fur coats, diamonds.
00:31We were like Bonnie and Clyde.
00:33The Olympics was a big deal.
00:34This whole city changed.
00:36The police department has run every drug dealer out of Georgia.
00:40The way it went down, agents came out of ceilings,
00:43came out the floor, out the windows, and handcuffed Mike.
00:49Georgia.
00:52Georgia.
00:56Georgia.
00:58Georgia.
01:01We on the grindin'.
01:03Georgia.
01:04All the time, it ain't nothing on my mind.
01:06Georgia.
01:07We ain't playin' with you.
01:09We on the grindin'.
01:10Georgia.
01:11All the time, it ain't nothing on my mind.
01:13Georgia.
01:14We ain't playin' with you.
01:15Country names, country slang, fiends at the liquor store.
01:19Black cruising, crap shooting, 50 on the 10 to 4.
01:24Overcast, the forecast shows clouds from plenty.
01:27And we ready for war in the state of Georgia.
01:30Georgia.
01:31ınıen jetzt
01:33who...
01:35AUTHORITIES SAY NEXT IN COMMAND IN THE ALLEGED COCAINE DISTRIBUTION RING IS MICHAEL BARNEY.
01:47I REALLY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HOW IT HAPPENED, JUST GOT INDITED.
01:55FEDERAL INDICTMENT ALLEGES THAT BARNEY AND 14 OTHERS OPERATED A MAJOR COCAINE DISTRIBUTION
02:00OPERATION TO THE STREETS OF METRO ATLANTA.
02:03MIKE?
02:05YOU MUST HAVE THE WRONG MIKE.
02:08WHEN I HEARD ABOUT IT, IT DIDN'T SOUND RIGHT TO ME.
02:11WE WAS IN DISBELIEVE.
02:12THIS IS A JOKE.
02:14MIKE DID EVERYTHING BY THE BOOK.
02:17I WAS BEING INDICTED FOR CONSPIRACY TO CONSTRIBUTE COCAINE, BUT I NEVER SAW NO DOPE.
02:25MANY OF THE PEOPLE COMING IN AND OUT OF MAGIC CITY SAY THEY'RE SURPRISED.
02:28HE MAKES A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY EVERY NIGHT.
02:30AND WHY HE WOULD DISTRIBUTE COCAINE IS BEYOND MY REASON.
02:33I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY EVEN COME UP WITH THESE ACCUSATIONS.
02:35HE CALLED ME A FACILITATOR AND SAID THAT I MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR SOME OTHER PEOPLE TO
02:40GET DOPE.
02:41PEOPLE WERE SAID TO BE SELLING AND DOING DRUGS IN HIS OFFICE.
02:48IT WASN'T CLEAR HE WAS GOING TO BE CONVICTED.
02:51THE CASE AGAINST HIM WAS NOT STRONG.
02:53BECAUSE WE DIDN'T TAKE THE CHARGES AS SERIOUSLY AS WE SHOULD HAVE, WE DIDN'T HIRE THE BEST ATTORNEYS.
02:59WE WENT TO TRIAL.
03:00I LOOKED UP AND I HAD NO BLACKS IN MY JURY.
03:03I SAID HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
03:05IT WAS A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE.
03:07IT WAS ALMOST LIKE THEY WERE TRYING TO GET HIM.
03:09THERE'S JEALOUSY AND COMPETITION AMONG THE OWNERS THEMSELVES.
03:14THERE'S A CLUB NEAR ME THAT'S A COMPETITOR.
03:16I WANT TO PUT HIM OUT OF BUSINESS.
03:18I MIGHT GO TO THE POLICE AND ANONYMOUS TIPS.
03:22THERE WAS NO HARD EVIDENCE.
03:24IT WAS SOME DRUG DEAL THAT WAS IN PRISON, THROWING OUT NAMES TO GET A LIGHTER SENTENCE.
03:31THE ATTORNEY TOLD ME, HE SAYS, I WAS ABOUT SHUTTING DOWN THAT CLUB.
03:36THAT'S WHEN WE REALIZED IF YOU'RE CHARGED FEDERALLY, YOU HAVE TO SERVE WHATEVER THAT SENTENCE IS,
03:43NO MATTER WHAT YOUR INVOLVEMENT.
03:45SO THEY WIND UP FINING ME GUILTY AND I JUST GO TO JAIL.
03:49HELLO, THIS IS AN ARTEL OPERATOR FROM FORT DICKS FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION WITH A PREPAID CALL FROM...
04:08MICHAEL BARNEY.
04:12MIKE CALLED ME FROM PRISON AND HE GOT TELLING ME SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WERE GOING DOWN AT THE CLUB THAT HE DIDN'T LIKE.
04:20SERVICE AIN'T THERE.
04:22THERE AIN'T NO MAGIC SHAKING THE HANDS.
04:24THERE AIN'T NO MAGIC HOSTING THEM.
04:27HE STAYED EVEN RIGHT HERE AT ONE POINT.
04:29THERE'S A JAIL ACTUALLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM MAGIC, NOT TOO FAR.
04:32YOU CAN LITERALLY SEE FROM BOTH SIDES.
04:34I CAN ONLY IMAGINE FOR HIM, YOU KNOW, HE'S LIKE, HE'S PROBABLY TRY TO PICK OUT A LITTLE WINDOW, YOU KNOW, AND LIKE, DAMN, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ME RIGHT THERE.
04:41HE HANDLED IT LIKE A PRO, BUT I KNOW DEEP INSIDE, HE WAS HURT.
04:49I WAS WAITING, WAITING FOR APPEALS AND DIFFERENT STUFF, SO YOU ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING HOME.
04:55I WAS TRAUMATIZED.
04:57PEOPLE CAME TO MY AID, BUT THEY HAD LIVES TOO.
05:00THEY EVENTUALLY HAD TO GO BACK TO THEIR LIVES.
05:02WE KEPT THE KIDS AWAY FROM IT.
05:05THEY NEVER REALLY SPOKE TO ME ABOUT NONE OF THAT.
05:08WE JUST WENT WITH THE FLOW.
05:09WE WENT WITH THE FLOW.
05:11WE WENT WITH WHATEVER MOM SAID.
05:12MIKEY, BY THAT TIME, HE'S 12.
05:13HE'S A YOUNG MAN.
05:14SO HIS DAD TOLD HIM, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES PEOPLE WRONGLY ACCUSE YOU OF SOMETHING.
05:20YOU HAVE TO GO AND PAY THAT PENANCE.
05:22I WAS ALWAYS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT MY FATHER WAS INNOCENT.
05:27SO I TALKED TO MY DAD DAILY.
05:28HE WROTE.
05:29SHIT, IT'S A DRAWFUL OF LETTERS.
05:31WE WENT EVERY OTHER WEEKEND TO GO SEE HIS FATHER.
05:35JEWEL AND THEM WERE SMALL.
05:37MIKEY WAS LIKE, I GET IT.
05:38DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.
05:39WE'RE GOING TO BE OKAY, MOM.
05:40WE'RE GOING TO SURVIVE.
05:41BECAUSE HE WAS A FELON, HE COULDN'T OWN THE CLUB FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, RIGHT?
05:45HE HAD TO SELL THE CLUB.
05:47IT WAS A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE.
05:49SO WHEN MY DAD WENT TO JOIN, MY OTHER UNCLE WAS RUNNING THE CLUB.
05:52IS THAT MIDNIGHT?
05:53NO.
05:54OK, GOT IT.
05:55IT'S ANOTHER UNCLE.
05:56GOT IT.
05:57YEAH.
05:58NOBODY MENTIONED THAT UNCLE, RIGHT?
05:59LET ME ASK THIS QUESTION.
06:00YEAH.
06:01I WAS MAKING SURE.
06:02I WAS JUST MAKING SURE.
06:03YOU'RE RUNNING THE CLUB WHEN YOU'RE DAD.
06:04I'M NOT GETTING INTO THAT IF NOBODY ELSE DID.
06:06WAS HIS NAME, DEREK COOPER?
06:07NOPE.
06:08THIS IS PUBLIC.
06:09IT'S DEREK COOPER.
06:10I DON'T FEEL YOU.
06:11THEY CAN FEEL IT IN.
06:12WHILE MICHAEL BARNEY WAS IN TRIAL, THEY HAD DONE A BY-SELL AGREEMENT WITH DEREK THAT
06:19WAS TO BE TRIGGERED IF HE WAS CONVICTED.
06:22WHEN DEREK TOOK OVER AS THE OWNER OF MAGIC CITY, MAGIC CALLED EVERY DAY JUST ABOUT TO FIND
06:30OUT WHAT THE PROCEEDS WERE FROM THE DAY BEFORE.
06:33WE ASKED HIM TO STOP.
06:35WE DIDN'T WANT THE CITY TO THINK IT WAS STILL HIS CLUB.
06:39THE GUYS WHO'VE BEEN IN THERE A LONG TIME, THEY USED TO SAY, COME INSIDE THIS JAIL, MAGIC.
06:44YOU ON THE PHONE ALL THE TIME.
06:46YOU'RE CALLING OUT IN THE STREET.
06:47LET THAT GO.
06:49WHEN MAGIC WENT AWAY IS WHEN I FEEL LIKE THE ETICUTE WAS TAMPERED WITH.
06:55BECAUSE HE'S THE GLUE.
06:56HE WAS OUR DAD.
06:58AND WHEN THEY GOT IT CHANGED OVER TO DEREK RUNNING THE CLUB, NOBODY CARED ABOUT US.
07:03IT JUST RULED ME THE WRONG WAY.
07:05MAGIC IS MAGIC CITY.
07:07SO, YOU KNOW, YOU LOSE MAGIC, THEN YOU'RE GONNA LOSE KIND OF LIKE THE ESSENCE OF THE CLUB.
07:12IT WAS LIKE A FREE FOR ALL.
07:14EVERYBODY WAS DOING THEIR OWN THING IN THE CLUB.
07:18WAITRESSES, BARTYERS ARE OVERCHARGING CUSTOMERS.
07:21DANCERS, LIKE, YOU GOTTA PAY ME FOR FIVE DANCERS WHEN THEY MAY WANT TO DANCE ONE SONG.
07:26EVEN SOME OF THE DJS WERE DOING THEIR OWN THING.
07:28I KNOW THAT BLACK WOMEN, ONCE THEIR HAIR SWEATS, THEY NEED RELIEF.
07:33AND I WILL SELL HAND FANS.
07:34I GET THEM FOR $2, SELL THEM FOR $15.
07:36BECAUSE YOU'RE IN A STRIP CLUB.
07:38CASH IS KING.
07:40WHEN MAGIC LEFT, I STARTED GETTING INTO STUFF THAT I WOULDN'T HAVE DONE IF MAGIC WAS HERE.
07:46I USED TO SELL POWDER TRYING TO GET ME SOME MONEY AND JUST PUT MY LIFE IN DANGER.
07:53THEY ALL HAD THEIR LITTLE BUSINESSES WITHIN THE BUSINESS.
07:59THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO SEE IT FAIL.
08:03THEY WERE GLAD HE WAS ARRESTED.
08:05THEY WERE HOPING THAT THE CLUB WOULD CLOSE AND IT DIDN'T.
08:09THEY WERE ANGRY.
08:11JEALOUS.
08:13SO IT DID EVENTUALLY GET BURNED DOWN.
08:17A GUY TRIED TO BURN THIS CLUB DOWN.
08:21A GUY TRIED TO.
08:26IT DID POURE GAS DOWN THE RAMP AND IT BURNED THE DOOR.
08:31ME AND MY SISTER MISS T, WE SEEN TWO GUYS RUNNING UP THE STREET AND A GUY WOULD LIKE SHAKING HIS HAND.
08:36AND ONE GUY WAS DOING IT LIKE THIS, BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS ON FIRE.
08:39WE DIDN'T KNOW.
08:40THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CORRUPT SHIT IN THIS CITY.
08:43GREED WAS TREMENDOUS HERE, YOU KNOW.
08:45MAGIC CITY AND GENTLEMEN'S CLUB WERE JUST THE FUCKING PREMIER SPOTS AND ONE OF THEM NEEDED TO GO.
08:50I HEARD THE GUYS FROM GENTLEMEN'S CLUB DID IT.
09:01THAT'S WHAT I HEARD.
09:03GIRLS THAT DIDN'T HAVE NO WHERE TO WORK, THEY HAD TO COME TO THE GENTLEMEN'S CLUB.
09:08SO THE GENTLEMEN'S CLUB BECAME THE SPOT.
09:11YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE BEING COMPETITIVE IN THAT WORLD, MAGIC CITY IS THE KING.
09:15TO TRY TO GET RID OF MAGIC CITY WOULD BE TREMENDOUS FOR SOMEONE LIKE MIKE CHILDZ.
09:19IT MADE SENSE, YOU KNOW.
09:20I DON'T WANT TO SPIKE TOO MUCH.
09:21MIKE CHILDZ WILL WHOOP MY ASS FOR SURE.
09:23MIKE CHILDZ WAS ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN OWNERS OF ADULT CLUBS.
09:30HE HAD TWO OF THEM, GENTLEMEN'S CLUB AND NICKY'S.
09:34MICHAEL CHILDZ USED TO COME IN THERE ALL THE TIME.
09:38AND I THOUGHT EVERYTHING WAS GOOD, YOU KNOW, BUT JEALOUSY IS CRUEL AS GRAVE.
09:45SOME YEARS LATER, MIKE CHILDZ WENT TO PRISON FOR CONTRACTING FIRES IN SOME CLUBS THAT DID SOME DAMAGE AND CLOSED THEM DOWN.
09:53A STATEMENT BY AN FBI AGENT SAID CHILDZ OFFERED $50,000 TO A COOPERATING WITNESS IF HE WOULD PROCURE SOMEONE TO BURN DOWN MAGIC CITY.
10:00I HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTION.
10:02WHAT?
10:03MICHAEL CHILDZ WAS CONVICTED FOR SETTING FIRES TO CLUBS.
10:07UM, I NEVER, YOU KNOW, UM, WE NEVER KNEW WHO REALLY DID IT. IT NEVER CAME OUT.
10:23MAGIC CITY, IT BURNT DOWN.
10:24AND I CAME BACK RIGHT WHEN IT WAS GETTING READY TO OPEN BACK UP.
10:27IT WAS SO COOL BECAUSE EVERYBODY THOUGHT I BOUGHT THE CLUB.
10:29AT THAT TIME, MAGIC CITY WAS THE NUMBER ONE BLACK CLUB IN ATLANTA.
10:33PEOPLE WOULD GET OFF THE PLANE AND COME STRAIGHT HERE BECAUSE MAGIC CITY WAS THE PLACE TO BE.
10:38SO THE SOURCE STARTED TO HAVE A SEX ISSUE, AND IT WAS ESSENTIALLY THEIR WAY OF GETTING WOMEN ON THE COVER.
10:46I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT IT JUST POPPED INTO MY HEAD.
10:48I WAS LIKE, CAN YOU IMAGINE IF I GO UNDERCOVER AS A STRIPPER, THE KIND OF STORY I COULD TELL?
10:53THAT WOULD BE CRAZY.
10:55AND I FOUND TWO WOMEN, SOME PORN STARS, WHO AGREED TO LET ME HANG OUT WITH THEM FOR A COUPLE DAYS.
11:02AND THEY'RE LIKE, FIRST OF ALL, THESE LITTLE DREADLOCKS YOU GOT GOING ON, THAT'S NOT SEXY.
11:07WE NEED TO GET YOU A WIG.
11:09AND I GOT FITTED, GARTERS, AND THEN LITTLE STRAPS.
11:16AND THE HEEL WAS AT LEAST SEVEN INCHES HIGH, AT LEAST.
11:25WHEN I WALK INTO A SPACE, I IMMEDIATELY START WRITING A STORY.
11:30SO WHEN I WALKED IN, I SAW, NEXT TO MY CHAIR, THERE WERE TWO CHAIRS, AND THEY BOTH HAD SPELMAN COLLEGE BACKPACKS
11:36ON THE BACK OF THEM, AND I WAS LIKE, OH, SHIT.
11:40CHICKS FROM SPELMAN IS UP IN HERE STRIPPING.
11:42WHY WAS THAT SURPRISING TO YOU?
11:48SPELMAN IS AN ALL-WOMEN'S BLACK COLLEGE.
11:51IT'S MARKED FOR ITS PRESTIGE.
11:54BLACK GIRLS AND WOMEN ARE SUPPOSED TO PRESENT THEMSELVES IN A SPECIFIC WAY.
12:00IN 1999, STRIPPERS ARE VERY OTHERED IN OUR WORLD.
12:05SO I THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO BE REALLY DIFFERENT FROM ME.
12:09AND YET, I'M SITTING NEXT TO SOMEONE WHO WENT TO THE SCHOOL THAT I PRAYED THAT I WOULD BE ABLE TO GO TO AND DIDN'T GET IN.
12:16I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY GIRLS FROM SCHOOL WAS UP IN THERE, BUT YOU'RE NOT GONNA KNOW IT.
12:21THAT'S THE SECRET.
12:23I WOULD HAVE FELT BACK THEN THAT I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY THAT I FELT VERY FEMININE AND THAT IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL THING, BUT I DID.
12:32MAGIC CITY HAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMEN OUT OF ALL THE CLUBS AND EVERYBODY THAT THEY SHIT THROUGHGETHER.
12:38I'M AN ENTERTAINER. I PLAY TWO INSTRUMENTS, THE FLU AND THE CLARINET.
12:41I'M IN SCHOOL. I DO INTERIOR DESIGN. I HAVE A COMPANY.
12:45SOME GIRLS DO IT FOR A WHILE AND THEY GET OUT OF IT. SOME PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GET THROUGH SCHOOL.
12:51SOME PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO FEED THEIR FAMILY.
12:54WHEN I HAD MY SON, IT WAS THREE DAYS AFTER MY 18TH BIRTHDAY.
13:03HIS FATHER WAS A HEAVYWEIGHT STREET GUY, AND WE WERE JUST LIVING THE LIFE.
13:14NICE CARS, NICE HOUSES, UNTIL HE WENT TO JAIL.
13:23I DID A QUICK STINT AT SPELLMAN, BUT IT WAS A VERY SHORT-LIVED IDEA.
13:27I HAD TO PROVIDE A ROOF OVER MY KIDS' HAND.
13:30AND SO I BASICALLY HAD TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE WERE GOING TO MAKE A LIVING.
13:34I REMEMBER WHITE CHOCOLATE'S FIRST DAY, THIS SKINNED LITTLE GIRL COME UP THERE, IT WAS ON DAY SHIFT.
13:43I WAS INTIMIDATED.
13:45THERE WAS A BUNCH OF NAKED WOMEN.
13:48I DIDN'T HAVE NO ASS, NO TITS, JUST STRAIGHT YOUNG.
13:52I WAS STILL, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE CALL DEAR ON DOE, WHICH MEANS YOU'RE WOBBLY IN THOSE SHOES.
13:58I GOT ON THE STAGE AND I WAS DANCING, SWUNG AROUND AND DIDN'T HOLD ON TO THE POLE.
14:03FLEW OFF THE STAGE, THE DJ WAS, AND IT WAS DC, AND HE, AND IT WAS MUSIC.
14:10STRIP HER ON THE FLOOR, STRIP HER ON THE FLOOR.
14:13SHE ENDED UP BEING THE NEXT GENERATION OF SUPERSTAR DANCING.
14:18WHITE CHOCOLATE, COME OUT.
14:21MAGIC USED TO HAVE A THING UP THERE, IT WAS LIKE TONIGHT, AND IT WOULD HAVE A GIRL'S PICTURE IN THERE.
14:26THAT'S HOW WHITE CHOCOLATE BECAME WHITE CHOCOLATE.
14:30I REMEMBER WHITE CHOCOLATE.
14:32SHE WAS BAD.
14:33I WOULD CALL HER THE GREATEST STRIPPER IN HISTORY.
14:36RIGHT?
14:37SEE THE GOAT.
14:39MAGIC CITY CHANGED THE GAME.
14:45IT GAVE WOMEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY, WELL, HEY, LOOK, I CAN BE A BOSS TOO.
14:54IT WAS A SPACE WHERE WOMEN COULD BE A PART OF THE HUSTLE COMMUNITY.
15:00ATLANTA HAS A HUSTLE ECONOMY THAT'S ATTACHED TO ALL OF THIS OTHER ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITY.
15:07AND SO FOR WOMEN TO BE ABLE TO HAVE OPTIONS TO GET IN ON THAT BECOMES A SPACE FOR ADVANCEMENT.
15:20YOU KNOW, MAGIC CITY GIVES US, LIKE, BEAUTIFUL, AMAZING OPPORTUNITIES TO BE GREATER THAN ANYTHING WE COULD EVER THINK OF.
15:27I'VE OPENED MULTIPLE BUSINESSES OVER SEVEN YEARS OF ME BEING A WAITRESS HERE, RIGHT?
15:33GUESS WHO GAVE ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO, MR. MAGIC?
15:36HEY!
15:39MY NON-PROFIT, MY JEWELRY AND RINESTONE BUSINESS, I HUSTLE IT BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I WAS TAUGHT FROM MAGIC.
15:47WE CARE OURSELF DIFFERENT THAN OTHER WOMEN.
15:51WHEN IT WAS HUSTLE MORE, WE KNOW HOW TO HUSTLE.
15:54SO YOU HAD THE GIRLS STARTING TO TRANSITION INTO MUSIC VIDEOS AND STUFF.
15:59AND THAT WAS THE WHITE CHOCOLATE ERA.
16:01EVERY TIME I DID A NEW VIDEO, I MAKE A NEW FLYER.
16:04I'D PUT THEM ON THE TABLES EVERY NIGHT.
16:06THEY'D BEAT THOUSANDS OF THEM.
16:07AND IT'D SAY, WHITE CHOCOLATE, HAVE YOU SEEN ME?
16:09OH, SHE WAS IN THE BOOST MOBBLE.
16:10OH, SHE WAS IN THE MOVIE ATL.
16:12GORGEOUS.
16:13CAN I GET IT TO YOU FOR A SECOND?
16:15THIS IS AROUND THE TIME WHEN XXL HAS ITS VIDEO VIXEN SECTION IN THE MAGAZINE.
16:22MANY OF THOSE WOMEN ARE COMING OUT OF CLUBS.
16:25THE DANCER, PARTICULARLY THE ATLANTA DANCER, INFLUENCES THE LOOK OF THE VIDEO VIXEN.
16:32I HAD MADE IT TO THE POINT IN MY VIDEO VIXEN CAREER THAT I DIDN'T HAVE TO AUDITION.
16:38AND SO MY AGENT WAS LIKE, THERE'S A VIDEO COMING UP FOR NELLY.
16:42THEY MUST HAVE YOU.
16:44THE SONG IS CALLED TIP DRILL.
16:46WAIT, WHAT'S A TIP DRILL?
16:47WHEN THEY DO LIKE THIS.
16:49WITH THE MONEY.
16:51THE CONCEPT OF THE VIDEO, FIRST OF ALL, WAS TO BE ON BET UNCUT.
17:00I MEAN, I JUST WALK UP ONE DAY AND WAS LIKE, YO, YOU KNOW WHAT, I WANT A VIDEO FOR THIS SHOW.
17:05VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
17:09THE WHOLE POINT OF THE SHOW WAS TO SHOW THESE VIDEOS THAT WERE UNCUT.
17:15THAT WERE A LITTLE BIT MORE RATCHET, A LITTLE BIT MORE RAUNCHY.
17:18IT'S FOR ADULTS.
17:19IT COMES ON AT 1.30 IN THE MORNING.
17:21THE WHOLE CONCEPT WAS JUST THAT.
17:23IT WAS BASICALLY TO SHOW THE GREATEST STRIP CLUB IN THE LAND.
17:26HOW WE KICK IT IN THERE WITH THE YOUNG LADIES THAT WAS THERE, OUT HERE.
17:31ALL THE DANCES WERE TAKEN FROM MAGIC.
17:36THAT TIME WAS WHEN MAGIC HAD PROBABLY THE BEST TEN DANCES YOU COULD EVER SEE.
17:48THE DAY OF THE VIDEO SHOOT, WE PULL UP ALL THESE MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR HOUSES.
17:52LIKE, HOUSES THAT YOU'RE LIKE, WHO LIVE HERE?
17:56IT STARTED OFF SLOW AS HELL.
17:58THEN THE ALCOHOL ARRIVED.
18:00THEN BASICALLY, MAN, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE.
18:04I HOPE AIN'T NOBODY HERE UNDER INDICTMENT, MARRIED, OR GOT SOMETHING TO LOOSE.
18:08BECAUSE I'M COMING IN WITH THE CAMERA. LET'S GO.
18:11IT WAS SO MANY PEOPLE THAT WASN'T IN THE VIDEO, THAT WAS THERE, AS FAR AS ENTERTAINERS,
18:18ATHLETES.
18:19THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE, NAH, NAH, NAH. YOU CAN'T PUT ME IN IT.
18:22CAN'T PUT ME IN IT.
18:23IT'S LIKE, WELL, WHY IS YOU IN THE SHOT?
18:25THEY DID HAVE A STORYBOARD.
18:27THEY DID.
18:28THEY HAD THEIR DIFFERENT SCENES.
18:29BUT YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO EDIT OUT OR KEEP.
18:33IT OPENS UP ON MY BUTT, AND I'M WALKING.
18:35AND I SMACK MY BUTT.
18:37NELLY WAS BITING MY THONG AND IT BROKE IN HIS MOUTH.
18:42NONE OF THAT STUFF WAS SCRIPTED.
18:44WE WERE IN THE ELEMENT.
18:45AND WHEN YOU MAKE A GOOD VIDEO, YOU GO WITH THE FLOW.
18:48YOU GO WITH THE VIB.
18:49AND THERE WAS A PART.
18:52WE WERE JOKING, LIKE, RIGHT BEFORE THE SCENE.
18:54WE DIDN'T HAVE ONES AT THE TIME.
18:56YOU KNOW, I WAS LIKE, YO, I GOT A CREDIT CARD.
18:58YOU GOT A CREDIT CARD?
18:59YOU CAN SWIPE IT.
19:00ALL RIGHT.
19:01IF YOU COOL WITH IT, I'M COOL WITH IT.
19:03IT'S MY ASS, MY CREDIT CARD.
19:05THIS WAS NEVER SEEN FOR A PERIOD.
19:07WE BROKE BE EASY.
19:15I DO REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I WATCHED IT.
19:18I WAS SO... I'M BLUSHING RIGHT NOW.
19:22YOU KNOW, I HAD THE SAME REACTION EVERYBODY ELSE HAD.
19:24WHO IS THAT GIRL?
19:26DID THEY...
19:27YOU KNOW, AS SOON AS I SAW THE CREDIT CARD SWIPE,
19:29I WAS LIKE, WE'RE GOING TO GET IN TROUBLE.
19:35I WAS WATCHING TV LATE AND SAW TIP DRILL ON BET UNCUT.
19:41AND I WAS JUST LIKE, WHOA, THIS IS A LOT.
19:45WHEN I GOT BACK TO SCHOOL, WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT
19:50BOTH THE LYRICS AND THE REPRESENTATIONS IN THE VIDEO.
19:54I SAID IT MUST BE YOUR ASS BECAUSE IT AIN'T YOUR FACE.
19:57I NEED A TIP DRILL.
19:58I NEED A TIP DRILL.
19:59I NEED A TIP DRILL.
20:00I NEED A TIP DRILL.
20:01IT MUST BE YOUR ASS BECAUSE IT AIN'T YOUR FACE.
20:03WOW.
20:04OKAY.
20:05SO THAT'S ALL WOMEN ARE?
20:07AND THEY'RE JUST FOR CONSUMPTION?
20:09THE TIP DRILL VIDEO, I COULDN'T LET THAT GO.
20:13HE TAKES OUT A CREDIT CARD AND SLIDES IT BETWEEN HER BUTT CHEEKS
20:17AND SHE STARTS TWERKING AGAIN.
20:19AND I WAS LIKE, UGH, I CAN'T.
20:21LIKE, I CAN'T.
20:22THIS IS, NO, I CAN'T.
20:24YOU TAKE ALL THE AGENCY OUT OF THAT WOMAN,
20:27YOU ARE LITERALLY SAYING YOU ARE JUST A MACHINE WITH MONEY INSIDE OF IT.
20:31I LOOK PRETTY IN CONTROL IF YOU ASK ME.
20:35SO WE HAD A MEETING AND DECIDED THAT WE WERE GONNA NAME NELLY OUR MISOGYNIST OF THE MONTH
20:43AND WE PUT SIGNS ON CAMPUS.
20:50I DON'T THINK WE HAD ANY SENSE THAT IT WOULD BLOW UP THE WAY THAT IT DID
20:54AND THAT IT WOULD GET NATIONAL AND THEN ULTIMATELY INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION.
21:01WHEN THE PRESS WAS LOOKING AT THE SITUATION, THEY WERE LIKE,
21:05WHY ARE THESE SPELMAN GIRLS SO UPSET?
21:08AND, YOU KNOW, THEY CALLED US ANGRY BLACK WOMEN IN ONE ARTICLE ON MSNBC.
21:13THERE WAS JUST A LOT OF HOSTILITY.
21:21ONE MORNING, MY MANAGER CALLED ME.
21:23YOU GOT TO START INTO THIS RADIO SHOW REALLY QUICK, REALLY QUICK, HURRY, HURRY, HURRY.
21:26THEY'RE BASHING YOU ON, I THINK IT WAS 1033.
21:29SURE ENOUGH, THERE WAS A BUNCH OF SPELMAN WOMEN.
21:33SHE'S UNEDUCATED.
21:35SHE DOESN'T REPRESENT FOR BLACK WOMEN.
21:38I CALLED IN.
21:39AND I'M ON THE AIR AND I SAID, YOU KNOW, NOT ONLY AM I EDUCATED, I ATTENDED THAT SCHOOL.
21:44YEAH, I DON'T REPRESENT FOR ALL BLACK WOMEN.
21:46I REPRESENT FOR MYSELF.
21:50SPELMAN, BEING ESTABLISHED IN 1881, WHEN BLACK WOMEN WERE IN DANGER OF RAPE,
21:56AND THEIR FAMILIES MIGHT NOT HAVE HAD MALE FIGURES TO PROTECT THEM BECAUSE OF THE ADVENT OF SLAVERY.
22:03UNFORTUNATELY, CERTAIN THINGS WERE INGRAINED IN THE CULTURE IN SPELMAN TO DEMAND THAT BLACK GIRLS NEVER MAKE THEMSELVES VULNERABLE.
22:12I THINK IT'S UNFORTUNATE.
22:14IT'S A PART OF US THAT'S MISSED IN TRYING TO BE SO HARDENED AND TRYING TO BE SO STRAPPED UP WITH OUR ARMOR.
22:21THIS ASSUMPTION THAT THESE ARE NOT INTELLIGENT, THINKING, CONSENSUAL WOMEN WHO ARE DECIDING TO BE IN THESE SPACES,
22:30IT RENDERS THE WOMAN, PARTICULARLY THE BLACK WOMAN, POWERLESS.
22:35AND THESE AREN'T POWERLESS BLACK WOMEN.
22:40I REMEMBER TELLING MY DAD THAT I'M DANCING, AND HE WAS SO DISAPPOINTED.
22:45AND THAT BROKE MY HEART.
22:47AND THEN IT GOES BACK TO THE EDUCATION.
22:49YOU KNOW, OH, YOU COULD'VE WENT TO SCHOOL.
22:51OH, YOU COULD'VE DID THIS.
22:52YEAH, I COULD'VE, WOULD'VE, SHOULD'VE.
22:53BUT THIS IS WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW, AND THIS IS WHAT I HAVE.
22:56SO I HAVE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY, AND I HAVE TO TRY TO MAKE THE MOST OUT OF IT SO I CAN BE SOMETHING BETTER IN LIFE.
23:02WITHIN TWO OR THREE MONTHS AT MAGIC CITY, I WAS OUT OF MY PARENTS' HOUSE.
23:07FOR ME, THE END JUSTIFIED THE MEANS.
23:09YOU KNOW, THE END RESULT WAS THAT I WAS ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR MY SON.
23:12WHEN YOU HEAR THEIR STORIES, THE NECESSITY THAT THEY HAD TO PARTICULARLY
23:18TO WORK AND MAKE THE KIND OF MONEY THEY MADE.
23:21THEY WERE JUST LIKE ME.
23:25I LIKE MONEY.
23:26I DON'T CARE ABOUT STARS, MUSIC VIDEOS.
23:29I LIKE MONEY.
23:30THAT'S WHY I CAME HERE TO WORK.
23:31MAGIC CITY IS WHERE THE MONEY IS AT.
23:33I HAVE A DAUGHTER NOW.
23:34I WANT HER QUESTIONS TO BE, WHAT COLLEGE AM I ATTENDING?
23:37NOT, WHAT CLUB AM I GOING TO WORK AT, OR WHAT SHIFT AM I GOING TO BE ON,
23:42SO THAT I CAN PUT FOOD IN MY KIDS' MOUTH.
23:44I WORK VERY HARD FOR THAT NOT TO BE OUR QUESTION.
23:47I THINK A PLACE LIKE MAGIC CITY IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
23:52I LOVE THAT WOMEN CAN MAKE BANK.
23:54I LOVE THAT BLACK WOMEN IN PARTICULAR CAN MAKE BANK OFF THE FANTASIES THEY PRODUCE
24:00BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMY STOLEN FROM OUR BODIES FOR SO LONG.
24:03SO, SHOUT OUT TO THEM.
24:07I DO THINK TWO THINGS CAN BE TRUE AT THE SAME TIME.
24:10IT'S POSSIBLE TO FEEL EMPOWERED AND GET PAID.
24:14BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE REPRESENTATIONS DON'T STILL HAVE RAMIFICATIONS.
24:19WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE IF EMPOWERMENT WASN'T ALSO PREDICATED ON MEN'S DESIRE FOR YOU?
24:27BECAUSE IT DEFINITELY SEEMS TO DEPEND ON A SOCIETY THAT SAYS THIS IS ONE OF THE ONLY WAYS THAT WOMEN ARE ALLOWED TO FEEL EMPOWERED.
24:37THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO WANT ADULT ENTERTAINMENT TO GO AWAY.
24:53BUT A LOT OF TUITIONS HAVE BEEN PAID THROUGH MAGIC CITY.
24:58WHEN I HAD FINALLY BECAME THE IT GIRL, I HAD PEOPLE WAITING ON ME MOST NIGHTS, ESPECIALLY ON THE HOT NIGHTS.
25:06AND I HAD THIS ONE FRIEND THAT HE'D FLY IN EVERY MONDAY NIGHT JUST TO SEE WHY CHOCOLATE DANCE.
25:12AND WHEN HE WOULD COME IN, IMMEDIATELY, EVERYBODY KNEW, OH, WELL, SHE'S DONE FOR THE NIGHT.
25:18IT WAS MEACHE FROM BMF.
25:24MEACHE WOULD THROW MONEY AND YOU DANCE ON THE MONEY.
25:27IT WOULD JUST BE A PILE OF MONEY, YOU KNOW, 10, 15 THOUSAND DOLLARS.
25:31WE PAID. YOU KNOW, THAT'S SIMPLE.
25:34A LOT OF NIGHTS DON'T LIKE TO SPEND THE MONEY.
25:36WE LOVE TO SPEND OUR MONEY.
25:37IT WAS JUST A LEVEL OF RESPECT AMONGST HUSTLERS.
25:41A HUSTLE IS A HUSTLE.
25:43YOU KNOW, AS DANCERS, WE TAKE RISK TOO.
25:45YOU KNOW, WE TAKE RISK WITH OUR HEALTH.
25:48WE TAKE RISK WITH OUR SAFETY.
25:51WE TAKE RISK WITH OUR LIVES.
25:53AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT, ANYBODY COULD DO ANYTHING CRAZY.
25:58ONE NIGHT, SOMETHING IN ME SAID,
26:00IF YOU DON'T LEAVE NOW, YOU'LL NEVER GET OUT.
26:02AND THEN IT BECAME DANGEROUS.
26:05IT'S ONE NIGHT'S WORK.
26:15BUT USUALLY, I LIKE TO MAKE MY MONEY ON MY OWN
26:22AND COUNT MY MONEY AT HOME.
26:24SEE HOW THAT WENT TOGETHER?
26:26SO PERFECT.
26:27THAT'S WHY I LIKE THAT.
26:33WHEN I MOVE MY BODY, I FEEL LIKE I CAN CONTROL ROOMS.
26:37LIKE, I FEEL LIKE I CAN CHANGE THE MOVE.
26:40AND I JUST FEEL LIKE I HAVE POWER.
26:45TONIGHT, I THINK I'M GOING TO MAKE, LIKE, $2,000 TO $3,000.
26:48OR MORE.
26:49BECAUSE I GOT PEOPLE COMING TO SEE ME.
26:51AND I KNOW THEY SPEND MONEY.
26:53THEY LIKE TO SHOW OFF.
26:55SO IT'S GOING TO BE A GOOD NIGHT.
27:18BMF BROUGHT SOMETHING TO MAGIC
27:20THAT'S NEVER BEEN DONE.
27:22I DIDN'T HAVE MY FIRST SHOW OF WARS WITH MEACH.
27:24I FELT VERY UNSAFE.
27:26STRIPPERS WITNESS MURDERS.
27:27I HAD TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SURVIVE.
27:29I HAD TO SURVIVE.
27:30I HAD TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SURVIVE.
27:33You
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