


They hit the Top 40 of the R&B singles chart with their first three. The group specialized in dreamy ballads and choreographed stage moves. ^ Jay-Z – Blue Magic on YouTube, universalmusicgroup, official Universal Music Group YouTube channel Blue Magic, an R&B vocal quintet whose members were Ted 'Wizard' Mills, Vernon Sawyer, Wendell Sawyer, Keith Beaton, and Richard Pratt, formed in Philadelphia and signed to Atco in 1973.^ "TEYANA TAYLOR DROPS HER DEBUT ALBUM, 'FROM A PLANET CALLED HARLEM' IN MAY".Jay-Z to Release 'American Gangster' Archived at the Wayback Machine. Royce Da 5'9" released a freestyle of this song called "Blue Magic". īlame Reagan for making me into a monsterīefore this rhyming stuff we was in concertīlue Magic also samples the 1931 horror film, Frankenstein.Ĭhamillionaire released a freestyle of this song for his Mixtape Messiah 4 called "What the Business Is". Jay-Z brings up his time as an early age drug dealer with links to the Iran-Contra scandal and CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US that rocked the 1980s and the Reagan Presidency. Most of the song itself is a reference to the 1980s. The lyrics in the first verse refer to Eric B. An official remix features Pharrell and Trey Songz. The name "Blue Magic" is a reference to a potent form of heroin sold by Frank Lucas at the height of his drug trade in Harlem, New York. In the chorus, Pharrell sings an interpretation of the song " Hold On" by the R&B girl group En Vogue, who are also featured in the song. The song was released as a single on September 20, 2007.
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" Blue Magic" is the first single from Jay-Z's tenth studio album, American Gangster.
