Magic City: Trials of a Native Son

"A goon is someone which bases on his own. He obeys the decisions he makes and also accepts the effects. A goon is comfortable in his own skin. I use my own like a glove."

Trick Father was birthed a hooligan-- merely a stone's toss from midtown Miami, yet a world away from its amazing appeal and also shimmering wide range. Where grinding poverty, fatal criminal offense, and also ravaging racial strain taught children to live by the 'hood rules. Remarkably, Trick originated from absolutely nothing and also succeeded merely when his possibilities had run out.

Magic City is the amazing story of a child whose papa was a pander, which learned to hustle to survive, and also whose only role model was his sibling, the pusher he viewed plying his trade on the block. It's the unimaginable reality behind the cult movie Scarface, of the medicine money that changed the city into a radiating capital for the rich and also popular while lawn battles in between smalltime pushers declared many lives. It's also the incredible story of how that potent mix of extremes-- the electrical pulse and also glittering wealth of South Beach and also the criminal offense, corruption, and also despair in its shadows-- generated the most leading noise in hip-hop today. Magic City is an ode to Miami, a fascinating story of a paradise lost and also an indigenous kid figured out to infuse it with brand-new life.