Not many DJ’s can claim to have been name checked by Biggie and Nas on record and with that said it was incredibly sad to hear the legendary radio personality Mr. Magic aka Sir Juice passed on October 2nd 2009. As active fans of hip-hop since the early 80’s, here at Fat Lace we can proudly say we grew up listening to C90’s of early New York radio from Red Alert to Mr. Magic, that’s how we discovered some of the most amazing records we still have in our collections and reminisce about on this site today. Mr. Magic’s radio shows are a part of our music education. We didn’t have live access to LWR or the Capital Rap Show, we usually heard those on cassette too, so we usually got our first listens to the classics from tapes we acquired from friends in New York.

In case you missed it the first time around we had the great pleasure of interviewing the man himself just over a year ago. You can read the full story HERE and we sincerely hope that you do. We also interviewed another Mr. Magic expert, Will C. Find that HERE and you should also read Will’s blog post on Magic HERE.

We trawled through our archives and picked out our favourite Mr. Magic show, one where we heard some of our favourite tracks for the first time by the likes of Glamorous, Deuces Wild and many more. It’s classic material so felt it’s only right we share it with you Fat Lace die hards.

Mr. Magic WBLS 1988

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