^ "Jay-Z Chart History (Hot Rap Songs)".Blue Magic, an American R&B vocal quintet whose members were Theodore Mills, Vernon Sawyer, Wendell Sawyer, Keith Beaton, and Richard Pratt, was formed in Philadelphia and signed to Atlantic Records in 1973. Blue Magic is a remixer for OC ReMix and VGMix. The Delfonics Randy Cain brought Ted Mills to ATCO Records for writing duties and an early formation as Shade Of Love of the other members. ^ "Jay-Z Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". 2) Blue Magic was a late 1960s funk-soul band.^ "Jay-Z Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)".^ David Usborne, "Rappers join models in insisting on euros as greenbacks fall further out of fashion", The Independent, November 17, 2007.^ Jay-Z – Blue Magic on YouTube, universalmusicgroup, official Universal Music Group YouTube channel.^ "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. " Blue Magic" is the first single from Jay-Z's tenth studio album, American Gangster.