CHICAGO — He's gone from being a ladies' man to brokering ladies of the night to speaking in front of church congregations. Now, one of the first pimps to pay taxes for his street activity is turning into a recording artist. Yes, Archbishop Don "Magic" Juan is putting out an LP.
"We **** sure doing that album!" Snoop Dogg said last month in Cleveland about the project that he and his close friend are putting together. "It's called Game: General Amount of Money Earned. He's gonna talk about his game and a lot of other people are gonna rap on it. A lot of his rap friends that's in the game owe him favors or wanna be down with him."
It seems like everyone in the hip-hop community wants to be down with Don Juan. Although the Bishop, who says he's an ordained minister, and is even rumored to have his own church, mostly rolls with Snoop, MCs including 50 Cent, Nelly, Busta Rhymes, Rakim and Ice-T have shown him love in their videos or stage shows. Not to mention the countless number of mic marksmen who have referenced him in their lyrics.
"Well, let me see, Snoop heard about my game," the flamboyant Holyman said sitting in a hotel room in his hometown, recalling how he and the Dogg became friends. "He saw me at a concert [and I like] anybody [that's] attracted to what's real so I came backstage. Me and some other players got a chance to kick it with him. The fellowship was good. We saw that we were in different areas, but we were really on the same level. I been there, he's been here. Him being a young player like that, I got a chance to be able to express some of the things that I feel through him, giving him this game. And that's what I do, man. I give our game and I like people to know game ain't just something you go and play. It's all about life."
Although the green-and-gold-plaid-wearing, pimp-stick-holding minister appears in the new video for 50 Cent's "P.I.M.P.," he frowns on the current trend in hip-hop where many MCs are claiming to be pimps in their music.
"You know, they say a lot of things about pimping, but I want y'all to know something — y'all can just keep that pimpin' out your mouth if you don't have a prostitute on the corner," said Don Juan, whose also sporting glasses shaped like stars. "You're not pimping anything. It ain't the pimp game ... OK?"
The Bishop started off in the pimping game almost 30 years ago. Even back then, he says, he had a special connection to the man above.
"Well, first I started off as 'Don Juan,' " he said, recounting how his name came about. "You know, 'Don Juan' is known to be a lover so I continued to play as a lover and be successful. Then, the pimp god, he gave me the name 'Magic' because I kept on playing the game so tough when everybody else seemed to be failing and turning another way. I stayed true to the game and he said, 'Well, you oughta be "Magic." ' Then, the Bishop part is when I got saved in 1985. I've just been part of the chuuuuuch movement. So chuuuch."
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"We **** sure doing that album!" Snoop Dogg said last month in Cleveland about the project that he and his close friend are putting together. "It's called Game: General Amount of Money Earned. He's gonna talk about his game and a lot of other people are gonna rap on it. A lot of his rap friends that's in the game owe him favors or wanna be down with him."
It seems like everyone in the hip-hop community wants to be down with Don Juan. Although the Bishop, who says he's an ordained minister, and is even rumored to have his own church, mostly rolls with Snoop, MCs including 50 Cent, Nelly, Busta Rhymes, Rakim and Ice-T have shown him love in their videos or stage shows. Not to mention the countless number of mic marksmen who have referenced him in their lyrics.
"Well, let me see, Snoop heard about my game," the flamboyant Holyman said sitting in a hotel room in his hometown, recalling how he and the Dogg became friends. "He saw me at a concert [and I like] anybody [that's] attracted to what's real so I came backstage. Me and some other players got a chance to kick it with him. The fellowship was good. We saw that we were in different areas, but we were really on the same level. I been there, he's been here. Him being a young player like that, I got a chance to be able to express some of the things that I feel through him, giving him this game. And that's what I do, man. I give our game and I like people to know game ain't just something you go and play. It's all about life."
Although the green-and-gold-plaid-wearing, pimp-stick-holding minister appears in the new video for 50 Cent's "P.I.M.P.," he frowns on the current trend in hip-hop where many MCs are claiming to be pimps in their music.
"You know, they say a lot of things about pimping, but I want y'all to know something — y'all can just keep that pimpin' out your mouth if you don't have a prostitute on the corner," said Don Juan, whose also sporting glasses shaped like stars. "You're not pimping anything. It ain't the pimp game ... OK?"
The Bishop started off in the pimping game almost 30 years ago. Even back then, he says, he had a special connection to the man above.
"Well, first I started off as 'Don Juan,' " he said, recounting how his name came about. "You know, 'Don Juan' is known to be a lover so I continued to play as a lover and be successful. Then, the pimp god, he gave me the name 'Magic' because I kept on playing the game so tough when everybody else seemed to be failing and turning another way. I stayed true to the game and he said, 'Well, you oughta be "Magic." ' Then, the Bishop part is when I got saved in 1985. I've just been part of the chuuuuuch movement. So chuuuch."
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