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From Pimp Stick to Pulpit It's Magic
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From Pimp Stick toPulpit“It’s magic” The Life Story of Don “Magic” Juan
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Contents Foreword 5 Introduction 7 1. The Entrance of Donald Campbell 11 2. Career Decision 26 3. The Making of a Pimp 29 4. Don Juan’s Music World and Stable Building 50 5. Pimp Party Parade 75 6. California Connection to Chicago Hookup 97 7. It’s Magic 8. The Last Hooray 9. And God Said… Appendix My Testimony- “There Is a God” by Magic Juan The Best of Magic’s Stable Pimps’ Line-Up Magic Juan’s “Best of ” Pimps’ Line-Up: Players and Hustles
I thank God for my mother, Mrs. Maggie Campbell, for her continuous love and faith. Thanks, Mama, for standing with me in the midst of the raging storms in my life. I love you, in the name of Jesus. Thanks also to all members of my family and the many friends who helped make this book possible. —Don Ju
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Technically it was Sunday morning, but Bishop Don &#;Magic&#; Juan Campbell was nowhere near church. Just after midnight on månad 3, Chicago&#;s most notorious preacher man led a posse of his colorful pals to the stage of the East of the Ryan nightclub on East 79th Street. Campbell, who&#;d turned 49 on November 30, was the guest of honor at the &#;Famous Player Chicago Millennium Birthday Celebration.&#; The former pimp is now an ordained minister, but he&#;s still proud to call himself a player. &#;A pimp has prostitutes,&#; Campbell explained. &#;A player is just ansträngande to make it, trying to hustle. It doesn&#;t necessarily have to do with females.&#;
He wore a green velour suit, a green fedora with a gold brim, and a full-length evergreen mink coat trimmed in gold. He sipped champagne from a rhinestone-encrusted chalice, and drenched in his trademark Royal Bain de Champagne cologne, he even smelled like a greenhouse. Following him to the scen were a trail of players: Fut
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The Pimp Phenomenon
Bishop Don Magic Juan smiles--the diamonds and emeralds embedded in his front teeth glittering as he surveys his Los Angeles living room. He is swathed in lime-green leopard print from the hat on his head to the custom shoes on his feet.
The Bishop, who rose to iconic stature as a symbol of street success in his Chicago heyday, gave up the life in the mids, after finding Jesus. He is, however, experiencing a renaissance of sorts, finding a new identity in a world smitten with a wildly stereotyped aspect of black underworld culture.
“It is a fantastic time,” he says, “to be an ex-pimp.”
There he is in the magazines Vibe, in George, in Jane, striking a pose in the New York Times Magazine fall men’s-fashion issue, as an influence on the house of Gucci.
He’s in movies--the documentary “American Pimp”--and recently had a role on “VIP,” Pamela Anderson Lee’s television series. Now he is working with porn film producer Ron Jeremy on a mainstream movie based on his