New Drake-produced doscuseries “Magic Metropolis: An American Fantasy” debuted at SXSW Monday evening to a roaring crowd filled with mates, patrons and followers of the challenge’s titular iconic Atlanta strip membership, Magic Metropolis.

After the primary episode of the three-part doc, which doesn’t but have a distributor or platform hooked up, was screened, producer Cole Brown and director Charles Todd fielded just a few questions from the viewers, together with “Was there something too specific to place within the documentary?”

“We needed to stroll a high-quality line with nudity, specifically, the place you possibly can’t make a documentary a few strip membership and never have any nudity, it simply isn’t true to kind, and also you’re making an attempt to inform the true story,” Brown mentioned. “On the identical time, we didn’t need it to be salacious, gratuitous. We needed to make use of it in such a method that you just’re getting a picture of what this place is. However when you go to Magic Metropolis, you see all of the anatomy.”

Per the logline for the “Magic Metropolis” doc, “In 1985, telephone salesman Michael Barney — mates name him Mr. Magic — places his slick-talking reward to work, opening a small strip membership in Atlanta. He performs DJ, bartender, and bouncer whereas his solely dancer separates males from their cash. However quickly, the celebrities arrive. Athletes from Michael Jordan to Shaq clamber to the membership, DC The Mind Supreme mints an iconic hit document from the DJ sales space, and Outkast exams songs by watching the women dance. Inside just a few years, Magic Metropolis would develop into probably the most well-known strip membership in Atlanta, and shortly, the world. However when Mr. Magic will get despatched away to federal jail, the empire he’s constructed might crumble.”

Magic Metropolis alum Gigi Maguire, who is among the topics within the doc, backed up Brown’s level about “not being salacious and never being vulgar” with a narrative about why she determined to do nudity for the “Magic Metropolis” doc, regardless of having left that chapter of her life behind.

“I’m 12 years retired from Magic Metropolis, however y’all all simply seen my titties,” mentioned Maguire, who joined Brown, Todd and “Magic Metropolis” producers Jami Gertz and Jermaine Dupri, on stage. “And through that day once we had been doing our studio filming, I had no concept that they had been going to request this. And I keep in mind them coming to me like, pay attention, now we have this scene and we don’t know the way you’re gonna really feel, however right here’s the imaginative and prescient. And I’m like, ‘Y’all wish to see my titties? OK!’”

Maguire defined her informal reply had a severe argument behind it. “The reason being as a result of I didn’t really feel in any method that it was achieved in a sexual context,” Maguire mentioned. “I understood the imaginative and prescient of the inventive worth of what they had been making an attempt to realize and I had no downside with agreeing to indicate these titties.”

She added: “Strip is artwork, and the artwork is being celebrated, clearly.”

Apart from producing the challenge, Drake can also be featured within the doc speaking about his experiences at Magic Metropolis alongside fellow celebrities together with Shaquille O’Neal, Killer Mike, T.I., Nelly and Huge Boi.

Extra government producers embody showrunner Bayan Joonam, Brown, Gertz, Jermaine Dupri, Adel “Future” Nur, Peter Nelson, Devin Chanda and Alex Kaplan.