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During the last Orlando/Cavaliers game, before the Magic won and went up against the Lakers in the finals, we made this chant song to honor our home team and the people that came together to celebrate their awesome accomplishments. We later found out that the Magic Dancers wound up using the song for a dance routine during the halftime show of the first home game of the finals.
Get the full single (instrumental included) here:
Watch us perform it on the Orlando Fox35 morning show here:
Watch Central Florida news 13 interview us & the Magic Dancers rehearsing to the song here:
Here are the lyrics:
Blue & White, Ignite, IGNITE, FIRE!!!
Orlando Magic STAND UP! If you aint with Magic then sit right back down.
Orlando Magic STAND UP! If you aint with Magic then you aint (whistle) to me.
We live by the 3 yo, jacking points, beating em by the buzzer like Hedo... on fire.
Ask people, we know the time... watch!
Superman's flying, shot clock's not.
Magic happens on the spot wherever you are, whether bench, starter, coach, fan...
magic is ours.
With Petrius don't even reach... it's just 3's from the corner.
Don't say I didn't warn ya.
AN UPDATE:
A Fan's Concern: ORLANDO MAGIC SONG?!?
A couple of people have been curious as to why we made this song and have been comparing it to some of our other music.. Below is DiViNCi's response to someone on a tampa-based hip hop forum.
Anyone that knows us, knows that we have always been about strengthening culture and building community inside & outside of our music, especially here in Orlando being that we live here. Seeing how many people were bonding and rallying here in Orlando during the finals was an inspiration to us. It was like New Years Eve every night here. And even though it was over something as seemingly trivial as a Basketball team, it was great to see so many strangers being brought together over something other than a hurricane or national tragedy.
For once, our city saw that it had something to celebrate together and we wanted to honor and encourage that in our way by making an anthem to represent what the people were in support of and help sustain the city-wide feeling of camaraderie.. If you've been to one of our shows, you know that getting people to come together (ll) and celebrate is a very important focus of ours.
As far as the sound of the track being similar to the rest of our catalog?
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HELLLL TO THE NAW!!!! But you also gotta understand that wasn't what we were trying to do. The "song" is nothing more than a glorified chant for the people of Orlando to participate in (which is why the hook makes up most of the song). As the producer (and the writer of the hook) I can tell you my motivation was like that of a cheerleader creating something that the whole stadium could join in on and help motivate the team and the crowd for that matter.
If we had made it like a typical SoS song I don't think it would have been as effective in the way it was intended. It certainly wasn't an attempt to push the bounds of ourselves and our music (as is with the rest of our stuff). In that way, I'm very happy with the way that it turned out, although I'm kind of disappointed that some have used this song as an opportunity to judge it (and us) rather than what it was made for in the first place. But hey, what are ya gonna do?
Now, I'd be lying if I said that we weren't also hoping to make some licensing money off of that track. Shit, I want to license ALL of our songs (only to companies and causes we support of course). But you gotta understand that none of that takes precedence over the reason we made the track in the first place. But how cool would it be to be the people that wrote the anthem for your home team.
**On a side note, amongst our fellow Orlando'ians, the track did become the unofficial anthem of the team and the magic dancers did a routine to it during the half time show of the first home game of the finals..
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