EP116: Magnu5 | Hip-Hop, Boom Bap, and Building a Sound Nobody Can Put in a Box

Magnu5 (pronounced Magnus) is a North Side Corpus Christi rapper, beat maker, and co-host of the Marauders Podcast who has been putting in work since high school — freestyling at lunch tables, selling CDs downtown for ten bucks, riding with DSR, and learning to make his own beats from a local producer who had placements with 50 Cent.

In this episode of the Corpus Christi Originals Podcast, recorded at Lucy's Snack Bar, we chop it up about coming up on the North Side, what the Corpus Christi hip-hop scene actually sounds like now, why he never wanted to be a "Mexican rapper" — just a rapper, how losing his main beat source forced him to level up his craft, the music industry's microwave era, and what it really takes to stay creative when you're also working a 9-to-5 and raising a family.

We also get into the Marauders Podcast, his X-Men obsession, working with El Dusty, and why the best advice he has for any local creator is the same thing that's kept him going: don't stop.

Find Magnu5: @teed_magnu5 on Instagram and TikTok | MAGNU5 on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube

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