Andy Mineo and Wordsplayed Present Magic & Bird

Andy Mineo and Wordsplayed Present Magic & Bird is the first collab project from Andy Mineo and Wordsplayed; both part of the artist collective, Miner League.

In an Instagram live video on March 29, 2017, Mineo revealed that a new mixtape, album, and tour were all in the works in the upcoming months:

So the hope is to drop a mixtape for the summer, and a project, and do a Fall tour, and do the whole deal, and have a real good time ya dig. So that’s how we doing it.

The concept of Magic & Bird was based on the 1990’s rivalry between Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. Miner League’s creative designer, Delgis Mustafa, came up with the idea as discussed in a 2017 interview with XXL.

And so, Delgis Mustafa, he’s the Creative Director at Miner League and he came up with the idea. He said, “You guys have a handful of songs that are hype, turn-up records already. Why don’t you just release it as like, a five-song EP?” So I hit Wordsplayed, he came up with the concept of Magic & Bird.

It was more of a holistic perspective. He said it’d be a fun little project for me to do and it would give me some breathing room between the next album. So we thought it was a good idea. We went to Atlanta for three weeks and the project kind of grew legs and turned into 10 songs.

In the time before the release, the two released 3 singles including “KIDZ,” “DUNK CONTEST (MAGIC BIRD)” and “JUDO.”