Some of you may have gotten a lot of shit over your interest in the Mafia, many of it from rap fans. The irony is that many rappers have their lips wrapped so tight around the mob's cocks that they name themselves after them, and many albums and songs are influenced by that lifestyle and make several mob references throughout their music. And not just mobsters, even bank robbers and outlaws in general.

Examples: Irv Gotti, Yo Gotti, Lil Gotti Gambino, Lucky Luciano, Dillinger and Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, the list goes on and on. Oh and then there was a whole record label called Murder Inc. Any other examples?

I believe members of the Wu Tang Clan were about to put out one of their early albums that was titled "Wu Gambinos." Some gambino members got word and told them not to title the album that. Allegedly.

It was about Raekwon's debut album. Their manager Steve Rifkind got the message, his father was connected.

Thats right. Only Built for Cuban Links is a classic.

Not a rapper with a "mob" name since Liggio already mentioned 90% of the examples, but just listen to the song's lyrics and you'll get my point...Nitti, Adonis, Torrio, Bugsy, Guzik...everyone is mentioned lol...



"I dreamed that I was at a club scene where all the thugs be
Every criminal mug be living in luxury what the fuck G?
That must be Bugsy in the black tux over there with Lucky
Bring my heater niggaz might try to slug me
Take me out in back of the club and buck me and touch me
I felt a hand tug me then turnin around I peeped the lovely
Fly face fat ass gave me a glass of bubbly said
"Compliments of Bugsy " then took me across the persian rug to plug me
He shook my hand and hugged me; thought he would do me ugly
but he dug me, pockets chubby said, "Nino where them drugs be?"
Over there by the derby, buy they dirty devils from me
to keep my paper sturdy, yo word G
I ain't afraid to get my hands dirty, you heard me?
I be D and fuck all that living thirsty, so Nino
do his out in Jersey, showin no mercy, with Frank Nitti
who else and, some nigga with a Babyface that they called Nelson
Bad for your health, Machine Gun Kelly and your Dillinger
Death messenger, known to carry the six cylinder
Look for my army, fatigues to Giorgio Armani's
Holdin the Tommy, no one can harm me; Will and Tommy
tried to alarm me and quote, he turned to smoked salami
Dead as a motherfuckin zombie, full of my ammo
With Bugs Moran, against the grain so, gotta send him
over the rainbow, he must be brain slow, caught him down
at the train po' in Santo Domingo, left him for dead
Two bullets in his Tango, like how that movie Shane go
Frank Costello, hostile fellow, he murders while remainin mellow
but most of the niggaz on his team was yellow
Cold blooded veins flowin with red Jell-o
There's Joe Adonis, had mad dramas, won't hesitate
to put you in pajamas, fly hooker fine as the Pocahontas
Beauty queen you'll wanta pok-her-hiendas
Frank broke a promise between the organized crimers and old timers
Costello gotta go six below, nobody voted no
to veto, so they hit him with a hollow torpedo
Up in his torso, he ain't a boss so, he can go
without ever lettin the whole police force know
Lex Diamond was scheamin on Capone's scroll
Wanted to own his whole zone, it leaked out
They shot him at a pay phone
with the big chrome, his whole wig blown
Blood flowin from out his flesh and bones
At the wake at the funeral home it's havoc
Family got hit up with automatics
Non-stop static inside the rackets
Jack McGurn was burnin split Joe Adonis cabbage
The underworld was goin savage
Pretty Boy Floyd was non-void, unemployed, he destroyed shit
with the Infamous click, wasn't to be toyed with
Mad jealous of all the liquor sellers
Shinin with wine cellars, turn em from hood dwellers to Goodfellas
Me and Nitti was like bank tellers, nothin niggaz could tell us
We drove all over, I pushed a shiny yellow Testarossa
Moved on it closer get the toaster
Started to feel like death was closer, I hit Capone hard
Murder him and his bodyguard in they car and dust the chaffeur
Beef over, I blew him like a supernova
Niggaz nicknamed me, The Black Cobra
The Lady Casanova, yo I'm even deadly when I'm sober
Act like you got a chip on your shoulder
And blast the two right through your boulder
Money you didn't know they shoulda told ya
Nigga you fuckin with a soldier, wake up and smell the Folgers
Niggaz out here done lie in piss to cover up the odor
Operations from here to Minnesota to Dakota
But yo here comes Greasy Thumbs, who wants to get the easy funds
He whispered in my eardrum
"Let's take over the entire city, and split the dough
Me you and Frank Nitti and Siegel and that'll make the bank pretty"
No doubt before we go we gotta murder John Torrio
Yo get all his territory dough and end the story yo"

Yep a friend of mine who was really into hiphop at the time gave me a copy. With its emphasis on American Mafia insinuations and organized crime, the album is widely regarded as a pioneer of the mafioso rap subgenre.

Yes TD Kool G Rap was most famous for his mafioso rap.

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Do people even really listen to rap anymore? I mean real rap music? Gangsta rap was popular in the 90s but now? Not really.

I listen mainly to the old stuff and regarding my kid's music, Im like "What the hell is this alien shit?! What about the good ol days with NWA and the Insane Clown Posse?! What the F is this???" Lol lol lol

Thank god there are still veterans we liked who are still recording.

I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with it, I mean I don't give a fuck. But don't judge our interest and fascination with it when it has had a HUGE impact and influence on a music genre and other areas of pop culture that you like. That's my point. Kinda reminds me of those "fuck Tupac" people, meanwhile their favorite rappers is all over Tupac's nuts and regard him as their favorite rapper. I actually know someone like that. Hates Tupac but loves UGK, when UGK is a huge fan of Tupac themselves and influenced by him.

Remember Spice 1?

Or hey how about Bone Thugs and Harmony's first album?

There's also Tupac's group Outlaws, many of which named themselves after dictators: Mussolini, Gaddafi, Idi Amin...

Warren G baby!

REGULATE is a great song!

Don't forget my man Young Gotti

Geto Boys were great, Spice 1 is awesome. Oh and 8-Ball & MJG. There's this one group out of Flint, Michigan called the Dayton Family, very hardcore rap group they'd make today's rappers pee their panties.

No words necessary

Spice 1 is one of the most slept on West Coast artists imo. His 187 He Wrote LP is a personal favorite of mine

+1

Real Rap from a guy who has been around the block. Not top 40 bullshit that is a bunch of crap.

Capone from Capone and Noreaga
Ras T used to use the alias Ras T Castellano
Not a rapper but a rap exec Irv Gotti

Maybe rapper Conway derived his name from Jimmy Conway (Burke)?

Quite a few rappers named after dictators and outlaws too.

Childish Gambino