The OBFCL album and the mob references....direct result of them growing up on Staten Island with Italian kids who allowed people to believe that they were connected to lcn.

Wu-Gambinos

Strong Staten Island accent is heard on the early Wu albums

There's a skit called torture on maybe the first Method Man album where Meth and Rae are speaking to each other back and forth and iif you didn't know who it was could easily be two older Italian men

"I'll F'en hit your nuts with a spiked bat"
"I'll F'en cut your eyelids off and feed you nothing but sleeping pills"

Later on....a guy who was managing Wu members turned out to be really connected.....and he turned informant. ..Michael Caruso