During the height of the gangster-alias era of hip hop(BIG was Frank White)....De La Soul delivered one of the harshest critiques of other rappers ever.


"See them Cubans don't care what y'all people do/
Colombians never ran with your crew/
Acting all spicy and shiesty/
The only Italians you knew were Icees/"


Outside of the Wu Tang clan(Wu Gambinos), who were managed at one point by
Michael Caruso, you'd be hard pressed to find any direct connection between NYC rappers and lcn.