I've mentioned in threads past that in real life, certain cats act different in my presence; not on no scary shyt, but if dudes don't know anything about they can sense it and feel it on me, and this is even after a few years removed from it...
When dudes do know something about me or have heard of me, certain cats go extra to impress me. I've probably been dealing with this since late teenage years on the inside, where a reputation preceded itself, so some guys would be on some "oh, you're J-Rock" shyt and go off with the impress tactics...
I'm illustrating that to say this:
The same way that happens, when you've been around you can sense the authenticity or level if authenticity on dudes; any man with a blower or who "traps" isn't impressive and every person doesn't give off the same energy or air of authenticity...
Obviously I haven't spent a second in the presence of Gee but this works with rappers, there's plenty of rappers you can get a read on rather easily because all they do is talk, you listen to them on wax, you listen to how they communicate with rappers of varying reputation, you listen to how they speak in interviews, the whole shyt...
Two things with Gee that I noticed last year or early this year: one, when he was in an interview with some white dude talking about how real and authentic he was, dudes who overplay that "real" phrase show their hand, because plenty of dudes in the streets aren't real nikkas at all....and two, the way this dude acts around Gotti, how he spoke of him on an occasion or two, is exactly the impress tactics I've referred to. Him and Gotti not of the same stripes, you get the sense homie knows this when you see how he acts around him...
Again none of this means dude never did anything, I'm sure he did but all dudes in the streets aren't created equal and most street cats know this, the same way that we know every athlete in The League aren't equal...
All rappers do is talk, it's in the choice of words, body language with different people that you get these reads, but this is also something I may have a natural notice of with people in general from running around...
Alota people in here keep going back to the student athlete shyt. I was in high school the same way you guys were. I was a student athlete at one point. I never said student athletes are saints. What I said was you're not putting that same energy into the streets that you are to be a success at your sport. There's an exception to every rule, and maybe Gee or one of these other rappers dudes named were exceptions but I doubt all of them were...
Also I'm not one of these people who thinks Marvin Harrison is boogeyman, he got a reputation from somewhere but he didn't have time to be ordering hits and wacking nikkas (which is what people say about him) with any regularity when he was a student athlete trying to get into college...
I also never said that because a nikka didn't have a criminal record that didn't mean he wasn't outside, so cats on these two points are reaching at shyt I didn't say...