Devil Plisken…CMS
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It absolutely did not start with The Godfather
Just started watching Griselda on Netflix… Them dusty New York rappers really got their name from a female Colombian drug dealer
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It absolutely did not start with The Godfather
Tribal Outkast
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You missed all these rappers named something Gotti?
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If it didn't start the trend, The Godfather is one of the catalysts in the popular trend of glorifying Italian mobsters and gangsters before much of society did not think highly of these individuals/organizations.
Hollywood started the trend of these types of people/organizations becoming glorified, dignified, looked up to as honorable, and prestigious with a larger-than-life personality. Not to mention all these nicknames they go by, this is what started rappers mimicking that lifestyle and since then a lot have built their careers off of that infatuation.
From movies to TV shows, this is where the infatuation with mobsters, gangsters, druglords, etc began. The '70s, '80s, and '90s popularized these things with all those movies and TV shows being made about them, people took a liking to the characters and scenarios and started imitating them. The Sopranos brought it to its peak.
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Devil Plisken…CMS
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You’re way off base. Those Tommy gun black & white movies from the 20s, 30s & 40s set the tone.
Aside from a few rappers adopting names or naming albums after these guys, you are being silly.
The entire 90s and early 2000s rap era was completely engulfed in this shyt
Say hello to nas/Jay/,big all 90s NY rap worshipping eye tailiansBlack society worshipping gangsters and the criminal code that they usually don’t even stick to
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A lot of those movies were low budget, panned, and ridiculed back then especially during the Prohibition era by most and over the decades became cult classics due to the popularity of The Godfather and many other films of the same ilk coming out over the years.
People didn't glorify the Mafia, gangsters, druglords, etc back in those days when those films were released...Hollywood at the time was lukewarm about movies being too violent. The Godfather's success and popularity helped people warm up and become infatuated with that lifestyle.
Those 1920s and 1930s movies etc didn't have the same impact as The Godfather and films/TV shows after it.
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Bonnie and Clyde had the country cheering them on and same with John Dillinger.
Check the history books, anglo-Saxons always championed what we would call gangsta sh1t.
No it wasn't. And at most, it was rappers/labels/crews adopting names. The music, the lyrics, the storytelling, 99% of the slang, the overall swag had zero to do with non-black culture.The entire 90s and early 2000s rap era was completely engulfed in this shyt
Devil Plisken…CMS
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People didn’t glorify Lucky Luciano, Meyer Landry, John Dillinger & Al Capone? lol
It’s getting worse by the post
Jay-Z and Nas’ whole 90s run is based on this.
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People didn't glorify those names or try to mimic those lifestyles back then, especially not during the Prohibition era.
RKP movie directors sometimes back then made films based on them but a lot of those flicks were never favored by the general public until decades later. Major Hollywood studios didn't like to budget those types of movies during the 20s, 30s, and 40s....most of those movies were self-financed for a reason.
The popularity rose during the 70s, 80s, and 90s because of TV shows and movies like The Godfather, Goodfellas, Scarface, and many others.
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She’s probably responsible for 100 murders…..
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She was racist? Heard she was dating a Black American dudeBlack male rappers dikk riding a bunch of (likely) racist Hispanic and Italian gangsters and criminals will never not be embarrassing