I get your perspective. Just as a nikka from Brooklyn, that nikka really is who he says he was. That's why I just have to speak in these threads. I know how it may look on the outside at times, because of how he carries himself. But he was well respected in his hood and through the prisons. A lot of the gangsters from the 80s that name rings like Killer Ben, Polite, Rab, etc..was cool with know him.I don't think speaking on a dead man's name but not confronting him when he was alive is honorable. I don't think publicly speaking on a man you had no ties to was honorable in the first place...
I always hear Maino held his own with some hitters but there are multiple occasions of him publicly victimizing weak mf's...
Again I don't have the impression that he's a chump but I also don't buy into the tough guy lore he apparently wears, and it's because of shyt like this. The cheerleader post about Domencio smiling from heaven, like homie you didn't even know Domencio. You cheering the man's death, not a good look because if he felt that strongly he was accessible...
Alpo had no reason to confront a guy with no association to him, but you're probably right that in this era may not have been the most advantageous situation to beef with Maino...
And a lot of nikkas he victimized in the music biz only look weak in retrospect. But in real time, Bunky SA was not looked at as soft. Bunky was highlighted prominently on Gangland. Fendi was a street dude too. What them Hustle Hard nikkas did to them nikkas made them look like easy licks. But they wasn't thought of like that back then until something happened to them.