Why does Hip Hop rip off the Italian Mafioso culture?

[cookiesoda]

Has anyone noticed the way, lots of hip hop artists rip off the whole gangster ideology associated with the Italian Mafia. Why call yourself a Don, a cappo or try and pretend to be a character in Goodfellas or Scarface (admittedly Cuban but still a dick ride for most rappers) Artists are always talking about black pride and attempting to come over as politically minded...

Why are you all trying to act like the ITALIAN MAFIA? It's fucking lame...get your own identity.

 

[EDouble]

Why are you all trying to act like the ITALIAN MAFIA? It's fucking lame...get your own identity.

maybe theyll start talkin about CRIPS and BLOODS

 

[cookiesoda]

maybe theyll start talkin about CRIPS and BLOODS

Oh come off it....apart from Game and Snoop and a few others, hardly any rappers talk about Crips and Bloods...far more think they are mafia BOSSES and DONS. It's slightly pathetic. Because you sell drugs all of a sudden your an Italian wiseguy...plllleeeasse

 

[EDouble]

i'm a fuckin italian wiseguy what are you tryin to tell me?

 

[DJ-Mujahid]

you refer to rappers as "they" and use a different vocabulary than what is normaly used round here i'm gonna go on a wild guess and say youre white and ur subconsciencly racist...i rebuttle you by saying why can't they rip off italian mafia culture i+ Scarface was a white guy with a good tan acting as a Cuban

 

[EDouble]

^well is italian
i'm high

 

[PuffnScruff]

because it's cool.

 

[troublesome2004]

Why is a problem if rappers choose to indentify with the Mafia? If they want to describe their lifestyle (imaginary or real) on that way so let it be. They also refer to themselves as a revolutioners, pimps, preachers...

 

[Diaz]

Who cares.

... and what the hell is a cookie soda? Where can I pick me up one of those?

 

[Pittsey]

They are just saying that they are gangsters or in charge. It's not a rip off.

Lighten up.

 

[tRoUbLeSoMe96]

because it's cool.

exactly.... dont u watch sopranoes? its madd raw

 

[Shot 21]

Its called enterainment. Its a persona they create to sell records.

 

[roaches]

Pull your fucking pants up.

 

[jbrolax]

the same reason people other then rappers do, they think its cool. Same reason italian kids find out about the mafia they start talking with a psuedo-italian/brooklyn accent and gel there hair up like sonic the hedgehog...

 

[cookiesoda]

I'm merely highlighting the double standards.
no one mentions rappers trying to act Italian and marketing themselves as dons / bosses etc.
BUT when a white rapper uses ghetto terms and starts talking about the hood, he gets chastised which is absolutely fine by me but how many rappers do you know that have any connections to the Italian Mafia? from Lil Kim shouting out victoria gotti, to Irv GOTTI, to little Gotti, to Reasonable doubt, to Biggies second album, to Pac calling himself a don, to Nas reworking the sopranos tune, I could go on..
no one raises an eyebrow, but the minute a white boy says "word to your momma" he's a fucking fake.
I don't want this to turn into a racist thread as I'm not racist but why the double standards?

 

[2PacThug4Life]

When I saw tha title of this thread, I thought I should up this picture.

 

[roaches]

BUT when a white rapper uses ghetto terms and starts talking about the hood

Such as?

 

[EDouble]

LMAO at no one raises an eyebrow at all the mafia references, but when a 'white boy says 'word to your momma' he's fucking fake'

I TAKE IT THE POINT of this post is that rappers (Black) are actin WHITE because they talk about the mafia?

 

[jbrolax]

LMAO at no one raises an eyebrow at all the mafia references, but when a 'white boy says 'word to your momma' he's fucking fake'

I TAKE IT THE POINT of this post is that rappers (Black) are actin WHITE because they talk about the mafia?

and white people are acting black because they speak like the rappers they listen to???

 

[aloivas]

a better question would be why do hip hop artists aspire to and claim the italian mafioso culture, when the real italian mafia leading up to the new millennium (and probably still now), were extremely prejudiced towards blacks and basically treated them like shit?