The Luciano, Frankie Yale, Bugsy Siegel Kool G Rap (Ft. Nas) – Fast Life
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A wise guy is a highly ranked individual in a crime family, but this is the black mafia! In Hip- Hop it´s something positive, in a sense you re “on top of the world” as much as the mafia icons he mentions. Nas would later change his rapping style and subjects into mafioso themes especially on his album It Was Written.
- Charlie “Lucky” Luciano was an Italian-American mob boss who is widely considered the father of American organized crime. Who starteed the whole commoission instead of having one mafia leader it was a board and they voted.
- Frankie Yale, was a Brooklyn gangster who at one time worked above Al Capone.
- Bugsy Siegel, a jewish mobster who was apart of the Luciano mob familyhe became one of the first front-page-celebrity gangsters. He was also a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip.
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Whites who tan to much just look wrong – like they are sick, while Ill/sick also means how much skilled he has, a simlie.
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As he has described throughout the song he kills and gambles alot, to the point that he even got the title New York City Slayer and makes more gutsy gambles like parlays. Parlay is a single bet that links together two or more individual wagers and is dependent on all of those wagers winning together. The benefit of the parlay is that there are much higher payoffs than placing each individual bet separately since the difficulty of hitting it is much higher. If any of the bets in the parlay lose, the entire parlay loses. So he´s a pro at gambling.
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Destorying your record player with his devasting rhymes and music so that you should tell your major to get rid of Nas.. and compensate for your property damage!
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A simlie to the old folk legend Wil Bill Hickok: The Prince Of Pistolers, who was famous for his skills as a gunfighter and as a gambler. Which Nas describes about himself throughout all verses in this song. If he is as good as The Prince OF Pistoleers you should definitely fear him!
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Even after years of success, Nas still has trouble with “haters”, just as any successfull person – People are jealous. Nas even made the song “Hate Me Now” in 99 so people are still hating at the time of this release 9 years later.
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A reference to the movie The Last of The Mohicans, as Nas says later in his career – I´m The Last Real Nigga Alive. Field as in the streets, anybody can die out there. Nas is the only one left.
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Since this was done in 93, the next year was 94 – the year Illmatic dropped. He definitely rewrote the script for how you make a hip hop album. For instance having multiple producers on a hip hop album and from the perspective he rapped from.
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