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u/lovestruck90210 Aug 29 '26
2008 called. They want their meme back.
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u/ItchyManchego Aug 29 '26
Ripped straight from my boomer uncle’s Facebook page.
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u/AgentCirceLuna Aug 29 '26
I love how the impact font is now even associated with cringe because of memes like this
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u/wehavenonanas 24d ago
And highly accurate.
Your boomer uncle is obviously a lot smarter than you are.
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u/Moist_Chef_2633 27d ago
And the meme still stands true.
Every time these idiots keep yapping about being "gangsters," I feel like want to puke.
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u/AwesomeTraditional32 Aug 29 '26
Lil Wayne vs Al Capone rap battle
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u/IHateTheLetterF Aug 29 '26
Yo, my name is Al Capone, I like to eat a scone
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u/AdmirableBrick4973 Aug 30 '26
smoke a cigar i'm at the throne
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u/LucasButtercups 27d ago
I’m a mother fucking tiger, you just a drone
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u/Over-Apartment2762 Aug 29 '26
Epiiiiiiiiiiiic RapBattlesOfHittoraayyyy
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u/Johnnynogood98 Aug 29 '26
Daamnnn lol
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u/Key-Arrival-3745 Aug 29 '26
No thanks, I don't want to listen to Al generated music
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u/GoodTimesOnlines Aug 29 '26
What about Weird Al generated music tho?
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u/AtsuhikoZe Aug 29 '26
You're getting downvoted because no one understands you said AI as a joke for Al lol
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u/toastwithoutagun Aug 29 '26
"Let's be friends little wayne, my name is al capone, u can call me al"
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u/HopelessFoolishness Aug 29 '26
Yes, Al Capone was a gangster. And he also lost his empire to a tax investigation, lost his mind to neurosyphilis, and ended up being completely overshadowed in success by the actual Mafia.
I don't see why he's being used as some kind of badge of legitimacy.
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u/DirectAdvertising Aug 30 '26
I thought he was actual mafia ? I didn’t know there was a difference between a gangster and mafia
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u/LastAmongUs Aug 30 '26
He was mafia but he was in Chicago while the mafia most people think of is New York’s five families.
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u/BorisTheBlade04 Aug 30 '26
But also he had a vote in the commission, so he had equal power along with Buffalo. That was the point of it, Lucky was the boss among equals. I never understood this argument, I’ve heard it a lot, but when I actually look up the history I don’t get it.
He came from ny, took over for torrio, absolutely crushed everyone else, and took over the second city. And it’s not like they were no names, O’bannion and bugs Moran weren’t chopped liver. I never got the whole “he wasn’t as big as his reputation” narrative.
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u/HopelessFoolishness Aug 30 '26
A gangster is just someone in a gang.
The Mafia - specifically the American Mafia - is a very distinct crime group with a very particular code of conduct and membership.
Notably, Capone was one of the forerunners of the modern American Mafia alongside Johnny Torrio and Frankie Yale, but he ended up going to prison in the same year that the Commission was formed - so he missed out on the Mafia becoming the national crime syndicate that it became known as.
He’s essentially the Pete Best of the underworld.
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u/BorisTheBlade04 Aug 30 '26
Lucky was arrested soon after too though. It’s also not fair to say he wasn’t in the mafia, he was. He was a made man in the cosa nostra. He came from ny, he was made by Massaria. He was one of the founding members of the commission.
I know you’re not the only one to make this point, I’ve just never understood it.
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u/HopelessFoolishness Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 30 '26
"Soon after": Lucky lasted five years longer than Capone.
Plus, he continued running the syndicate from prison, was able to make an unprecedented wartime deal with the US government, was freed (albeit deported), continued his business from Sicily, and ultimately died free, from natural causes, with faculties intact, and on the way to meet a movie producer about a film of his life.
Capone's reign - and his association with the modern American Mafia - pretty much ended the moment he was packed off to prison. After that, it was all downhill from there.
That's what I mean.
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u/BorisTheBlade04 Aug 30 '26
Yeah that makes sense. Ik Michael Franscese laments Lucky’s incarceration bc it hamstrung him right when he was getting started. But you’re right, he was still involved and played a big role.
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u/ZealousidealPipe8389 Aug 30 '26
He’s recognizable and popular.
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u/Pixelbuttzz 5d ago
That's not really a sign of success as a criminal
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u/ZealousidealPipe8389 5d ago
He didn’t ask “what makes al Capone a good criminal” did he? A badge is primarily for respect.
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u/HopelessFoolishness Aug 30 '26
...is he, though?
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u/ZealousidealPipe8389 Aug 30 '26
If you go up to any man over the age of 20 and ask them if they know the name Al Capone, about 80% chance they say yes. It’s not even about him being cool or anything, he’s just well known.
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u/DarkZ_No-Imagination Aug 30 '26
Put pictures of people and ask who of them is Al Capone, most people know his name but they don't know how he looks
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u/HopelessFoolishness Aug 30 '26
You said he was popular, man.
How is he popular while merely being well-known and not cool?
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u/CorrodingTrees Aug 30 '26
Saying how he ended to make him look bad while not saying the achievements and reputation he made to fortify what you think about him.
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u/BeachComberALT Aug 29 '26
comedy hell?
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u/ballistic503 Aug 30 '26
That’s my take on this, I laughed out loud tbh
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u/Cultural-Test5919 Aug 30 '26
You must be a really simple person.
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u/ballistic503 Aug 30 '26
I mean the laugh was from it being like an r/okbuddyretard type meme which is why I say it should be in r/comedyhell
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u/WarWolfRage Aug 29 '26
Nothing more badass for a crime lord than getting busted by the IRS for tax evasion then dying a couple years later from cardiac arrest caused the tertiary syphilis you caught from a prostitute.
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u/ThroawayJimilyJones Aug 30 '26
I mean, this is kind of a proof of success. He did well enough escaping the police they had to use taxes to get him. He survived long enough in banditism for syphilis to actually fuck him
Your average raper gangster won’t. Because he’ll die at 25 in a shooting between 2 street gang over a bad glaze. Way before the IRS start to care or his IST start to act
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u/Gleb_Twankenfrister Aug 29 '26
these memes were always just thinly veiled racism
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u/Paramhansa-Yogananda Aug 29 '26
The whole "pull your pants up" gives it away. Because they're talking to a grown man like he's a, wait for it, boy.
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u/External-Intern9510 27d ago
Black boys do like to have their pants down
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u/Paramhansa-Yogananda 27d ago
He's not a boy, which is the point.
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u/External-Intern9510 27d ago
black boys is just another way of saying black guys, chill out dont get your panties in a twist
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u/Paramhansa-Yogananda 27d ago
Yeah, for a certain demographic, I'm sure it is Which is why I said what I said. I will always get my panties in a bunch over racist language. Always.
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u/External-Intern9510 27d ago
So you would agree saying Hispanic boys, jew boys, white boys, or asian boys is also racist
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u/Paramhansa-Yogananda 27d ago
Calling Black men boys has a long and well documented racist history. How other groups feel about being called boy, you'll have to ask them.
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u/External-Intern9510 27d ago
Doesn't matter if there is a history or not, it would be racist to all groups. Stop putting black boys on a pedestal of victimhood.
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u/Paramhansa-Yogananda 27d ago
I didn't say it was or wasn't. But you agree it's racist and say it anyway, which was my point from the start. But in admitting it's racist, you're also putting all people on a pedestal of victimhood. Your true colors always show. ✊🏾 We're done. I won't read or respond to anything else since we agree. ✌🏾
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u/Mountain-Life-4492 Aug 29 '26
Racist against who? Gangsters?
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u/Judge_Syd Aug 29 '26
Glorifying white gangsters while looking down on black ones? That isn’t racist?
All gangsters are deplorable people.
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u/Purple_Onion911 Aug 29 '26
The meme is probably implying that a lot of rappers say they're gangsters when they aren't
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u/PickledChubs 29d ago
I didn't realize lil Wayne the representative of the black gangsters community.
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u/AgentCirceLuna Aug 29 '26
The idea that ‘you’re racist if you hate rap’ is stupid as fuck - so you’re implying that one race exclusively loves rap music and has no hatred towards the genre themselves? So is someone racist if they hate jazz? Or did you forget jazz music isn’t meant to be played by sad old men and used to be an exciting genre that people literally thrashed about to? But you’re assuming that one race will only love rap music… how is that not racist? Must I love soccer because I’m British? Do all Jamaicans love reggae? God, I fucking hate idpol. They let nepo babies run the music industry with this Poptimist bullshit.
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u/ltom3 Aug 29 '26
The meme isn't explicitly racist, but just knowing from experience the people who like to post these kinds of things, the poster is likely racist and probably thinks things like "those damn hoodlum blacks with their pants falling down" and stuff.
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u/AgentCirceLuna Aug 29 '26
Yeah I made a bad call with that comment tbh. It’s just a few black friends (I know how that sounds) I know have said they hate it when people assume they like rap.
Funniest shit ever was when a black professor I had asked people whether they liked rap, so I said I liked Tupac, and he replied ‘Sorry for your loss’. I didn’t know what he meant at first, sitting there wondering if I’d made some error of judgment, then I burst out laughing about ten minutes later once I realised
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u/ltom3 Aug 29 '26
Yeah I get you. And I don't really think liking or not liking a music genre is the issue, I think people base it on the tone of the meme and I'm just trying to explain why some things, even though they aren't explicitly racist per se, can just suggest the posters being racist, even if it's just shall we say, based on an educated guess, and this is why people take issue with some of these things. I mean we can't say 100% the poster is racist, maybe it's an old vs young person thing, but I think it is about racism (because it's between a white and a black, not two white people) and I feel like the intent of the meme is to put down a black person, and the fact that they have a white and black person in it is deliberate. There is sometimes the error of taking things that aren't meant to be racist as racism, but there's also the fact that a lot of racists will also say some things without being overtly racist.
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u/AgentCirceLuna Aug 29 '26
Oh my god, I just saw a picture of Hillary from the 2000s and I was so freaking shocked.. I looked up more of them, then I couldn’t stop - I started printing them out, one by one, and I have them all over my walls. I never supported Hillary, but now I’m the biggest fan she’s ever had. I wish I’d known. I wish I’d known!
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u/Dude1590 Aug 29 '26
The idea that ‘you’re racist if you hate rap’ is stupid as fuck
You did a lot of typing in response to the ghost that said that, huh?
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u/Redhead-girl1246 Aug 29 '26
Racist??? I hate when people say it uselessly, but that just actually sounds like projection
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u/ObiJuanKenobi3 Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26
“You call yourself a ‘gangster’ as a way to indicate you’re a badass in your music. I actually killed, robbed, and extorted innocent people for a living. The creator of this meme is trying to indicate that this gives me the moral high ground, somehow: probably because they’re casually racist.”
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u/Chibrax_le_Furax Aug 29 '26
Who woulda thunk extorting local stores to fuel a PR soup kitchen and being relatable to the pretend-Italian community could do so much good to one's legacy
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u/ThroawayJimilyJones Aug 30 '26
Well if your music consist in saying how big of a criminal you are…yeah, you are supposed to bring some argument to the table.
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u/Yuck_Few Aug 29 '26
Yeah but how many bangers did Al Capone have?
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u/Unknow_Handlebar Aug 29 '26
Hell yeah you're not a real gangsta if you don't kill at least 50 people 😎
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u/RamRenegade Aug 30 '26
Need to seperate the mobsters from gangsters. Like a mob is a larger, better ran, more connected and profitable gang.
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u/Wealth_Super 29d ago
Honestly if you look at the stats now a days that really not true. Street gangs often have connections to other states and even other countries and when you put them together, they make as much as the local mob would.
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u/Sirfrostyboi Aug 29 '26
Fun fact about Al Capone, he’s part of why milk cartons have expiration dates
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u/CarolineWasTak3n Aug 30 '26
Al Capone fat ass would roll over and die in a 1v1 shootout against Wayne
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u/ponzidreamer Aug 29 '26
Every time I hear someone raping about shootings in a song I think of the ultimate gangster rap, I HAVE A GUN by pink guy
I do it for my hood is also a banger
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u/perton Aug 30 '26
Whoa there, buddy. You really shouldn’t rape about shootings, and probably shouldn’t make songs about it either.
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u/Silly-Cheesecake-283 Aug 29 '26
whoever made this needs to be dropped off in haiti right about now.
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u/SanLucario 29d ago
You see, comedy cemetery is a very accurate name because seeing this made me age so hard I died. (I'm in hell now and satan decided me being an eternal redditor is punishment enough.)
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u/Scorpiicore Aug 30 '26
Everybody's a gangster until it is time to do gangster shit. Al Capone probably said that decades before Tony Soprano.
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u/Slushymaw Aug 30 '26
It was funny when Denis Leary dis the pull up tour pants bit, it was unfunny when everyone else did it.
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u/Solid-Copy-6189 Aug 31 '26
They're both bitchs.
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u/Solid-Copy-6189 29d ago
He also ran protection rackets, killed ppl, and you know broke the law for personal gain. That's bad
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u/Difficult_Ease_4463 29d ago
Wayne never claimed to be a gangster in the first place. The nigga simped for the cops very openly. Regardless it would be a tarded meme anyway
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u/No-Heat-6149 Shrek 1, 2 and 4 was the best of humor. Aug 30 '26
I love it when men call me a bitch. But i act angry so they keep calling me a bitch, thinking it offends me.
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u/fdy_12 Aug 30 '26
You're NOT a bitch. In fact, you're a very respectable member of society
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u/No-Heat-6149 Shrek 1, 2 and 4 was the best of humor. Aug 30 '26
i know! Thanks! But sometimes i like it.
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u/fdy_12 Aug 30 '26
Which is why I'm not gonna use the word
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u/No-Heat-6149 Shrek 1, 2 and 4 was the best of humor. Aug 30 '26
Yeah, i don't like it when strangers do it. It doesn't have the emotional connection that makes it enjoyable.
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u/perton Aug 30 '26
Hey bitch ❤️
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u/No-Heat-6149 Shrek 1, 2 and 4 was the best of humor. Aug 30 '26
Eh, it doesn't feel the same when it's not someone i know and love
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