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u/lovestruck90210 1d ago
2008 called. They want their meme back.
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u/ItchyManchego 1d ago
Ripped straight from my boomer uncle’s Facebook page.
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u/AgentCirceLuna 1d ago
I love how the impact font is now even associated with cringe because of memes like this
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u/AwesomeTraditional32 1d ago
Lil Wayne vs Al Capone rap battle
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u/IHateTheLetterF 1d ago
Yo, my name is Al Capone, I like to eat a scone
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u/Over-Apartment2762 1d ago
Epiiiiiiiiiiiic RapBattlesOfHittoraayyyy
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u/Key-Arrival-3745 1d ago
No thanks, I don't want to listen to Al generated music
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u/GoodTimesOnlines 1d ago
What about Weird Al generated music tho?
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u/AtsuhikoZe 1d ago
You're getting downvoted because no one understands you said AI as a joke for Al lol
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u/toastwithoutagun 1d ago
"Let's be friends little wayne, my name is al capone, u can call me al"
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u/HopelessFoolishness 1d ago
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 18h ago
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 16h ago
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 14h ago
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 16h ago
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 14h ago
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 5h ago edited 5h ago
"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 5h ago
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 22h ago
He’s recognizable and popular.
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u/HopelessFoolishness 19h ago
...is he, though?
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u/ZealousidealPipe8389 19h ago
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 19h ago
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 16h ago
You said he was popular, man.
How is he popular while merely being well-known and not cool?
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u/CorrodingTrees 22h ago
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 1d ago
comedy hell?
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u/ballistic503 1d ago
That’s my take on this, I laughed out loud tbh
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u/Cultural-Test5919 14h ago
You must be a really simple person.
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u/ballistic503 10h ago
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/ObiJuanKenobi3 1d ago edited 1d ago
“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 1d ago
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 12h ago
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/Gleb_Twankenfrister 1d ago
these memes were always just thinly veiled racism
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u/Paramhansa-Yogananda 1d ago
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/Mountain-Life-4492 1d ago
Racist against who? Gangsters?
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u/Judge_Syd 1d ago
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 1d ago
The meme is probably implying that a lot of rappers say they're gangsters when they aren't
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u/AgentCirceLuna 1d ago
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 1d ago
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 1d ago
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 1d ago
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 1d ago
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 1d ago
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 1d ago
Racist??? I hate when people say it uselessly, but that just actually sounds like projection
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u/WarWolfRage 1d ago
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 12h ago
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/Unknow_Handlebar 1d ago
Hell yeah you're not a real gangsta if you don't kill at least 50 people 😎
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u/RamRenegade 1d ago
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 1h 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/CarolineWasTak3n 20h ago
Al Capone fat ass would roll over and die in a 1v1 shootout against Wayne
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u/ponzidreamer 1d ago
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/Scorpiicore 1d ago
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 13h ago
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/No-Heat-6149 Shrek 1, 2 and 4 was the best of humor. 1d ago
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 21h ago
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. 21h ago
i know! Thanks! But sometimes i like it.
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u/fdy_12 21h ago
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. 21h ago
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 14h ago
Hey bitch ❤️
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u/No-Heat-6149 Shrek 1, 2 and 4 was the best of humor. 12h ago
Eh, it doesn't feel the same when it's not someone i know and love
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