Damn It Feels Good to Be A Gangster (1975) [Music Video]

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  • Damn It Feels Good to Be A Gangster (1975) [Music Video]
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    Samuel "Smooth Sam" Davis emerged as a soulful sensation in the 1970s, best known for his iconic hit "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangster." Born in 1948 in Oakland, California, Samuel grew up in a vibrant community rich with musical diversity. His deep ties with various gangsters and the organized crime scene in Oakland, under the auspices of music mogul and gangster Prince J, added a layer of mystique and controversy to his career. Samuel's breakthrough came with "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangster" in 1973. The song’s smooth delivery and catchy refrain, alongside lyrics that blended themes of empowerment with the complexities of gangster life, resonated with a wide audience, rocketing him to fame. It not only charted his rise but also subtly reflected his intricate connections with Oakland’s organized crime.Today, Samuel "Smooth Sam" Davis is remembered as a pioneer who bridged the worlds of soul music and street reality, using his platform to reflect, inspire, and challenge societal norms.
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  • @AIForTheCulture
    @AIForTheCulture  3 місяці тому +101

    Samuel "Smooth Sam" Davis emerged as a soulful sensation in the 1970s, best known for his iconic hit "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangster." Born in 1948 in Oakland, California, Samuel grew up in a vibrant community rich with musical diversity. His deep ties with various gangsters and the organized crime scene in Oakland, under the auspices of music mogul and gangster Prince J, added a layer of mystique and controversy to his career. Samuel's breakthrough came with "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangster" in 1973. The song’s smooth delivery and catchy refrain, alongside lyrics that blended themes of empowerment with the complexities of gangster life, resonated with a wide audience, rocketing him to fame. It not only charted his rise but also subtly reflected his intricate connections with Oakland’s organized crime.Today, Samuel "Smooth Sam" Davis is remembered as a pioneer who bridged the worlds of soul music and street reality, using his platform to reflect, inspire, and challenge societal norms.

    • @OLManJenkins87
      @OLManJenkins87 3 місяці тому +11

      These visuals are so beautiful.

    • @indigosunset70
      @indigosunset70 3 місяці тому +4

      alotta these jams are amazing. i hope the best success for your channel keep em coming.

    • @1blakking
      @1blakking 3 місяці тому +5

      This takes me back!

    • @joshbautista6892
      @joshbautista6892 3 місяці тому +2

      Hope ypu take your best songs tht blew up and put them on vinyl record and sell them cuz I'd absolutely buy em in a heart best these jams are bops ajd to think they weren't made by anyone back then but a computer a.i today I do feel old but haopy I'm alive in a time to see this haooen as I'd never believe it he'll I told my stamps abiut these songs and he thought they were legit till I explained to him for 45 min abiut a.i and how this was made 😂

    • @zanewalsh1812
      @zanewalsh1812 3 місяці тому

      🙃

  • @mungojerry4713
    @mungojerry4713 3 місяці тому +137

    This song reminds me of the struggle I faced coming up in the 70's as a young black man in North Philly. While incarcerated, I was able to turn my life around and I am now a 29 year old whiteboy living in Missoula, Montana.

  • @luisanthony1385
    @luisanthony1385 3 місяці тому +47

    When I drove my 1973 Jeep Wagoneer after playing bowling with my friends. This song came on at around midnight, I never felt more gangster in my life.

  • @shakiredmondson1959
    @shakiredmondson1959 Місяць тому +18

    ANYONE ELSE PLAY THIS AT THEY SUMMER COOKOUT TOO?? The OLD HEADS went off lol!!

  • @LBOOGIEDAMANN
    @LBOOGIEDAMANN 3 місяці тому +16

    3:54 "teach yo man how to squabble" 😂

  • @OLManJenkins87
    @OLManJenkins87 3 місяці тому +51

    I know this is not real... but it is real to me

  • @OLManJenkins87
    @OLManJenkins87 3 місяці тому +15

    I'm at a point in life where I don't know what is real anymore, and I'm ok when it comes to these videos

  • @njv1234
    @njv1234 3 місяці тому +34

    I remember my dad playing this music with just me and him in the car back in the 90s. Said it was what he used to listen to back in his day, and don’t tell your momma you heard this song!

    • @randalon75
      @randalon75 2 місяці тому +6

      You mean the Geto boys version?

  • @KalmWolf84
    @KalmWolf84 3 місяці тому +32

    Dangerous this AI 😮

  • @Killuminati773
    @Killuminati773 3 місяці тому +20

    Boi this summer about to be a movie , cigar and this musik

  • @steeltown416
    @steeltown416 3 місяці тому +26

    Good ole " 3 Piece " Jones he was the Drummer on this cut.He didn't get the recognition for creating the " Oak Town Sound " ... they say he would use two cans of starch on his slacks . He was a Cold Piece and he used to tell me how Good it felt to be a Gangster. I miss him. Oh me? I'm know as " Pinstripe Mike" Peace and blessings.

  • @briand4763
    @briand4763 3 місяці тому +22

    It was so dope when this dropped on SOUL TRAIN.

    • @DiabolikalFollikles
      @DiabolikalFollikles 3 місяці тому +5

      Yup. Beautiful *Black* people rockin fros, bell bottoms, dashikis, and platform shoes. Those were the days. 🖤🎶🖤🎶🎼

  • @808jonster
    @808jonster 3 місяці тому +16

    Wow, summer '75 really was a whole vibe. This song is timeless.

  • @bigcartoonyIIV
    @bigcartoonyIIV 3 місяці тому +21

    I remember when I just came home from nam, and won a cadillac in a dice game when this came out.

  • @oahuswat6994
    @oahuswat6994 3 місяці тому +31

    @2:55 The best part is the guy showing the neighborhood children C notes from the future.

    • @terrencewesterman851
      @terrencewesterman851 3 місяці тому +4

      President Benjamin Franklin agrees

    • @natureboygolfer
      @natureboygolfer 2 місяці тому +2

      I was thinking, that's a big head hundred. How did he pull THAT off?!

    • @natureboygolfer
      @natureboygolfer 2 місяці тому +1

      @@terrencewesterman851 LOL

  • @user-iv8sz6yb2p
    @user-iv8sz6yb2p 3 місяці тому +95

    I lost my 1974 Cadillac in gambling when this came out 🤦🏾‍♂️🤣

    • @bigcartoonyIIV
      @bigcartoonyIIV 3 місяці тому +12

      Sorry bruh. I was rode it until I got tired of buying gas for it. I ened up selling it to cuz on 73rd street.

    • @user-iv8sz6yb2p
      @user-iv8sz6yb2p 3 місяці тому +8

      ​@@bigcartoonyIIVGood time's ✊🏾

    • @DiabolikalFollikles
      @DiabolikalFollikles 3 місяці тому +6

      The dice were loaded and so were we. I was there. 🎼🎵🖤🎵

    • @bigcartoonyIIV
      @bigcartoonyIIV 3 місяці тому

      @@user-iv8sz6yb2p yea buddy

    • @bigcartoonyIIV
      @bigcartoonyIIV 3 місяці тому +2

      @@DiabolikalFollikles Yes but you won to though. You are the one that told me to bet..lol

  • @bigowl71
    @bigowl71 2 місяці тому +6

    Ol' sKooL is tha' best sKooL!!! 💯✌🏿

  • @louisms
    @louisms 3 місяці тому +7

    This one my favorite so far ❤

  • @DesperadoJux
    @DesperadoJux 2 місяці тому +7

    The first 20 seconds was the vibe.
    I need a whole remix from that part.

    • @Nakdimon4
      @Nakdimon4 Місяць тому

      i just flipped that part into a hard trap beat

    • @EvilRevanX
      @EvilRevanX Місяць тому +1

      ​@@Nakdimon4yooo upload that shit please!

  • @JacksonPierce
    @JacksonPierce 2 місяці тому +5

    Dope song!!

  • @noobfromhell563
    @noobfromhell563 3 місяці тому +39

    I remember listening to this when i was a Black Man in the 70s, time flys by

  • @BrogePerryJr
    @BrogePerryJr 3 місяці тому +6

    This slaps and didn't even know it!!!

  • @lordjamescbeeson8579
    @lordjamescbeeson8579 Місяць тому +4

    You are my new favorite artist. WTF???? lol I love it

  • @ToniDaTiger-1andonly
    @ToniDaTiger-1andonly 6 днів тому

    Saturday morning vibes

  • @DonSirKarlo
    @DonSirKarlo 3 місяці тому +13

    U fittin to make a 70s pimp movie ain't u dawg....soundtrack would be cold AF

  • @petemcgaha1133
    @petemcgaha1133 3 місяці тому +7

    In 75 I was 6 and in second grade at Labelle Ele. just outside ATL. This song inspired me back then to start Mackin and Pimpin at that age! Now I am 55 and chillin on the coast of CA! Caviar Wishes and Champagne Dreams!!

    • @CEOkiller
      @CEOkiller 2 місяці тому

      Rollin little g’s for their lunch money are running a playground protection racket…

    • @randalon75
      @randalon75 2 місяці тому +1

      Why are you iying? this song came out in 92 by the geto boys this is the AI version..lol

  • @tomstarwalker
    @tomstarwalker 3 місяці тому +6

    We need this style back!

  • @A.imusicmastermind2.0
    @A.imusicmastermind2.0 Місяць тому +1

    You do some excellent stuff my dude

  • @DaOvaseea
    @DaOvaseea 2 місяці тому +4

    This groove rat-chea is in my late-Baby Boomer wheelhouse. Straight up 70s vibe & Im diggin it wall to wall & tree top tall. Now, 'scuse me while I spray some Afro Sheen & pick my Fro...#RightOn

  • @OLManJenkins87
    @OLManJenkins87 3 місяці тому +11

    Oh now you just showing out!

  • @FURTVKIKASS
    @FURTVKIKASS 2 місяці тому +3

    Visiting 1975 for the first time....... 🖤💙

  • @DanlowMusic
    @DanlowMusic Місяць тому +2

    This reminds me of that DRS Gangsta Lean.

  • @buckeyes8631
    @buckeyes8631 2 місяці тому +4

    Aye mane I remember driving up and down 5th ave in my pearl white Eldorado with the rag top

  • @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers
    @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers 2 місяці тому +3

    Just give it time this will be playing at every BBQ

  • @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers
    @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers 2 місяці тому +2

    This joint sound like it came out in the 70s fresh!!@

  • @Homer23D
    @Homer23D 2 місяці тому +1

    I love this music cruise on your ride let the mind be free ☝🏽❤️🙏🏽

  • @erickvillalba5985
    @erickvillalba5985 2 місяці тому +3

    My white caddy and me comming down the 79th st heading back from the gun range!!

  • @heavydown2582
    @heavydown2582 3 місяці тому +75

    2024...and you gotta ask yourself:
    "What Is really 'REAL', people?"

    • @BlackKingEnt
      @BlackKingEnt 3 місяці тому

      nigga i thought these are real tracks

    • @bloodtopaz8816
      @bloodtopaz8816 3 місяці тому +11

      It's all real, the problem is - it's not in the hand of talent by chance. I mean people spend years developing the skill set to make music. Learning to sing, learning to dance, learning a vibe, learning a instrument. Even with all that skill, a person may never make a hit record, it's all by chance. Right time, right place. AI takes that all away but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing. The microwave took away the skill of cooking for example, a refrigerator took away a need to salt meat. A person born today isn't going to ask the question if AI is a bad thing, they are just going to think it's normal. A question I ask is what is good music and does it really matter who or what makes it? For the next 50 years there will still be people making music, after that - who can say. It's too late to condemn this technology, it's here. Now the question needs to be asked, how do I live with it because you can't get away from it now. AI is in the arts, it's in the music and soon it will be in a lot more places.

    • @heavydown2582
      @heavydown2582 3 місяці тому +1

      @@bloodtopaz8816
      Yes!
      I agree with all you've said.
      In fact, I just heard word today that 2 record companies have filed lawsuits for the use of their artists work.
      These lawsuits are gonna increase. Iin a major way.

    • @aidan9563
      @aidan9563 3 місяці тому +1

      "real" is whatever you want it to be when pertaining to art. Whoever created this ai version of the song is a greatly talented artist💪

    • @birdog23
      @birdog23 3 місяці тому +1

      I think real is imperfection. Something palpable only a soul can apply: the lack of perfection. It’s subtle, but potent.

  • @BKkillaz
    @BKkillaz 3 місяці тому +4

    When these come out for the 90s it’s gonna be wild

  • @MdotEroc-gh6wk
    @MdotEroc-gh6wk 3 місяці тому +12

    I made myself in the back of a 73 Impala when this came out.

  • @robertturner6721
    @robertturner6721 Місяць тому +1

    Everytime I listen to this song it take me back to when I was drinking heavy liquor every night and morning in the 60’s gangster life I made it out I’m in 20’s today

  • @DeepDeepSouth
    @DeepDeepSouth 3 місяці тому +6

    Real music

  • @Necronkiller
    @Necronkiller 3 місяці тому +4

    Thank you for bringing more of these classic AI tracks. We need more funk and motown these days.

  • @jacobowen4978
    @jacobowen4978 2 місяці тому +1

    Heat

  • @Baddbunnyfoofoo-j1o
    @Baddbunnyfoofoo-j1o Місяць тому

    Somethings never change

  • @vanc8288
    @vanc8288 3 місяці тому +5

    This is awesome

  • @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers
    @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers 2 місяці тому +1

    I like the picture of my man with the belt over the suit that STRAIT OG

  • @skyguy1988
    @skyguy1988 Місяць тому

    I remember cruising in my old ford bronco with the back window down to this song. while smoking black and milds

  • @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers
    @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers 2 місяці тому +1

    Yes it does damn it!!!!

  • @williamherring728
    @williamherring728 Місяць тому +1

    Yoooo. I know this is NextUp, i can tell by the quality of the AI. Man, please bring back UGK ridin dirty. For real, I'm ready to pay for that, how ever yall put it out, I want that album.

  • @Fellowrser
    @Fellowrser 2 місяці тому +2

    My peepaw used to play this on the cassette tape while rolling in his buick regal sitting on 22 inch chromes

  • @user-vj1we6ru3u
    @user-vj1we6ru3u Місяць тому

    Damn, I hate i missed the 70s era...86 was my year of birth.

  • @porkbeans4792
    @porkbeans4792 2 місяці тому +1

    This is nice

  • @onewiseking2800
    @onewiseking2800 2 місяці тому +1

    I miss my pops

  • @aaronamado6885
    @aaronamado6885 2 місяці тому +3

    Office space, movie, song, damn it feels good to be a gangsta

  • @fooseball131
    @fooseball131 3 місяці тому +2

    This is actually fire

  • @nyamangurasweetdaddy-sn1gl
    @nyamangurasweetdaddy-sn1gl 2 місяці тому +1

    I'm hearing this for the first time, damm,this is classic and soulful. I once in this situation, with women (not married then?)

  • @bryantbridgewaters7177
    @bryantbridgewaters7177 3 місяці тому +7

    That Ai getting better. The hands of people in these images dont look as twisted as before.

  • @natureboygolfer
    @natureboygolfer 2 місяці тому +1

    Man those boys were clean

  • @THEMOTOWNAVENGERS
    @THEMOTOWNAVENGERS 3 місяці тому +6

    🖤KEEPIN IT G 💯 LET’S KEEP UP THE MOTOWN VIBES FAM 🎶

  • @ToniDaTiger-1andonly
    @ToniDaTiger-1andonly 6 днів тому

    Repeat 🔁 mode

  • @TyroneHernandez-00707
    @TyroneHernandez-00707 Місяць тому +2

    AND I PUT THAT ON MY MOMMA'S MOMMA 🙏🌹

  • @hillbillyrocker3257
    @hillbillyrocker3257 2 місяці тому +1

    So smooth. Nice work! 🤙

  • @ricohwellmed4886
    @ricohwellmed4886 Місяць тому +6

    This song was originally written in soung by the Ghetto Boys. Scarface, the late great Bushwik Bill RIP, and Willie D. Look it up.

    • @staceyvandiver
      @staceyvandiver Місяць тому +2

      It's Geto Boys right I knew this off the top of my head

  • @Supertroy1974
    @Supertroy1974 3 місяці тому +4

    Damn you don’t miss

  • @lawoull.6581
    @lawoull.6581 Місяць тому +1

    ❤...God got this..enjoy

  • @strapp1999
    @strapp1999 3 місяці тому +20

    I'll never forget this song..... it's brings back so many memories. This song was playing in 1976 at my cousin's house when a card game went sideways and my uncle Roy said two dudes were cheating and started bashing their heads in with his gun. I was so scared!

    • @bigowl71
      @bigowl71 2 місяці тому +1

      Bro who sings this this song??🤔

    • @stayfocuseddi
      @stayfocuseddi 2 місяці тому

      🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢

    • @snaked.i.522
      @snaked.i.522 2 місяці тому

      Stop da kap bruh 🤔

    • @EvilRevanX
      @EvilRevanX Місяць тому

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @funkandstein9849
    @funkandstein9849 3 місяці тому +6

    I think Geto Boys gone sue somebody! 😂

    • @Spcldrkchclt717
      @Spcldrkchclt717 2 місяці тому

      The song also includes a sampling of "The Ghetto", by the late great Donny Hathaway

  • @Uncensored-HMC
    @Uncensored-HMC 2 місяці тому +2

    have mercy

  • @vernam.2474
    @vernam.2474 Місяць тому

    ✨️⚡️👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽⚡️✨️Great presentation

  • @DiabolikalFollikles
    @DiabolikalFollikles 3 місяці тому +7

    Damn it feels good to be a subscriber of that mthrfckng #AIFORTHECULTURE. 🎵🖤🎼🎶

    • @AIForTheCulture
      @AIForTheCulture  3 місяці тому +2

      Thank You!! 🙏🏾

    • @DiabolikalFollikles
      @DiabolikalFollikles 3 місяці тому

      @@AIForTheCulture No. thank *you* it’s just what *the culture* needs. better than anything out there today from these young folk. a return to smooth, soulful, old school r&b grooves. I’ve hipped all my friends to it and they *love* it. Keep em coming fam. Please consider doing a few songs from Zero (Life of Joseph McVey, These Nigg*s) Outcast, UGK and really make my day. 🖤

    • @DiabolikalFollikles
      @DiabolikalFollikles 3 місяці тому

      and Ghetto Boys. 🖤

  • @songserenade2210
    @songserenade2210 3 місяці тому +5

    When A I is tbrough with modern society,it would be difficult to know what is real from what is not.Strange and interesting times ahead.

  • @stevodib47
    @stevodib47 2 місяці тому +1

    W,T.F.....IVE NEVER HERD THIS B4
    I LOVE IT,,,,MO FO GANGSTER....LOL...
    VERY SMOOTH TUNE,,,
    PEACE.....OUT💯❤

  • @juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988
    @juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 Місяць тому +2

    Imagine being in a alternate reality where Samuel "Smooth Sam" Davis was a real singer

  • @mogultalk1on183
    @mogultalk1on183 Місяць тому +2

    AI is a scary thing….but the song does relate to a whole generation who can understand this era

  • @PresiValentine
    @PresiValentine 2 місяці тому +1

    Dope ❤😊

  • @AlejandroGutierrez-jp1uk
    @AlejandroGutierrez-jp1uk 3 дні тому

    Rest in Paradise to all my mf Gangsters my older brother n all my Homies n Homegirls ...I miss all my peoples....100 S.U.R LA/O.C 💪

  • @BigBlunt75
    @BigBlunt75 Місяць тому +2

    Playback at 1.25x speed

  • @MeMyHustleN-I
    @MeMyHustleN-I Місяць тому

    Some of the photos look exactly like the ones on my Moms coffee table.❤❤❤❤❤

  • @jakep714
    @jakep714 3 місяці тому +2

    Another banger baby🤷🏽‍♂️

  • @jc-ul8ip
    @jc-ul8ip 2 місяці тому

    Cruzing in my 1979 srt jeep back in the day

  • @boosieworks
    @boosieworks Місяць тому

    Somebody in love with pinstripe lol 😎

  • @jakfrostp9201
    @jakfrostp9201 2 дні тому

    This is hard!!!! 🔥🔥

  • @johnnyknoxville5917
    @johnnyknoxville5917 24 дні тому

    Оригинальный фанк и соул всегда будет лучше❤

  • @carolynstone6454
    @carolynstone6454 Місяць тому

    I like the pictures, showing beautiful young black people 😊❤

  • @BLACKGEMINIFILMZ
    @BLACKGEMINIFILMZ Місяць тому

    This is a nice update

  • @Astral_Dusk
    @Astral_Dusk 3 місяці тому +2

    We used to blast this juicy fruit at the barber shop back in Harlem

  • @LateNightCable
    @LateNightCable 3 місяці тому +4

    These aren’t gangsters at all, they’re all pimps. The Pinstripe Crew specifically. 🎲🥃

  • @TheGreekCatholic
    @TheGreekCatholic 3 місяці тому +1

    USED to pump this while giving the 404 to my fly girl

  • @bamnjphoto
    @bamnjphoto Місяць тому

    This fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @BearMarketBae
    @BearMarketBae Місяць тому +1

    Better than the original

  • @earthearth5701
    @earthearth5701 28 днів тому

    Love it real on

  • @gigabuyceps
    @gigabuyceps 3 місяці тому +1

    Ohhh gem

  • @stewpacalypse7104
    @stewpacalypse7104 3 місяці тому

    Michael Bolton listened to this on his way to work every morning.

  • @amalakin4444
    @amalakin4444 3 місяці тому +1

    Classic

  • @realdeal8303
    @realdeal8303 Місяць тому

    I was born in 79 but when I finally heard this song in 83 is when I started the life of a full time GNGSTA

  • @the_purge_666
    @the_purge_666 3 місяці тому

    Perfect.

  • @rondalarry3352
    @rondalarry3352 Місяць тому +1

    ❤❤

  • @nappapapeleta4049
    @nappapapeleta4049 3 місяці тому +1

    Pardon my excitement..... this MFNK GanGster right here beat on fire ...soul fire ..super nova

  • @theconductor420
    @theconductor420 3 місяці тому +1

    I feel tricked and taken advantage of, but damn that AI shit is funky