Gangsters

Once a gangster, always a gangster;

They feared me because I feared nothing,

Everybody’s a gangster until a gangster walks in the room,

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots,

Behind every successful fortune, there is a crime. 

I have learned more in the streets than in any classroom,

What do you mean by “gangsters”?

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. 

I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse,

Gangsta rappers can’t fight, 

So they rap about guns,

Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have. 

Somebody messes with me, 

I’m gonna mess with him,

Goodfellas, never rat on your friends, Always keep your mouth shut. 

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer,

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him,

To me, being a gangster was better than being president of the united states. 

The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room,

The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head,

Even gang members imagine a future that doesn’t include gangs,

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key,

I never lie because I don’t fear anyone. You only lie when you’re afraid. 

A thug only understands you when you speak his language,

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster,

Don’t tell me what was said about me. Tell me why were they so comfortable to say it to you? 

There’s no such thing as good money or bad money,

There’s just money, 

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast,

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong. 

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western,

I am an undisputed gangster,

To me, that means playing by my own rules,

Shoot first, ask questions last, 

That’s how these so-called gangsta’s last,

The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun. 

Be careful who you call your friends, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies,

Be careful who you call your friends, I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies,

The only difference between the Government & the Mafia is that the Mafia actually turns a profit. 

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable,

Who cares about shit people say that they don’t have the balls to say to your face? 

All I have in this world is my balls and my word,

I don’t break them for anyone,

You can get much further with a kind word,

A gun than you can with just a kind word. 

I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, 

I think we always will,

A gangster doesn’t think of himself as a hustler, 

I assume he thinks of himself as a businessman,

When you’re a kid and you see gangsters living the life, 

You kind of want to be like that. 

Gangsters are not nearly so frightening as you’d think, 

Some of them are quite ordinary looking,

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own,

A gang is where a coward goes to hide 

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way, 

So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness,

There are many people who think,

I’m actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of Goodfella. 

See, ya are what ya are in this world, That’s either one of two things: Either you’re somebody, or you ain’t nobody,

It is a rule of law alone that hinders, 

The rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters,

All right, you proved your point. You broke into my vault, 

Congratulations, you’re a dead man,

I don’t wanna be a product of my environment, 

I want my environment to be a product of me,

In my world, of course, it doesn’t matter, You could be a gangster with a dress, 

You could be a gangster with baggy pants.