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.
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 😂
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.
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!
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.
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!!
My POPS WAS A GANGSTA Everybody Like was up Lil FROSTIE Where yo Daddies at CUZZ ME ; MY Name ain't FROSTIE THEY SAY OH YES IT IS POPS WAS LEFT HANDED DAZ WHERE FROSTIE CAME FROM POPS WAZ COLD SLEEP,N NIGGA WIT DAT LEFT HAND COLD FROSTIE COMPTON CRIP (GRANDEE) LOOK IT UP GANGSTA
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.
@@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.
my parents use to have saturday night house parties for our neighbors in the late 70s during the summer time and this was the song that was played the most i miss my childhood
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
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
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!
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.
@@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. 🖤
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.
These visuals are so beautiful.
alotta these jams are amazing. i hope the best success for your channel keep em coming.
This takes me back!
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 😂
🙃
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.
lol
LOL
Lmfao
🤣
Hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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.
Wait how this a real song ?
@@tameshacantrell9823 xD just go with it lmao
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!
You mean the Geto boys version?
@@randalon75he was being sarcastic bro
ANYONE ELSE PLAY THIS AT THEY SUMMER COOKOUT TOO?? The OLD HEADS went off lol!!
I know this is not real... but it is real to me
This A.I. is crazy scary how good it is. I am finding myself gravitating towards it.
😂factz
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.
😂😂😂
3:54 "teach yo man how to squabble" 😂
Dead 😂😂😂
I'm 29 this song 🎵 49 yrs old , still listening Rip 2 the OG's !!!! 💯 👑
Boi this summer about to be a movie , cigar and this musik
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!!
Rollin little g’s for their lunch money are running a playground protection racket…
Why are you iying? this song came out in 92 by the geto boys this is the AI version..lol
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
I remember listening to this when i was a Black Man in the 70s, time flys by
😂
And now you’re a White Boi, funny how that goes.
🤣🤣
What are you now 😅
@@darinwoods8853 some creepy german guy :/
@2:55 The best part is the guy showing the neighborhood children C notes from the future.
President Benjamin Franklin agrees
I was thinking, that's a big head hundred. How did he pull THAT off?!
@@terrencewesterman851 LOL
😂😂💯
Just give it time this will be playing at every BBQ
The first 20 seconds was the vibe.
I need a whole remix from that part.
i just flipped that part into a hard trap beat
@@Nakdimon4yooo upload that shit please!
Ol' sKooL is tha' best sKooL!!! 💯✌🏿
Dope song!!
Dangerous this AI 😮
fo sho
This one my favorite so far ❤
Wow, summer '75 really was a whole vibe. This song is timeless.
My POPS WAS A GANGSTA
Everybody Like was up Lil FROSTIE
Where yo Daddies at CUZZ ME ; MY Name ain't FROSTIE THEY SAY OH YES IT IS POPS WAS LEFT HANDED DAZ WHERE FROSTIE CAME FROM POPS WAZ COLD SLEEP,N NIGGA WIT DAT LEFT HAND COLD FROSTIE COMPTON CRIP (GRANDEE) LOOK IT UP GANGSTA
2024...and you gotta ask yourself:
"What Is really 'REAL', people?"
nigga i thought these are real tracks
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.
@@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.
"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💪
I think real is imperfection. Something palpable only a soul can apply: the lack of perfection. It’s subtle, but potent.
It was so dope when this dropped on SOUL TRAIN.
Yup. Beautiful *Black* people rockin fros, bell bottoms, dashikis, and platform shoes. Those were the days. 🖤🎶🖤🎶🎼
I lost my 1974 Cadillac in gambling when this came out 🤦🏾♂️🤣
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.
@@bigcartoonyIIVGood time's ✊🏾
The dice were loaded and so were we. I was there. 🎼🎵🖤🎵
@@user-iv8sz6yb2p yea buddy
@@DiabolikalFollikles Yes but you won to though. You are the one that told me to bet..lol
We need this style back!
Thank you for bringing more of these classic AI tracks. We need more funk and motown these days.
Aye mane I remember driving up and down 5th ave in my pearl white Eldorado with the rag top
I remember when I just came home from nam, and won a cadillac in a dice game when this came out.
You are my new favorite artist. WTF???? lol I love it
Visiting 1975 for the first time....... 🖤💙
my parents use to have saturday night house parties for our neighbors in the late 70s during the summer time and this was the song that was played the most i miss my childhood
Oh now you just showing out!
Amazing vibes keep going strong for God bless everyone 🙌🙏
Saturday morning vibes
When these come out for the 90s it’s gonna be wild
This slaps and didn't even know it!!!
This song was originally written in soung by the Ghetto Boys. Scarface, the late great Bushwik Bill RIP, and Willie D. Look it up.
It's Geto Boys right I knew this off the top of my head
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
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
Right right
AI is a scary thing….but the song does relate to a whole generation who can understand this era
This is hard!!!! 🔥🔥
This is awesome
I like the picture of my man with the belt over the suit that STRAIT OG
This reminds me of that DRS Gangsta Lean.
Whoa... Some of these are incredible. Solid work.
I made myself in the back of a 73 Impala when this came out.
This joint sound like it came out in the 70s fresh!!@
My peepaw used to play this on the cassette tape while rolling in his buick regal sitting on 22 inch chromes
✨️⚡️👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽⚡️✨️Great presentation
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!
Bro who sings this this song??🤔
🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢
Stop da kap bruh 🤔
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I love this music cruise on your ride let the mind be free ☝🏽❤️🙏🏽
I'm hearing this for the first time, damm,this is classic and soulful. I once in this situation, with women (not married then?)
So smooth. Nice work! 🤙
Another banger baby🤷🏽♂️
You do some excellent stuff my dude
That Ai getting better. The hands of people in these images dont look as twisted as before.
Somebody in love with pinstripe lol 😎
Real music
AND I PUT THAT ON MY MOMMA'S MOMMA 🙏🌹
None of these people exist, this music isn't real, this comment isn't here.
I never read any of it
Twilight Zone
These soulful, groovy, and nostalgic feels I’m feeling aren’t real either. 🎶 🖤🎵🎼
Time paradox type ish
I read this comment back in 79 on the subway billboards. Ya dig.
U fittin to make a 70s pimp movie ain't u dawg....soundtrack would be cold AF
I remember when this song came out back in the day, I was young but we danced to this song like we was on the Soul Train line.. it was so much fun
Man those boys were clean
I miss my pops
Some of the photos look exactly like the ones on my Moms coffee table.❤❤❤❤❤
Pardon my excitement..... this MFNK GanGster right here beat on fire ...soul fire ..super nova
It really does
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
This is actually fire
Office space, movie, song, damn it feels good to be a gangsta
On God!!
This is nice
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.
Damn, I hate i missed the 70s era...86 was my year of birth.
These aren’t gangsters at all, they’re all pimps. The Pinstripe Crew specifically. 🎲🥃
So a pimp is not a gangster ?
@@lamaillebien-etremuaythai471 could be, but a pimp is a pimp.
I remember cruising in my old ford bronco with the back window down to this song. while smoking black and milds
Imagine being in a alternate reality where Samuel "Smooth Sam" Davis was a real singer
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.
Damn you don’t miss
I think Geto Boys gone sue somebody! 😂
The song also includes a sampling of "The Ghetto", by the late great Donny Hathaway
I like the pictures, showing beautiful young black people 😊❤
Its AI
Оригинальный фанк и соул всегда будет лучше❤
W,T.F.....IVE NEVER HERD THIS B4
I LOVE IT,,,,MO FO GANGSTER....LOL...
VERY SMOOTH TUNE,,,
PEACE.....OUT💯❤
😍
To the new this is how old school gangsters dressed now what are yall doing all sloppy it's better to be a smooth gangster facts 😊
This is a nice update
This fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
❤...God got this..enjoy
My white caddy and me comming down the 79th st heading back from the gun range!!
wish u'd upload the instrumentals. i wanna sample some of these.
Oh it's real. Real as you and me. More heard ai for the culture than have heard of me
AI kicking everybody azzzz😂
Better than the original
Pray for Scarface who's currently in hospital🤲🏾
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 💪
Kum on sauce mane...💪💪
Cruzing in my 1979 srt jeep back in the day
This is scary man.
Heat
Damn it feels good to be a subscriber of that mthrfckng #AIFORTHECULTURE. 🎵🖤🎼🎶
Thank You!! 🙏🏾
@@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. 🖤
and Ghetto Boys. 🖤
Dope ❤😊
Somethings never change