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!!
This stuff slaps so well, it makes my awkward white boy ass wanna start cringing a dance move. But ofcourse I’ll refrain. And keep it simple with some head nods. Spare everyone from my chicken moves.
@@YeshuarEleison LOLOL you're invited to the cookout! Thee "Headnod" is also a standard, yet tried and true, method most OG's apply during the cookout anyway.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
@@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. 🖤
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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.
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
@@tameshacantrell9823Exactly 😂😂
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
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.
😂😂😂
Holla holla holla
3:54 "teach yo man how to squabble" 😂
Dead 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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
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!
@@Nakdimon4 AI music is copyright and royalty free, sample time!
Boi this summer about to be a movie , cigar and this musik
@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?!
@@TeejayWesterman 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
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
You are my new favorite artist. WTF???? lol I love it
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
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 :/
Aye mane I remember driving up and down 5th ave in my pearl white Eldorado with the rag top
ANYONE ELSE PLAY THIS AT THEY SUMMER COOKOUT TOO?? The OLD HEADS went off lol!!
This stuff slaps so well, it makes my awkward white boy ass wanna start cringing a dance move. But ofcourse I’ll refrain. And keep it simple with some head nods. Spare everyone from my chicken moves.
@@YeshuarEleison LOLOL you're invited to the cookout! Thee "Headnod" is also a standard, yet tried and true, method most OG's apply during the cookout anyway.
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
Thank you for bringing more of these classic AI tracks. We need more funk and motown these days.
This one my favorite so far ❤
Ol' sKooL is tha' best sKooL!!! 💯✌🏿
Dangerous this AI 😮
fo sho
I'm 29 this song 🎵 49 yrs old , still listening Rip 2 the OG's !!!! 💯 👑
You actually thought it was real 😂😂😂😂😂😂I like still though but 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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
I remember when I just came home from nam, and won a cadillac in a dice game when this came out.
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
This song takes me back to 1983 when I was a child.🎵 My grandpa would let me ride with him in his Cadillac to this song.
Good old pinstripes, dad be rocking them back in the 70s with platforms. Fire!
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.
That Ai getting better. The hands of people in these images dont look as twisted as before.
Visiting 1975 for the first time....... 🖤💙
We need this style back!
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.
I like the picture of my man with the belt over the suit that STRAIT OG
Dope song!!
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 was there for that episode of Soul Train.🚂 I had a fly yellow suit on looking like Huggy Bear.🎩😏
@@RickMichaels-if5eq LOL.
When these come out for the 90s it’s gonna be wild
Oh now you just showing out!
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 🤔
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just give it time this will be playing at every BBQ
You do some excellent stuff my dude
I like the pictures, showing beautiful young black people 😊❤
Its AI
This slaps and didn't even know it!!!
This joint sound like it came out in the 70s fresh!!@
Whoa... Some of these are incredible. Solid work.
I'm hearing this for the first time, damm,this is classic and soulful. I once in this situation, with women (not married then?)
I miss my pops
So smooth. Nice work! 🤙
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
This is awesome
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.
U fittin to make a 70s pimp movie ain't u dawg....soundtrack would be cold AF
I love this music cruise on your ride let the mind be free ☝🏽❤️🙏🏽
This reminds me of that DRS Gangsta Lean.
I don’t care if these artists aren’t human. The shit still slaps. Real black soul music is just a way better vibe then modern hip-hop
My peepaw used to play this on the cassette tape while rolling in his buick regal sitting on 22 inch chromes
Another banger baby🤷🏽♂️
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
Amazing vibes keep going strong for God bless everyone 🙌🙏
I can just imagine myself taking a night drive cruise in a black 1972 Imperial LeBaron with the windows down, blasting this song.
This is hard!!!! 🔥🔥
Love the music very creative and on the next level. Is there any way we can submit ideas and contact info . Thanks and keep it going 👍🏿
I made myself in the back of a 73 Impala when this came out.
Man those boys were clean
This what I’m bumping in my 70 Buick
✨️⚡️👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽⚡️✨️Great presentation
This is actually fire
I keep tricking the old heads with these AI tracks, its hilarious watching them trying to figure out why they weren’t aware of the songs
😂😂😂
You fool I'm doing that to my old heads now 😂
Real music
AI is a scary thing….but the song does relate to a whole generation who can understand this era
Office space, movie, song, damn it feels good to be a gangsta
On God!!
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
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. 🖤
AND I PUT THAT ON MY MOMMA'S MOMMA 🙏🌹
This one made me hit the subscribe button 😂😂
This bout to be the theme music when I clock in an go to work my overnight shift
Somebody in love with pinstripe lol 😎
This one came out solid. Nice
Pardon my excitement..... this MFNK GanGster right here beat on fire ...soul fire ..super nova
wish u'd upload the instrumentals. i wanna sample some of these.
Some of the photos look exactly like the ones on my Moms coffee table.❤❤❤❤❤
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
It really does
❤...God got this..enjoy
I think Geto Boys gone sue somebody! 😂
The song also includes a sampling of "The Ghetto", by the late great Donny Hathaway
I remember cruising in my old ford bronco with the back window down to this song. while smoking black and milds
Damn you don’t miss
Saturday morning vibes
Imagine being in a alternate reality where Samuel "Smooth Sam" Davis was a real singer
All day every day.✋️
This is nice
W,T.F.....IVE NEVER HERD THIS B4
I LOVE IT,,,,MO FO GANGSTER....LOL...
VERY SMOOTH TUNE,,,
PEACE.....OUT💯❤
😍
Heat
Оригинальный фанк и соул всегда будет лучше❤
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.
My white caddy and me comming down the 79th st heading back from the gun range!!
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.
Its alot of supposedly old hits being posted lately that i aint heard in my life. Are these posts legit or some sort of trend perpatrating the 70s??
Yeah they rap songs and AI makes them into old school R&B this song was originally made by the Geto Boys. Damn it feels good to be a gangster.
@@slimripp3918 Thanks for hipping me on. Now I know! Lol
Kum on sauce mane...💪💪