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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Комментарии • 344

  • @AIForTheCulture
    @AIForTheCulture  3 месяца назад +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 месяца назад +11

      These visuals are so beautiful.

    • @indigosunset70
      @indigosunset70 3 месяца назад +4

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

    • @1blakking
      @1blakking 3 месяца назад +5

      This takes me back!

    • @joshbautista6892
      @joshbautista6892 3 месяца назад +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 месяца назад

      🙃

  • @mungojerry4713
    @mungojerry4713 3 месяца назад +138

    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 месяца назад +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.

  • @OLManJenkins87
    @OLManJenkins87 3 месяца назад +52

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

  • @steeltown416
    @steeltown416 3 месяца назад +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.

  • @njv1234
    @njv1234 3 месяца назад +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 месяца назад +6

      You mean the Geto boys version?

  • @DonSirKarlo
    @DonSirKarlo 3 месяца назад +13

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

  • @OLManJenkins87
    @OLManJenkins87 3 месяца назад +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

  • @Killuminati773
    @Killuminati773 3 месяца назад +20

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

  • @bigcartoonyIIV
    @bigcartoonyIIV 3 месяца назад +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 месяца назад +31

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

    • @terrencewesterman851
      @terrencewesterman851 3 месяца назад +4

      President Benjamin Franklin agrees

    • @natureboygolfer
      @natureboygolfer 2 месяца назад +2

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

    • @natureboygolfer
      @natureboygolfer 2 месяца назад +1

      @@terrencewesterman851 LOL

  • @shakiredmondson1959
    @shakiredmondson1959 Месяц назад +18

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

  • @user-iv8sz6yb2p
    @user-iv8sz6yb2p 3 месяца назад +95

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

    • @bigcartoonyIIV
      @bigcartoonyIIV 3 месяца назад +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 месяца назад +8

      ​@@bigcartoonyIIVGood time's ✊🏾

    • @DiabolikalFollikles
      @DiabolikalFollikles 3 месяца назад +6

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

    • @bigcartoonyIIV
      @bigcartoonyIIV 3 месяца назад

      @@user-iv8sz6yb2p yea buddy

    • @bigcartoonyIIV
      @bigcartoonyIIV 3 месяца назад +2

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

  • @noobfromhell563
    @noobfromhell563 3 месяца назад +39

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

  • @KalmWolf84
    @KalmWolf84 3 месяца назад +33

    Dangerous this AI 😮

  • @808jonster
    @808jonster 3 месяца назад +16

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

  • @briand4763
    @briand4763 3 месяца назад +22

    It was so dope when this dropped on SOUL TRAIN.

    • @DiabolikalFollikles
      @DiabolikalFollikles 3 месяца назад +5

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

  • @DesperadoJux
    @DesperadoJux 2 месяца назад +7

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

    • @Nakdimon4
      @Nakdimon4 Месяц назад

      i just flipped that part into a hard trap beat

    • @EvilRevanX
      @EvilRevanX Месяц назад +1

      ​@@Nakdimon4yooo upload that shit please!

  • @ricohwellmed4886
    @ricohwellmed4886 Месяц назад +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 Месяц назад +2

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

  • @heavydown2582
    @heavydown2582 3 месяца назад +75

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

    • @BlackKingEnt
      @BlackKingEnt 3 месяца назад

      nigga i thought these are real tracks

    • @bloodtopaz8816
      @bloodtopaz8816 3 месяца назад +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 месяца назад +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 месяца назад +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 месяца назад +1

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

  • @petemcgaha1133
    @petemcgaha1133 3 месяца назад +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 месяца назад

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

    • @randalon75
      @randalon75 2 месяца назад +1

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

  • @songserenade2210
    @songserenade2210 3 месяца назад +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.

  • @JacksonPierce
    @JacksonPierce 2 месяца назад +5

    Dope song!!

  • @louisms
    @louisms 3 месяца назад +7

    This one my favorite so far ❤

  • @LBOOGIEDAMANN
    @LBOOGIEDAMANN 3 месяца назад +16

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

  • @buckeyes8631
    @buckeyes8631 2 месяца назад +4

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

  • @bigowl71
    @bigowl71 2 месяца назад +6

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

  • @DanlowMusic
    @DanlowMusic Месяц назад +2

    This reminds me of that DRS Gangsta Lean.

  • @bryantbridgewaters7177
    @bryantbridgewaters7177 3 месяца назад +7

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

  • @erickvillalba5985
    @erickvillalba5985 2 месяца назад +3

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

  • @lordjamescbeeson8579
    @lordjamescbeeson8579 2 месяца назад +4

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

  • @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers
    @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers 2 месяца назад +2

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

  • @BrogePerryJr
    @BrogePerryJr 3 месяца назад +6

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

  • @OLManJenkins87
    @OLManJenkins87 3 месяца назад +11

    Oh now you just showing out!

  • @tomstarwalker
    @tomstarwalker 3 месяца назад +6

    We need this style back!

  • @MdotEroc-gh6wk
    @MdotEroc-gh6wk 3 месяца назад +12

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

  • @robertturner6721
    @robertturner6721 Месяц назад +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

  • @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers
    @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers 2 месяца назад +4

    Just give it time this will be playing at every BBQ

  • @strapp1999
    @strapp1999 3 месяца назад +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 месяца назад +1

      Bro who sings this this song??🤔

    • @stayfocuseddi
      @stayfocuseddi 2 месяца назад

      🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢

    • @snaked.i.522
      @snaked.i.522 2 месяца назад

      Stop da kap bruh 🤔

    • @EvilRevanX
      @EvilRevanX Месяц назад

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Homer23D
    @Homer23D 2 месяца назад +1

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

  • @BKkillaz
    @BKkillaz 3 месяца назад +4

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

  • @DaOvaseea
    @DaOvaseea 2 месяца назад +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

  • @williamherring728
    @williamherring728 Месяц назад +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.

  • @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers
    @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers 2 месяца назад +1

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

  • @Fellowrser
    @Fellowrser 2 месяца назад +2

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

  • @A.imusicmastermind2.0
    @A.imusicmastermind2.0 Месяц назад +1

    You do some excellent stuff my dude

  • @vanc8288
    @vanc8288 3 месяца назад +5

    This is awesome

  • @nyamangurasweetdaddy-sn1gl
    @nyamangurasweetdaddy-sn1gl 2 месяца назад +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?)

  • @FURTVKIKASS
    @FURTVKIKASS 2 месяца назад +3

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

  • @Necronkiller
    @Necronkiller 3 месяца назад +4

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

  • @DeepDeepSouth
    @DeepDeepSouth 3 месяца назад +6

    Real music

  • @ToniDaTiger-1andonly
    @ToniDaTiger-1andonly 8 дней назад

    Saturday morning vibes

  • @THEMOTOWNAVENGERS
    @THEMOTOWNAVENGERS 3 месяца назад +6

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

  • @aaronamado6885
    @aaronamado6885 2 месяца назад +3

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

  • @onewiseking2800
    @onewiseking2800 2 месяца назад +1

    I miss my pops

  • @skyguy1988
    @skyguy1988 Месяц назад

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

  • @porkbeans4792
    @porkbeans4792 2 месяца назад +1

    This is nice

  • @juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988
    @juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 Месяц назад +2

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

  • @AlejandroGutierrez-jp1uk
    @AlejandroGutierrez-jp1uk 4 дня назад

    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 💪

  • @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers
    @ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers 2 месяца назад +1

    Yes it does damn it!!!!

  • @jacobowen4978
    @jacobowen4978 2 месяца назад +1

    Heat

  • @Uncensored-HMC
    @Uncensored-HMC 2 месяца назад +2

    have mercy

  • @funkandstein9849
    @funkandstein9849 3 месяца назад +6

    I think Geto Boys gone sue somebody! 😂

    • @Spcldrkchclt717
      @Spcldrkchclt717 2 месяца назад

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

  • @user-vj1we6ru3u
    @user-vj1we6ru3u Месяц назад

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

  • @Baddbunnyfoofoo-j1o
    @Baddbunnyfoofoo-j1o Месяц назад

    Somethings never change

  • @mogultalk1on183
    @mogultalk1on183 Месяц назад +2

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

  • @thatdudebro
    @thatdudebro 3 месяца назад +2

    wish u'd upload the instrumentals. i wanna sample some of these.

  • @jc-ul8ip
    @jc-ul8ip 2 месяца назад

    Cruzing in my 1979 srt jeep back in the day

  • @alexanderwilliams1942
    @alexanderwilliams1942 3 месяца назад +2

    This ain’t real but damn it sounds good. Scary accurate to that 70s sounds tho.

  • @fooseball131
    @fooseball131 3 месяца назад +2

    This is actually fire

  • @hillbillyrocker3257
    @hillbillyrocker3257 2 месяца назад +1

    So smooth. Nice work! 🤙

  • @LateNightCable
    @LateNightCable 3 месяца назад +4

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

  • @DiabolikalFollikles
    @DiabolikalFollikles 3 месяца назад +7

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

    • @AIForTheCulture
      @AIForTheCulture  3 месяца назад +2

      Thank You!! 🙏🏾

    • @DiabolikalFollikles
      @DiabolikalFollikles 3 месяца назад

      @@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 месяца назад

      and Ghetto Boys. 🖤

  • @TyroneHernandez-00707
    @TyroneHernandez-00707 Месяц назад +2

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

  • @Supertroy1974
    @Supertroy1974 3 месяца назад +4

    Damn you don’t miss

  • @natureboygolfer
    @natureboygolfer 2 месяца назад +1

    Man those boys were clean

  • @carolynstone6454
    @carolynstone6454 Месяц назад

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

  • @ToniDaTiger-1andonly
    @ToniDaTiger-1andonly 8 дней назад

    Repeat 🔁 mode

  • @MeMyHustleN-I
    @MeMyHustleN-I Месяц назад

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

  • @jakfrostp9201
    @jakfrostp9201 4 дня назад

    This is hard!!!! 🔥🔥

  • @Finnegeas
    @Finnegeas 3 месяца назад

    1.25 speed for those tv show intro good vibes.

  • @jakep714
    @jakep714 3 месяца назад +2

    Another banger baby🤷🏽‍♂️

  • @nappapapeleta4049
    @nappapapeleta4049 3 месяца назад +1

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

  • @lawoull.6581
    @lawoull.6581 Месяц назад +1

    ❤...God got this..enjoy

  • @theconductor420
    @theconductor420 3 месяца назад +1

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

  • @BigBlunt75
    @BigBlunt75 Месяц назад +2

    Playback at 1.25x speed

  • @PresiValentine
    @PresiValentine 2 месяца назад +1

    Dope ❤😊

  • @realdeal8303
    @realdeal8303 Месяц назад

    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

  • @gigabuyceps
    @gigabuyceps 3 месяца назад +1

    Ohhh gem

  • @vernam.2474
    @vernam.2474 Месяц назад

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

  • @Astral_Dusk
    @Astral_Dusk 3 месяца назад +2

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

  • @earthearth5701
    @earthearth5701 29 дней назад

    Love it real on

  • @jonathanmartin8730
    @jonathanmartin8730 Месяц назад

    tough song! but the big face benjamin's weren't printed yet in 1975 yet. (2:59 mark)

  • @stevodib47
    @stevodib47 2 месяца назад +1

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

  • @jon7465
    @jon7465 2 месяца назад +3

    I think Scarface/Ghetto Boys deserve copyright royalties for this shit!!!!!

  • @BearMarketBae
    @BearMarketBae Месяц назад +1

    Better than the original

  • @amalakin4444
    @amalakin4444 3 месяца назад +1

    Classic

  • @bamnjphoto
    @bamnjphoto Месяц назад

    This fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @NewYorkNitty
    @NewYorkNitty Месяц назад

    THIS SHIT IS FIRE‼️ How Do These Jeans Get Made Maineg‼️😩😩😩😩🫡👑‼️

  • @johnnyknoxville5917
    @johnnyknoxville5917 26 дней назад

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