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

[@AIForTheCulture]

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]

These visuals are so beautiful.

[@indigosunset70]

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

[@1blakking]

This takes me back!

[@joshbautista6892]

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]

🙃

[@mungojerry4713]

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.

[@masonite1973]

lol

[@dingdingding4033]

LOL

[@BossyK-me6ml]

Lmfao

[@bewtbewtbewt]

🤣

[@natureboygolfer]

Hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@luisanthony1385]

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.

[@tameshacantrell9823]

Wait how this a real song ?

[@skyguy1988]

@@tameshacantrell9823 xD just go with it lmao

[@njv1234]

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]

You mean the Geto boys version?

[@polloloco1163]

@@randalon75he was being sarcastic bro

[@shakiredmondson1959]

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

[@LBOOGIEDAMANN]

3:54 "teach yo man how to squabble" 😂

[@AIForTheCulture]

Dead 😂😂😂

[@OLManJenkins87]

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

[@Hyabusa40]

This A.I. is crazy scary how good it is. I am finding myself gravitating towards it.

[@mitigatedgalltv5747]

😂factz

[@Killuminati773]

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

[@steeltown416]

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.

[@50BeatsManagement]

😂😂😂

[@OLManJenkins87]

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

[@NINJAMASTER-k5u]

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]

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

[@randalon75]

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

[@noobfromhell563]

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

[@danielgalan1920]

😂

[@LateNightCable]

And now you’re a White Boi, funny how that goes.

[@OrionOsiris777]

🤣🤣

[@darinwoods8853]

What are you now 😅

[@noobfromhell563]

@@darinwoods8853 some creepy german guy :/

[@oahuswat6994]

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

[@terrencewesterman851]

President Benjamin Franklin agrees

[@natureboygolfer]

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

[@natureboygolfer]

@@terrencewesterman851 LOL

[@mitigatedgalltv5747]

😂😂💯

[@bigowl71]

Ol' sKooL is tha' best sKooL!!! 💯✌🏿

[@DesperadoJux]

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

[@Nakdimon4]

i just flipped that part into a hard trap beat

[@EvilRevanX]

​@@Nakdimon4yooo upload that shit please!

[@ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers]

Just give it time this will be playing at every BBQ

[@JacksonPierce]

Dope song!!

[@KalmWolf84]

Dangerous this AI 😮

[@frrrreeaky]

fo sho

[@louisms]

This one my favorite so far ❤

[@808jonster]

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

[@LovelyBigWaterfall-el5ir]

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

[@heavydown2582]

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

[@BlackKingEnt]

nigga i thought these are real tracks

[@bloodtopaz8816]

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]

@@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]

"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]

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

[@briand4763]

It was so dope when this dropped on SOUL TRAIN.

[@DiabolikalFollikles]

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

[@user-iv8sz6yb2p]

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

[@bigcartoonyIIV]

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]

​@@bigcartoonyIIVGood time's ✊🏾

[@DiabolikalFollikles]

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

[@bigcartoonyIIV]

@@user-iv8sz6yb2p yea buddy

[@bigcartoonyIIV]

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

[@juanjordan2539]

I'm 29 this song 🎵 49 yrs old , still listening Rip 2 the OG's !!!! 💯 👑

[@tomstarwalker]

We need this style back!

[@buckeyes8631]

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

[@Necronkiller]

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

[@bigcartoonyIIV]

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

[@jakfrostp9201]

This is hard!!!! 🔥🔥

[@lordjamescbeeson8579]

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

[@FURTVKIKASS]

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

[@OLManJenkins87]

Oh now you just showing out!

[@freshair_music]

Amazing vibes keep going strong for God bless everyone 🙌🙏

[@ToniDaTiger-1andonly]

Saturday morning vibes

[@BKkillaz]

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

[@BrogePerryJr]

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

[@ricohwellmed4886]

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]

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

[@robertturner6721]

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

[@DaOvaseea]

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

[@ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers]

Right right

[@mogultalk1on183]

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

[@vanc8288]

This is awesome

[@ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers]

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

[@DanlowMusic]

This reminds me of that DRS Gangsta Lean.

[@MdotEroc-gh6wk]

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

[@Flintlockinc]

Whoa... Some of these are incredible. Solid work.

[@ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers]

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

[@Fellowrser]

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

[@vernam.2474]

✨️⚡️👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽⚡️✨️Great presentation

[@strapp1999]

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]

Bro who sings this this song??🤔

[@stayfocuseddi]

🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢

[@snaked.i.522]

Stop da kap bruh 🤔

[@EvilRevanX]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Homer23D]

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

[@nyamangurasweetdaddy-sn1gl]

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

[@hillbillyrocker3257]

So smooth. Nice work! 🤙

[@jakep714]

Another banger baby🤷🏽‍♂️

[@A.imusicmastermind2.0]

You do some excellent stuff my dude

[@boosieworks]

Somebody in love with pinstripe lol 😎

[@bryantbridgewaters7177]

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

[@DeepDeepSouth]

Real music

[@TyroneHernandez-00707]

AND I PUT THAT ON MY MOMMA'S MOMMA 🙏🌹

[@DonSirKarlo]

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

[@natureboygolfer]

Man those boys were clean

[@Malfunkzhun]

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

[@onewiseking2800]

I miss my pops

[@MeMyHustleN-I]

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

[@nappapapeleta4049]

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

[@liamshope2838]

It really does

[@LBOOGIEDAMANN]

None of these people exist, this music isn't real, this comment isn't here.

[@calgaines4841]

I never read any of it

[@OLManJenkins87]

Twilight Zone

[@DiabolikalFollikles]

These soulful, groovy, and nostalgic feels I’m feeling aren’t real either. 🎶 🖤🎵🎼

[@kiasersouzayxoxo]

Time paradox type ish

[@Finnegeas]

I read this comment back in 79 on the subway billboards. Ya dig.

[@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988]

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

[@realdeal8303]

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

[@fooseball131]

This is actually fire

[@aaronamado6885]

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

[@nakia9669]

On God!!

[@porkbeans4792]

This is nice

[@williamherring728]

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.

[@user-vj1we6ru3u]

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

[@LateNightCable]

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

[@lamaillebien-etremuaythai471]

So a pimp is not a gangster ?

[@LateNightCable]

@@lamaillebien-etremuaythai471 could be, but a pimp is a pimp.

[@skyguy1988]

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

[@songserenade2210]

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.

[@Supertroy1974]

Damn you don’t miss

[@funkandstein9849]

I think Geto Boys gone sue somebody! 😂

[@Spcldrkchclt717]

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

[@carolynstone6454]

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

[@GregTurdHauler]

Its AI

[@johnnyknoxville5917]

Оригинальный фанк и соул всегда будет лучше❤

[@stevodib47]

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

[@stevodib47]

😍

[@ActionMenWorldPeacekeepers]

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 😊

[@BLACKGEMINIFILMZ]

This is a nice update

[@bamnjphoto]

This fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@lawoull.6581]

❤...God got this..enjoy

[@erickvillalba5985]

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

[@thatdudebro]

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

[@upnya71]

AI kicking everybody azzzz😂

[@davidward2827]

Oh it's real. Real as you and me. More heard ai for the culture than have heard of me

[@starksenterprises]

Pray for Scarface who's currently in hospital🤲🏾

[@BearMarketBae]

Better than the original

[@AlejandroGutierrez-jp1uk]

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 💪

[@WoodStMaCK]

Kum on sauce mane...💪💪

[@jc-ul8ip]

Cruzing in my 1979 srt jeep back in the day

[@BlackKingEnt]

This is scary man.

[@jacobowen4978]

Heat

[@DiabolikalFollikles]

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

[@AIForTheCulture]

Thank You!! 🙏🏾

[@DiabolikalFollikles]

@@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]

and Ghetto Boys. 🖤

[@PresiValentine]

Dope ❤😊

[@Baddbunnyfoofoo-j1o]

Somethings never change

[@cbxsounds135]

The realest fake sht Iv de heard. Love it!!!