Mafioso rap, or "Crime Rap" is a hip hop sub-genre which first started in the late 1980s and later flourished in the mid-1990s. It is the pseudo-Mafia extension of East Coast hardcore rap.
In contrast to "Conscious rappers", who tended to depict realistic urban life on the ghetto streets, Mafioso rappers' tell stories about organized crime, and self-indulgence, referencing fine liqour, marijuana, drugs, designer clothes, and other luxuries of a a...
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