10 Drug Lords & Mob Bosses Rap References

It's a rap rite of passage to name check mobsters, no?

It's a Hard Knock Life - Even though most rappers haven't led a life dedicated to major organized crime like the people referenced in this list, they are inspired by the levels of power these drug lords and mob bosses have. It provides a well-known narrative for their tales and, if anything, it's another word to rhyme with. From El Chapo to Al Capone, check out which crime bosses made the cut. — Janice Llamoca(Photos from left: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Global Citizen Festival, Kimberly White/Getty Images for Hennessy, Theo Wargo/Getty Images for TIDAL)

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It's a Hard Knock Life - Even though most rappers haven't led a life dedicated to major organized crime like the people referenced in this list, they are inspired by the levels of power these drug lords and mob bosses have. It provides a well-known narrative for their tales and, if anything, it's another word to rhyme with. From El Chapo to Al Capone, check out which crime bosses made the cut. — Janice Llamoca(Photos from left: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Global Citizen Festival, Kimberly White/Getty Images for Hennessy, Theo Wargo/Getty Images for TIDAL)

'Fredo, I'm the king of Chicago / Got a .30 and I fill it up with hollows / Got bricks and I feel like El Chapo' – 'Jealous' by Fredo Santana Featuring Kendrick Lamar - Spoiler alert: the bricks do not make Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán a carpenter.(Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

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'Fredo, I'm the king of Chicago / Got a .30 and I fill it up with hollows / Got bricks and I feel like El Chapo' – 'Jealous' by Fredo Santana Featuring Kendrick Lamar - Spoiler alert: the bricks do not make Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán a carpenter.(Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

'These hood b*****s loving a n***a, like I’m Alpo' – '2Pac' by Future - Alberto “Alpo” Martinez was most likely a popular gentleman with the ladies in his hometown borough of Harlem. That’s what power gets you. That and a life sentence after being found guilty for 14 counts of murder.(Photo: Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for Power 105.1's Powerhouse 2015)

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'These hood b*****s loving a n***a, like I’m Alpo' – '2Pac' by Future - Alberto “Alpo” Martinez was most likely a popular gentleman with the ladies in his hometown borough of Harlem. That’s what power gets you. That and a life sentence after being found guilty for 14 counts of murder.(Photo: Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for Power 105.1's Powerhouse 2015)

'Lucky Luciano they call me, paesano' – 'F**kWithMeYouKnowIGotIt' by Jay Z Featuring Rick Ross - Charles “Lucky” Luciano is one of the many Italian mob bosses Jay Z likes to rhyme with.(Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Global Citizen Festival)

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'Lucky Luciano they call me, paesano' – 'F**kWithMeYouKnowIGotIt' by Jay Z Featuring Rick Ross - Charles “Lucky” Luciano is one of the many Italian mob bosses Jay Z likes to rhyme with.(Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Global Citizen Festival)

'Escobar 600, you just a crumb inside a world where the rich run it' – 'Live N***a Rap' by Nas Featuring Mobb Deep - Nas takes the Pablo Escobar reference a bit further. He actually adopts the drug lord lifestyle into another of his personas, Nas Escobar.(Photo: Kimberly White/Getty Images for Hennessy)

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'Escobar 600, you just a crumb inside a world where the rich run it' – 'Live N***a Rap' by Nas Featuring Mobb Deep - Nas takes the Pablo Escobar reference a bit further. He actually adopts the drug lord lifestyle into another of his personas, Nas Escobar.(Photo: Kimberly White/Getty Images for Hennessy)

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'OK, I f**k a b***h and I’m gone / That’s gangsta: Al Capone' – 'Pop That' by French Montana Featuring Drake, Lil Wayne and Rick Ross - Out of all the gangsters, Brooklyn-born Al Capone rhymes the best with “gone.”(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

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'OK, I f**k a b***h and I’m gone / That’s gangsta: Al Capone' – 'Pop That' by French Montana Featuring Drake, Lil Wayne and Rick Ross - Out of all the gangsters, Brooklyn-born Al Capone rhymes the best with “gone.”(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

'I’m not DeLorean, Gambino or Gotti / I don’t coke and furthermore you’re making me broke' – 'Sometimes I Rhyme Slow' by Nice & Smooth - Not everyone can blow money like businessmen and mob bosses Carlo “Don Carlo” Gambino and John Gotti, who made their living off selling hard drugs.(Photo: Terrence Jennings/Retna Ltd./Retna Ltd./Corbis)

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'I’m not DeLorean, Gambino or Gotti / I don’t coke and furthermore you’re making me broke' – 'Sometimes I Rhyme Slow' by Nice & Smooth - Not everyone can blow money like businessmen and mob bosses Carlo “Don Carlo” Gambino and John Gotti, who made their living off selling hard drugs.(Photo: Terrence Jennings/Retna Ltd./Retna Ltd./Corbis)

'Karma catches up to all you head honchos / 2 dome shots in that head, Griselda Blanco' – 'See No Evil' by Game Featuring Kendrick Lamar and Tank - With those two lines, Game summed up the demise of Griselda Blanco, also known as the Cocaine Godmother.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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'Karma catches up to all you head honchos / 2 dome shots in that head, Griselda Blanco' – 'See No Evil' by Game Featuring Kendrick Lamar and Tank - With those two lines, Game summed up the demise of Griselda Blanco, also known as the Cocaine Godmother.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

'I never pray to God, I prayed to Gotti' – 'D’Evils' by Jay Z - Hov isn’t too religious if he’s prayed to John Gotti, the former boss of the Gambino crime family who was later convicted of five murders.(Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Live Nation)

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'I never pray to God, I prayed to Gotti' – 'D’Evils' by Jay Z - Hov isn’t too religious if he’s prayed to John Gotti, the former boss of the Gambino crime family who was later convicted of five murders.(Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Live Nation)

'I think I’m Big Meech, Larry Hoover / Whipping work, hallelujah' – 'B.M.F. (Blowin’ Money Fast)' by Rick Ross Featuring Styles P - Rick Ross is on bawse levels, getting into the mindsets of Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory and Larry Hoover. (Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for TIDAL)

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'I think I’m Big Meech, Larry Hoover / Whipping work, hallelujah' – 'B.M.F. (Blowin’ Money Fast)' by Rick Ross Featuring Styles P - Rick Ross is on bawse levels, getting into the mindsets of Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory and Larry Hoover. (Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for TIDAL)

'Like Frank Lucas is cool, but I ain’t trying to snitch' – 'No Hook' by Jay Z - Obviously, snitching is a no-no in life. But Frank Lucas, the heroin dealer whose life was immortalized in the film American Gangster, is still OK in Jay’s book. Hov was later inspired to create a concept album also titled American Gangster.(Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Global Citizen Festival)

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'Like Frank Lucas is cool, but I ain’t trying to snitch' – 'No Hook' by Jay Z - Obviously, snitching is a no-no in life. But Frank Lucas, the heroin dealer whose life was immortalized in the film American Gangster, is still OK in Jay’s book. Hov was later inspired to create a concept album also titled American Gangster.(Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Global Citizen Festival)