Artist	Song
Raekwon	Incarcerated Scarfaces
from Wu: The Story of the Wu-Tang Clan (2008)
AZ, Dr. Dre, Nas & Nature	Phone Tap
from The Album (1997)
AZ	Sugar Hill
from Doe or Die (1995)
The Notorious B.I.G.	Ten Crack Commandments
from Life After Death (2005)
Nas	Street Dreams
from It Was Written (1996)
Big L	The Triboro Featuring OC, Fat Joe and Remy Martin
from The Big Picture (2002)
Black Rob	Whoa!
from Bad Boy's 10th Anniversary - The Hits (2005)
Fat Joe	King of N.Y. (feat. Buju Banton)
from Jealous Ones Still Envy (J.O.S.E) (2007)
Big Punisher featuring Noriega	You Came Up
from Capital Punishment (1999)
Junior M.A.F.I.A.	Get Money
from Conspiracy (2009)
The Lox Featuring DMX & Lil' Kim	Money, Power & Respect
from Money, Power & Respect (2005)
Ghetto Mafia	Straight from the DEC
from Straight from the Dec (1996)
Shyne Featuring Barrington Levy	Bad Boyz
from Shyne (2005)
Kool G Rap	Fast Life
from 4, 5, 6 (1995)
Yo Gotti	Full Time
from Back 2 Da Basics (2006)
Young Jeezy	Soul Survivor (feat. Akon)
from Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 (2011)
Rick Ross	Hustlin'
from Port of Miami (2006)

Comment:

Say hello to gangsta rap's little friend — the shotgun-blastin', cannoli-chompin', pinky ring-smoochin' Mafia flick. Tony Montana and Michael Corleone loomed large in the G-rap imagination, their exploits fueling Mafioso Rap's deepest desires: brigades of loyal street soldiers, mountains of ill-gotten gains, and most of all, the mob's unbending code of honor. Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA once said, "When Raekwon came with [i]Only Built 4 Cuban Linx[/i], he got every hip-hop head fiending for that Mafia (stuff)." And the coldest, most ruthless song on that 1995 breakthrough is "Incarcerated Scarfaces," a Spartan track rollin’ on a barebones drumbeat and the haunting pings of a gloomy piano. Just as Raekwon called himself Lex Diamond and said, "Pardon the French, but let me speak Italian," Nas, too, adopted a mob-related alter ego, Escobar, and rapped over a [i]Godfather[/i]esque mandolin about paranoia and police surveillance on the suspenseful "Phone Tap." And Esco's fellow Firm employee AZ painted a gangsta's paradise that even Carlito could appreciate on the souled-out, disco-drenched "Sugar Hill," with its visions of white sands and Costa Rican villas. But we’re just getting started; from Kool G. Rap to Rick Ross, we've got an entire playlist devoted to hip-hop’s heaviest capos and dons.

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