Mafia and a staff producer for Casa Productions.

Last album = Black Mafia Life ( 1993 ) |

Black Mafia Life was the second album by gangsta rap group Above the Law, released on February 2, 1993 ; being released some time after their popular debut Livin ' Like Hustlers, Black Mafia Life proved a surprising success.

The album was executive produced by ex-Three 6 Mafia member turned Christian rapper Mr. Del.

In 1994, Triple Six Mafia released the underground album Smoked Out Loced Out.

In 1995, the loose collective changed its name to Three 6 Mafia and self-released its debut album, Mystic Stylez.

The album became an underground success, and Three 6 Mafia, in turn, signed a distribution deal with Relativity for its Hypnotize Minds imprint.

For example, the first line of ' Bad to the Bone ' from Wanted: Dead or Alive ( 1990 ) is, I'm bad to the bone / with a style like Al Capone, the album Live and Let Die ( 1992 ) uses samples from the film The Untouchables, the album cover of Roots of Evil ( 1998 ) uses elements from The Godfather and Scarface theatrical posters, and The Giancana Story ( 2002 ) album title references Mafia boss Sam Giancana.

Stewart recorded his first album for Mute, As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade, in November 1985, also produced by Sherwood, under the name Mark Stewart and the Mafia.

* Koopsta Knicca ( 1993-2000 )-Ex-Three 6 Mafia member, left over a dispute about appearing on ex-Hypnotize Minds member Kingpin Skinny Pimp's independent album.

1996 proved to be a seminal year for the genre, with the releases of Three 6 Mafia album Chapter 1: The End ( featuring " Gette'm Crunk "), and Memphis-based underground hip hop legend Tommy Wright III album On the Run ( featuring the Project Pimp track " Getting Crunk ").

In 2005, after the band signed with Artemis Records, the album Mafia was released.

Their debut album, Mafia, marked the beginning of the new gangsta rap era as the production and the social commentary in their lyrics were revolutionary within the genre.

The group released Mafia in late 1995 and, since music distribution was virtually inexistent in Romania at the time, the album was only available for a relatively short period of time in Bucharest, becoming valuable fan memorabilia over time.

Mafia is frequentlly quoted among Romanian hip hop historians as the third hip hop album to be released in Romania, after R. A. C. L. A.

Mafia and they released their third studio material and second full-length album the same year.

Mafia album to be released on both cassette tape and cd.

He released a solo album produced by DJ Paul, Da Devil's Playground in 1999. Cooper left Three 6 Mafia in 2000 due to money disputes and wanting to pursue a solo career.

* Mafia ( Black Label Society album ), released in 2005

Mafia album ), released in 1995

* Interlude ( Swedish House Mafia album )

Outside of the label's roster, regular performers include: Project Born, Kottonmouth Kings, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Vanilla Ice, Zug Izland, Esham, Tech N9ne, Wolfpac, 2 Live Crew, Rehab, Necro, Haystak, King Gordy, Prozak, Three 6 Mafia, Afroman, Bizarre, Big B, George Clinton and Parliament, Mack 10, Haystak, and Coolio.

Although this phenomenon was nothing new, ( the most famous example being Neil Blaney's " Donegal Mafia ") it increased significantly from the early 90's particularly in the Dublin Region with former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern's " Drumcondra mafia " and the separate groups supporting Tom Kitt and Séamus Brennan in Dublin South largely separate from the official party structure.

A law to create a new offence of Mafia conspiracy, and confiscate Mafia assets was introduced by Pio La Torre but it had been stalled in parliament for two years, La Torre was murdered April 30, 1982.

The new incumbent did not accept that the hierarchical Mafia structure revealed by the Maxi Trial actually existed, and he attempted to force Falcone to work on cases of wife beating and car theft.

On March 13, 2012 Bert Fields, attorney for the estate of Mario Puzo filed a counterclaim against Paramount Pictures, who sued the estate to stop the author ’ s son, Anthony Puzo, from publishing a new sequel to his father ’ s classic Mafia saga, " The Godfather.

Once Benito Mussolini chased a great deal of real mafiosi out of Italy, Italian-Americans such as Gambino benefited from the new, better-organized Mafia.

As the 80s faded away and ushered in the ' 90s, Houston based artist La Mafia, already with over a dozen Tejano Music Awards under their belt, originated a new Tejano style later to become a Tejano standard.

In the late 70s and early 80s, there was a new sound emerging with up and coming groups like McAllen's Espejismo, led by songwriter / lead singer Rudy Valdez, and more notably Brownsville natives Joe Lopez, Jimmy Gonzalez y El Grupo Mazz introduced the keyboard sound to Tejano which was influenced by the Disco sound of the era, and during that period, La Mafia became the first Tejano band to put on Rock Style shows for their generation.

Trafficante began to assume control of the Mafia in Tampa, becoming the new boss of the Antinori family in October 1940, and kept control the criminal rackets in the Central Florida area until his death in 1954.

51 classic American cars around the city can be driven in Mafia, plus 19 bonus cars ( of which 5 are racing models ) unlockable after the main mode and the opening of a new game mode.

On the August 20, 2009 edition of Impact !, Taz replaced Don West as the promotion's color commentator and also became a face character as a result, stating that he was only loosely associated with the Mafia and that he had taught all he knew to Joe and that it was now up to Joe to use his new found skills.

A few weeks later on Impact !, The James Gang reemerged under a new name Voodoo Kin Mafia ; the group name ' Voodoo Kin Mafia ' share the same initials as WWE chairman Vincent Kennedy McMahon.

As time passes, Yamamoto and his new gang emerge as a powerful force, gradually expanding their turf to an extent that they must confront the Mafia.

While aboard Air Force One, President Johnson called for O ' Brien and Kenny O ' Donnell ( another Kennedy insider and member of the Irish Mafia ) asking both of them to stay on and work with Johnson in his new administration.

Their gang became the first new style Mafia " family " which included Italians from all regions and could work in partnership with other ethnic groups if it was good for business.

The Mafia threatened and undermined his power in Sicily, and a successful campaign would strengthen him as the new leader, legitimising and empowering his rule.

The new oath stipulated that the only way for a member to leave the Mexican Mafia was to be killed.

These included policies such as: a new member must be sponsored by an existing member, unanimous approval from all existing members to join ( no longer policy ), prioritizing the gang over one's family, denial of the existence of the Mexican Mafia to law enforcement or non-members, respect of other members, forgiving street conflicts which existed before incarceration.

Problems came to a head when ABC's Nightline revealed that there was a distinct possibility of embezzlement of American finances by the Russian authorities in order to build a suite of new cosmonaut houses in Moscow, or else that the building projects were being funded by the Russian Mafia.

Later in 1963, the Mafia Commission forced Magliocco to resign and installed Colombo, an ally of Gambino crime family boss Carlo Gambino, as the new Profaci family boss.

Some of the characters from GTA III appear in the game, including bomb-shop owner 8-Ball and the Yakuza crime boss Asuka, although none of the Mafia characters from GTA III appear, and entirely new characters such as Vinnie ( Mike's friend and first employer ), Cisco ( the leader of the Colombian Cartel ), and Yuka ( Asuka's niece ) have been added to the mix.

The new name was first disclosed after Massino was indicted in 2003 and did not catch on outside the Mafia.