I say Ike, then Joe, then Matthew

Berry Gordy.

Define gangster.

Ike!

Man BATTERED his hoe....mans a GAN'STA!

And Ike did say he would beat down his own mama

Clive Davis

vizionheiry said:

ahhhh..mafia type

Tommy Mottola??

vizionheiry said:

Yep.

Norman Whitfield.

who did Matthew Knowles beat on?
just because he keep one daughter in the basement doesn't make him gangsta...

Rick James and James Brown were beating on wenches so they should be on this list before Matthew Knowles. In fact they went to jail! I don't believe Ike went to jail, and Joe hasn't either.

No, Ike only went to jail for drug issues. And Joe doesn't have a criminal record. Neither does Mathew. Mathew only cheated on his wife. That don't make him a "gangster". Ike was someone who was tormented by his childhood ordeals (much like James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Rick James, David Ruffin, etc.) as was Joe in a sense.

I would say record execs like Berry, Clive and 'em were more the gangsters than Mathew, Ike and Joe ever was. Plus Joe's just plain nuts.

Suge Knight.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Timmy84 said:

But should he count, he is an actual Gangsta!

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Yeah he was as much a gangster in the recording industry as he was on the streets.

Barry Gordy has gone beyond being a ganster; look closer you'll see he has horns coming out of his head.

TD3 said:

Yeah I did see 'em lol

Berry is a pimp

Suge Knight.....I mean DEBO!!!!!

woogiebear said:

I'm gonna throw Don King into the mix. Not only does he have the nerve to go out of the house with that hairstyle, he also ripped off Mike Tyson and once killed someone who owed him $600 dollars! Now that's gangsta!!

He certainly beat the hell out of the funk, rubbed it out, and left it in the ditch to die until shit hop came along a little later to bury it.

Every time I watch this guy every Christmas, I think of Don King.

vainandy said:

Oh Lawd! That's the Heat Miser! Yeah, he's definitely a dead ringer for Don King!

scriptgirl said:

Out of those three, I say Matthew Knowles is THE biggest cut-throat music business man in that bunch. Not to mention that he is a rogue Freemason like his son-in-law Jay-Z. Without Matthew, the world would've never known anything about his little princess (Beyonce) today.

vizionheiry said:

Clive Davis is a gangster for all of the wrong reasons. The first time Kelly Clarkson OR Alicia Keys decided to rebel against the system, Clive threaten to NOT promote their albums. Sadly, neither one of these women would ever provoke this man ever again!

vainandy said:

Not to mention that Clive's weapon of choice against The Funk was Whitney.

And lets not forget about that time where Clive almost ruined the r&b/soul career of Phyllis Hyman by trying to make her adult contemporary pop.

"eat this cake, annie mae!"

Harlepolis said:

LOL.