This song’s title is derived from Black Gangster, a novel from one of the most well-known and seminal “street literature” purveyors, Donald Goines.

(image from The Ridge Books)

Goines was a great influence on Noreaga, as he explicitly stated on a later track:

Locked up, reading Donald Goines’s books
Expanding my imagination

and Goines’s work is regularly referenced in the lyrics of many Queens-based MCs.

Especially significant about many of Goines’s protagonists is that their criminal activity is informed and motivated by Black Nationalism, and a deep opposition to authority – which is often depicted as racist and corrupt.

Capone sheds some light on the song’s creation in this piece from Complex magazine, though he doesn’t mention the Goines inspiration.