Not too many months ago there was a group calling themselves the "Family" They had a "Don", and some capos.
They ain't around no more tho.
Let's me tell you about a "Family"
Me and Russo.
35 years of being friends. REAL friends, not what this business gives you.
35 years of being Italian New Yorkers. Outsiders in the business.
We don't have family in the business. We aren't good old boys.
Just a couple of pisanos with the same upbringing, same Sunday dinners, same values.
We stuck together even if it meant hearing
$hit, losing work.
We defended each other.
Standing up for your boy when they turn on him. That's gangster. That's a real Family.
You can't book that. You can't recreate that.
Bottomline, this has always been my lineage. It's not a part I play. It's my uncles, my grandfather, my father.
A "family" isn't because a booker tosses a couple guys together cause they look like the cast of the Godfather. It's more.
35 years, I still have what's mine, Big Vito.
35 years and Vin and I are back, but honestly, we never left.