People called "The Godfather"

The 'godfather of punk' dies at 78. Alan Vega, one half of punk duo Suicide, has died at the age of 78

godfather of weed seems a challengeable claim

And another--could probably turn up at least 15 or 20 in a search.

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140204-they-knew-the-godfather-of-punk

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God the Father
Godmother (disambiguation)
List of people considered father or mother of a field

in a sense there is no one who is not the godfather pf punk

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voting for the Avenging Disco Godfather

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorific_nicknames_in_popular_music

it's curious what the criteria is for who gets to be a godfather, who is just a father etc (two ppl who are just God w/noqualification- Clapton and Todd Rudgren)

Sun of Art is the best one imo.

so all you need for that article is one terrible journalist using an epithet and there you go, Adele is the Queen of Soul

quite an accomplishment for Bruce Lee to become the Godfather of Karate without doing karate

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51J%2BomSuDcL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

I remember reading through that honorific nicknames list a couple of years ago and noting the number of Mexican madonnas (which isn't all that surprising really)

whether "Motor City Madman" should be counted as an honorific is the sort of shit i would get into fights over if i was depressed enough to be a Wikipedia editor

Ray quickly earned the nicknames "Mr. Emotion", "The Nabob of Sob", and "The Prince of Wails",[5] and several others.[13]

my dad used to tell me about seeing Johnnie Ray in a completely packed out Wolverhampton Civic Hall

I first came across the nickname "the nabob of sob" in energy flash (talking about the Ray sample in that portishead song) and thought it was something Reynolds came up with

thought snoop was the doggfather

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Birth, School, Work, Death

James Brown was not a very admirable human being, but damn, he's the Godfather of Soul and he's unfuckwithable.

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