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the G code is a set very basic rules that if you follow very carefully, you will have the upper hand on anyone who means to do you harm. it is not so much a secret, as a humble understanding of the ways of the world. to boast and to flaunt are direct violations of it, so those who frequently speak in public about the G code do not fully grasp the concept. the G code is a way of life, a survival technique that has endured conflicts since the arrival of the first slave of the eastern seaboard.
a lot of rappers call themselves talking about the G code, but they don't really know!
G Code by mischiefthepoet September 6, 2013
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To not snitch or talk to the police about a criminal matter, aka keeping your mouth shut.
-Frank Gussenberg, 1920s gangster shot 20 times during the St. valentine's Day Massacre, whose last words to the police when asked if he knew who shot him: ""I'm not gonna talk - nobody shot me."

-Rapper Project Pat.

-Geto Boys' song "G code"
G code by Hyman Weinstein September 27, 2009
The G Code stands for Ghetto Code. It is generally used to describe the old gangsters, the street veterans, who are from the ghetto or the hood as some like to call it. To be born in the G Code is something to be proud of, it means you are a hard-ass gangster and no one can fuck with you.
We don't talk to police, we don't make a peace bond, we don't trust in the judicial system, we shoot guns. We rely on the streets, we do battle in the hood, I was born in the G Code, embedded in my blood.
G Code by Tick Tock Tannenbaum September 12, 2006
The G code is a term which refers to a system of not snitching. The phrase started by propaganda used in Baltimore, MD to stop members of inner-city communities from snitching on each other. This is where the phrase “Stop Snitchin’” was formed. This is the bases for the G-Code.
G Code by Geto Boys is a good example.

a better example from the song is:

"See I be on some street shit, don't talk to police
I won't accept a visit from agents who wanna see
if I got shit to say about a nigga case
I'm a motherfuckin' nigga through and through, I ain't gay ......
...When the government is workin', real niggas never squeal "
G Code by Jay 16 December 9, 2008
the code of the streets, rules, just the code. @sierraliv on instagram
G code by errayas August 30, 2016
Gangster code. Don't snitch. and if someone snitches on you slit that motherfuckers throat.
when that kid snitched on me i stayed true to the G Code and killed that motherfucker.
G Code by tiedyedbrain February 3, 2009