I didn't know who Frank Lucas was until I saw American Gangster. Yet I watched Superfly a zillion times not knowing the movie was based on his life. Not only that, to this day I still listen to the soundtrack of that movie of which I have 2 copies of the cd version. One the original version and another with alternate takes of those same songs. Back in HS days when the movie was released I bought me a tshirt with Curtis Mayfield's face and name. Tumultous times socially speaking but man, full of great music. Especially in Puerto Rico where I was born and raised where we had music coming in from basically all over the world. Great times indeed.
My BIG brother Eddie Jones passed away years ago, I didn't see him or spoke to him since the 80's, until today, ..... this video brought him back to me, just be able to listen to his voice and see him, made me feel joyful inside 🙏🏾 Thank you for posting this video.
Now that's a wife! To this day, after all these years, she still talks good about Mr. Bumpy. Plus she don't wanna use an ugly word like "damn". They don't make women like that anymore.
My Father ,, Selvin W. John ,, was the Tailor ,, who made clothes for Nicky Barnes only saw him once or twice he came to the store to get fitted every 6 months I was not always there someone else came to pick up the clothes and pay the balance on the clothes my father was one of the best 4 or five tailors in Brooklyn New York ,, he was from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ,, I used to sew with my father in the tailor shop run most of the machines the clothes he couldn't make in the tailor shop I took by D train into Manhattan to a man named Bill Abler who would make the pants my father couldn't make ,, when he had other large orders ,, yes indeed people dress back in that Era ,, I very rarely wore store Brought pants my father made everything for me my father passed in 1986 ,, it was the hardest thing for me to go into the store and try on clothes always had to take him to a tailor and get them fitted the way my father would do it ,, those were the days my friend now you got these kids wearing their pants hanging off their ass because of that prison culture ,, very sad commentary on life how it goes up and down ,, stay off the hamster wheel ,, Life Is Life Death is death live live love love 🤙💚💛❤️
I was working in a building in Manhattan doing construction. There was a girl that worked the main desk in the building, Cynthia, everyday I looked forward to going to work just to see what she was wearing, she had so much class and beauty. I asked her out over and over and she finally said yes, then we were together all the time, I was in love with her. Eventually I asked her to marry me and she no, she said that it would be a big mistake because she was black and I was white and our children would be affected growing up and there would probably be other negative issues, she broke my heart, I loved her and I loved her family, I miss them, and to this day she is still the love of my life, I love you Cynthia
I think you have to be from a certain Demographic, to understand some of the Docs I upload, because Im getting these comments from people who do not understand the vernacular and shooting down the whole Doc because they do not understand a line or two. This Doc is to really expose Lucas, he wasn't the guy doing all the importing, and he didn't run Harlem, Like the Movie claimed. All this did was bring the information that was on the streets to the forefront
Uh he had money that’s what the movie showed how he was getting it is what the movie showed it also show nicki Barnes was high level but this was about frank he may not of ran all of Harlem but he ran something cause he is talked about 🤷🏾♂️
Honest to God I think you're absolutely correct. Some are not looking at the context and the gross polarities between the movie and what actually happened. Seems that Frank had very little relationship at all with bumpy and that this story was lifted from Ike Sergeant smack Atkinson and that Frank stole it all and Hollywood put some shoe polish on it
@Threshold she's gonna know who's in her house, and supposedly driving her husband around! Especially in those days! Frank was a drug dealer, anything above the, especially with Bumpy, is a lie. There's been nobody the corroborated any of his stories. There's no FBI evidence they knew each other, or anything else
I honestly think that Ike Atkinson(the dude who really established the connection) really outsmarted the C.I.A. as you say! they only chose to tell Frank Lucas story because he snitched! to further put that image of " The Weak Black Man" out there. I apologize I had the Ike Atkinson story on my site but I took the site down, and the dudes who made that story already took out a copyright strike on me! For the Frank Matthews Doc I uploaded.
I always felt like the Government wasn't cracking down on drug dealers for an honorable reason. I think it's because they had no way to tax the drug dealers. think about it, why else would they care if people wanted to sell and do drugs. The Government was just mad because they didn't get a cut of the profits
Before Castro and the 1959 revolution, the CIA shipped opium from SE Asia to Cuba where it was processed and sent to the US, that's where the CIA got off the books cash for black ops
@@samspurgeon4222not to mention the CIA pushing tons of cocaine into L.A. where it was turned into crack and then pumped into black neighborhoods. It only became a problem when the suburban white kids started hitting that glass pipe.
If by "true to the game", you mean a giant moron, then I agree 100%. He's a clown who con's kids with dreams of the NBA. And all this talk about snitching is childish. If you're a criminal who accepts the risks of a crime, then you have to accept that your associates are going to protect their own ass over yours.
Bumpy donated alot of money for Malcom X funeral. He went to people businesses and told them open up your registers because you have to pay for the funeral. Damn that was a good man. One of these days I might become a good men myself and start donating like Mr Bumpy did :)
Thanks for uploading, like you mentioned above it shows that lucas really wasnt the main player in the heroin trade during that time. Like anything, especially involving big crime there are always alot of gray areas to the real truth.
Donni Metropolis There is no proof about that, i know you want it to be true but no Franck matthews is one of the only kingpin to not get caught or die
I hate how they're comparing Frank Lucas to Nicky Barnes. Nicky ratted on his friends, Frank ratted on dirty cops and that to me is a big difference... You can see how they talked about Frank Lucas in a different light as to how they would speak about Nicky, if Frank was originally from NY and not a brotha from down south I don't think they would've spoke on him that way, they was clearly trying to down talk that man... Somebody answer me this, if Frank is the same as Nicky then why isn't he in witness protection too?
Thank you for the upload. It definitely opened my eyes to the lies that the film portrayed. I had a feeling that it was a lie because to be honest with you; I never heard of Frank Lucas until that film came out. But as a child growing up in NYC; I ALWAYS heard of and knew of Nicky Barnes.
There are no rules to "the game". Everyone contradicts themselves throughought the documentary. Based on the rules: Nicky needed to understand betrayal was apart of the game and accepted it as it is what it is. Can't straddle the fence on whose snitching you're going to excuse and whose you're not.
Well, the film "American Gangster" doesn't actually contradict what some DEA agents said in this documentary. Frank Lucas wasn't like the other black wise guys, flashy and loud, he seemed harmless and therefore unimportant, but he worked with his "cousin" Atkinson, who had already been smuggling small batches of Heroin from Thailand to the US - but Lucas didn't want small batches of already cut Heroin, he wanted large consignments of 100% pure Heroin by dealing directly with the producers, cutting out the middle men. Frank Lucas may well have been unknown to many DEA agents because he kept a very low profile, was never seen with Mafia bosses etc. etc. Even the New Jersey drug squad didn't know his real position until very late - at least that is what the film tells us. What is true or not - I wasn't there so I haven't a clue, but if Frank Lucas made so much up, why did the authorities let him out of prison so early for his cooperation - they do not do that just for a few names he told them.
No offence to bumpys wife, but if frank picked up bumpy every day and was his driver, he was obviously around him a lot. So that makes him his right hand man
With all do respect, how would Mrs Johnson know anything Bumpy taught Frank. I don't think Bumpy reported his day to day to her. the wives only know about 10% if any of what's going on. And the fact that they mad a video for the sole purpose bashing Frank's name, makes him important. They making him more famous without realizing it. If cops were extorting money from me I'll tell on they asses too. 99% of the ppl calling him a snitch, will snitch they damn self. Frank faced 30 yrs. Yall will snitch facing 5! LMAO :-) :-) :-)
kewanw16 That's not likely. Bumpy was the boss and never got rid of Frank. Bumpy kept Frank around till his death. Obviously they had trust between them. And since this video release, the media has been trying to get Frank to respond to Ms. Johnson. But he refuses to speak against her. He has the utmost respect for Frank to speak against his wife. Even in the movie (American Gangster) Bumpy is putvon a pedestal. Frank is betrayed subservient. There's no reason for her to talk about him. She just old with an attitude. A Mean old lady!!! :-)
Definitely made him more suave than he was because when I first heard dude in an interview I'm like, alright Denzel may have played him a little more refined and cultured than he actually was. The Frank Lucas in the movie was an economics theorist, in real life just another nigga that got his hands on some good product and made some money.
I really enjoyed this. But what I can't understand is how stupid can you be to put all your money in one spot, knowing that someday you are going to get busted? If you got enough hidden away, you won't have to snitch. I'd buy my way into one of those countries that has no connections with the U.S.
It's easy to be smart if you're the only one. Once you bring someone else in, and so on, your chances of longevity decreases drastically. The old saying goes, once you tell someone a secret it's no longer a secret. Eventually the chain will form a weak link and it breaks. People like that overlook or ignore simple human nature which is to survive. I mean, who wants to suffer willingly. This was a classic domino affect.
What does seem fishy pertaining to Frank Lucas' relationship to Bumby is that he alleged to have worked for over 15 years for him, day in day out, learning the job. The trouble is that of these 15 years that they knew each other, Bumby was in prison for 10 !!! So, it does seem that Frank Lucas "embellished" upon some details of his Vita, but there again, who doesn't?
It seems everybody is ratting everyone out these days,no one is solid anymore.Of all the people I grew up with,I only know one person who to this day has never ratted anyone out.He could have Ratted some one out to stay in this country which has been living since he was 4 years old but didn't & was put on a plane back to former yugoslavia.That takes a belief system to do what he did.
It has basis in truth Mr. Martino oh excuse me Senor Martino, oh because you speak Spanish the rules don't apply to you. On that same note why don't I see any thriving Hispanic restaurants, thats owned by Hispanics. Chipotle and Qdobe is owned by White boys, the last place I know to be owned by an Hispanic, was burritoville which was actual authentic Mexican Food. Whiteboys shut them down so they can thrive. please think before you speak because I can go in all day on Latins and self hate.
And as long as Top Men have Bottom men the top men will never ever know everything the bottom man is, or has done, people only talk about what the know, but the unknown will remain unknown.
Come on 2 of the most POWERFUL Dealers n New York get their damn wings clipped @ the same time & NOBODY NOBODY C'S A PATTERN. FOOD FOR THOUGHT GO FIGURE
I hate the typing sound. You know that it’s low budget when you add gimmicks like that that you think are cool. In reality the typing font is enough to make your stylistic point. The absence of the sound is much more visually appealing.
The caption at the end of this video took me out . They went ion to testify against more than 50 people. All of whom may not have anything to do with their crimes ... lol
I didn't know who Frank Lucas was until I saw American Gangster.
Yet I watched Superfly a zillion times not knowing the movie was based on his life.
Not only that, to this day I still listen to the soundtrack of that movie of which I have 2 copies of the cd version. One the original version and another with alternate takes of those same songs. Back in HS days when the movie was released I bought me a tshirt with Curtis Mayfield's face and name.
Tumultous times socially speaking but man, full of great music.
Especially in Puerto Rico where I was born and raised where we had music coming in from basically all over the world. Great times indeed.
My BIG brother Eddie Jones passed away years ago, I didn't see him or spoke to him since the 80's, until today, ..... this video brought him back to me, just be able to listen to his voice and see him, made me feel joyful inside 🙏🏾 Thank you for posting this video.
dado1998.
dado1998jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
glad you got to see your brother again.
Whats up with not talking
Now that's a wife! To this day, after all these years, she still talks good about Mr. Bumpy. Plus she don't wanna use an ugly word like "damn". They don't make women like that anymore.
Peyton Bell definition of what they might call a bad bitch
Hell yeah
😂😂 Right!
who dont make women like that?
What's she supposed to do, hate his guts and run him down every chance she gets?
"Any man that has $600K to give you to hold, has another $10K to have your head taken off." Wise words.
Real Talk
@@leshagayle5991 you a bitch talm bout “real talk” 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️😭
@Mark alright mark, Ass nigga
Wise or common sense?
Common sense
My Grandfather Bumpy and My Grandmother Mayme.. Love you forever!
Yeah
Bumpy is my grandfather as well
@@trentonjackson3006 Bumpy is my grandfather too. :)
Yeah sad thing is Bumpy never had children so please let the man Rest In Peace and stop all this Foolishness
@@Carlosdagama8 shut up
I ❤️ how people use to dress fancy those days. We need to all get back to that clean respected style. I ❤️ dressing up
I LOVE A MAN WHO WELL DRESSED.
THAT'S PRIDE.
OKAY MEN, IT'S UP TO YOU TO DO THIS.
My Father ,, Selvin W. John ,, was the Tailor ,, who made clothes for Nicky Barnes only saw him once or twice he came to the store to get fitted every 6 months I was not always there someone else came to pick up the clothes and pay the balance on the clothes my father was one of the best 4 or five tailors in Brooklyn New York ,, he was from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ,, I used to sew with my father in the tailor shop run most of the machines the clothes he couldn't make in the tailor shop I took by D train into Manhattan to a man named Bill Abler who would make the pants my father couldn't make ,, when he had other large orders ,, yes indeed people dress back in that Era ,, I very rarely wore store Brought pants my father made everything for me my father passed in 1986 ,, it was the hardest thing for me to go into the store and try on clothes always had to take him to a tailor and get them fitted the way my father would do it ,, those were the days my friend now you got these kids wearing their pants hanging off their ass because of that prison culture ,, very sad commentary on life how it goes up and down ,, stay off the hamster wheel ,, Life Is Life Death is death live live love love 🤙💚💛❤️
So you do it. Why do you think everyone else should?
I was working in a building in Manhattan doing construction. There was a girl that worked the main desk in the building, Cynthia, everyday I looked forward to going to work just to see what she was wearing, she had so much class and beauty. I asked her out over and over and she finally said yes, then we were together all the time, I was in love with her. Eventually I asked her to marry me and she no, she said that it would be a big mistake because she was black and I was white and our children would be affected growing up and there would probably be other negative issues, she broke my heart, I loved her and I loved her family, I miss them, and to this day she is still the love of my life, I love you Cynthia
Yes let's do more dressing us men hats gloves scarves...etc ,just staying neat and well groomed ..Nate Wash..CALI
I think you have to be from a certain Demographic, to understand some of the Docs I upload, because Im getting these comments from people who do not understand the vernacular and shooting down the whole Doc because they do not understand a line or two. This Doc is to really expose Lucas, he wasn't the guy doing all the importing, and he didn't run Harlem, Like the Movie claimed. All this did was bring the information that was on the streets to the forefront
Thank you.
Uh he had money that’s what the movie showed how he was getting it is what the movie showed it also show nicki Barnes was high level but this was about frank he may not of ran all of Harlem but he ran something cause he is talked about 🤷🏾♂️
People don't like their straw houses being blown down.
Honest to God I think you're absolutely correct. Some are not looking at the context and the gross polarities between the movie and what actually happened. Seems that Frank had very little relationship at all with bumpy and that this story was lifted from Ike Sergeant smack Atkinson and that Frank stole it all and Hollywood put some shoe polish on it
@@Draikonz261011 i would of erased this comment you sound stupid af. The movie was a lie and franks story was exaggerated..
I met Ike Atkinson at NCCU School of Law in Jan/Feb 2012. He's a cool guy with an amazing story.
It's well documented that Bumpys wife said Frank wasnt close to Bumpy at all. Ike Atkinson was the guy
Doesn't mean much. Most likely she was not aware of the vast majority of Bumpys business.
@Threshold she's gonna know who's in her house, and supposedly driving her husband around! Especially in those days! Frank was a drug dealer, anything above the, especially with Bumpy, is a lie. There's been nobody the corroborated any of his stories. There's no FBI evidence they knew each other, or anything else
@@ThresholdGaming she definitely knows more than you would, your an irrelevant CZcams bum..
I honestly think that Ike Atkinson(the dude who really established the connection) really outsmarted the C.I.A. as you say! they only chose to tell Frank Lucas story because he snitched! to further put that image of " The Weak Black Man" out there. I apologize I had the Ike Atkinson story on my site but I took the site down, and the dudes who made that story already took out a copyright strike on me! For the Frank Matthews Doc I uploaded.
The C.I.A didn't in no way had nothing to do with Ike Atkison .
NYC was , is , always will be Concrete Jungle
Absolutely LOVE the background music, bravo 🤣
U don't understand
Thank u for the upload
This production is appreciated.
Weird that denzel played frank and malcolm x.
@5:08 she dont even know her own history...Malcom died in 1965 NOT 1964!
I always felt like the Government wasn't cracking down on drug dealers for an honorable reason. I think it's because they had no way to tax the drug dealers. think about it, why else would they care if people wanted to sell and do drugs. The Government was just mad because they didn't get a cut of the profits
they had a problem once it spilled into whites neighborhoods
Before Castro and the 1959 revolution, the CIA shipped opium from SE Asia to Cuba where it was processed and sent to the US, that's where the CIA got off the books cash for black ops
The government is behind the drug pushing. If you think these losers did this bs by themselves under the radar then you should take a nap.
@@samspurgeon4222not to mention the CIA pushing tons of cocaine into L.A. where it was turned into crack and then pumped into black neighborhoods. It only became a problem when the suburban white kids started hitting that glass pipe.
thanks for uploading
Pee-Wee was true to the game 100%. He can still walk the streets of New York City head high!
If by "true to the game", you mean a giant moron, then I agree 100%. He's a clown who con's kids with dreams of the NBA. And all this talk about snitching is childish. If you're a criminal who accepts the risks of a crime, then you have to accept that your associates are going to protect their own ass over yours.
@@78bcat That's bullshit .
@@78bcat yup
Straight dope no cut
@@78bcat how pee wee clown when he never glorified street life
As long as the money is good this will never stop.
Great documentary! ✌🏼
Bumpy donated alot of money for Malcom X funeral. He went to people businesses and told them open up your registers because you have to pay for the funeral. Damn that was a good man. One of these days I might become a good men myself and start donating like Mr Bumpy did :)
🤔
Does anyone know what the old song title is at 5:36 mins,.. made a promise to Abraham 400 years of slavery in foreign land??..
Please help..
Peace..
Thanks for uploading, like you mentioned above it shows that lucas really wasnt the main player in the heroin trade during that time. Like anything, especially involving big crime there are always alot of gray areas to the real truth.
interviews with the street guys are fascinating. a different perspective.
Shoutout to North Carolina and Frank Matthews for not getting caught
anote4sis you just dry snitched! Smh Tf?
Frank Mathews was caught by the game. Probably the cartel disposed of him
Straight up that's the real Frank
Donni Metropolis There is no proof about that, i know you want it to be true but no Franck matthews is one of the only kingpin to not get caught or die
Bull City!!!!
This was very interesting. Thank you 😊
He snitched on cops who were taking his money...who cares
That's another one of his bullshit lies .
Garrett Golden he also snitched on his brothers as well.....
Frank snitched on everybody. Even his own family members.. Hes an inteligent man..but hes a rat plain n simple no way around it..
That was bullshit and he was lying about it .
@M Zach Who cares. They were drug dealers.
VERY INTERESTING GREAT JOB ON THIS DOC.
PEE WEE Kirkland reminds me of Denzel Washington. They have the same speaking tones.
Exactly
They resemble each other as well
They could be kin
It's so darn sad how black people then and now easily help in the distrustion of their own people.
Frank costello was the last man of honour , after him it all went to shit even gambino fucked up
omg i had to turn this off because of that damn 3-note string background 'music'. holy shit is that annoying
It has to be something they put on the video so CZcams bots woulnd't get it. Shit is really annoying.
OMG Bumpy J dyed 7.7.68' - the same date my mom was born... My mom is the reincarnation of Bumpy!
The music is doing my head in.
And um turn up off that loud🌿lol 😁
Real shit...Pee Wee / PK saved that chick life 💯 "600K he got another 10K to put over your head"
I hate how they're comparing Frank Lucas to Nicky Barnes. Nicky ratted on his friends, Frank ratted on dirty cops and that to me is a big difference... You can see how they talked about Frank Lucas in a different light as to how they would speak about Nicky, if Frank was originally from NY and not a brotha from down south I don't think they would've spoke on him that way, they was clearly trying to down talk that man... Somebody answer me this, if Frank is the same as Nicky then why isn't he in witness protection too?
SIDub14 you know now he is in witness protection.
What difference does it make who he ratted on he's rat it's all the same
he ratted on everybody, the DA doesn't let u pick n choose who you're gonna give up
Frank never had the makings of a Varsity Athlete
Snitch is a snitch period
love the music
Thank you for the upload. It definitely opened my eyes to the lies that the film portrayed. I had a feeling that it was a lie because to be honest with you; I never heard of Frank Lucas until that film came out. But as a child growing up in NYC; I ALWAYS heard of and knew of Nicky Barnes.
I threw that movie in the trash .
Yea look at the Freddy Myers story on here too
Bumpy, Frank Lucas. None were better than the other. They killed their own people. Please don't glorify what they did.
There are no rules to "the game". Everyone contradicts themselves throughought the documentary. Based on the rules: Nicky needed to understand betrayal was apart of the game and accepted it as it is what it is. Can't straddle the fence on whose snitching you're going to excuse and whose you're not.
Loved it want more. Send.
Lmao Jazz trippin talking about Benedict Arnold hell they were all snitching not just Frank Lucas!!!!!
Well, the film "American Gangster" doesn't actually contradict what some DEA agents said in this documentary. Frank Lucas wasn't like the other black wise guys, flashy and loud, he seemed harmless and therefore unimportant, but he worked with his "cousin" Atkinson, who had already been smuggling small batches of Heroin from Thailand to the US - but Lucas didn't want small batches of already cut Heroin, he wanted large consignments of 100% pure Heroin by dealing directly with the producers, cutting out the middle men. Frank Lucas may well have been unknown to many DEA agents because he kept a very low profile, was never seen with Mafia bosses etc. etc. Even the New Jersey drug squad didn't know his real position until very late - at least that is what the film tells us. What is true or not - I wasn't there so I haven't a clue, but if Frank Lucas made so much up, why did the authorities let him out of prison so early for his cooperation - they do not do that just for a few names he told them.
No offence to bumpys wife, but if frank picked up bumpy every day and was his driver, he was obviously around him a lot. So that makes him his right hand man
I agree! There are things Bumpy did not tell her.
Radric Davis back then people did things that people didn’t talk about
The Ghost Of Rich Porter how that makes him bumpy right hand man by picking him up and dropping him off
The Ghost Of Rich cPorter police
The Ghost Of Rich Porter nope. Driving Ms. Daisy..plus..the part about him living with Bumpy
I think she would know. Pay attention
Wow, this is like a Madison Ave. version of those "Stop Snitchin'" videos that went around B-more and other cities. Hilarious.
Man Jazz is really cool
They got my big brother Eddie Jones holy shit🙏🏾
Ms mayme was a nice lookin lady even as old as she was
She's an old badly head
She's an old badly head
With all do respect, how would Mrs Johnson know anything Bumpy taught Frank. I don't think Bumpy reported his day to day to her. the wives only know about 10% if any of what's going on. And the fact that they mad a video for the sole purpose bashing Frank's name, makes him important. They making him more famous without realizing it. If cops were extorting money from me I'll tell on they asses too. 99% of the ppl calling him a snitch, will snitch they damn self. Frank faced 30 yrs. Yall will snitch facing 5! LMAO :-) :-) :-)
+isis Mitchell Bumpy Johnson's widow didn't believe all the lies that Frank told about her husband .
kewanw16 That's not likely. Bumpy was the boss and never got rid of Frank. Bumpy kept Frank around till his death. Obviously they had trust between them. And since this video release, the media has been trying to get Frank to respond to Ms. Johnson. But he refuses to speak against her. He has the utmost respect for Frank to speak against his wife. Even in the movie (American Gangster) Bumpy is putvon a pedestal. Frank is betrayed subservient. There's no reason for her to talk about him. She just old with an attitude. A Mean old lady!!! :-)
Not according to the widow she said that Frank was a flunky and the one that Bumpy never really did trust .
kewanw16 Exactly! you made my point. "His widow said". And, subservient and flunky means the same, sweetheart.
***** exactly! Lol
That high pitched note music shit that keeps repeating itself.....REALLLY????????!!
Shit is hella annoying!
MUTE IT LMMFAO
MrBlueroads
I know, right?
:/
Rexx Seven dude I was Thinking the same thing the whole damn time. like turn that shit off. I'm trying to hear these people talk
did you download this on a computer from 1995?
Whats the Name of the song at 5:29?
+jlobe3159 damn sweet tune..if you ever find out about it holla I need to get it
WHAT'S WITH THE BACKGROUND MUSIC?????????????????
I agree! it's sooooo stupid and out of place. even if it was IN the rite place, it'd be terrible!
true, but that revelation was revealed recently, they are showing news headlines of that time!
Yes. The responses you are getting are emotional/social and not mental.
The moral to the story is "STOP SNITCHING"!!!!!!
Please, elaborate!
Luv U Mike
ps God Bless
Alway's
Loved this...VERY informative ( no pun Intended ) lol but I'm looking at this like😳😰😔😕
Correction, Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965.
+Michael Cooper Should be a holiday.
@@johnallen5999 thats crazy talk
Robby Robinson how is that crazy talk? That’s real talk
Yes, February 21st 1965 to be exact...hopefully she just made a mistake with the year due to being nervous or something.
what's with the earey music playing constantly throughout this boring documentary
don't beleive the movie ag(american ganstas)
Neither do I and that's why I got rid of it .
Is Frank Lucas on pic looks little like Al Capone ?
HOWEVER I MUST SAY I WAS PRETTY IMPRESSED WITH FRANK AND HIS EXPLOITS IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE HE WAS SURELY A MODERN DAY HANNIBAL .
That Never Happened!
who was in the black outfit with the hoodie
Money, Power, and Respect.
Mrs. Mayme don’t like Frank 🤣🤣
She hated the son of a bitch for the pathological boldfaced liar that he is .
Definitely made him more suave than he was because when I first heard dude in an interview I'm like, alright Denzel may have played him a little more refined and cultured than he actually was. The Frank Lucas in the movie was an economics theorist, in real life just another nigga that got his hands on some good product and made some money.
Cool video
Something i dont get . If Lucas is the one bringing it in , how was he not the top guy .
I really enjoyed this. But what I can't understand is how stupid can you be to put all your money in one spot, knowing that someday you are going to get busted? If you got enough hidden away, you won't have to snitch. I'd buy my way into one of those countries that has no connections with the U.S.
It's easy to be smart if you're the only one. Once you bring someone else in, and so on, your chances of longevity decreases drastically. The old saying goes, once you tell someone a secret it's no longer a secret. Eventually the chain will form a weak link and it breaks. People like that overlook or ignore simple human nature which is to survive. I mean, who wants to suffer willingly. This was a classic domino affect.
***** easier sd than done the greed kicks in fast money easy money hard to turn down
What if Barnes had a CIA Handler all along?
riveting!
What does seem fishy pertaining to Frank Lucas' relationship to Bumby is that he alleged to have worked for over 15 years for him, day in day out, learning the job. The trouble is that of these 15 years that they knew each other, Bumby was in prison for 10 !!! So, it does seem that Frank Lucas "embellished" upon some details of his Vita, but there again, who doesn't?
Didn't Bonnano write a book when he was older?
yeah ,it was called a man of honor,how ironic eh
correction in the beginning the lady says when Malcolm X died in 1964.he died in 1965!
mandela effect
Lol should have been 1940
Good Story
I didnt know BUMPY paid for MALCOLM.Xs funeral. I swear, a nigga learns something NEW "every day".!
American Gangster brought me here
It seems everybody is ratting everyone out these days,no one is solid anymore.Of all the people I grew up with,I only know one person who to this day has never ratted anyone out.He could have Ratted some one out to stay in this country which has been living since he was 4 years old but didn't & was put on a plane back to former yugoslavia.That takes a belief system to do what he did.
All except Frank Matthews and Henry Jackson Sr.
It has basis in truth Mr. Martino oh excuse me Senor Martino, oh because you speak Spanish the rules don't apply to you. On that same note why don't I see any thriving Hispanic restaurants, thats owned by Hispanics. Chipotle and Qdobe is owned by White boys, the last place I know to be owned by an Hispanic, was burritoville which was actual authentic Mexican Food. Whiteboys shut them down so they can thrive. please think before you speak because I can go in all day on Latins and self hate.
this is good
okay never said anyone was FORCING anything! read the very first word I wrote in that reply.
The truth, finally!
now thats 100
Well done showing Lucanias face when he was dead by then......
I'm going to tell my story one Day...
And as long as Top Men have Bottom men the top men will never ever know everything the bottom man is, or has done, people only talk about what the know, but the unknown will remain unknown.
There was a real subtle message in this documentary. I believe I recieved it. #DontSnitch
that was the untold story of Frank Matthews
Come on 2 of the most POWERFUL
Dealers n New York get their damn wings clipped @ the same time
& NOBODY NOBODY C'S A PATTERN.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT GO FIGURE
i agree 1000%
They always put the fall guys to catch the heat.
Yes very interesting
I I. Amen to that same
There's DYNAMICS 2 dealing drugs period that alot of will never know about r understand
I hate the typing sound. You know that it’s low budget when you add gimmicks like that that you think are cool. In reality the typing font is enough to make your stylistic point. The absence of the sound is much more visually appealing.
The caption at the end of this video took me out . They went ion to testify against more than 50 people. All of whom may not have anything to do with their crimes ... lol
@20:44 Damn those are eye brows
That guys eyebrows at 20.40