Frank Lucas - The True Story of the American Gangster

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  • @Biographics
    @Biographics  ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Thanks to Keeps for sponsoring this video! Head to keeps.com/Biographics to get 50% off your first Keeps order.

    • @derricklittle5707
      @derricklittle5707 ปีที่แล้ว

      Love the channel Especially Love the Gangster/ Crime Lord Cant wait to see more off them

    • @waynehighfield2094
      @waynehighfield2094 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Can you please do a video on Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh.

    • @Tremont24
      @Tremont24 ปีที่แล้ว

      Please do Booker T. Washington next

    • @George77333
      @George77333 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Corey_Mckilling pp

    • @jimmynickelz
      @jimmynickelz ปีที่แล้ว

      Frank Matthews.

  • @Niko76239
    @Niko76239 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    What I didn't like about the movie American Gangster was that Frank Lucas was portrayed as a well spoken sophisticated man who just happened to be a criminal when in fact he was anything but sophisticated. If you watch any Nicky Barnes interviews you'll realize right away that the character that Denzel Washington played was actually closer to Barnes than Lucas. Also Frank Lucas was from the south and Denzel Washington didn’t speak with a southern accent when portraying Lucas so that kinda bugged me too

  • @michaelbooth2890
    @michaelbooth2890 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I always thought the cadaver connection was the oddest thing about American Gangster. I couldn't understand how Lucas would lack the foresight to realise the war would end at not come up with another method of trafficking the heroin.

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Awesome video. Please, more bios like this one.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    2:35 - Chapter 1 - Early years
    5:35 - Chapter 2 - A menace to society
    7:55 - Chapter 3 - A disciple of bumpy johnson
    10:40 - Chapter 4 - The cadaver connection
    15:05 - Chapter 5 - American gangster

  • @briancross7835
    @briancross7835 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    1:19
    The ultra-British way you said "dope" really made my day, Mr. Whistler.

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Once again I'm impressed by the animated photos.

  • @stormengine3261
    @stormengine3261 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I come to all these videos just to hear Simon's voice. Dude be captivating and entrances with his knowledge

  • @Remianen
    @Remianen ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Finally something I can relate to. Blue Magic wasn't only sold specifically in Harlem. It was also sold to dealers in Brooklyn and Queens and the yuppies would often get their product from dealers outside of Harlem, often out of so-called "number holes". (In the 70s and 80s, you probably didn't want to be caught in Harlem after dark if you didn't have sufficient levels of melanin in your skin). Frank's group controlled Harlem and much of the South Bronx as well as Manhattan down to about Columbus Circle (Times Square hadn't been Disney-fied yet so the area around Port Authority bus terminal was like the dark web market is now, with a lot of that stuff coming from the big drug outfits like Frank's).

    • @monetschannel5773
      @monetschannel5773 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I heard some people put blue magic in their hair on their scalp have you ever heard this?

    • @J13-h6y
      @J13-h6y ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@monetschannel5773 that was Soul Glo.

    • @pinklady4772
      @pinklady4772 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@monetschannel5773 I believe there is hair grease called blue magic, but that's probably not what you're talking about.

    • @TTGTO288
      @TTGTO288 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I call BS !!!

  • @jbali101
    @jbali101 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Videos like this show me how as time goes on we get more facts and other accounts about what we used to just take as truth and release most people from the past are liars or lies are told about them to make them better or bigger then they were because stories are better as easier then facts for most people

    • @FIDEL_CASHFLOW_
      @FIDEL_CASHFLOW_ ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But you also have to remember that people have been embellishing stories like this since the beginning of time. As someone becomes more and more famous those who are tangently related to the story might exaggerate or fabricate details to suit their own purposes.

    • @jbali101
      @jbali101 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FIDEL_CASHFLOW_ that's true I'm just glad corrections are being made and we have more media how-to keep things more accurate going forward

  • @cryptopotimus
    @cryptopotimus ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The plastic beads they use as a graphic at the 6:30 mark is hilarious.. you can literally see the hole where the string goes through the beads...

  • @vasilkokinovski9212
    @vasilkokinovski9212 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Excellent video. I would like to see a Biographics on Stanley Kubrick, Mother Teresa and Nicolae Ceausescu.

    • @rosekemp4671
      @rosekemp4671 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Kubrick would be amazing,!

  • @SEAZNDragon
    @SEAZNDragon ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The Cadaver Connection sounds worthy of a Casual Criminalist episode. First time I heard the term but not the first I heard of smuggling via coffins. Jim Webb, a Vietnam vet who went on to be Secretary of the Navy and a US senator, recounted after he returned from Vietnam he went to law school and had a class taught by a recent graduate who was part of the anti-war movement. The two didn't get along and during a test the professor wrote a question regarding a soldier smuggling drugs from Vietnam in the bodies of dead soldiers and the professor named the soldier "Jimmy Webb."

  • @saltgamer7895
    @saltgamer7895 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    You should cover Emil Lewis Holmdahl-
    Highly interesting life story, machine gunner, soldier of fortune (mercenary), spy, gun runner, and treasure hunter
    "He led one of America’s most famous generals into his first gun battle. He escaped a firing squad on several occasions. He fought for multiple causes on at least three continents.... His life was a cliché for adventure.... Frank might be described as a marital mercenary as he had three or more families and abandoned his Fort Dodge family to start another in California after doing the same in St. Paul, Minn. His father’s gallivanting may have influenced Holmdahl’s extraordinary wanderlust that led him to China, Central America, Mexico, Europe and the jungles of the Philippines. There are years missing in the timeline of his exploits with some evidence that he fought in Cuba and Venezuela, too" (Iowahistoryjournal, para 1-3).

  • @leroyhanna8670
    @leroyhanna8670 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    You need to do a video about Frank Matthews, out of all the so-called drug Legend nobody did it as big as him where most individuals had a location in a city, this man had multiple cities ,and went toe the toe with the mafia and considering he still on the fbi most wanted list in the intrigue surrounding his disappearance

    • @daniel213141
      @daniel213141 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Al Profit has a good biography on Frank Matthews.

  • @bat2275
    @bat2275 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Gutenberg the inventor of the printing press is one of the most important people in history. The printing press changed everything and accelerated the world into a modern times. I think he deserves a bio

  • @donovanbradford8231
    @donovanbradford8231 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Great video, and I remember Michael Franzese mentioning Frakn Lucas once before in the same vain as Al Capone, meaning Hollywood glamorized the real person who made themselves out to be more important than they were, at least as far as the world of crime was concerned. But now I'd like to hear about Sargent Smack as he might be a more interesting video.

  • @Jmnzz
    @Jmnzz ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Denzel: *Smacks a paper cup off the table* "Don't you tell me!"

  • @variaxi935
    @variaxi935 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:39 homie lookin like a mix of OJ and Al Capone... that *IS* gangster

  • @TheBitterSpinach
    @TheBitterSpinach ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can't wait for HistoryBuffs to do a history review of American Gangster.

  • @joshuaescopete
    @joshuaescopete ปีที่แล้ว +82

    I’d like to propose Gen. John Pershing. Head of the Expeditionary Forces during WWI. His military career tells the story of America’s imperialism, from commanding Buffalo Soldiers during the Span-Am War to hunting Pancho Villa amidst the Mexican Revolution. Surely a life worthy of Biographics.

    • @Hillbilly001
      @Hillbilly001 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "American imperialism"? Really? If that's so, where is the Mexican colonies? Or possessions? Nothing like Yank bashing, is there.

    • @artturihautanen
      @artturihautanen ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Hillbilly001 Is there no place free of whataboutists afraid of discussing the past

    • @devinbullard7304
      @devinbullard7304 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree completely...he lived a fascinating life!!!

    • @devinbullard7304
      @devinbullard7304 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Hillbilly001 I agree I wrote a paper on him in college, and he really wasn't an "imperialist". I suppose that could be up to the viewers if the episode is made.

    • @Hillbilly001
      @Hillbilly001 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@devinbullard7304 At Ft. Riley, Ks there's a museum dedicated to the 10th Cav.(Buffalo Soldiers) and Pershing is very prominent in it. Course the last I was there was in 1981. There's also a small display of other segregated units too. Got out of the Army in 1990 and I still would like to go back to Riley just for the museum. Cheers from Tennessee.

  • @denverparsons7330
    @denverparsons7330 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ve seen so many movies and shows about this dude. Crazy life

  • @whackedoutcookie4393
    @whackedoutcookie4393 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Could you imagine if everything Lucas said was true and everyone else collectively just lied on him🤣 everyone just trolling tf outta him.

    • @diypictures
      @diypictures ปีที่แล้ว

      When it comes to history I highly doubt that's ever the case. Made up stories wrapped up in truths have been going on for thousands of years and will continue for even longer.

    • @Erin-bd6jg
      @Erin-bd6jg ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah I mean why would a murdering criminal sociopath lie?

    • @user-ec6bg2uk9i
      @user-ec6bg2uk9i 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Stranger things in this life has happened and were covered up. Fact is stranger than fiction. (Plus for the sake of argument it wouldn’t be that weird because most are out for themselves, don’t know the whole truth, or don’t want people to know the truth for several reasons, and the US gov is one of the biggest offenders of the last one. Especially during a period where POC were still heavily getting killed or assaulted and had it covered up by the police in the Southern States, and politicians and judges were getting paid to look the other way or “release someone on good behavior”). If you’re going to look into someone’s life depth please do the same for their environment(time period, sociological standing, ecosystem, geographic location history and social norms, and politics etc), but peace and love to all.

  • @TroutvilleTed
    @TroutvilleTed ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Sergeant Smack"🤣🤣🤣

  • @ScamLikely9327
    @ScamLikely9327 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    You need to give the people one about the Real Rick Ross.

    • @stevenkidd6761
      @stevenkidd6761 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He does amazing interviews, especially regarding the truth of the relationship of Nicaragua, cocaine and the CIA.
      Very cool dude 👽💨💨💨

    • @mickmackle3014
      @mickmackle3014 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Give him credit first for the video

    • @user-Bass_and_bucks42
      @user-Bass_and_bucks42 ปีที่แล้ว

      If Simon does a biographic on Rick Ross he should see if Rick Ross would be a guest on the show for that episode

  • @coachtetchannel
    @coachtetchannel ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The blue sweater. Nice touch 😉

  • @Mrgunsngear
    @Mrgunsngear ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks

  • @v.emiltheii-nd.8094
    @v.emiltheii-nd.8094 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Probably the inspiration behind Lincoln from Mafia 3.

  • @coreymasoy7034
    @coreymasoy7034 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great episode ❗

  • @MrCaptainA
    @MrCaptainA ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Will you be doing a video on Bumpy Johnson at some point in the future?

  • @weinaddis5299
    @weinaddis5299 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That's a nice sweater.👍

  • @franreid8203
    @franreid8203 ปีที่แล้ว

    Packing heat! impressive Simon. LOL.

  • @kennethhoopaugh1210
    @kennethhoopaugh1210 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Please do a biography on Alan Watts, Mr. Whistler, sir.

  • @ohspokes3716
    @ohspokes3716 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As someone from North Carolina stories like that first one are not uncommon at all

    • @pinklady4772
      @pinklady4772 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly! My grandfather told us how he and his family had to turn off lights in the house and get down on the floor because the kkk was marching down their street in Georgia.

    • @michellehouse-hq7mh
      @michellehouse-hq7mh ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah rare not secret.

  • @KingHunter868
    @KingHunter868 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great movie Great bio-graphic!

  • @glennrugar9248
    @glennrugar9248 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    One of my favorite movies. So glad to learn more

    • @seandawson5899
      @seandawson5899 ปีที่แล้ว

      You gonna shoot me? In front of everyone?

  • @theoz-zone7470
    @theoz-zone7470 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I'd like to ask for a Biographics on Jaques De Molay, the last Grandmaster of the Templar Order. He ushered in a golden age in both the Templars & the world itself via the financial realm & many other areas.

    • @michellehouse-hq7mh
      @michellehouse-hq7mh ปีที่แล้ว

      Pays to be financially coherent.
      E438291SCI

    • @joshuafrias2415
      @joshuafrias2415 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The first time I have ever heard of him was through the Fate/Grand Order video game.

  • @georgehill8285
    @georgehill8285 ปีที่แล้ว

    Funny enough I was listening to this while driving down Teaneck Road in Teaneck.

  • @Endorfinjunkie
    @Endorfinjunkie ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You should make an episode about Richard Kuklinski, mafia hitman called 'iceman'. He seems like a mighty interesting guy

  • @Idarak1
    @Idarak1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    what was with that weird deepfake thing

  • @JoeStumbo
    @JoeStumbo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brother you couldn't have put a better picture of the man for the thumb nail?! My man's got bats in the cave.....

  • @pbg_alpo9189
    @pbg_alpo9189 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Crazy to think no one knew who he was prior to that fight. But they saw a rich black man walk in looking like he is doing better or well off than a majority of whom he was around that night. Was immediately assumed a drug dealer or some sort of criminal activity

  • @PinkyJujubean
    @PinkyJujubean ปีที่แล้ว

    The name Bumpy Johnson makes me giggle like Beavis and Butthead

  • @briandoss9232
    @briandoss9232 ปีที่แล้ว

    Huh. Never heard of him. Learn something every day.

  • @KingKong187911
    @KingKong187911 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you can’t have a full head of hair, have well groomed distinguished beard 😂😂😂

  • @torgeirbrandsnes1916
    @torgeirbrandsnes1916 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    How about a Bio on Bumpy`s boss? She was one heck of a woman. Keep up the good work!

  • @guidorotunda1321
    @guidorotunda1321 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think Elizabeth I is long overdue for this channel

  • @jordan9369
    @jordan9369 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The american gangster movie based on him was amazing

    • @joshflynn2173
      @joshflynn2173 ปีที่แล้ว

      One of my favourites (probably to do me loving mafia movies)

    • @gailmiller6333
      @gailmiller6333 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jordan
      Agree!!!

    • @ianashby6294
      @ianashby6294 ปีที่แล้ว

      Totally also the movie hoodlum with Lawrence fishburn as bumpy Johnson frank Lucas's mentor

    • @theawesomeman9821
      @theawesomeman9821 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agree. Though Denzal looked nothing like Frank Lucas.

  • @nathanhayes8593
    @nathanhayes8593 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You should do a Video on Eugene Bullard, i recently learned about him (like very recently). Apparently he was given full honors and high ranking soldiers of the French army of ww1 gave their respects to him as if he were French, when in reality he was American

  • @RandomBogey
    @RandomBogey ปีที่แล้ว

    7:51 is what the girls around campus called me back in college.

  • @zaco-km3su
    @zaco-km3su ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's worth saying that investigators not uncovering corruption in the local sheriff's department can be quite self serving. Depends who they are.
    Now, I wonder if Frank Lucas wasn't trying to keep his sources secret when he made all these claims besides trying to make himself look "cooler".

  • @stevenkidd6761
    @stevenkidd6761 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Lucas is a Boss! The Mafia didn't even fk with him as he carved out pieces of NYC for himself 🤜💥🤛

  • @shatbad2960
    @shatbad2960 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It used to be 13/50 but I think it's an even higher proportion now.

  • @mhamedkabal5242
    @mhamedkabal5242 ปีที่แล้ว

    Simon rolling up with that beard.

  • @noahuncapher2254
    @noahuncapher2254 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The movie was awesome

  • @wilmcdnu1586
    @wilmcdnu1586 ปีที่แล้ว

    Y'all should do a video on the strasser brothers

  • @EddieisKrueger
    @EddieisKrueger ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No mention of Nicky Barnes? He allegedly ran Harlem during that time period

    • @TerryStewart32
      @TerryStewart32 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nicky Barnes was heads and Shoulder over Frank Lucas. Lucas was known but he wasn’t the lion that Hollywood and he made himself to be. It’s the movie American Gangster that has canonise him into gangster folklore and not his actual activities which was pale in comparison to other noteworthy and influential figures like Nicky Barnes, Frank Matthews and Ike Atkinson whose life story he actually store to form the basis of his story that would eventually give birth to the film and create a legend out of him that largely based on myth and his own self aggrandising

  • @nateweaver31
    @nateweaver31 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Do a video about Atahuallpa, last emperor of the Incas!!!

  • @jacobtennyson9213
    @jacobtennyson9213 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Learn to be crime boss from Bumpy Johnson

  • @ghost_of_nyc6497
    @ghost_of_nyc6497 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nicky Barnes aka Mr Untouchable please

  • @Caleb1874ya
    @Caleb1874ya ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Jack Parsons I don’t think you’ve done yet…. Which is odd unless I just somehow missed it. So funny NASA named a crater on dark side of moon for him lol… but also that would be where he wanted it… glad you did THIS one about Frank Lucas too… dude was THE dude…

    • @Caleb1874ya
      @Caleb1874ya ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah Simon has done Jack Parsons. Forgot.

  • @Siege181
    @Siege181 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can I propose Sir Stamford Raffles for one! British chap who founded the modern day port of Singapore against his orders from the East India Company

  • @DummyYEEEAAHHHHH
    @DummyYEEEAAHHHHH ปีที่แล้ว +1

    HEY SIMON DO A VIDEO ON THE MUSICAL GENIUS BRIAN WILSON !! Sorry for the all caps but I figured maybe it'll be seen. His life is a very,very interesting story. If you watch some old interviews I think you'll agree.... Also as a recovering addict with almost 2 years clean. At least 3 or 4 of those brand names still get stamped on bags to this day..at least in Camden,NJ and Kensinton,North Philly...also that repeating flash of the picture of Frank Lucas...it's kind of disturbing lol...like a gif but creepier.

    • @syingram6677
      @syingram6677 ปีที่แล้ว

      Brian and Dennis Wilson need their own bio by Simon seriously☝

  • @swipernoswiping3538
    @swipernoswiping3538 ปีที่แล้ว

    Could you guys cover Lawrence Singleton?

  • @TheRedjack77
    @TheRedjack77 ปีที่แล้ว

    oh first 50.....the day is great

  • @robert48044
    @robert48044 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm leaving a comment early but wasn't he the person who got the rules about snitching changed federally?

  • @drewlovely2668
    @drewlovely2668 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice

  • @tomtheplummer7322
    @tomtheplummer7322 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    La Grange named cities are world 🌎 wide. My favorite beyond Texas is in Australia. The Penfolds winery. A bottle of La Grange is worth almost $500 now. I should have bought all the cases at $200 a bottle 🤷‍♂️🤭✌️

  • @jameszog1018
    @jameszog1018 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Day 3 of requesting a biographic on King Zog I of Albania

  • @tonyanthony5105
    @tonyanthony5105 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sgt Smack is a fantastic code name

  • @victorvarganov876
    @victorvarganov876 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you do a biography on Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov

  • @thelammacus
    @thelammacus ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Biographics! Can you please do J Edgar Hoover?

  • @girldaddividendinvestor
    @girldaddividendinvestor ปีที่แล้ว

    My man.

  • @chickendrawsdogs3343
    @chickendrawsdogs3343 ปีที่แล้ว

    "There you go, twenty percent."

  • @Erin-bd6jg
    @Erin-bd6jg ปีที่แล้ว

    Why would a murdering criminal sociopath lie?

  • @marquisekirkland6258
    @marquisekirkland6258 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bro needs a Kleenex

  • @CoranceLChandler
    @CoranceLChandler ปีที่แล้ว

    Want to get a criminal to confess? Pretend you did what they did and a little more

  • @Erik_mit_K
    @Erik_mit_K ปีที่แล้ว

    Now I am curious who Atkinson is or was. Sounds like a good story as well

  • @WizDaKid100
    @WizDaKid100 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do Big Meech, Freeway (Rick Ross), Larry Hoover. Bumpy Johnnson,

  • @oogabooga1023
    @oogabooga1023 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow! That's a lot of boogers in one man's nose for a thumbnail 🤣

  • @DWill357
    @DWill357 ปีที่แล้ว

    Crazy times when an investigation can be open just by showing up to a fight and having better seats as black man.

  • @trj1442
    @trj1442 ปีที่แล้ว

    How about a Biographics episode on Admiral Richard E Byrd?

  • @kartir4879
    @kartir4879 ปีที่แล้ว

    plz make a video about "Maximiliano Hernández Martínez". He is the most interesting dictator ever.

  • @jbk19xx57
    @jbk19xx57 ปีที่แล้ว

    Next Up: Iceberg Slim.

  • @michaelmitchell5098
    @michaelmitchell5098 ปีที่แล้ว

    If Frank was born in La Grange he might have layed too deep in his Grange and took that to New York.

  • @MadGeorge88
    @MadGeorge88 ปีที่แล้ว

    There are 2 unlucky guys somewhere because its not me.

  • @taipansghost
    @taipansghost ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Would you like anything to drink Frank?"
    Frank: got any holy water?

  • @usstah
    @usstah ปีที่แล้ว

    Keeps you say....

  • @lopezbiglos
    @lopezbiglos ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Damn…25? That sucks man. I started I’d say….🤔 28-29…it started

  • @adamblakeley2592
    @adamblakeley2592 ปีที่แล้ว

    Suggestion: Lieutenant Colonel John Butler (1728 - 1796) a loyalist who led Butler's Rangers which included affiliated Mohawk and other Iroquois nations' warriors. A Canadian hero and US war criminal. Most remembered in the US for the Cherry Valley massacre.

  • @doriandenard5846
    @doriandenard5846 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Simon, did you guys do some thorough research on this guy? Frank's a known liar and a snitch. 🙄

  • @jrey800
    @jrey800 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you do a video on Victor Emmanuel III…. A Brooklyn 99 meme, that I have no idea why he is, please?!

  • @KingKai133
    @KingKai133 ปีที่แล้ว

    He looks like grandma 😂

  • @UwURainUwU
    @UwURainUwU ปีที่แล้ว

    "Keeps is half the price of a pharmacy" as someone in the UK, I doubt that. XD

    • @SpaceCowboy260
      @SpaceCowboy260 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can’t you mfs get Codeine over the counter

    • @UwURainUwU
      @UwURainUwU ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SpaceCowboy260 Eyup.

  • @chrisgoebel5831
    @chrisgoebel5831 ปีที่แล้ว

    Frank Lucas is the Carlos Mencia of drug trade. He isn't even worthy of this video.

  • @tumppuman
    @tumppuman ปีที่แล้ว +4

    American Gangster is a movie that everyone involved should be ashamed! It straight up glamorises a lying drug-dealer. Lucas is portrayed in very positive light and cool guy which is disgusting. It feeds the audience every Lucas lie as fact and portrays him way smarter than he really was. Also that he did everything just to survive when in reality he was just greedy SOB. Even the epilogue text in the movie leaves out the fact Lucas went back drug dealing after his first release because it wants to leave a positive image for the viewer.

  • @jimmynickelz
    @jimmynickelz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Frank Matthews is also an interesting story.

  • @mgithaiga1
    @mgithaiga1 ปีที่แล้ว

    I watched the movie American Gangster

  • @nathanherren6708
    @nathanherren6708 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sorry, skipped through the hair loss ad because I don’t trust skinny chefs 😂😂😂

    • @ojifididitsimpson
      @ojifididitsimpson ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sometimes, I try to do things
      And it just doesn't work out the way I want it to
      And I get real frustrated
      And like, I try hard to do it
      And I like, take my time, but it just doesn't work out the way I want it to
      It's like I concentrate on it real hard
      But it just doesn't work out
      And everything I do and everything I try
      It never turns out
      It's like, I need time to figure these things out
      But there's always someone there going
      "Hey Mike, you know, we've been noticing you've been having a lot of problems lately, you know?
      You should maybe get away
      And like, maybe you should talk about it, you'll feel a lot better"
      And I go, "No it's okay, you know, I'll figure it out
      Just leave me alone, I'll figure it out, you know?
      I'm just working on myself"
      They go, "Well you know, if you want to talk about it, I'll be here, you know
      And you'll probably feel a lot better if you talk about it
      So why don't you talk about it?"
      I go, "No I don't want to, I'm okay! I'll figure it out myself!"
      But they just keep bugging me
      They just keep bugging me and it builds up inside
      So you're gonna be institutionalized
      You'll come out brainwashed with bloodshot eyes
      You won't have any say
      They'll brainwash you until you see their way
      I'm not crazy! (Institution!)
      You're the one that's crazy! (Institution!)
      You're driving me crazy! (Institution!)
      They stick me in an institution
      And said it was the only solution
      To give me the needed professional help
      To protect from the enemy, myself
      I was in my room
      And I was just like, staring at the walls thinking about everything
      But then again, I was thinking about nothing
      And then my mom came in, and I didn't even know she was there
      She called my name and I didn't hear her
      And then she started screaming, "Mike! Mike!"
      And I go, "What? What's the matter?"
      She goes, "What's the matter with you?"
      I go, "There's nothing wrong mom"
      She goes, "Don't tell me that, you're on drugs!"
      I go, "No mom, I'm not on drugs, I'm okay, I'm just thinking, you know? Why don't you get me a pepsi?"
      She goes, "No! You're on drugs!"
      I go, "Mom, I'm okay, I'm just thinking"
      And she goes, "No! You're not thinking, you're on drugs!
      Normal people don't act that way!"
      I go, "Mom, just get me a Pepsi, please? All I want's a Pepsi"
      And she wouldn't give it to me
      All I wanted was a Pepsi
      Just one Pepsi
      And she wouldn't give it to me
      Just a Pepsi!
      They give you a white shirt with long sleeves
      Tied around your back, you're treated like thieves
      Drug you up because they're lazy
      It's too much work to help a crazy
      I'm not crazy! (Institution!)
      You're the one that's crazy! (Institution!)
      You're driving me crazy! (Institution!)
      They stick me in an institution
      Said it was the only solution
      To give me the needed professional help
      To protect from the enemy, myself
      I'm sitting in my room, and my mom and my dad came in
      They pulled up a chair and they sat down
      They go, "Mike, we need to talk to you"
      And I go, "Okay, what's the matter?"
      They go, "Me and your mom, we've been noticing lately you've been having a lot of problems
      And you've been going off for no reason
      And we're afraid you're gonna hurt somebody
      And we're afraid you're gonna hurt yourself,
      So we decided that it would be in your best interest if we put you somewhere you could get the help that you need"
      And I go, "Wait! What are you talking about?
      We decided?! My best interest?!
      How do you know what my best interest is?
      How can you say what my best interest is?
      What are you trying to say? I'm crazy?!
      When I went to your schools
      I went to your churches
      I went to your institutional learning facilities!
      So how can you say I'm crazy?!
      They say they're gonna fix my brain
      Alleviate my suffering and my pain
      But by the time they fix my head
      Mentally, I'll be dead
      I'm not crazy! (Institution!)
      You're the one that's crazy! (Institution!)
      You're driving me crazy! (Institution!)
      They stick me in an institution
      Said it was the only solution
      To give me the needed professional help
      To protect from the enemy, myself
      It doesn't matter, I'll probably get hit by a car anyway

    • @nathanherren6708
      @nathanherren6708 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ojifididitsimpson Great song!

  • @jordansmith2647
    @jordansmith2647 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's messed up using dead soldiers for smuggling