The Life of a 1970s Pimp - Frank Ward
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- During the 1960s and 70s, women would wait in line to be with Frank Ward. He was a hustler and a pimp with money and power, and with his brothers, he controlled the streets of Oakland, California - earning him respect and the title Godfather of the Underworld.
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R.I.P Frank Ward, Max Julien, Dick Anthony Williams, Richard Pryor, Roger E Mosley, CArol Speed, Juanita Moore and all who were actors in The Mack, who have passed away.
I saw it when I was younger😊😊
As a kid growing up in Oakland I looked up to pimps until I realized the stain that pimps and drug dealers were on the community - the Panthers were changing that
Thanks for making this video. I’m a huge fan of The movie The Mack!
They should build a statute of him
The back story of making this film was just as interesting as the movie! They could do a movie about the making of the Mack!
“I work mine from Frisco to Maine. It’s all about the money game with me,”
#pablosorto7012 Yes Suh theuse to rewind that barbershop scene over and over.
All I hear in my mind are the Willie Hutch songs I Choose You and Brothers Gon Work It Out ✊🏾💯
That movie turnt me & my bro tf out after we watched it when we were in the 7th & 8th grade. Being from Oakland made it that much better.
The actress Carol Speed reportedly fell in love with Frank during the filming of the movie. She played one of Goldie's ladies of the night, I think she was LuLu.
Great report. This is why people should take pictures. There are so few of them of people from that time anymore.
Those Black Panthers ruled Oakland not those pimps
You aren't doing the math. Your math aint mathing. He was paying them off. This is what led to the Panthers demise. You can't playing both sides of the fence. Hypocrites
Ummm....drug dealers like Felix Mitchell, and Lil D, ran Oakland. They were using Panthers to run drugs for them. The Pimps and the Panthers, were a sideshow to the big time dealers in Oakland.
@@Steve-mp7by Man cut out all that math not mathing infantile talk. I spoke on this particular incident. The BPP demised came from internal and external factors and if you are not aware of the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover's efforts you don't need to address the subject.
@@Steve-mp7byman stop yo cappin, stop the foolishness!
I will never believe huey put a hit on frank you know who killed him & everything going on in Oakland during the panthers reign if you watched the mack & the panther
Wow 😮😳😮😳 learn something everyday salute 🫡🤘 to Mr Frank Ward
My grandmother was good friends with all the Ward brothers Real Oakland
Is that right ? 🤦🏽♂️
@@California-king Whatchu tryin to say?🤔🤔🤔🤔
DOES SHE HAVE ANY STORYS ABOUT FRANK AND TED
My grandmother was Very Very close to the Real Goodfellas they even use to call her mom
Did she share stories with you?
UNDEFEATED RETIRED BOXER 🥊ANDRÉ WARDS GREAT UNCLE 💰💰🔫🪖🩸💯💯💯💯🤞🏿
Different Frank Ward
I'm from Berkeley CA and knew Frank and his brothers very well. I was so surprised to see this video. He was so sweet. I had run away from home and that's when I met him. He talked to me and told me I had to go back home and he took me back. The ward brothers, I can't believe I'm seeing this. Thank you for sharing this video. I also knew Bobby and the rest of the Panthers.
This information is accurate. Same story I was told by one of the Wards.
And by the way, I'm a Newton.
I’m about to watch a movie right now called the Big Cigar and Huey on Apple TV salute to those that made sacrifices that had a impact in our lives salute
Most of this footage is from the movie , The Mack.
Imma do mines from Frisco to Maine - RIP Frank ward
From the big apple to the pineapple
@@notoldmike From the Grape Ape to the Snowflake
"{imma do mines from Frisco to Ming}" as in =Ming China
Max Julian was handsome back in the day. Damn Frank Ward!!!❤
I wonder if them Max Julian coats from back in the day was named after him?
FRANK WARD & FILLMORE SLIM THE GODFATHER'S OF THE GAME 👑💯
Bullshit
You wrong on that tip the deuce had legendary Macks ...not gorillas out there
Being a Pimp sounds like the most stressful day that's full of nothing but drama, I'm good.
Like Eddie in Super Fly said to Priest what else you going to do besides Pimping and you don’t have the stomach for that. I’m sure it was stressful
That's a fact , you deal with multiple woman and they emotions is crazy to me seriously
Glory to the game ✌️✌️P
A living parasite. The most pathetic “career”.
@@tonyjulian1289facts
“Omari Hardwick” should play “Frank Ward” in a new movie about his life.
💯 absolutely. Great point, very underrated comment.
Other than Everyday Blackman, Gridiron Gang, and Power, Omari is more comfortable playing more conservative roles. He would not play such a role.
Terrence Howard
Or Terrance Howard !
He's to short. Terrance Howard would be a better choice
Frankie was a bitnessman y'all...a BITNESSMAN!
Oaaaaaak towwwwwnnnnnnnn! 🌉 Rip Frank ward! The infamous ward brothers! Finally somebody do a story on him!
This man was the Frank Lucas of pimps. He came from the south and after becoming successful he brought his brothers along just like Frank Lucas did.
frank lucas
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He got brought along....his older brothers brought him out there and taught him game....I know the story very well.....
The Mack is one of my favorite movies 🎥😊
He's not a rat.
This is where the movie THE MACK came from
Frank Ward and his brothers was my nephew's great uncle.
Every since I seen the Mack for the first time and learned who the Ward brothers were I been looking for more info on these guys, especially Frank. Appreciate this video
that must have been some strong toilet paper. 💯
@hpisrhead67 😂😂😂
Much respect to Frank Ward 🙏🏾🙏🏾
What did he do for your community?
Frank Ward elevated the Pimp Game back in his day to where a movie was based on the life he was living. It’s now in movies, music, and fashion more than anytime in history. That’s what he did for the community.🎩🧥💵🎥🎵 What are you doing for the community?🤔😏
I didn’t realize that Frank was murdered that way…dam. Rest Easy Frank. 🙏🏿
Great video
Oh yeah
R.I.P. Mr. Frank Ward
The Ward Brothers 👑💰👑
Philippians 2:10-11
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Church. Amen
Land of Oak was shitty then and it's even shittier now.
Too Short told us that.
A P got smoked in a Bentley..sum haters ...
Oakland is only bad in certain areas. There's multiple rich neighborhoods in Oakland where people are enjoying their wealth and opportunities.
I loved the movie The Mack what a legend Frank Ward thank you for video.RIP
Why does he favor Walter Hawkins? 🤔💯
I thought the same thing!!! LOL
@@AnEclecticManEspecially when they both lived in Oakland. 🤔
It’s all about the money game. I needa go into business for myself. Need to find a racket first.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣ninja please❤❤❤...................
Get a job.
Onlyfans and website posts killed the game for the aeverage pimp it isn’t as easy as it was back then
@2443. Slave.
GOTTA have more than one source of income now days.
RIP Frank Ward
Nowadays it’s hard out there even for a Pimp 😂😂😂
It’s way easier now than it was when I started in the game and back when my pops was in the game
@@trixonic6934very easy
Frank was the truth , he almost turned out the actress in the movie 🎥, I think the panthers took frank out
You guys talking about Black Panter Party Newton, Seal Don,t Forget mr. H Rap Brown..❤
My late brother Alonzo was a Pimp and I remember when I was younger seeing him with his flock and sometimes he would take me to check his traps late at night and I would get up the next day and go to school
"Check his traps"? I'm not sure what that means. Please elaborate.
@@budb.8560make sure his hoes had his money top of it
Church.
@@budb.8560check his traps means check on his girls that are “trapping” John’s
Town Bizness....
Bless You ❤Frank Ward ❤ Frank
R.i.p godfather of Oakland Frank ward
Im best friend with Frank first son Barron Ward
reno and the MUSTANG RANCH in the legal games and the fun... what a different world now. i miss the good old days. THANK YOU !!!. maybe i just remember the good times...rockettebob
Pushing P Rest UP U Dig
When I rode BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) as a youngster we were always amused when the trains pass thru West Oakland descending into the tunnel that goes under the bay to SF as we sat and viewed at all that grit and hookers, junkies, drug dealers etc. from the safety of our seats!
Hearing this story about this gentleman triggered me because I had a friend that was killed the same way shot in the back of the head while he was driving his car on his birthday valentine day crashed the car the man wasn't Dead 20 minutes before these bums took his keys went back to his house and robbed him they were even walking around the the dead mans leather jackets on jealousy hatred and envy is real and it can get you killed r.i.p mr frank Ward r.i.p to my homeboy diamond manky r.i.p to everyone that lost a loved one to a envious jealous bumm
The wager of sin is death you can live of die. you die without Jesus Christ as lord its death
END OF STORY ❤
That’s sad that’s nothing to brag about
Bobby, his Group Came to ALABama and Join The Panter and Took IT Back To OAKLand CA..
The Mack is in my DVD player as we speak.
Moral to the story They made him rich.😳😳😳🤩🤔
Frank made my cousin $$$$. She did a lot of pimps hair back in the day. Kings and Queens on Sacramento st. Berkeley CA.
I thought he was older 32 when he passed.
The 80's were dope and i'm glad i got to live them, but man what i would give to have been able to live through the 70's. SO much innocents left in the world i would have loved to seen it. I know pimping isn't innocent but even the pimps look wholesome. i would have just liked to been around then. Great video.
Don't let the smooth looks and great great music fool you! Sure the 70s were great, real and a time in history that can never be duplicated. I truly miss the 70s but the 70s was also a very deadly time. Serial killers thrived in the 70s. There are still unsolved murders that await DNA evidence from the 70s. It was also a time when social services were running black fathers out of the homes with their welfare programs. I remember the black Panthers, the Mob, and the Family as a kid I didn't know who the ward brothers were but I saw the mack as a kid at the Roxy theater and didn't know I was looking at frank ward on film. But yeah I would say you would have loved the 70s and never forgot that time to this day.
@@jeromeosills6522I'ma 80s baby ..n in my lifetime I know they were warring against my father's n grandfather's on another level.
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Now I have a better understanding of the classic movie, “The Mack”. A’se
HIS BROTHER ANDREW WAS THE IMMEDIATE!!!!
Once in a lifetime pimpin at its finest
*was handsome*
Things got so bad in Oakland, they had to shoot part of the film in Los Angeles! Oakland had a notorious underworld, The Black Panthers also had beef with drug dealer Felix the Cat!
He and his brothers were in "The Mack"
The movie The Mack was from this guy by Max Julian
Oops she mentioned it
These were players , not pimps , . .?
Often time people confuse the 2 ,
which are completely different , .??
Just keep a 304 high and give her shelter. Make her feel like she's important, family. Really ain't no trick to it. The problem is balance. It's hard to maintain equilibrium. My Daddy ran a traveling strip club way back in the day. Consequently, he was hard on me, being his oldest daughter. He'd tell me straight, "I ain't raising no dumb BEECH!" Sure enough, he didn't. I own my own trucking company. But, personal relationships, naw, Can't do it. Price you pay growing up in the life. At the end of the day, you're surrounded by people trying to get next to you, but you're completely alone. 💯 RIP, Charles White! 🙏 I miss you, Daddy.
I can see mike epps , or method man.
I been to union town alabama its not to far from selma
On the thumbnail he reminds me of Walter Hawkins
Yep
Whut up Pimpin’
Laya
Playa
$tand Up
You gotta have vision!
Many learn pimpin
Few R born pimpin
If they had found out who killed this brother. This was a set up by someone who knew him and his movements
Uhmmm, great guy 🤨
FIRST AND FOREMOST, CONDOLENCES to the WARD FAMILIES! The Director who wrote the check that bounce, is the person that got FRANK KILT! The MACK is a great black movie that showed that real black men weren’t afraid of the PIG back then in the 1960 and 1970s! The movie highly influenced RICHARD PYY TO become a PIMP! ASKED PAM GRIER!
Richard grew up in whore houses
That bounced check didn't get frank ward killed! His arrogance got him killed.
What you mean ?
Never… damn the bp got him ghost?
I understand pimpin but how the hell can you call a hook a girlfriend
Max Julien #RichardPryor #Everyone BlackindieEndz #2Braidz
So is this something to brag about?
An unfortunate part of Black history. Just like slavery and other atrocities in American history
Pimps and preachers
#BlackindieEnd #Nation #Natives #2Braidz #Chief shit
Ladies and gentleman the runner up pimp of the year FRANK WARD.RIP to the LEGEND of the YAY Frank Ward!
Does anybody out there ever heard of Mr. white folks
hello , those blaxploitation flicks , were the best , back in the day . we loved seein' movies with the bros , who were about that lifegreat share😊😊😊😊😊, thank you for sharing🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰............