Many may have enjoyed the movie "American Gangster", some may have enjoyed it others complained that it did not live up to it's hype. Whatever the point, it's certainly a great story. For the OG text on Frank Lucas a.k.a Superfly , check out the text interview on New York Mag that kick-started the flick:
THE RETURN OF SUPERFLY
Frank Lucas, once the city’s biggest, baddest heroin kingpin, the original O.G. in chinchilla, now seems like just a very likable guy. But don’t be fooled.
By Mark Jacobson, Published Aug 7, 2000
During the early seventies, when for a sable-coat-wearing, Superfly-strutting instant of urban time he was perhaps the biggest heroin dealer in Harlem, Frank Lucas would sit at the corner of 116th Street and Eighth Avenue in a beat-up Chevrolet he called Nellybelle. Then living in a suite at the Regency Hotel with 100 custom-made, multi-hued suits in the closet, Lucas owned several cars. He had a Rolls, a Mercedes, a Corvette Sting Ray, and a 427 muscle job he’d once topped out at 160 mph near Exit 16E of the Jersey Turnpike, scaring himself so silly that he.....(click
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