Of course everyone was obsessed with thee opening of American Gangster this weekend –Over 46 Million Opening Weekend-. An “action packed” movie, with any film that trys to depict non fiction in a fiction form never does it fully justice. Peep thee real article from the words of the real man that’s this movie briefly portrays: Frank Lucas. *Never am I promoting crime at all* Simply insight to the real story.
["Who'd think I'd be in a shit $300 car like that?" asks Lucas, who claims he'd clear up to $1 million a day selling dope on 116th Street.
Indeed, few passersby might guess that Lucas, at least according to his own exceedingly ad hoc records, once had "something like $52 million," most of it in Cayman Islands banks. Added to this is "maybe 1,000 keys of dope on hand" with a potential profit of no less than $300,000 per kilo. Also in his portfolio were office buildings in Detroit, apartments in Los Angeles and Miami, "and a mess of Puerto Rico." There was also "Frank Lucas's Paradise Valley," a several-thousand-acre spread back in North Carolina on which ranged 300 head of Black Angus cows, including a "big-balled" breeding bull worth $125,000.] –NY MAG 2000
