She loved that man!! She never re-married because they weren’t any men like her husband. That’s real love.They don’t make women or men or people like that anymore. Loyalty!!!
She never married again because Joe from the post office or Bobby from the steel plant wouldn't have been able to maintain the lifestyle she was accustomed to
Pete McCorvey but she never remarried tho she held that shit down you think the wife of BUMPY JOHNSON needed anything but him y’all niggas just lames💯 Edit: Put some respeck on that man shit💯
Bumpy Johnson was a numbers man!!!! Happen to be my parents friend. Of course I was much little, but my dad and mom use to tell me stories. He was a the god father of Harlem,he definitely helped people.
@Paul Boomy I do not watch it. I already read the book, and I know what my parents told me . I also know his goddaughter and his last living sibling , his grandson.
Met the honorable Mrs. Johnson at a book signing. She was as sharp and clear minded as she is in this interview with a wicked sense of humor. I hope to be half as balanced and together as she was in her 90's. Rule In Power (RIP) Mrs. Mamie Johnson.
bumpy Johnson was a rare breed. There will never be another Bumpy ever. Did he do bad, yes, but at that time you had to survive. He did bad but he also did a lot of good. it is what it is. RIP Bumpy.
Robert Young. when frank lucas was telling his story for the movie bumpys wife wanted half of proceds. when frank said no this is his movie his story thats when she turnec on him. thats a fact. she wanted money and frank said no. she is out to destroy him.
What's the difference in selling drugs and the store's selling cigarettes are beer people die from those things but yet no one goes to jail for selling it to them
bob Lemonade People forget it was our government bringing the drugs into the country then, in NY and Florida in the 80's, in Chicago today. I know people personally that found crates of guns in alleys in the 80's
SHE PROBABLY NEVER LIKED FRANK BECAUSE HE WAS A DRUG ADDICT AT FIRST, AND SHE WAS AROUND WHEN HIS NAME WAS RINGING IN HARLEM WHILE HE WAS MAKING MILLIONS SO SHE REALLY DIDNT LIKE HIM NOW ANS HE RATTED LATER.
Ain't none of them my heroes. Selling smack ( dope) to your own (blackpeople), Na... Let's talk about MARK CLARK and FRED HAMPTON,... and those BROTHERS.
Yea he wasn't perfect but he built many businesses in Harlem and fed the community. Ppl will do pharmaceutical drugs for decades but you not protesting the pharmacist.
Bumpy Johnson was the relative of my Great Great Grand Father Albert Johnson of New York whom lived in the North Bronx during those days. My Great Grand Father Albert Johnson of New York also worked under President Franklin D. Roosevelt when FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT was the forty-eighth governor of New York. We are also direct relative of James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond which is my mother, Vicki Johnson-Rosemond third cousin on my Grandmother's James Rosemond of South Carolina husband side.
@@birminghamlocal Peewee said Frank didn't ship the heroin in the way he said he did but he never said he was a fraud. In all honesty, does even matter how Frank managed to get his hands on the heroin? He still got a hold of it and sold it. Same outcome
“His business was left on the doorstep” which before I even started this video I was thinking what I’m bout to say myself... look the women were left to the house, kids, and whatever else in these eras. She probably really doesn’t know as much as she thinks she does as far as what went on outside! A man in this game has two lifestyles... out in the streets and back at home. So I’m not really going to lean on her words. She’s upset and I get that. Everybody yrs after the fact has their own view of what was what
Two lifestyles. If you watch The Godfather trilogy it speaks directly to this point. Women stayed in their places and took care of the home front. Loved and supported their men while keeping quiet and going along. Only a few of the newer, younger ones speak out. Loyalty among thieves and gangsters. Watch Goodfellas too. At the very end of the day he and his minions destroyed lives and families, left children to die or fend for themselves. What makes him and the others fueling Harlem so great??? Talk to the children who were left behind to get a real perspective. Maymie, in my view was better off remaining silent. She said herself, he left his business at the doorstep so how would she be able to stake claims other than speak of the lifestyle he provided her and their kids? Wake up people!! I hated everything he stood for. Throw me a free turkey after pushing poison through my mother’s nose/veins whatever. This is all so disgusting. Black heroes as drug pushers, right??? At least BMF admits they destroyed lives through their business, lived large and some are proud of it. But look what’s happened to them and the legacy left for their children. Smdh… disgusting!!!
She never said she was privy to all his business. She said Frank Lucas was a liar. The things he said he was a part of and did, she verified that none of it was true because she was there. She never once said she knew all the aspects of his business.
I spent many years knowing this beautiful woman, and she speaks the truth unaudulterated by the "stories" the media shits over those who think they actually have a clue of what really happened... If you really want to know, then ask the source.
I’m sorry, I know this is his wife, I highly respect her, but from her first words, “he left his business at the door,” outside not living with them, I don’t think she knew in depth what Bump’s relationship may or may not have been with Frank Lucas. I’m sure Hollywood changed more of the story than Frank did.
Frank was caught in alot lies when you fack check and look up the years he said he lived with Bumpy or was around him u would see Bumpy was in prison most of that time I'm sure he knew Bumpy and was around him but not like he say most everything Frank wrote in his book was lies
Any gangster is going to have pillow talk with their significant other. She is by far not the only one that has said Frank was lying. No one had even heard of a Frank Lucas before that movie came out. Look up Ike Adkinson. He was the man Frank was supposidly hookup up with in Viet nam. Ike did 30 years due to his drug dealings. He has an interview on youtube also. He has recently passed also. Again Frank Lucas was unknown b4 this movie. Do your research, dont rely on one persons story, especially a movie. Dont you think she would know if someone was living in her house for 6 months
Hoodlum was a good movie even if it not 100% accurate. It tells story that if willing viewers could then research & learn more about the people depicted particularly the African American community in Harlem's struggles against the racist cops & mafia. Madame Saint-Clair true story is a remarkable one & so is her & Bumpy Johnson's unspoken activism for equality.
Bumpy made sure she saw the great side of him. Like she said he left his business at the door. Not saying Frank was telling the truth but hey every person shows each person they meet the person they want them to see
Her definition of a good man is obviously different from most ppl's. Here's a man who was big in the underworld and did a lot of heinous crimes much of his life and contributed greatly to the undoing and misguidance of a lot of other people and she calls him good because he was guiltily philanthropic? Sure those gestures may have appeased her but come on, how can it negate the wrong he was involved in and the impact it had on millions? I guess it all depends on what you choose to focus on. He was obviously a brilliant and capable leader. I wonder how things would have turned out for him if he (was able/had opportunity to) use his talents doing legal things. He obviously made his choice from the options/circumstances he faced at the time like we all do! It's is funny (peculiar) how we can't help but romanticize these type of ppl.
Robyn Noland as a matter of fact bumpy was against selling drugs he didn’t allow that he ran numbers he basically ran an “illegal” lottery sooooo please with ya uncle ruckus Uncle Tom ass fake I’m holy believing in fake gods ass outta here or should I say “out of here”
What gangsters wife or girlfriend ever knew even 10% of what their men were into? Whether black white Hispanic or green you don't include women in your affairs. Not saying either is lying but both stories don't make sense
LiftedGamingLoL complete sentences please or at a minimum make a point. I agree with ya pops he should of pulled out. One Kleenex could of stopped another waste of life
geoff You watch too many movies that lead you to believe that it is some sort of golden rule to keep your partner out of your business. When nearly all "successful" gangsters have not only involved their partners, but either taken a lot of advice from or just straight up ran their business with said partner. Don't know why the fact that you have such a cute view on this matter that it made you so incredibly butthurt that you needed to get ad hominem as fuck with me when I didn't even insult you to begin with. Hope your day gets better mate, and I'll make sure to include proper grammar next time for your UA-cam comment viewing pleasure so you don't manage to make yourself look like an asshat jumping to conclusions of intelligence. Sorry.
Also I guess drawing a point from inference isn't something you ever managed to learn in elementary school, but everything I said in the first two sentences there can be drawn from inference from my first comment. It's actually quite magical the things you can do with inferences!
Also, your first sentence is not a complete sentence. #english #essaytips #youhavenosubject #areyoutalkingtoyourself #hashtags Way to make yourself look like a complete idiot, idiot.
I agree with Karen E. Quinones Miller, and I'm apt to believe Frank Lucus' story over Bumpy wife's story because how would she know about Bumpy's street associates and his business. Those men did not come home and share their street business with their women back then and even today those type of men still do not share their street business with their women!
Aaron Foster yep we constantly glorify people who destroyed our community destroy a generation just for the material things in life. If she was so upset with mr. Lucas betrayal of her husband Just go back check the contract the contract of life the deal that we make with the Devil. One of the comments says she died may God have mercy on her soul because she was just a part of that destruction of a community right along with her husband. When she went to the store and brought steaks when the other families that were being destroyed 8 little of nothing because they took the parents of these kids and when they wear their coats and being warm and when the family of the parents of the kids that they had did not have heat in their homes she's crying about how they falsify relationship between two Crooks. You see for black man such as myself it is very hard to raise a boy into a man when we fall gullible two people making Heroes out of crooks I tell my son to treat a lady with respect and treat men with honesty and look them straight in the eye when you talk. But with the White media petrang all of us as Crooks and the crooks of our own race coming out selling a story glorifying it in the rappers singing about selling drugs and f****** b****** supposed to be women but the women shaking dance and glorify this is very hard to make a proper young man. But through all of this I'm going to keep trying and the person who's running this on UA-cam just for pics and Views can you find another subject besides degradation two are people given a white folks something to say this is what all we do.
Back when females were more loyal than scandalous... And gangsters were really gangster.. now most females will stab you thru the chest as soon as something better comes along, and gangsters are nothing but coward low life's that will sell out their own damn blood down the river to save their own ass..
Old broad sounds bitter. Bumpy Johnson is worth about two minutes of conversation in American gangster. She wasn't mad when hoodlum made him seem more like a partner than a flunky to the Italians. Lucas as always respectful to bumpy memory.
I feel you, and she glorifies him about how he spend money on her and others. Frank Lucas may have been a liar, but both men hurt a lot of people, he was a drug dealer and helped killed a lot of drug users 9hurting his own people) making a illegal living. I guess he did buy all the cakes at the church, he had it. She should just keep her mouth shut because bumpy was a loser and so was Frank. Bumby went to prison 3 times, who bought the cakes then?
The best one who would know about his life is His wife as old as she is her mind is there thanks Mrs. Johnson for the truth... The Bumpy Johnson story on Epix TV that's my show I'm all in.
I love old school grandmas they have no filter and speaks the holy gospel with no extras LOL she said she didn’t appreciate Frank’s lies..I know that’s right
@@MsSPLIFFETTE he didn't sale drug he was a number man he protected Queenie who really had a lottery they made alot of money he knew alot of famous people of that time he look out for his people didn't take no shit he respected all women and men who respected him yes he would cut motherfucker really quick so he was the man if u did any fuck shit to anybody he know u had to deal with the Godfather of Harlem and he never snitch on nobody
Lucky Luciano is probably my favorite of all of em. Glad I'm not the only one that pays attention individual accomplishments instead of categorizing by race and sterotypes. Afterall this is organized crime and we're dealing with shady characters...but it's a fascinating lifestyle and cool twist on history. I can watch this stuff all day. Thanks.
I love your comment my man. alot of wives and women do this when there men live that life. I have many relatives who live that life and they hide there lifestyles from there women very well and in some instances the women know good and dam well what there men are doing and just defend them anyway. well said my man.
I think everyone will agree with me when I say this, but sounds like he made sure that she had no knowledge or worries about his business. Every memory she is talking about was when we wasn't wrapped up in business lol.
+The Realness She had an idea of what her husband did. She lived in Harlem and heard stories, she's not a stupid woman. She didn't care like most women in her position. Feigning ignorance, bullshit.
What day I can't understand why is it none of the people that used to be around Bumpy Johnson backing up her story it got to be somebody that knows the same thing she knows about Frank make it makes sense
selling drugs is a curse but layed out for a blessing if you turn to jesus like i did. i could live with myself as of today because i repented of my sins. it's the frame of mind that will kill you not the drugs. i sold drugs under a frame of insanity, like no food in the house. no the real point is we didnt have jesus in the house, his word or holy ghost to guide me into being content. the one who is content in all things small large or none at all is the real gangster.
Why not? Even tho she cheated with Doug she still a ride or die women. Not even being a simp but that could be excused bumpy had plenty women and just got home from a long bid was she supposed to be celibate?...
What did he say about Bumpy that was negative? She just kept saying over & over that he lied, he lied. She was never specific about what those lies were. & the person interviewing her never asked her anything specific. She did a terrible job. This was a waste of time
I wouldn't be proud of destroying people's lives, especially black people!😞the thugs, or GANGSTERS selling drugs where living good, not the poor kids who suffered the most!👏👏👏👌mothers, fathers strung out caused caused more prostitution, stealing, robbing, & murder!😈so if their proud of that effect on Harlem, GOD hv mercy on their souls!!!💗amen!😢
Apparently, the time period when Frank says he was Bumpy's driver, Bumpy was in prison. This was a fifteen year time frame, when Bumpy was not around. If you watch Frank Lucas and Nicky Barnes talking to each other on a conference call, it's titled 'Nicky Barnes and Frank Lucas: Videotaped Phone Conversation,' you can tell Frank Lucas is full of shit. So you've got a liar in Frank, and a snitch in Nicky who convinced himself he was justified in ratting out 65 people because they moved on with their lives when he got sentenced to life after the vanity went to his head and he posed for the cover of NY Times Magazine section in a flash suit instead of them using his mugshot. For a man who claims to have made 50 million, why wasn't he smart enough to get that money out of the country and move to Belize or Costa Rica back before they had extradition treaties with the U.S.? He sent the mother of his children to prison for ten years. As for Bumpy--I'm interested to know about his childhood in Charleston, SC, where his brother was murdered for something he said to a white man, and how that affected him and his family. And also interested to know if he was some type of savant--how did he remember the numbers and the bets without writing stuff down? How was he able to do the math without a formal education, did Stephanie St. Clair teach him? Guess I'll have to read on. Once these geezers started talking, now that the statute of limitations ran out, they all started making their own answer videos over these disputes, still talking trash to each other, each with different versions of reality. Get them all together in a room and I bet they would start a fight with their walkers and canes.
So she basically exposing Frank for being a super hard worker cause he had no help from Bumpy Johnson. An she definitely admits that he worked for Bumpy. How do she know so much about Frank??? She admitted that Bumpy talked to her about Frank. Ion remember talking about flunkys or the help with my wife unless they were close or special to me
"His business was left on the door step" . This woman something else. Frank Lucas lying about her saint husband. Frank might have been lying about how he knew Bumpy. But not to glorify him but he was a gangster drug dealer. That blue magic was real.
The things you do in the streets are different than the things that you do around your family & close friends.Bumpy could have been a nice guy around his family and friends but in the streets he could have very well been a feared man who was involved in criminal activities and that goes for a lot of criminals who are considered angels by their mother or grandmother but in the streets their considered monsters.Who knows but I believe Bumpy's wife.
Im sure Bumpy didnt share everything with his wife. Most gangstars left the street business in the streets. He probably had another woman in the side, who probably knew more than wifey did.
I really believe she is upset she wasn’t involved with the movie she didn’t get any money out of it and she is trying to discredit the movie as much as she can
It's a shame that people glorify the fact that one devil has a bigger name then another. The bottom line is they killed a generation of people and left their kids without parents. In reality they are just devils wanting to be delivered to hell. God saw it. It's for HIM to judge.
Doesn't really matter her husband was a thug that helped destroy black lives in there community so how can she sound even proud of him and living off the down fall of black people and others, yeah a good husband in the house but at what cost wow and if he left his street life at the door how does she know all what went on really like he told her everything . Just my thoughts.
People tend to forget Bumpy Johnson was a numbers man, Frank Lucas was a drug dealer. I'm guessing Frank destroyed waaaay more lives than Bumpy ever could or would, was Bumpy an angel? Of course not but he helped keep Harlem black, who you got now that could do that???
Frank is a fraud. His claim to fame is claiming other ppls story as his own. He never went to the jungle for his dope and damn sure didn't bring it back inside of soldiers bodies in caskets that was somebody else's story. He wasnt really even a kingpin he had his crew and they got busy and made money but he was nowhere near the biggest dealer in NY let alone Harlem. Peewee Kirkland was 10 times bigger than he was and Frank Matthews was bigger than them all except for probably Bumpy who really was the godfather of Harlem.Lucas is a fraud it's obvious by the way he try to glorify the shit plus he was always getting caught up in his lies. I'm sure this lady don't have shit to lie about she don't even like the shit that bumpy did and doesn't like it to be glorified. More than likely she prolly just tried of the lies on her husband name ( which Frank did all the time)...
@@thehotbox7474 peewee Kirkland was a basketball player turn drug dealer shut yo ass up only reason man could become a dealer was by using his basketball money and even then the fool was only worth 30 million as his height lol he a little fish.
Ive heard so many others speak ill of Bumpy"...Frank has given BUMPY nothing but praise...And Bumpys widow and family/some friends continue to trash franks name...Wow"...U guys definitely showing U" didnt hang out wth bumpy and pic up some of his manners...Trust me,in tht life style those guys lived,the wife would be the last to know anything...They didnt play those kinda games bck in the days...Ur business never made it in the same house,u laid ur head at,or where ur family laid their head..
GREATEST GUY THAT EVER LIVED ????? WOUNDERFUL FATHER AND HUSBAND ???? AND WERE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE YOU?? MURDERED MILLIONS DESTROYED HARLEM ......... PLEASE !!!!!
I'm not sure if you're Black/African American or not but you're addressing a HUGE problem in our community. There are WAY TOO MANY Black People that think all upper middle class or millionaires are celebrities, CEOs or Doctors. That is a bunch of horsecrap. The reality is most millionaires drive Camrys, live frugally while and are making a great salary or running a successful, "small" business. I know one millionaire that takes public transportation everyday but owns 2 homes.
I've watched American Gangster now ohhh about a 100 times..( in a few months).no LIE..lol.. and I can practically recite the whole movie in my head...Never did Frank Lucas spoke ill will about Bumpy...He just took it to the next level... All respects to his/Bumpy's wife.. but I think she is bitter as she was never mentioned in the movie at any point.. and is probably upset that no money was given her...Just an opinion...:)
That's what confused me. I was thinking: I don't remember him saying anything but great things about Bumpy. Also, it seems the police called Frank Bumpy's right-hand man so I'm not sure how Frank was making that up. She said she didn't see the movie...how does she know about "all the lies" Frank told?!?
She loved that man!! She never re-married because they weren’t any men like her husband. That’s real love.They don’t make women or men or people like that anymore. Loyalty!!!
youtubeabuser bullish!t. She just miss the life style!
She never married again because Joe from the post office or Bobby from the steel plant wouldn't have been able to maintain the lifestyle she was accustomed to
Real the book she wrote. She was a sack chaser. She was already dealing with guys that good benefit her materalistically before they were married.
Pete McCorvey but she never remarried tho she held that shit down you think the wife of BUMPY JOHNSON needed anything but him y’all niggas just lames💯
Edit: Put some respeck on that man shit💯
Wrong. There are no more women like her, loyal to her man. Only hoes are around. Materialistic feminist hypocrite hoes.
92 years old or not you gonna put sum respect on his muthafuckin name! My kind of woman.
What respect is a drug dealer and killer due?? because they made money while destorying blk lives.....all for the love of money.
His wife is 92 years old and when she started talking about Bumpy she got fired up
I wish that 1 lady would shut up and stop interrupting Bumpy Johnsons wife.
She still very smart, and still has damn good memory
Back then women were more loyal than today.
Only the player's change !
The game remains the same !
The devil's media has ruined our people's minds
David, I don't know where you got that fideation from.
they were real women not a buncha chickens calling each other bitches with pride
@@rockfresh5359 factz
Bumpy Johnson was a numbers man!!!! Happen to be my parents friend. Of course I was much little, but my dad and mom use to tell me stories. He was a the god father of Harlem,he definitely helped people.
How? Is this who we have to look up to?
@Paul Boomy I do not watch it. I already read the book, and I know what my parents told me . I also know his goddaughter and his last living sibling , his grandson.
His goddaughter lives in Harlem, in NYC & and his grandson lives in Florida
She was and still 100% loyal to Bumpy. Definition of a good woman.
Amen to that. Da Emperor of Harlem. Bumpy Town(Harlem).
Church!!!!!
@@ellisjahfinelcraddock Malcolm X too
She cheated on him with Boxer Doug Jones ...👀
@@tonyagrant3455 she never cheated on Bumpy
Well they did make a movie on bumpy too. Hoodlum with Laurence Fishburne
YoungZukaa ...yea they did make a movie about him but like his wife said there were alot of errors about him in the movie...
that movie was weak
@@jamesvickers9476 they just wanna hate on Frank Lucas
Which was overwhelmingly inaccurate. 💯
yea a MOVIE
I remember the agent that bust Frank Lucas said Frank Lucas had a fairy tale type of mind...😂😂😂
Lol 😆 🤣 😂
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Met the honorable Mrs. Johnson at a book signing. She was as sharp and clear minded as she is in this interview with a wicked sense of humor. I hope to be half as balanced and together as she was in her 90's. Rule In Power (RIP) Mrs. Mamie Johnson.
bumpy Johnson was a rare breed. There will never be another Bumpy ever. Did he do bad, yes, but at that time you had to survive. He did bad but he also did a lot of good. it is what it is. RIP Bumpy.
Robert Young. when frank lucas was telling his story for the movie bumpys wife wanted half of proceds. when frank said no this is his movie his story thats when she turnec on him. thats a fact. she wanted money and frank said no. she is out to destroy him.
Bumpy was a number runner you stupid fuck
What's the difference in selling drugs and the store's selling cigarettes are beer people die from those things but yet no one goes to jail for selling it to them
good point
bob Lemonade People forget it was our government bringing the drugs into the country then, in NY and Florida in the 80's, in Chicago today. I know people personally that found crates of guns in alleys in the 80's
She is not upset about a movie being made about Frank Lucas because Hoodlum was made about her husband first, and it was off the chain.
Zane Strebor it didnt star denzell and it didn't do numbers like American gangster
Fact lol
Yes she is
SHE PROBABLY NEVER LIKED FRANK BECAUSE HE WAS A DRUG ADDICT AT FIRST, AND SHE WAS AROUND WHEN HIS NAME WAS RINGING IN HARLEM WHILE HE WAS MAKING MILLIONS SO SHE REALLY DIDNT LIKE HIM NOW ANS HE RATTED LATER.
@@williammatthews7252 Frank wasn't on drugs, Nicky Barnes was
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Thank you and God bless all of you from my family...
Anthony Hatcher Johnson
She talk good and sound good for a 93 yo 😕
She said it herself...bumpy left his business at the door..No disrespect at all,but she didn't know what that man had going on
Isis Smith bruh a man don’t tell a woman like that everything the life to dangerous for someone so sweet and genuine
@Isis Smith john Wayne gacey wife didn't know he was mudering young boys.
@@lawrencefisherward3 if you believe she didn't know than idk what to say
Michael Reyes she wasn’t charged.
Right
R.I.P Mayme Hatcher Johnson, widow of Bumpy Johnson who passed away on May 1st 2009!
I DO THINK FRANK LIED ALOT, EVEN HIS BROTHERS AND THE OFFICE RICHIE SAID HE WAS LYING.
Indeed Damitabyo, your Aunt was & is a treasure and it was a wonderful education and pleasure being in her presence.
Ain't none of them my heroes. Selling smack ( dope) to your own (blackpeople), Na... Let's talk about MARK CLARK and FRED HAMPTON,... and those BROTHERS.
Bumpy never sold drugs
It’s not heroic, but history...
Yea he wasn't perfect but he built many businesses in Harlem and fed the community. Ppl will do pharmaceutical drugs for decades but you not protesting the pharmacist.
@Ishmael Cato he took a a case because he wasn't a snitch and he never touched drugs.
Alot of blks really didn't have much of a choice back then
He must have been a great man to have a woman love him like this one does, decades after his death.
Ain't it funny where people find their heros?
Bumpy Johnson was the relative of my Great Great Grand Father Albert Johnson of New York whom lived in the North Bronx during those days. My Great Grand Father Albert Johnson of New York also worked under President Franklin D. Roosevelt when FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT was the forty-eighth governor of New York. We are also direct relative of James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond which is my mother, Vicki Johnson-Rosemond third cousin on my Grandmother's James Rosemond of South Carolina husband side.
mobsters & big time drug dealers do not reveal contacts & talk with their wifes about business like that and its a lot of stuff i bet she dont know
Pee wee Kirkland said franks a fraud and a lot of things have been proven to be lies that he said
Exactly I was thinking how does she know this much stuff
@@birminghamlocal Peewee said Frank didn't ship the heroin in the way he said he did but he never said he was a fraud. In all honesty, does even matter how Frank managed to get his hands on the heroin? He still got a hold of it and sold it. Same outcome
Exactly -- he help out a lot of people, but how many did he hurt - probably a lot more - not judging just being honest
“His business was left on the doorstep” which before I even started this video I was thinking what I’m bout to say myself... look the women were left to the house, kids, and whatever else in these eras. She probably really doesn’t know as much as she thinks she does as far as what went on outside! A man in this game has two lifestyles... out in the streets and back at home. So I’m not really going to lean on her words. She’s upset and I get that. Everybody yrs after the fact has their own view of what was what
Two lifestyles. If you watch The Godfather trilogy it speaks directly to this point. Women stayed in their places and took care of the home front. Loved and supported their men while keeping quiet and going along. Only a few of the newer, younger ones speak out. Loyalty among thieves and gangsters. Watch Goodfellas too. At the very end of the day he and his minions destroyed lives and families, left children to die or fend for themselves. What makes him and the others fueling Harlem so great??? Talk to the children who were left behind to get a real perspective. Maymie, in my view was better off remaining silent. She said herself, he left his business at the doorstep so how would she be able to stake claims other than speak of the lifestyle he provided her and their kids? Wake up people!! I hated everything he stood for. Throw me a free turkey after pushing poison through my mother’s nose/veins whatever. This is all so disgusting. Black heroes as drug pushers, right??? At least BMF admits they destroyed lives through their business, lived large and some are proud of it. But look what’s happened to them and the legacy left for their children. Smdh… disgusting!!!
She never said she was privy to all his business. She said Frank Lucas was a liar. The things he said he was a part of and did, she verified that none of it was true because she was there. She never once said she knew all the aspects of his business.
@@TennesseeZ If Frank Lucas was part of the business she didn't know about, he could be telling some truth.
She is a beautiful woman in real life and the lady who they picked to act her role almost resemble her also in The Godfather of Harlem TV series
king Rolle it’s a good match. Was glad she mentioned book in preparing for role
I spent many years knowing this beautiful woman, and she speaks the truth unaudulterated by the "stories" the media shits over those who think they actually have a clue of what really happened... If you really want to know, then ask the source.
He has two family members left.his goddaughter and grandson
They are the source
I’m sorry, I know this is his wife, I highly respect her, but from her first words, “he left his business at the door,” outside not living with them, I don’t think she knew in depth what Bump’s relationship may or may not have been with Frank Lucas. I’m sure Hollywood changed more of the story than Frank did.
Bingo
She Talking Like Bumpy Wasn’t A Gangsta/Drug Dealer, People Knew Bumpy She Aint Know Him!
@@merr2l ain’t she tho….real gangsters never let Mama know what’s on the other side of the door.
Frank was caught in alot lies when you fack check and look up the years he said he lived with Bumpy or was around him u would see Bumpy was in prison most of that time I'm sure he knew Bumpy and was around him but not like he say most everything Frank wrote in his book was lies
Any gangster is going to have pillow talk with their significant other. She is by far not the only one that has said Frank was lying. No one had even heard of a Frank Lucas before that movie came out. Look up Ike Adkinson. He was the man Frank was supposidly hookup up with in Viet nam. Ike did 30 years due to his drug dealings. He has an interview on youtube also. He has recently passed also. Again Frank Lucas was unknown b4 this movie. Do your research, dont rely on one persons story, especially a movie. Dont you think she would know if someone was living in her house for 6 months
Dam a true dime piece beautiful intelligent and down with her man to the end wow what a woman
Hoodlum was a good movie even if it not 100% accurate. It tells story that if willing viewers could then research & learn more about the people depicted particularly the African American community in Harlem's struggles against the racist cops & mafia. Madame Saint-Clair true story is a remarkable one & so is her & Bumpy Johnson's unspoken activism for equality.
Definition of a 👸🏿 Queen!
Bumpy made sure she saw the great side of him. Like she said he left his business at the door. Not saying Frank was telling the truth but hey every person shows each person they meet the person they want them to see
Her definition of a good man is obviously different from most ppl's. Here's a man who was big in the underworld and did a lot of heinous crimes much of his life and contributed greatly to the undoing and misguidance of a lot of other people and she calls him good because he was guiltily philanthropic? Sure those gestures may have appeased her but come on, how can it negate the wrong he was involved in and the impact it had on millions? I guess it all depends on what you choose to focus on. He was obviously a brilliant and capable leader. I wonder how things would have turned out for him if he (was able/had opportunity to) use his talents doing legal things. He obviously made his choice from the options/circumstances he faced at the time like we all do! It's is funny (peculiar) how we can't help but romanticize these type of ppl.
Frank had to be something....maybe its alot of things she dnt know......
Right! Too many people stamp him! May not be everything he say he was but he was something!
Frank and Bumpy were lovers too 💏
if you believe everything you see in movies i have a spaceship to sell you
Either way, Bumpy and Lucas were killing they're own ppl with those drugs. I don't care how good of a person his wife says he was!!!
I guess whether they bought the drugs from a black person or white they were going to buy it.
I agree with you as long as you condemn everyone involved and not just people in the inner city
Bumpy didn’t sell drug do ya research
Robyn Noland as a matter of fact bumpy was against selling drugs he didn’t allow that he ran numbers he basically ran an “illegal” lottery sooooo please with ya uncle ruckus Uncle Tom ass fake I’m holy believing in fake gods ass outta here or should I say “out of here”
Well! nobody forced these drug addicts to buy the drugs
Thanks very informative going to get the Book
Who tells their wife everything?
No one does... And so some of you all should know that, bumpy was a wise man. And most woman judge with emotions.
What gangsters wife or girlfriend ever knew even 10% of what their men were into? Whether black white Hispanic or green you don't include women in your affairs. Not saying either is lying but both stories don't make sense
geofff
Fuck, you watch too much movies.
LiftedGamingLoL complete sentences please or at a minimum make a point. I agree with ya pops he should of pulled out. One Kleenex could of stopped another waste of life
geoff You watch too many movies that lead you to believe that it is some sort of golden rule to keep your partner out of your business. When nearly all "successful" gangsters have not only involved their partners, but either taken a lot of advice from or just straight up ran their business with said partner. Don't know why the fact that you have such a cute view on this matter that it made you so incredibly butthurt that you needed to get ad hominem as fuck with me when I didn't even insult you to begin with. Hope your day gets better mate, and I'll make sure to include proper grammar next time for your UA-cam comment viewing pleasure so you don't manage to make yourself look like an asshat jumping to conclusions of intelligence. Sorry.
Also I guess drawing a point from inference isn't something you ever managed to learn in elementary school, but everything I said in the first two sentences there can be drawn from inference from my first comment. It's actually quite magical the things you can do with inferences!
Also, your first sentence is not a complete sentence.
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#areyoutalkingtoyourself
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Way to make yourself look like a complete idiot, idiot.
She is upset at Frank Lucas...lol
She is down for her man...I love it
And she really was. She never remarried, and she was still talking about Bumpy the day she died.
I agree with Karen E. Quinones Miller, and I'm apt to believe Frank Lucus' story over Bumpy wife's story because how would she know about Bumpy's street associates and his business. Those men did not come home and share their street business with their women back then and even today those type of men still do not share their street business with their women!
sorry i meant to say I agree with Great Lakes
Aaron Foster yep we constantly glorify people who destroyed our community destroy a generation just for the material things in life. If she was so upset with mr. Lucas betrayal of her husband Just go back check the contract the contract of life the deal that we make with the Devil. One of the comments says she died may God have mercy on her soul because she was just a part of that destruction of a community right along with her husband. When she went to the store and brought steaks when the other families that were being destroyed 8 little of nothing because they took the parents of these kids and when they wear their coats and being warm and when the family of the parents of the kids that they had did not have heat in their homes she's crying about how they falsify relationship between two Crooks. You see for black man such as myself it is very hard to raise a boy into a man when we fall gullible two people making Heroes out of crooks I tell my son to treat a lady with respect and treat men with honesty and look them straight in the eye when you talk. But with the White media petrang all of us as Crooks and the crooks of our own race coming out selling a story glorifying it in the rappers singing about selling drugs and f****** b****** supposed to be women but the women shaking dance and glorify this is very hard to make a proper young man. But through all of this I'm going to keep trying and the person who's running this on UA-cam just for pics and Views can you find another subject besides degradation two are people given a white folks something to say this is what all we do.
Back when females were more loyal than scandalous... And gangsters were really gangster.. now most females will stab you thru the chest as soon as something better comes along, and gangsters are nothing but coward low life's that will sell out their own damn blood down the river to save their own ass..
DAMN GIRL SLOW DOWN PRONUNCATE YOUR WORDS...HE HAD TO BE SOMEONE TO BUMPY TO HAVE TAKEN OVER BUMPY BUSINESS
He didn't tho
Lie he was a fraud who stole his story n b4 he died he was about to do time for stealing for stealing his son ssi check
Real Talk...
I'm glad you mentioned that...i don't think some people take into consideration how many lives are destroyed, if not lost in this so-called trade.
Old broad sounds bitter. Bumpy Johnson is worth about two minutes of conversation in American gangster. She wasn't mad when hoodlum made him seem more like a partner than a flunky to the Italians. Lucas as always respectful to bumpy memory.
Greg Whitener el STFU U ARE A FUCKING TROLL ABD WHITE. You have NO business talking about blacks, Bumpy or even the Harlem.
Girl you need to be recirculating this interview!!! I wanna read her book now.
Dea Win I am. As well as the author is recirculating book
Me too.
I feel you, and she glorifies him about how he spend money on her and others. Frank Lucas may have been a liar, but both men hurt a lot of people, he was a drug dealer and helped killed a lot of drug users 9hurting his own people) making a illegal living. I guess he did buy all the cakes at the church, he had it. She should just keep her mouth shut because bumpy was a loser and so was Frank. Bumby went to prison 3 times, who bought the cakes then?
How did she know what's in the movie if she didn't see it
Htown Stunna
^^^.............'good question'
Htown Stunna EXACTLY
Maybe she knew people who saw it. Are you really that dumb?
People told her don’t be stupid 🤦🏾♂️
A year later this question still dumb as hell
😕😕😕Crazy i just watched this moved today in 2021 and i see this...DAMN that movie was AWESOME THO.
my moms called me a flunky.........when i ran the street,,THAT WOKE ME UP
flunkies
The best one who would know about his life is
His wife as old as she is her mind is there thanks
Mrs. Johnson for the truth...
The Bumpy Johnson story on Epix TV that's my show
I'm all in.
I love old school grandmas they have no filter and speaks the holy gospel with no extras LOL she said she didn’t appreciate Frank’s lies..I know that’s right
In the full interview they explain its not about the Movie, but about the interview/article that spark the trail which led to the movie.
"the legendary drug dealer Bumpy Johnson"...........no wonder we black people have been falling behind
GGHGH GHGHGH agreed
the things we glorify... fuckin' sad
@@MsSPLIFFETTE he didn't sale drug he was a number man he protected Queenie who really had a lottery they made alot of money he knew alot of famous people of that time he look out for his people didn't take no shit he respected all women and men who respected him yes he would cut motherfucker really quick so he was the man if u did any fuck shit to anybody he know u had to deal with the Godfather of Harlem and he never snitch on nobody
Stop it white folks glorify the hell out of gangsters
@@selfintrest332 Not like black folks do.
Lucky Luciano is probably my favorite of all of em. Glad I'm not the only one that pays attention individual accomplishments instead of categorizing by race and sterotypes. Afterall this is organized crime and we're dealing with shady characters...but it's a fascinating lifestyle and cool twist on history. I can watch this stuff all day. Thanks.
BUMPY WAS A TRUE G .. A REAL GOOD MAN AND AND GANGSTER
Another BM who destroyed the community we glorify the wrong shit it's sad
A good man destroys and exploits his own ppl and neighborhood???
Just remembered this interview Had to pull it up for the facts
Oh stop damn someone always unhappy about something
I love your comment my man. alot of wives and women do this when there men live that life. I have many relatives who live that life and they hide there lifestyles from there women very well and in some instances the women know good and dam well what there men are doing and just defend them anyway. well said my man.
I think everyone will agree with me when I say this, but sounds like he made sure that she had no knowledge or worries about his business. Every memory she is talking about was when we wasn't wrapped up in business lol.
+The Realness She had an idea of what her husband did. She lived in Harlem and heard stories, she's not a stupid woman. She didn't care like most women in her position. Feigning ignorance, bullshit.
Exactly..
What day I can't understand why is it none of the people that used to be around Bumpy Johnson backing up her story it got to be somebody that knows the same thing she knows about Frank make it makes sense
Frank was a snitch; therefore, all of his words should be questioned.
Regardless if Frank was lying. Frank Lucas actually became bigger and the new godfather of Harlem. There’s no way Bumpy Johnson made what Frank did.
selling drugs is a curse but layed out for a blessing if you turn to jesus like i did. i could live with myself as of today because i repented of my sins. it's the frame of mind that will kill you not the drugs. i sold drugs under a frame of insanity, like no food in the house. no the real point is we didnt have jesus in the house, his word or holy ghost to guide me into being content. the one who is content in all things small large or none at all is the real gangster.
"snitches get ditches" ever heard that saying. he done snitched on cops he broke the golden rule of the game.
After watching Godfather of Harlem her image is not looking goo.
Why not? Even tho she cheated with Doug she still a ride or die women. Not even being a simp but that could be excused bumpy had plenty women and just got home from a long bid was she supposed to be celibate?...
@@thehotbox7474 facts
What did he say about Bumpy that was negative? She just kept saying over & over that he lied, he lied. She was never specific about what those lies were. & the person interviewing her never asked her anything specific. She did a terrible job. This was a waste of time
truestdude the lie, as she states, is that Lucas worked for and with Bumby.
I wouldn't be proud of destroying people's lives, especially black people!😞the thugs, or GANGSTERS selling drugs where living good, not the poor kids who suffered the most!👏👏👏👌mothers, fathers strung out caused caused more prostitution, stealing, robbing, & murder!😈so if their proud of that effect on Harlem, GOD hv mercy on their souls!!!💗amen!😢
Angela Jones truth but it was the white man who introduced and protected this behavior and now history! Point is ,,,, Everyone is to blame!!!
Ur not the first to call him a liar
Muck love
Happy Father's day
Peter Pablo
Apparently, the time period when Frank says he was Bumpy's driver, Bumpy was in prison. This was a fifteen year time frame, when Bumpy was not around. If you watch Frank Lucas and Nicky Barnes talking to each other on a conference call, it's titled 'Nicky Barnes and Frank Lucas: Videotaped Phone Conversation,' you can tell Frank Lucas is full of shit. So you've got a liar in Frank, and a snitch in Nicky who convinced himself he was justified in ratting out 65 people because they moved on with their lives when he got sentenced to life after the vanity went to his head and he posed for the cover of NY Times Magazine section in a flash suit instead of them using his mugshot. For a man who claims to have made 50 million, why wasn't he smart enough to get that money out of the country and move to Belize or Costa Rica back before they had extradition treaties with the U.S.? He sent the mother of his children to prison for ten years. As for Bumpy--I'm interested to know about his childhood in Charleston, SC, where his brother was murdered for something he said to a white man, and how that affected him and his family. And also interested to know if he was some type of savant--how did he remember the numbers and the bets without writing stuff down? How was he able to do the math without a formal education, did Stephanie St. Clair teach him? Guess I'll have to read on. Once these geezers started talking, now that the statute of limitations ran out, they all started making their own answer videos over these disputes, still talking trash to each other, each with different versions of reality. Get them all together in a room and I bet they would start a fight with their walkers and canes.
Check out the book Harlem Godfather: The Rap on my Husband, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson -- written by his widow, Mayme Johnson
Writing the name down now, thank you Karen, for the tip, I really will enjoy that book.
THIS WOMAN SOUND VERY INCONSISTENT... WHAT WAS SO BAD ABT WHAT FRANK SAID... NO ONE LIED... SHE OUT HERE FISHING THATS ALL THAT SOUNDS LIKE
how can we justify wickedness
I only heard Frank Lucas talk great about Bumpy
C N TRUE
So she basically exposing Frank for being a super hard worker cause he had no help from Bumpy Johnson. An she definitely admits that he worked for Bumpy. How do she know so much about Frank??? She admitted that Bumpy talked to her about Frank. Ion remember talking about flunkys or the help with my wife unless they were close or special to me
"His business was left on the door step" . This woman something else. Frank Lucas lying about her saint husband. Frank might have been lying about how he knew Bumpy. But not to glorify him but he was a gangster drug dealer. That blue magic was real.
Frank Matthews should have a movie 🎥🍿
I believe people think frank lucas is getting messed up with frank matt,
I didn't get the feeling or idea that Lucas painted anything negative of Bumpy... on the contrary.... I don't get it...
Bumpy was tha real OG
The things you do in the streets are different than the things that you do around your family & close friends.Bumpy could have been a nice guy around his family and friends but in the streets he could have very well been a feared man who was involved in criminal activities and that goes for a lot of criminals who are considered angels by their mother or grandmother but in the streets their considered monsters.Who knows but I believe Bumpy's wife.
Everybody came out after this movie.
Bumpy's wife, Nikki Barnes, Peewee Kirkland and even Frank's own brothers, about Frank's lying. Smh
Im sure Bumpy didnt share everything with his wife. Most gangstars left the street business in the streets. He probably had another woman in the side, who probably knew more than wifey did.
Bumpy was a womanizer
He died in a bar with a chick tht he hanging out with
I really believe she is upset she wasn’t involved with the movie she didn’t get any money out of it and she is trying to discredit the movie as much as she can
Ppl tryna eat off frank ...why did it take for a movie for you to expose him .
Frank was a fraud who stole his story from Ike
+Kevin
And yes, this has a something to do with why many Italians are so notably "olive" DARK skinned! Live with it bro! Lol...
Dog Star olives are originally jet black😎😇😎
Bumpy was the king of harlem and respected by the Italian mafia
Chino Black as long as he didn’t cross a 110th st.
@@bmack1447 he was on pleasant Ave plenty
@mikeygeneral Is your company hiring?
Mayme gorgeous 😍💙 #Queen
it's just a movie. besides New York Freddy Myers, was a much larger drug lord..
And I don't think anyone could deny that!
It's a shame that people glorify the fact that one devil has a bigger name then another. The bottom line is they killed a generation of people and left their kids without parents. In reality they are just devils wanting to be delivered to hell. God saw it. It's for HIM to judge.
Frank matt
Facts ‼️rest in peace unc ‼️
okay so he wasn't the dude he said he was in the movie big deal guess what it was just a movie frankly I don't give a damn
no pun intended
Doesn't really matter her husband was a thug that helped destroy black lives in there community so how can she sound even proud of him and living off the down fall of black people and others, yeah a good husband in the house but at what cost wow and if he left his street life at the door how does she know all what went on really like he told her everything . Just my thoughts.
Robert Vaughn you would know who lives in your house though correct? Frank said he lives with them for 6 months 🤷🏾♂️
People tend to forget Bumpy Johnson was a numbers man, Frank Lucas was a drug dealer. I'm guessing Frank destroyed waaaay more lives than Bumpy ever could or would, was Bumpy an angel? Of course not but he helped keep Harlem black, who you got now that could do that???
What’s the name of her book 📚 again
Mahmoud AbdulRaheem Harlem Godfather
DryerBuzz Atlanta’s Original Digital thank you kindly
Mahmoud AbdulRaheem also here there’s a new movie coming about Bumpy
DryerBuzz Atlanta’s Original Digital I’ll need to see that too, thank you 🙏🏿
FRANK LUCAS is the Man and this woman is scorned because her man doesn't have as much fame as FRANK and never will!
Frank is a fraud. His claim to fame is claiming other ppls story as his own. He never went to the jungle for his dope and damn sure didn't bring it back inside of soldiers bodies in caskets that was somebody else's story. He wasnt really even a kingpin he had his crew and they got busy and made money but he was nowhere near the biggest dealer in NY let alone Harlem. Peewee Kirkland was 10 times bigger than he was and Frank Matthews was bigger than them all except for probably Bumpy who really was the godfather of Harlem.Lucas is a fraud it's obvious by the way he try to glorify the shit plus he was always getting caught up in his lies. I'm sure this lady don't have shit to lie about she don't even like the shit that bumpy did and doesn't like it to be glorified. More than likely she prolly just tried of the lies on her husband name ( which Frank did all the time)...
@@thehotbox7474 Frank Lucas is no Fraud Lmao the man made 300 million selling heroin you obviously know jack shit about the man.
@@thehotbox7474 peewee Kirkland was a basketball player turn drug dealer shut yo ass up only reason man could become a dealer was by using his basketball money and even then the fool was only worth 30 million as his height lol he a little fish.
@@thehotbox7474 btw Frank Mathews worth never even puts him in the top 20 so you must be smoking the same crack they are selling
@@thehotbox7474 this whole paragraph you wrote is so wrong its hilarious
Old girl is sharp. Tell it like is is girl
@avonbarksdalewife SO TRUE. Bumpy Johnson was incarcerated from I think 1949-1963 in Alcatraz.
Ive heard so many others speak ill of Bumpy"...Frank has given BUMPY nothing but praise...And Bumpys widow and family/some friends continue to trash franks name...Wow"...U guys definitely showing U" didnt hang out wth bumpy and pic up some of his manners...Trust me,in tht life style those guys lived,the wife would be the last to know anything...They didnt play those kinda games bck in the days...Ur business never made it in the same house,u laid ur head at,or where ur family laid their head..
Omg
Mama ! Has a hell of a lawsuit !
It's called slander !LOL
What court is going to determine between two dead drug dealers, who's drug dealers story is the truth? You sound like a fool 😂
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GREATEST GUY THAT EVER LIVED ????? WOUNDERFUL FATHER AND HUSBAND ???? AND WERE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE YOU?? MURDERED MILLIONS DESTROYED HARLEM ......... PLEASE !!!!!
I'm not sure if you're Black/African American or not but you're addressing a HUGE problem in our community. There are WAY TOO MANY Black People that think all upper middle class or millionaires are celebrities, CEOs or Doctors. That is a bunch of horsecrap. The reality is most millionaires drive Camrys, live frugally while and are making a great salary or running a successful, "small" business.
I know one millionaire that takes public transportation everyday but owns 2 homes.
I've watched American Gangster now ohhh about a 100 times..( in a few months).no LIE..lol.. and I can practically recite the whole movie in my head...Never did Frank Lucas spoke ill will about Bumpy...He just took it to the next level... All respects to his/Bumpy's wife.. but I think she is bitter as she was never mentioned in the movie at any point.. and is probably upset that no money was given her...Just an opinion...:)
That's what confused me. I was thinking: I don't remember him saying anything but great things about Bumpy. Also, it seems the police called Frank Bumpy's right-hand man so I'm not sure how Frank was making that up. She said she didn't see the movie...how does she know about "all the lies" Frank told?!?
The issue is that frank told plenty of LIE! Thats the issue
..once ah digger ...becomes ah bitter digger ...its the game for ya-🤗
Where are the "real videos" of bumpy johnson's funeral?