Originally Posted By: Footreads
Frank Lucas was a genius because no one knew who the fuck he was. I was around the heroin business since I was in my teens in East Harlem. I never even heard of Frank Lucas till the movie came out.

I knew of Nicky Barnes and I knew of Bumby Johnson. You most likely never heard of Philip Wu he went to my grammar school. He was another guy that bought his dope from the same place where Lucas got his dope.

A genius in the dope business is someone you probably never heard of not someone you have heard of.


ehh People knew who Al Capone was, and yet he still was extremely successful and only got caught on tax returns