UncleTomFord15
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Was this good or nah
"Godfather of Harlem" trailer starring Forrest Whitaker
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Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
its okWas this good or nah
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
he didn't run Harlem at all
UncleTomFord15
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In real life to my understanding him and Madam St Claire did have a good control over Harlem in the 30s and 40s but lost it by 50s onward. In reality he just was kinda a middle man between the italians and the black gangs of harlem. He even kicked up a share of his earnings to Italians and carried out hits on other blacks for them aswell.
So ya he didnt really "run it" but he was definately one of the most powerful black gangster in Harlem of that time period.
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
she and Casper Holstein ran Harlem for sure
Bumpy just managed
Nicky, Pee Wee Kirkland and Frank Lucas did tho
UncleTomFord15
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Why do people talk so low in this show
? And I think maybe they could've not used rap music since its supposed to be in the 60s.
I'm enjoying it other than that though
? And I think maybe they could've not used rap music since its supposed to be in the 60s.I'm enjoying it other than that though
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
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richaveli83
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First episode was good. They shouldn't have used rap music in it. Really takes you out of the scene since this show is supposed to take place in 1963. The actress who plays Bumpy Johnson's wife. 
FeloniousMonk
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Me thinks she was the closest to Angela Basset they could cast, cuz sh3s a dead ringer..First episode was good. They shouldn't have used rap music in it. Really takes you out of the scene since this show is supposed to take place in 1963. The actress who plays Bumpy Johnson's wife.
First episode was good. They shouldn't have used rap music in it. Really takes you out of the scene since this show is supposed to take place in 1963. The actress who plays Bumpy Johnson's wife.
Awww damn I hate when they do period pieces and don't play the music from that era.
a little more background: Bumpy Johnson started out as her personal bodyguard .
she was razor tagging and giving out, buck 50s back in the 1920s to racist whites
(and the beginning of this synopsis is why I don't fuk with white people
)
she was razor tagging and giving out, buck 50s back in the 1920s to racist whites
(and the beginning of this synopsis is why I don't fuk with white people
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Markuann Smith: The Mastermind Behind Godfather Of Harlem Speaks
‘Godfather of Harlem’ Review: EPIX’s Overstuffed Gangster Drama Should Entertain Fans of the Genre
cast list is incredible.
Markuann Smith: Well, the Godfather Harlem is basically the collision of Civil Rights in the underworld. So we're telling a narrative of Bumpy Johnson was played by Forest Whitaker and his relationship with Malcolm X, who was played by an amazing actor by the name of Nigel Thatch. Nigel played Malcolm X and in"Selma." So you're gonna see characters like Adam Clayton Powell. Giancarlo Esposito is playing Adam Clayton Powell. Then we have the Italian side. You got Vincent D'Onofrio playing a real-life gangster by the name of Vinnie the Chin. He was the gangster was walking around Mulberry Street with the bathrobe on in the late eighties, early nineties before he got locked up by the feds. And then you have actor Chazz Palminteri from "Bronx Tale." He's playing on Joseph Bonnano. And then you have Paul Savino, Big Paulie from "Goodfellas," he's in there.
So it's a story. Basically, I call it the tale of three cities. So we tell the story about the Spanish Harlem, East Harlem, and Pleasant Avenue and Central Harlem
‘Godfather of Harlem’ Review: EPIX’s Overstuffed Gangster Drama Should Entertain Fans of the Genre
cast list is incredible.
Markuann Smith: Well, the Godfather Harlem is basically the collision of Civil Rights in the underworld. So we're telling a narrative of Bumpy Johnson was played by Forest Whitaker and his relationship with Malcolm X, who was played by an amazing actor by the name of Nigel Thatch. Nigel played Malcolm X and in"Selma." So you're gonna see characters like Adam Clayton Powell. Giancarlo Esposito is playing Adam Clayton Powell. Then we have the Italian side. You got Vincent D'Onofrio playing a real-life gangster by the name of Vinnie the Chin. He was the gangster was walking around Mulberry Street with the bathrobe on in the late eighties, early nineties before he got locked up by the feds. And then you have actor Chazz Palminteri from "Bronx Tale." He's playing on Joseph Bonnano. And then you have Paul Savino, Big Paulie from "Goodfellas," he's in there.
So it's a story. Basically, I call it the tale of three cities. So we tell the story about the Spanish Harlem, East Harlem, and Pleasant Avenue and Central Harlem
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nope must have been some other place in manhattanBuster busted them cheeks, cuh...
in Harlem