brehs
i want more shows based around that time frame
i want more shows based around that time frame
Godfather Of Harlem TV Series (Bumpy Johnson Story) - (Forest Whitaker/Epix/Trailer)
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Regarding Bobby Robinson's role in the series
Why would the show fictionally kill off Bobby Robinson in 1963?
Without Bobby Robinson around, we wouldn't have the man who later discovered Gladys Knight and released some of the most important early Hip Hop on Enjoy Records.
Bobby just passed away eight years ago and was a Harlem fixture even during my childhood. You would see him everywhere.
Harlem legend dead Bobby Robinson, owner of Happy House on 125th St.
By DAVID HINCKLEY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
JAN 08, 2011 | 10:33 AM
Musician, personality and business owner Bobby Robinson owned Happy House Records for more than 60 years.
BOBBY ROBINSON, whose tiny record shop on Harlem's 125th St. spawned No. 1 national hits and made him an uptown patriarch for six decades, died yesterday.
He was 93 and had been ill for several years - though he regularly went to work at his shop until it was forced to close in January 2008.
Impeccably dressed, well-spoken and ambitious to make his mark in the entertainment business, Robinson opened Bobby's Happy House in 1946.
His shop was the first black-owned business on 125th St., and within five years he used it to launch a series of record labels.
Sometimes working with his brother Danny, who also had an office on 125th St., Robinson recorded hundreds of artists from Gladys Knight and the Pips to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
Knight's first hit, "Every Beat of My Heart," was released on Robinson's Fury label.
Robinson, a South Carolina native, had a No. 1 national hit in 1959 with Wilbert Harrison's "Kansas City" - and said years later that a hit of that magnitude crippled his business because he had to press so many copies he couldn't promote any other artists.
But his Red Robin, Whirlin' Disc, Fire, Fury and Enjoy labels became legendary in the rhythm and blues world, and his releases by artists like the Channels, Teenchords and Scarlets helped define the sound of the New York streets through the 1950s.
Robinson ultimately recorded a wide range of artists that included the great bluesman Elmore James, whom Robinson inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In the late 1970s, Robinson became one of the first label owners to record rap music, cutting artists like Flash, Doug E. Fresh and Spoonie Gee.
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i aint no snitch
SlimeyLilDude
Richest shooter
Should've shot through the daughters head and hit Chin too.......
Wny you don't like the daughter? Because she in love with the black dude right? Or is it because she hate her daddy and she helped bumpy?
SlimeyLilDude
Richest shooter
I'm seeing alot of ppl rooting for chin over bumpy in this thread. Hopefully chin get his head blowed off by the other mob dude and Bumpy take over his whole sht. Also the dude who shot bumpy need to be big dck busters next victim then they need to chop his head off and chop his body up
SlimeyLilDude
Richest shooter
Definitely Forest and dude who plays Malcolm
Yeah well the real Vincent the chin lived till like 80 something
Wouldn’t mind the ol greaseball getting lit up though
Figaro
Superstar
Should've popped that motherfukker...
SlimeyLilDude
Richest shooter
Well it's already not based on 100 percent facts so go ahead and wipe his ass out and take over his sht
Duke_Droese
Superstar
how many episodes left brehs? finishing episode 8 tonight. it's been lit. the way they've mixed in the civil rights stuff and the great man Malcolm is beautiful.
KalKal
Superstar
Part of me wonders if they really wanted to make the Malcom and Adam historical "buddy comedy" show, but they new that would never sell so they tacked it to a mob docudrama/blaxploitation revenge story.
it's a good show but some of the historical inaccuracies are jarring for me because I'm a student of history. Chin didnt become boss of the Genovese until 1981 and he was never acting boss in the 60's, he was a capo.
The main character actors are good but some of the supporting characters have terrible actors, Elise, chin daughter and her pawger boyfriend are terrible.
I dont like how they made Bumpy out to be a lackey of the five families.
The main character actors are good but some of the supporting characters have terrible actors, Elise, chin daughter and her pawger boyfriend are terrible.
I dont like how they made Bumpy out to be a lackey of the five families.
I don't see Bumpy as a lackey, I think he just plays by mob rules so he can keep his connect.
It seems to me that Bumpy is as powerful as Chin and Bonano; only Paul Sorvino's character is above them.
