Frank built that shyt. He's the one who had to go through the mind destroying hardships. Everyone else was eating off him. The thing that kept him going was the generational wealth pay off.
Then when it was time to step aside they stole his money and tried to destroy him.
His parents also interfered and fukked shyt up for him monumentally. Before he put them on, mom was surviving month by month and pops was a drunken hobo.
I’ve addressed this before…they were eating off him yea, but his crew would’ve been fine without the drugs, they didn’t have an innate lust for money like Franklin, they could’ve lived life as average people in south central, Frank couldn’t have
Yes, franklins money was stolen, but he destroyed himself - no one else. There were multiple times just this episode alone where he could’ve taken what he had and been ok. But he’s like a crackhead chasing that first high, except his first high was $73M - he was never gonna get there again…breh couldn’t let go of chasing that mountain when he had opportunities to have a few M’s back. If you remember, when he was going in on that downtown building, Louie and Rome was supposed to put in $10M for their stake which he and V covered when they backed out. So at minimum, between what he originally invested and covering Louie/Rome’s stake, Frank had probably $10M he coulda got back from selling, plus rentals in the hood