The Life of a 1970s Pimp

The Life of a 1970s Pimp - Frank Ward

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2 ай бұрын

During the 1960s and 70s, women would wait in line to be with Frank Ward. He was a hustler and a pimp with money and power, and with his brothers, he controlled the streets of Oakland, California - earning him respect and the title Godfather of the Underworld.
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@rickimhotep1236 Ай бұрын

R.I.P Frank Ward, Max Julien, Dick Anthony Williams, Richard Pryor, Roger E Mosley, CArol Speed, Juanita Moore and all who were actors in The Mack, who have passed away.

@user-sv6jl8ey3i Ай бұрын

I saw it when I was younger😊😊

@MDRGODSON 14 күн бұрын

Frank had women on MacArthur Boulevard and San Pablo avenue. I'm from Richmond we use to ride the 72 AC transit to Oakland.

@user-lf6lr2kp4v 13 күн бұрын

I had a very good pimp life

@DeeDeeKarol 11 күн бұрын

Nothing to be proud of at all,

@pamelapope859 Ай бұрын

I'm from Berkeley CA and knew Frank and his brothers very well. I was so surprised to see this video. He was so sweet. I had run away from home and that's when I met him. He talked to me and told me I had to go back home and he took me back. The ward brothers, I can't believe I'm seeing this. Thank you for sharing this video. I also knew Bobby and the rest of the Panthers.

@lemontadams3029 Ай бұрын

B Town

@heruammen8522 11 күн бұрын

I'm from B-town too Queen (BHS '76). I remember Frank and all of his brothers. We used to see his Caddy rolling down MacAuthur Blvd. when we went "sightseeing." I also had a couple of OG cousins that we're high ranking in the Panthers. that's all I'm going to say about that. You draw your own conclusions...

@bornkinguniversal Ай бұрын

All I hear in my mind are the Willie Hutch songs I Choose You and Brothers Gon Work It Out ✊🏾💯

@cdmbooks1493 Ай бұрын

Great report. This is why people should take pictures. There are so few of them of people from that time anymore.

@sheilad7324 Ай бұрын

Thanks for making this video. I’m a huge fan of The movie The Mack!

@RS-do6tv Ай бұрын

They should build a statute of him

@SurprisedBakedBuns-nq6cd Ай бұрын

The back story of making this film was just as interesting as the movie! They could do a movie about the making of the Mack!

@bignose3639 Ай бұрын

This information is accurate. Same story I was told by one of the Wards. And by the way, I'm a Newton.

@elijaheelhajjbey7844 Ай бұрын

I’m about to watch a movie right now called the Big Cigar and Huey on Apple TV salute to those that made sacrifices that had a impact in our lives salute

@j-remy9832 Ай бұрын

That movie turnt me & my bro tf out after we watched it when we were in the 7th & 8th grade. Being from Oakland made it that much better.

@user-cz3fw4uu4v Ай бұрын

R.I.P. Mr. Frank Ward

@dogecoinbrothermouzone2500 Ай бұрын

UNDEFEATED RETIRED BOXER 🥊ANDRÉ WARDS GREAT UNCLE 💰💰🔫🪖🩸💯💯💯💯🤞🏿

@CherriceMcClure-nu5kd Ай бұрын

Different Frank Ward

@massdisruption3437 6 күн бұрын

@@CherriceMcClure-nu5kdcorrect.

@v.a.993 Ай бұрын

The actress Carol Speed reportedly fell in love with Frank during the filming of the movie. She played one of Goldie's ladies of the night, I think she was LuLu.

@themagicians1122 16 күн бұрын

yea She was LuLu

@Chachacha6040 7 күн бұрын

Carol speedy yes was lou lou...👍🏽

@pablosorto7012 Ай бұрын

“I work mine from Frisco to Maine. It’s all about the money game with me,”

@YakThaWiseman72 Ай бұрын

#pablosorto7012 Yes Suh theuse to rewind that barbershop scene over and over.

@BasementPepperoni Ай бұрын

Being a Pimp sounds like the most stressful day that's full of nothing but drama, I'm good.

@tonyjulian1289 Ай бұрын

Like Eddie in Super Fly said to Priest what else you going to do besides Pimping and you don’t have the stomach for that. I’m sure it was stressful

@dabai281 Ай бұрын

That's a fact , you deal with multiple woman and they emotions is crazy to me seriously

@rahsunallah2825 Ай бұрын

Glory to the game ✌️✌️P

@sw9881 Ай бұрын

A living parasite. The most pathetic “career”.

@mykingdom613 Ай бұрын

@@tonyjulian1289facts

@donadams9099 Ай бұрын

Most of this footage is from the movie , The Mack.

@s3hooligan Ай бұрын

As a kid growing up in Oakland I looked up to pimps until I realized the stain that pimps and drug dealers were on the community - the Panthers were changing that

@DaTitan2400 18 күн бұрын

Facts West Oakland in here 🫡🔥

@user-vh2pk6bd3g 11 күн бұрын

Out of the frying pan into the fire

@courybrown5265 10 күн бұрын

well that's why you have a prison number destiny due to intelligence

@courybrown5265 10 күн бұрын

@@DaTitan2400 it's not your environment it's your brain you lack basic cognitive thinking skills basically your retarded and glorify taking advantage of your own community lol but its white people fault

@ogarchielee9880 Ай бұрын

FRANK WARD & FILLMORE SLIM THE GODFATHER'S OF THE GAME 👑💯

@booda1964 Ай бұрын

Bullshit

@pauobunyon9791 Ай бұрын

You wrong on that tip the deuce had legendary Macks ...not gorillas out there

@Boogiedeeznutzz Ай бұрын

CLARENCE SIMS IS MY FATHER IN LAW. YALL MUST NOT OF HEARD THE STORY WHEN HE HAD 75 OF HIS LADIES MUSCLED FROM HIM.....HE SHOWED UP THE NEXT DAY WITH 75 MORE YEAUNDASTANDS ME. AND HE STILL ALIVE.

@joyceboone8206 Ай бұрын

This is where the movie THE MACK came from

@tericitaheard1173 Ай бұрын

Frank Ward and his brothers was my nephew's great uncle.

@thakiddkidd34 Ай бұрын

My grandmother was good friends with all the Ward brothers Real Oakland

@California-king Ай бұрын

Is that right ? 🤦🏽‍♂️

@rickimhotep1236 Ай бұрын

@@California-king Whatchu tryin to say?🤔🤔🤔🤔

@4TheGo2Guy Ай бұрын

DOES SHE HAVE ANY STORYS ABOUT FRANK AND TED

@alivstyson1864 Ай бұрын

My grandmother was Very Very close to the Real Goodfellas they even use to call her mom

@merchantsmithimages Ай бұрын

Did she share stories with you?

@Doggfan Ай бұрын

Imma do mines from Frisco to Maine - RIP Frank ward

@notoldmike Ай бұрын

From the big apple to the pineapple

@correctionalofficer4lockdo763 Ай бұрын

@@notoldmike From the Grape Ape to the Snowflake

@sirjinx996 Ай бұрын

"{imma do mines from Frisco to Ming}" as in =Ming China

@jamesgreen5461 Ай бұрын

Wow 😮😳😮😳 learn something everyday salute 🫡🤘 to Mr Frank Ward

@damnnina1419 Ай бұрын

Every since I seen the Mack for the first time and learned who the Ward brothers were I been looking for more info on these guys, especially Frank. Appreciate this video

@MultiChamillion Ай бұрын

“Omari Hardwick” should play “Frank Ward” in a new movie about his life.

@carlwallace1129 Ай бұрын

💯 absolutely. Great point, very underrated comment.

@VicR914 Ай бұрын

Other than Everyday Blackman, Gridiron Gang, and Power, Omari is more comfortable playing more conservative roles. He would not play such a role.

@foobart8746 Ай бұрын

Terrence Howard

@raymondpalmer3347 Ай бұрын

Or Terrance Howard !

@JamesJones-bi4ww Ай бұрын

He's to short. Terrance Howard would be a better choice

@muskegontribune Ай бұрын

Those Black Panthers ruled Oakland not those pimps

@Steve-mp7by Ай бұрын

You aren't doing the math. Your math aint mathing. He was paying them off. This is what led to the Panthers demise. You can't playing both sides of the fence. Hypocrites

@Ispeakthetruthify Ай бұрын

Ummm....drug dealers like Felix Mitchell, and Lil D, ran Oakland. They were using Panthers to run drugs for them. The Pimps and the Panthers, were a sideshow to the big time dealers in Oakland.

@muskegontribune Ай бұрын

@@Steve-mp7by Man cut out all that math not mathing infantile talk. I spoke on this particular incident. The BPP demised came from internal and external factors and if you are not aware of the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover's efforts you don't need to address the subject.

@gregsmith1342 Ай бұрын

@@Steve-mp7byman stop yo cappin, stop the foolishness!

@teenatchie2235 Ай бұрын

I will never believe huey put a hit on frank you know who killed him & everything going on in Oakland during the panthers reign if you watched the mack & the panther

@susanlyn57 Ай бұрын

Frank made my cousin $$$$. She did a lot of pimps hair back in the day. Kings and Queens on Sacramento st. Berkeley CA.

@jerryblair4106 Ай бұрын

I loved the movie The Mack what a legend Frank Ward thank you for video.RIP

@ChandoisGainesjr-fn9vr Ай бұрын

Oaaaaaak towwwwwnnnnnnnn! 🌉 Rip Frank ward! The infamous ward brothers! Finally somebody do a story on him!

@budb.8560 Ай бұрын

Frankie was a bitnessman y'all...a BITNESSMAN!

@recklezztray9322 Ай бұрын

Philippians 2:10-11 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

@InternationalMoneyBagz Ай бұрын

Church. Amen

@maclac48 Ай бұрын

I didn’t realize that Frank was murdered that way…dam. Rest Easy Frank. 🙏🏿

@househead67 Ай бұрын

that must have been some strong toilet paper. 💯

@YakThaWiseman72 Ай бұрын

@hpisrhead67 😂😂😂

@filaspeaks1094 Ай бұрын

Frank was the truth , he almost turned out the actress in the movie 🎥, I think the panthers took frank out

@jainorman3425 Ай бұрын

Much respect to Frank Ward 🙏🏾🙏🏾

@MrCeora Ай бұрын

What did he do for your community?

@RickMichaels-if5eq Ай бұрын

Frank Ward elevated the Pimp Game back in his day to where a movie was based on the life he was living. It’s now in movies, music, and fashion more than anytime in history. That’s what he did for the community.🎩🧥💵🎥🎵 What are you doing for the community?🤔😏

@HighVibrations22 13 күн бұрын

One thing I notice about these “notorious” dudes is that majority of them are born in the south then migrated to the west coast and became legends

@KhiryTheKonqueror Ай бұрын

Great video

@mykingdom613 Ай бұрын

Oh yeah

@DonyelleWest-sq8oh Ай бұрын

The Ward Brothers 👑💰👑

@robertbaskin7455 Ай бұрын

I knew one of franks sons fahali Ward who was his baby boy I learned a lot from them all as well as filmore slim who was my aunts husband and we still stay in touch I went to Mack aka Mcclymonds high school where most of the players came out of I would like to say this I don’t know a pimp or a hoe who have a retirement plan or pension that’s the only reason I didn’t get into it I had a few notches and being a baby of the 60s and being a Berkeley Oakland native it wouldn’t have been hard. Rest in power Mr Frank ward and all the pimps that have tried it.

@ramsesstafford4640 Ай бұрын

This man was the Frank Lucas of pimps. He came from the south and after becoming successful he brought his brothers along just like Frank Lucas did.

@SexxMode Ай бұрын

frank lucas = Fraud Know That

@cuttycut2324 Ай бұрын

He got brought along....his older brothers brought him out there and taught him game....I know the story very well.....

@sandraphillips1718 Ай бұрын

The Mack is one of my favorite movies 🎥😊

@LLJOHNS83 Ай бұрын

He's not a rat.

@ramsesstafford4640 28 күн бұрын

@@cuttycut2324 I'm not arguing you seem to know what you talking about but I do know he was the more popular one out of his brothers or somebody in jail wouldn't have been writing about him to a point where they made a movie based on him they would've based it on the brother that brought Frank up out of Alabama. Either way it goes it reminds me of Frank Lucas and his brothers, some of the biggest hustler's were born down south and went up north or out west and became bigger players in the game than dudes born in NY, the Chi and Cali.

@nubian47 Ай бұрын

He and his brothers were in "The Mack"

@marcusa.fromthebay7514 19 күн бұрын

It wasn't The Panthers. It was some young hustlers on "the come up." Those cats laid low in nearby Vallejo, San Mateo and over in Hayward. I was a little kid back then, but I remember hearing conversations from grown folks in my family and at some of the barbershops.

@ahmad.tillery.1987 Ай бұрын

RIP Frank Ward

@VeronicaDavidson-jm3kx Ай бұрын

Max Julian was handsome back in the day. Damn Frank Ward!!!❤

@larrybee7713 Ай бұрын

I wonder if them Max Julian coats from back in the day was named after him?

@Papi_Oso 25 күн бұрын

Like Pimp C said " Pimpin' aint dead, it just moved to the website..

@1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish. Ай бұрын

It’s all about the money game. I needa go into business for myself. Need to find a racket first.

@mizfrenchtwist Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣ninja please❤❤❤...................

@inhop2443 Ай бұрын

Get a job.

@Jewel_Screaming_Chango8387 Ай бұрын

Onlyfans and website posts killed the game for the aeverage pimp it isn’t as easy as it was back then

@chuckscott4661 Ай бұрын

@2443. Slave.

@larrybee7713 Ай бұрын

GOTTA have more than one source of income now days.

@househead67 Ай бұрын

Why does he favor Walter Hawkins? 🤔💯

@AnEclecticMan Ай бұрын

I thought the same thing!!! LOL

@househead67 Ай бұрын

@@AnEclecticManEspecially when they both lived in Oakland. 🤔

@barbaragriggs3241 Ай бұрын

Maybe they were cousins

@househead67 25 күн бұрын

@@barbaragriggs3241 same hairstyle and mustache/beard combo though? 🤔

@akbarlebowitz8151 Ай бұрын

Land of Oak was shitty then and it's even shittier now.

@larrybee7713 Ай бұрын

Too Short told us that.

@InternationalMoneyBagz Ай бұрын

A P got smoked in a Bentley..sum haters ...

@John-vb8lb Ай бұрын

Oakland is only bad in certain areas. There's multiple rich neighborhoods in Oakland where people are enjoying their wealth and opportunities.

@kenbaskin803 12 күн бұрын

I grew up in east oakland in the seventies and it was an absolutely great place to grow up. If you wanted to get into the bad stuff you could.But east oakland had a large black middle class population. It's a c*** hole now.I wouldn't even live there.

@user-rx7if5pu7s Ай бұрын

When I rode BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) as a youngster we were always amused when the trains pass thru West Oakland descending into the tunnel that goes under the bay to SF as we sat and viewed at all that grit and hookers, junkies, drug dealers etc. from the safety of our seats!

@willieperdue5583 Ай бұрын

You guys talking about Black Panter Party Newton, Seal Don,t Forget mr. H Rap Brown..❤

@user-mf4bp8jg1h Ай бұрын

Bless You ❤Frank Ward ❤ Frank

@underhtaylor7359 Ай бұрын

R.i.p godfather of Oakland Frank ward

@bierlichen1 Ай бұрын

The Mack is in my DVD player as we speak.

@TheBulletzgottishow20 21 күн бұрын

Frank ward was that dude

@rockettebob Ай бұрын

reno and the MUSTANG RANCH in the legal games and the fun... what a different world now. i miss the good old days. THANK YOU !!!. maybe i just remember the good times...rockettebob

@Chefjoe63 Ай бұрын

My late brother Alonzo was a Pimp and I remember when I was younger seeing him with his flock and sometimes he would take me to check his traps late at night and I would get up the next day and go to school

@budb.8560 Ай бұрын

"Check his traps"? I'm not sure what that means. Please elaborate.

@booda1964 Ай бұрын

@@budb.8560make sure his hoes had his money top of it

@InternationalMoneyBagz Ай бұрын

Church.

@s3hooligan Ай бұрын

@@budb.8560check his traps means check on his girls that are “trapping” John’s

@bernicerogersbooker6333 Ай бұрын

That’s sad that’s nothing to brag about

@darrellhardin775 Ай бұрын

Im best friend with Frank first son Barron Ward

@edward1676 Ай бұрын

Town Bizness....

@lavetteharden4835 20 күн бұрын

RIP!! TO THE CAST OF THE PEOPLE WHO PASSED AWAY IN THE MACK!! LOVE YOU!!

@user-no1vb3vb9f Ай бұрын

On the thumbnail he reminds me of Walter Hawkins

@VicR914 Ай бұрын

I thought he was older 32 when he passed.

@jerrellallen4995 Ай бұрын

HIS BROTHER ANDREW WAS THE IMMEDIATE!!!!

@ronaldfuller3395 Ай бұрын

If they had found out who killed this brother. This was a set up by someone who knew him and his movements

@acquanellaogbemudia9930 Ай бұрын

Nowadays it’s hard out there even for a Pimp 😂😂😂

@trixonic6934 Ай бұрын

It’s way easier now than it was when I started in the game and back when my pops was in the game

@fishstickkilla464 Ай бұрын

@@trixonic6934very easy

@robertrixey8447 24 күн бұрын

*TEACHABLE MOMENT😎👍🏾*

@augystthewhorrible Ай бұрын

💯

@rodneyhill9812 Ай бұрын

Pushing P Rest UP U Dig

@joshthemediocre7824 Ай бұрын

The 80's were dope and i'm glad i got to live them, but man what i would give to have been able to live through the 70's. SO much innocents left in the world i would have loved to seen it. I know pimping isn't innocent but even the pimps look wholesome. i would have just liked to been around then. Great video.

@jeromeosills6522 Ай бұрын

Don't let the smooth looks and great great music fool you! Sure the 70s were great, real and a time in history that can never be duplicated. I truly miss the 70s but the 70s was also a very deadly time. Serial killers thrived in the 70s. There are still unsolved murders that await DNA evidence from the 70s. It was also a time when social services were running black fathers out of the homes with their welfare programs. I remember the black Panthers, the Mob, and the Family as a kid I didn't know who the ward brothers were but I saw the mack as a kid at the Roxy theater and didn't know I was looking at frank ward on film. But yeah I would say you would have loved the 70s and never forgot that time to this day.

@InternationalMoneyBagz Ай бұрын

@@jeromeosills6522I'ma 80s baby ..n in my lifetime I know they were warring against my father's n grandfather's on another level.

@Gregorywillard777 Ай бұрын

Once in a lifetime pimpin at its finest

@MrDmp 18 күн бұрын

I'm a Ward and we consider him to be The Blueprint of The Game🫡.

@SurprisedBakedBuns-nq6cd Ай бұрын

Things got so bad in Oakland, they had to shoot part of the film in Los Angeles! Oakland had a notorious underworld, The Black Panthers also had beef with drug dealer Felix the Cat!

@Pamela-zy7vc Ай бұрын

*was handsome*

@willieperdue5583 Ай бұрын

Bobby, his Group Came to ALABama and Join The Panter and Took IT Back To OAKLand CA..

@IBRAHEEMLONGS77 20 күн бұрын

Wow

@danielabdelnour8232 Ай бұрын

Great ro models

@JaniceBlackmon Ай бұрын

The wager of sin is death you can live of die. you die without Jesus Christ as lord its death END OF STORY ❤

@josephharderman747 Ай бұрын

Hearing this story about this gentleman triggered me because I had a friend that was killed the same way shot in the back of the head while he was driving his car on his birthday valentine day crashed the car the man wasn't Dead 20 minutes before these bums took his keys went back to his house and robbed him they were even walking around the the dead mans leather jackets on jealousy hatred and envy is real and it can get you killed r.i.p mr frank Ward r.i.p to my homeboy diamond manky r.i.p to everyone that lost a loved one to a envious jealous bumm

@johncox9461 13 күн бұрын

Hold up, wait a minute, let me put some pimpin in it😂

@mrstanbmw Ай бұрын

The movie The Mack was from this guy by Max Julian

@mrstanbmw Ай бұрын

Oops she mentioned it

@TorishaGreenlee-ck4wd Ай бұрын

I can see mike epps , or method man.

@sirpoppinchuck Ай бұрын

Moral to the story They made him rich.😳😳😳🤩🤔

@jukkas6807 Ай бұрын

I been to union town alabama its not to far from selma

@markjackson7632 Ай бұрын

I love that era……….when I grew up pimps were popular one if my closest friends was one. They were clean and fine.

@tamiiagrisham6353 7 күн бұрын

The brothers were very handsome!

@user-ek4uk9yw4o Ай бұрын

Yep

@belle6071 Ай бұрын

Just keep a 304 high and give her shelter. Make her feel like she's important, family. Really ain't no trick to it. The problem is balance. It's hard to maintain equilibrium. My Daddy ran a traveling strip club way back in the day. Consequently, he was hard on me, being his oldest daughter. He'd tell me straight, "I ain't raising no dumb BEECH!" Sure enough, he didn't. I own my own trucking company. But, personal relationships, naw, Can't do it. Price you pay growing up in the life. At the end of the day, you're surrounded by people trying to get next to you, but you're completely alone. 💯 RIP, Charles White! 🙏 I miss you, Daddy.

@ttopbugatti9430 14 күн бұрын

Just ended it with a Ward.. he thought he was a pimp too‼️🥴

@Mimi-cg2cw 25 күн бұрын

I hated that movie..some of it was filmed in front of the Ebony hotel..I lived in that neighborhood when I was in elementary and some of jr high.

@daork1 14 күн бұрын

RIP the real Mack and the ward family 🫡

@rashodlewis2918 Ай бұрын

Whut up Pimpin’

@Kolorboyux1wb Ай бұрын

FIRST AND FOREMOST, CONDOLENCES to the WARD FAMILIES! The Director who wrote the check that bounce, is the person that got FRANK KILT! The MACK is a great black movie that showed that real black men weren’t afraid of the PIG back then in the 1960 and 1970s! The movie highly influenced RICHARD PYY TO become a PIMP! ASKED PAM GRIER!

@daniellej7914 Ай бұрын

Richard grew up in whore houses

@jeromeosills6522 Ай бұрын

That bounced check didn't get frank ward killed! His arrogance got him killed.

@California-king Ай бұрын

What you mean ?

@California-king Ай бұрын

Never… damn the bp got him ghost?

@markjackson7632 Ай бұрын

Well most of them Lol

@Gregorywillard777 Ай бұрын

Many learn pimpin Few R born pimpin