The Life of a 1970s Pimp - Frank Ward

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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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@pamelapope859 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

B Town

@heruammen8522 7 дней назад

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...

@rickimhotep1236 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

I saw it when I was younger😊😊

@MDRGODSON 10 дней назад

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 9 дней назад

I had a very good pimp life

@DeeDeeKarol 7 дней назад

Nothing to be proud of at all,

@bornkinguniversal Месяц назад

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

@sheilad7324 Месяц назад

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

@RS-do6tv Месяц назад

They should build a statute of him

@SurprisedBakedBuns-nq6cd Месяц назад

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!

@s3hooligan Месяц назад

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 14 дней назад

Facts West Oakland in here 🫡🔥

@user-vh2pk6bd3g 7 дней назад

Out of the frying pan into the fire

@courybrown5265 6 дней назад

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

@courybrown5265 6 дней назад

@@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

@j-remy9832 Месяц назад

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.

@cdmbooks1493 Месяц назад

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

@BasementPepperoni Месяц назад

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

@tonyjulian1289 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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

@rahsunallah2825 Месяц назад

Glory to the game ✌️✌️P

@sw9881 Месяц назад

A living parasite. The most pathetic “career”.

@mykingdom613 Месяц назад

@@tonyjulian1289facts

@thakiddkidd34 Месяц назад

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

@California-king Месяц назад

Is that right ? 🤦🏽‍♂️

@rickimhotep1236 Месяц назад

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

@4TheGo2Guy Месяц назад

DOES SHE HAVE ANY STORYS ABOUT FRANK AND TED

@alivstyson1864 Месяц назад

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

@merchantsmithimages Месяц назад

Did she share stories with you?

@bignose3639 Месяц назад

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

@elijaheelhajjbey7844 Месяц назад

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

@user-cz3fw4uu4v Месяц назад

R.I.P. Mr. Frank Ward

@ogarchielee9880 Месяц назад

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

@booda1964 Месяц назад

Bullshit

@pauobunyon9791 Месяц назад

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

@Boogiedeeznutzz Месяц назад

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.

@dogecoinbrothermouzone2500 Месяц назад

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

@CherriceMcClure-nu5kd Месяц назад

Different Frank Ward

@massdisruption3437 День назад

@@CherriceMcClure-nu5kdcorrect.

@pablosorto7012 Месяц назад

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

@YakThaWiseman72 Месяц назад

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

@muskegontribune Месяц назад

Those Black Panthers ruled Oakland not those pimps

@Steve-mp7by Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

@@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 Месяц назад

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

@teenatchie2235 Месяц назад

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

@v.a.993 Месяц назад

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 12 дней назад

yea She was LuLu

@Chachacha6040 3 дня назад

Carol speedy yes was lou lou...👍🏽

@joyceboone8206 Месяц назад

This is where the movie THE MACK came from

@Doggfan Месяц назад

Imma do mines from Frisco to Maine - RIP Frank ward

@notoldmike Месяц назад

From the big apple to the pineapple

@correctionalofficer4lockdo763 Месяц назад

@@notoldmike From the Grape Ape to the Snowflake

@sirjinx996 Месяц назад

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

@donadams9099 Месяц назад

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

@tericitaheard1173 Месяц назад

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

@jamesgreen5461 Месяц назад

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

@MultiChamillion Месяц назад

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

@carlwallace1129 Месяц назад

💯 absolutely. Great point, very underrated comment.

@VicR914 Месяц назад

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

@foobart8746 Месяц назад

Terrence Howard

@raymondpalmer3347 Месяц назад

Or Terrance Howard !

@JamesJones-bi4ww Месяц назад

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

@damnnina1419 Месяц назад

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

@ChandoisGainesjr-fn9vr Месяц назад

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

@jerryblair4106 Месяц назад

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

@recklezztray9322 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

Church. Amen

@maclac48 Месяц назад

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

@susanlyn57 Месяц назад

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

@budb.8560 Месяц назад

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

@DonyelleWest-sq8oh Месяц назад

The Ward Brothers 👑💰👑

@jainorman3425 Месяц назад

Much respect to Frank Ward 🙏🏾🙏🏾

@MrCeora Месяц назад

What did he do for your community?

@RickMichaels-if5eq Месяц назад

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?🤔😏

@househead67 Месяц назад

that must have been some strong toilet paper. 💯

@YakThaWiseman72 Месяц назад

@hpisrhead67 😂😂😂

@filaspeaks1094 Месяц назад

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

@KhiryTheKonqueror Месяц назад

Great video

@mykingdom613 Месяц назад

Oh yeah

@ramsesstafford4640 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

frank lucas = Fraud Know That

@cuttycut2324 Месяц назад

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

@sandraphillips1718 Месяц назад

The Mack is one of my favorite movies 🎥😊

@LLJOHNS83 Месяц назад

He's not a rat.

@ramsesstafford4640 24 дня назад

@@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.

@1_Fish.2_Fish.Red_Fish. Месяц назад

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

@mizfrenchtwist Месяц назад

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

@inhop2443 Месяц назад

Get a job.

@Jewel_Screaming_Chango8387 Месяц назад

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

@chuckscott4661 Месяц назад

@2443. Slave.

@larrybee7713 Месяц назад

GOTTA have more than one source of income now days.

@robertbaskin7455 Месяц назад

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.

@ahmad.tillery.1987 Месяц назад

RIP Frank Ward

@marcusa.fromthebay7514 15 дней назад

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.

@nubian47 Месяц назад

He and his brothers were in "The Mack"

@belle6071 Месяц назад

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.

@househead67 Месяц назад

Why does he favor Walter Hawkins? 🤔💯

@AnEclecticMan Месяц назад

I thought the same thing!!! LOL

@househead67 Месяц назад

@@AnEclecticManEspecially when they both lived in Oakland. 🤔

@barbaragriggs3241 29 дней назад

Maybe they were cousins

@househead67 21 день назад

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

@TheBulletzgottishow20 17 дней назад

Frank ward was that dude

@willieperdue5583 Месяц назад

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

@Papi_Oso 21 день назад

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

@VeronicaDavidson-jm3kx Месяц назад

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

@larrybee7713 Месяц назад

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

@underhtaylor7359 Месяц назад

R.i.p godfather of Oakland Frank ward

@akbarlebowitz8151 Месяц назад

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

@larrybee7713 Месяц назад

Too Short told us that.

@InternationalMoneyBagz Месяц назад

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

@John-vb8lb Месяц назад

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

@kenbaskin803 8 дней назад

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.

@bernicerogersbooker6333 Месяц назад

That’s sad that’s nothing to brag about

@user-mf4bp8jg1h Месяц назад

Bless You ❤Frank Ward ❤ Frank

@rockettebob Месяц назад

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

@bierlichen1 Месяц назад

The Mack is in my DVD player as we speak.

@darrellhardin775 Месяц назад

Im best friend with Frank first son Barron Ward

@user-rx7if5pu7s Месяц назад

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!

@lavetteharden4835 16 дней назад

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

@willielittle9301 19 дней назад

The movie "Superfly" was loosely based on the life and times of Frank Ward...RIP...

@DJTENNESSEE901-q4r 9 часов назад

Wrong,actually based on the life of Harlem godfather Frank Lucas, and Superfly was filmed in New York city

@Chefjoe63 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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

@booda1964 Месяц назад

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

@InternationalMoneyBagz Месяц назад

Church.

@s3hooligan Месяц назад

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

@HighVibrations22 8 дней назад

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

@edward1676 Месяц назад

Town Bizness....

@VicR914 Месяц назад

I thought he was older 32 when he passed.

@jerrellallen4995 Месяц назад

HIS BROTHER ANDREW WAS THE IMMEDIATE!!!!

@acquanellaogbemudia9930 Месяц назад

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

@trixonic6934 Месяц назад

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

@fishstickkilla464 Месяц назад

@@trixonic6934very easy

@user-no1vb3vb9f Месяц назад

On the thumbnail he reminds me of Walter Hawkins

@ronaldfuller3395 Месяц назад

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

@robertrixey8447 20 дней назад

*TEACHABLE MOMENT😎👍🏾*

@rodneyhill9812 Месяц назад

Pushing P Rest UP U Dig

@joshthemediocre7824 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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 Месяц назад

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

@Pamela-zy7vc Месяц назад

*was handsome*

@willieperdue5583 Месяц назад

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

@Gregorywillard777 Месяц назад

Once in a lifetime pimpin at its finest

@MrDmp 13 дней назад

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

@SurprisedBakedBuns-nq6cd Месяц назад

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!

@augystthewhorrible Месяц назад

💯

@jamusjones5237 Месяц назад

These were players , not pimps , . .? Often time people confuse the 2 , which are completely different , .??

@lavetteharden4835 16 дней назад

THEY WERE PIMPS!!

@massdisruption3437 День назад

@@lavetteharden4835you don’t know what you talking about. They were Mack’s.

@TorishaGreenlee-ck4wd Месяц назад

I can see mike epps , or method man.

@danielabdelnour8232 Месяц назад

Great ro models

@mrstanbmw Месяц назад

The movie The Mack was from this guy by Max Julian

@mrstanbmw Месяц назад

Oops she mentioned it

@JaniceBlackmon Месяц назад

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

@IBRAHEEMLONGS77 16 дней назад

Wow

@johncox9461 8 дней назад

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

@josephharderman747 Месяц назад

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

@jukkas6807 Месяц назад

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

@sirpoppinchuck Месяц назад

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

@tamiiagrisham6353 3 дня назад

The brothers were very handsome!

@markjackson7632 27 дней назад

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

@daork1 10 дней назад

RIP the real Mack and the ward family 🫡

@user-ek4uk9yw4o Месяц назад

Yep

@rashodlewis2918 Месяц назад

Whut up Pimpin’

@Mimi-cg2cw 21 день назад

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.

@ttopbugatti9430 9 дней назад

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

@kennethallen809 Месяц назад

Laya Playa $tand Up

@vinmarz Месяц назад

You gotta have vision!

@Mo-yd8xc 4 дня назад

How does a 'bama become a high roller?

@Gregorywillard777 Месяц назад

Many learn pimpin Few R born pimpin

@damienwilloughby Месяц назад

Uhmmm, great guy 🤨

@Exquisite_The_P 4 дня назад

Frank ward was a Mack he wasn’t a Pimp it’s a difference

@annagerse6444 Месяц назад

Pimps and preachers

@markjackson7632 27 дней назад

Well most of them Lol

@Kolorboyux1wb Месяц назад

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!