Nicky Barnes

You can't put that on.

Oh, you want to be like Nicky Barnes? I'm stuck.

I'm stuck.

He's your driver.

based off

of I think if that's the same movie it was based off of somebody Nicky Barnes is Nicky Barnes here, right? Yeah, I think so.

Oh it is

Legendary black drug dealer.

Yes.

And I knew that from Sammy case, from Nicky Barnes case, from all the other guys that the only leverage you have is the information you have against other people.

So the reason that you would drill serial numbers out or swipe them out is so you could- So I know who

Bennett was.

They've already been tapped out.

So they said, okay, if the government could get substantial information to bring in criminals, we can go back to court and give you a reduction in time.

That's what Nicky Barnes got.

Right, but in your situation, I don't even, I mean, you did have a Mac 90.

Get down!

New York streets was iller to walk Like Pistol Pete and Pappy Mason gave the young boys admiration Prince from Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the [censored] kept the hood from starvin' Pushin' cars, Nicky Barnes was the seventies But there's a long list of high-profile celebrities Worldwide on the thorough side of things Live as kings, some died One guy, one time, one day grabs me As I'm about to blast heat, 40 side of Vernon I turn, well, he asks me "What you up to? The cops gon' bust you" I was a teen drunk off brew, stumbled I wonder did God send him 'Cause two squad cars entered the block and looked at us I ain't flinch when they washed I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror Brushed my hair starin' at a young disciple I almost gave my life to what the dice do Yeah, man, throwin' them bones Hopin' my ace get his case thrown His girl ain't wait for him She in the World's Straight now on While he lookin' at centerfolds of pretty girls showin' they little cooch Gangstas Don't Die, he's livin' proof The DA who tried him was lyin' A white dude, killed his mother during the case Hung jury, now the DA is being replaced Pre-trial hearin' is over, it's real for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is wild Triple homicide, I sit in the back aisle I wanna crack a smile when I see him Throw up a fist for Black power 'cause all we want is his freedom He grab a court officer's gun and started squeezin' Then he grabbed the judge and screams out, "Nobody leavin'" Everybody

Get down, get down Get down, get down Get, get, get, get Get, get, get

Everybody

And also being Italian, you look up to the, you idolize...

Well, it, you know, like, you got gangs today, and I'm sure they looked up to, um- The successful, uh, drug dealers, you know, back like in New York you had, um, Nicky Barnes and, uh, Frank Lucas, and they did two movies on.

And, you know, a drug dealer, you know, would idolize, you know, wanna be them 'cause of the money and the power.

Where the Italians, you know, growing up, if you're, uh, criminal-minded or you're a wild Italian kid growing up-

little Willenboro secret.

A lot of the New York gangsters from, like, Nicky Barnes and them era.

Yeah, yeah.

Mostly lived in Willenboro.

he was one of the smartest criminals he ever met.

And he would say that to him all the time, going, Nicky, what are you doing? You can do anything you want.

And he said, Nicky Barnes would always say, Detective Smith, it's not the money, it's not the girls, it's the power.

I go anywhere in the city I want and get whatever I want.

Well, at least he was honest about it, right?