Lorenzo "Fat Cat" Nichols, The Man is just as BIG as the Myth, The Legend is Real, and the RESPECT deserved.

Lorenzo FAT CAT Nichols is without a doubt the Most "TRUE" most "REAL" stand up MAN in the history of New York City. Everyone hears the same stories again and again about the rags to riches to rags King Pin who rose from nothing to conquer the streets just to become another ignorant statistic of self indulgence and decadence. At his peak Lorenzo Nichols in 1985 made 2.2 Billion dollars in one year......That's 100 MILLION a week. Never greedy and always generous Mr. Nichols displayed something that has disappeared from the streets......Mercy and benevolence. The classified pages of the New York Daily News advertised for "Cracker Jacks" to sell drugs in queens. Employment was available and free burgers and Franks were available at "Cook outs" in attached Backyards in South jamaica. The "S.N.I.F.F." Basketball tournaments would take place with players like "mark Jackson" putting on a show for "Our" enjoyment.....FOR FREE!!!!!. People could plead their cases at his feet and ask for mercy because they couldn't pay their rent...and Mr. Nichols would pay it......Long before President Obama, Black children in Queens N.Y.C. dared to dream because of Mr. Nichols. I would watch him in a burgundy Rolls Royce with white leather interior drive down Merrick Blvd and know that a Black Man could be someone in America. He went to Prison refusing to take a deal, took the rap for other people so that others could go home.....Mr. Nichols is a "Martyr" for all time to us. He ultimately was NOT sent to prison for drug dealing...... but for being a Black Man who made it in America. His Legend and legacy is untarnished and completely in tact. Mr. Lorenzo "FatCat" Nichols power and influence in Queens New York was unmatched in any Boro in New York or City in America. In every City there were borders and power sharing amongst Large and powerful "Business" organizations. The only parallel one could make with Lorenzo "FATCAT" Nichols in Queens New York would be with the Great AL CAPONE of Chicago. After Mr. Lorenzo Nichols was taken from us and sent to prison, then and only then did his rivals seek to obtain dominance in Queens New York. The anarchy and blood letting that followed is legendary. One that I remember particularly was an "Arcade" game room where everyone inside was killed....even children, also when the "Square" on 122 avenue and Montauk street was shot to Pieces by heavy machine gun fire where a motorcade of White Mercedes Benzes drove in a circle dropping bodies everywhere. The people were praying for Mr. Lorenzo "FATCAT" Nichols to come home and calm that madness down. That day has never come and anarchy sill remains.

You hear story after story of the Fallen Black street king who takes the feminine way out by "Ratting" out his best friends and begging for Mercy. NOT Mr. Nichols. I watched every episode of American Gangster on the BIO channel in disgust until I watched that the story I had ben waiting for afraid that Ving Rhames would distort the story of the "ULTIMATE" Gangster I had waited so patiently to be told. Even "BLACK CEASER" the Great FRANK MATTHEWS ran for his life with his last 15 million dollars......Not LORENZO FATCAT NICHOLS!!!!. My favorite moment on the episode of American gangster showcasing LORENZO FATCAT NICHOLS was the end where I was on pins and needles afraid that he would have somehow become a "Muslim"  or a born again Christian "repenting" and begging at "Massa's" feet for leniency and to be paroled........WE never even heard his voice......Total Silence......Larger than life legend.....UNCONQUERED STILL!