He was not flashy or as outwardly seen as his brother, but he was a mastermind and has a good deal of respect on the street and in the hip-hop community too. Terry too, and I don't want to downplay his significance in BMF. Now I'm not saying that's good or it's bad, but he kind of moved over these other iconic people and then took their place.
Now I'm not saying that's good or it's bad, but he kind of moved over these other iconic people and then took their place. You've got Meech as the poster boy for that. You don't have to have Scarface up on your wall if you want to sort of glorify or glamorize that lifestyle. I think it's so interesting that there was a time when the legendary crime bosses were the Gotti’s and the Gambinos and you had the Scarface posters up, right? That's who you looked to, if you were looking for the myth of the crime boss and Meech was able to supplant that for people. In a weird way the brothers worked together to build something massive and in a weird way they worked together to implode it.” On September 26, STARZ is bringing the story of the Flenory brothers’ beginning, rise and fall in the drug game with the aptly-titled series, “BMF.” Ahead of the premier episode, GENIUS spoke with Shalhoup and Shaw to get more insight on BMF’s impact on hip-hop culture and how they altered the idea of the “American dream.” I think that the two of them together, Terry on the phone, Meech in the club, was enough for the feds to really go in hard when they did and something else might've happened had those two things not co-existed at that time. If you just had Terry and some of Terry's stuff, you might not have had enough to take them down.
I think what interestingly happened enough is that if you just had Meech being Meech and being flashy in the clubs, you might not have had enough to take them down. “Meech was much more careful about not talking on the phone. “Terry is the one who got caught on a wiretap,” says Shalhoup about how BMFs empire started to crack. Season 1 will focus on the origin story in 1980s Detroit.Īuthor of Trap History: Atlanta Culture and the Global Impact of Trap Music.
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Series will have a Gritty/Real/ Documentary feel while still a premium drama.
The series is about love, kinship and capitalism in the pursuit of the American dream. Their unwavering belief in family loyalty was the cornerstone of their partnership and the crux of their eventual estrangement. Whether it was the all black outfits with matching diamond jewelry they wore in photos, music videos and street DVDs or “making it rain” in the club (a phenomenon that Meech takes credit for creating), BMF’s presence was definitely seen and felt, if not heard. An obvious front for Meech’s trafficking empire that came in the form of a record label/club promotions company, the music the label put out didn’t make much noise, but the image they portrayed did. This run included Meech giving into the temptations of relocating from the original Motown to the “Motown of the South” to launch BMF Entertainment in Atlanta in 2004. Topping that, Meech himself is on record saying that made and enjoyed “billions” during his run. “I feel like that's a conservative estimate,” says Mara Shalhoup, journalist and author of BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech & the Black Mafia Family. And still, it can be said that even that number isn’t accurate. But considering that both of these operations were assembled in the “motor city,” with one cranking out an assembly line of classic records by icons named Marvin, Smokey, and Stevie, it’s a wonder that BMF made almost as much money in half the time, illegally. That is the reported amount of money that drug trafficking cartel Black Mafia Family (BMF) generated from the time brothers Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and Terry "Southwest T" Flenory started their enterprise selling $5 0 bags of cocaine in Detroit in 199 0, up until 2 00 5 when DEA agents raided multiple stash houses spread throughout the United States where they were selling kilos for as much as $2 0, 000 apiece.įor a bit of context, fellow Detroiter and founder of legendary Motown Records Berry Gordy sold the label he founded in 1959 for $61 million in 1988 and then over the next 16 years sold parts of its publishing to EMI for a sum of around $322 million.
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