BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family

In the early 1990s Demetrius Big Meech Flenory and his brother Terry Southwest T rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family. After a decade in the drug game the Flenorys had it alla fleet of Maybachs Bentleys and Ferraris a 500-man workforce operating in six states and an estimated quarter of a billion in drug sales. They socialized with music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs did business with New Yorks king of bling Jacob "The Jeweler" Arabo and built allegiances with rap superstars Young Jeezy and Fabolous. Yet even as BMF was attracting celebrity attention its crew members created a cult of violence that struck fear in a city and threatened to spill beyond the boundaries of the drug underworld. Ruthlessness fueled BMFs rise to incredible power; greed and that same ruthlessness led to their downfall.When the brothers began clashing in 2003 the