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

BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family by Shalhoup, Mara. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312383930.

In the early 1990s, Demetrius €œBig Meech€ Flenory and his brother, Terry €œSouthwest 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 all€”a 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 BMF€™s rise to incredible power; greed and that same ruthlessness led to their downfall.When the brothers began clashing in 2003, the