| Title | BMF: The rise and fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2010 |
| Author | Shalhoup, Mara |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
| City | New York, NY |
| Publication Language | eng |
| Copies at the Archive | 1 |
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 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 York’s king of bling Jacob “The Jeweler” Arabo, and built allegiances with rap superstars Young Jeezy and Fabolous. Ruthlessness fueled BMF’s rise to incredible power; greed and that same ruthlessness led to their downfall.
