I mean you sit down with him and it feels like you're hanging out at a bar with a friend. He was actually the most charming interview. Louis, New York, certain parts of South Carolina, Tenessee, and LA. But Atlanta was also this hub and they had labs there and they would cut the kilos and then send them off to Miami, Detroit, St. And basically, if you ask the DEA or the task force agents, they'll say: "All the coke on the streets of Atlanta came from BMF." They just came in and took it over. He moved there when he was fairly young, probably the early '90s. Meech, though, had a real love for Atlanta. And there was a stash house where they'd have like 100 kilos lined up in the basement. He had a property called the White House that he and Meech had shared at a point. Well, Terry actually moved from Detroit to LA. Did that happen for distribution purposes? I mean, the cars were outfitted with these traps installed where you would have to like put the car in reverse, turn on the defrost, and hold up a magnet to some part of the dash for secret, deoxygenated drug compartments to open. And that sort of formed the foundation of what would become this elaborate transport system shuttling cocaine across the country. So he got this settlement and wound up launching this car service in Detroit.
And two, Terry actually had a bullet graze his eye and the doctors messed up the surgery. And that was through years of cultivating reputations as top-of-the-line drug dealers in Detroit. They had access to vast amounts of cocaine. One, they wound up getting hooked up with a major, major drug supplier with direct or one-step-away ties to the Mexican cartels. A couple of things happened along the way. How exactly did the Flenory brothers get from the streets of Detroit to the suburbs of Atlanta? People would either run the other way when these guys came into the club or be overjoyed because all the women would soon be drinking $600 bottles of champagne.Ī music video by BMF Entertainment: Bleu DaVinci's "We Still Here" But I think that he also had this charisma that was pretty much undeniable. He certainly was able to create massive buzz and that was in large part through massive amounts of money. But, for him, it was maybe a matter of timing. I think, though, Meech really had genuine hope that he could transition out of the drug game into a legitimate enterprise. I mean there's no denying that cocaine money funded the label and promotion company.
How legit was the business of BMF? It only had one artist, right? Bleu DaVinci? And literally, when I asked Meech about the high point of 15 or 20 years at the top of the drug game, he said the best thing was helping Jeezy's career take off. But Meech didn't really want to get into it. It might have been a source of tension between them. I know Meech would've wanted him to sign with BMF Entertainment. Jeezy wound up obviously signing a deal with Def Jam and then he had his own label CTE. You know, Jeezy shows up in all these promotional videos in which he's shouting out the Black Mafia Family and Meech.īut Young Jeezy was never signed to Meech's BMF Entertainment rap label. And Jeezy was really open about his very tight relationship with Big Meech. He supplied fancy cars and crazy medallion pendants for video shoots. What he did in Atlanta was promote a lot of parties for Jeezy and helped get his music spread around to all the stripclubs, which is how rappers would make it or break it. He was very instrumental in Jeezy's early career around 2003.