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If you listened to Southern Hip Hop during the 2000s then Big Meech impacted your listening experience. This book brings the behind the scenes drama to the foreground in an exciting and well researched read. BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family The Rise of Big Meech is not really covered. This is a well written and well paced tale of BMF’s nationwide misdeeds, but very little of their rise from Detroit dealers is covered. The book starts in and around the shooting of Wolf in ATL. Incidents before that are few and only offered as asides in the backstory. BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family Very interesting. I plan on doing a little more research into the story. I enjoyed this book. BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family Quite a story of the ways in which a large-scale cocaine trafficking network operated and how the bosses of the BMF empire--Terry Flenory and his notorious brother Demetrius Big Meech Flenory--had vastly different management styles. Also gets into the interaction between BMF's illicit drug enterprise and its forays into the world of commercial rap music, largely but not entirely as a means of washing BMF's cocaine cash. BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family This was a well interpreted retelling of a complex and complicated story and set of trials. In the early part of the story you wonder just how and why there is so much information about the process of BMF and everything that Meech and Southwest T did. By the time it gets around to the end you can see where it came from and that this was just an effort to compile and piece so much together into a coherent narrative. There aren't many spoilers here but it is just another tale of the streets that wouldn't have been believed if we didn't have so much evidence and proof that it existed. BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
Big Meech: Are you kidding?
This was an excellent read. The work by the various law enforcement agencies was thorough and complete. It's amazing to me how these guys think that their over-the-top ostentaciousness, the expensive jewelry, large houses, excess partying, and top of the line cars etc., all purchased with unverifiable incomes would remain under the law enforcement radar forever. The wiretappings of the kingpins voices as well as the number of bodies attached to members of this crew were sure signs of pending disaster. This saga reminds me of HBO's The Wire except on a larger scale. Because of the number of characters and the depths of the events, this work must be made into a TV series or a 3-part movie at least to capture the totality of BMF. Overall, I give this an A+.
BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family Brothers Demetrius Big Meech and Terry Southwest T Flenory built one of America's largest drug empires: the Black Mafia Family (BMF). The brothers started in Detroit and expanded to distributors in Atlanta, California, New York, D.C., Missouri, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and the Carolinas. After nearly a decade, BMF had hundreds of crew members, a fleet of expensive cars and millions of dollars in drug sales. They associated with some of the biggest names in rap music and the celebrity world.
Author Mara Shalhoup painted a detailed picture of BMF and its leaders, the quiet Terry and his flashy brother Big Meech. The book is full of interesting information and name-dropping, though was sometimes repetitive in events. Like its title, it told the rise and fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family in a literary documentary style.
Literary Marie of Precision Reviews BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family I started listening to this audiobook after finishing watching the first season of BMF on Starz. I was looking to find more information on the Black Mafia Family but to my disappointment this book didn’t give me that.
This book was brief on both Big Meech and Big T whilst focusing on the organization and the members alleged crimes. I felt that it was too much side character description for my liking.
Nonetheless the narrator was great and engaging.
In the end, I wish there was more on Big Meech and Big T’s background and activities but I guess they’ll have to write a biography for me to get that. BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family This book was an incredible story how the family was so well organized for many years. I never heard about the Organization until I read the book. This is a perfect example how crime only lasts for a short time-before it all comes to an end. BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family Interesting story about my childhood friends Meech and Terry Flenory of Southwest Detroit. I like the content of the book as well as the fact that I could identify with most of the Atlanta and Detroit places cited in the book. I also knew many of the characters. The biggest challenge of the book was the verbiage and flow of the inexperienced author.
Mara Shalhoup did a very poor job of allowing the story to flow. I found it challenging that she chose to reintroduce the characters many times over. I also found the chapters to be disjointed. If in fact this story is made into a movie, it is my hope that someone writes an original screenplay for this dynamic and largely appealing street story. 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 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. 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 flashy and beloved Big Meech risked it all on a shot at legitimacy in the music industry. At the same time, a team of investigators who had pursued BMF for years began to prey on the organization's weaknesses. Utilizing a high-stakes wiretap operation, the feds inched toward their goal of destroying the Flenory's empire and ending the reign of a crew suspected in the sale of thousands of kilos of cocaine -- and a half-dozen unsolved murders. BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family