Some people are under the impression that they were P Diddy/Suge Knight types who used their rap money to get into the drug business, when it was the other way around. These were drug dealers who wanted the type of limelight that came from the music business, so they started a label and signed some rappers. The label didn't even end up amounting to shit.
Here's another link talking about their multi-million dollar enterprise with links to Mexican cartels before their BMF days:
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[url=http://www.dea.gov/divisions/det/2008/detroit091208ap.html] i believe Meech desparately wanted to be like Diddy and Suge. it didn't work out that way, but i guess the ex-law enforcement rapper Rick Ross helped give him the notoriety he wanted. the link says they were small-scale in the beginning. i can't find any record of the flenory's being considered major players in the drug world until about the year 2001 when terry moved to l.a. and got a direct line with the Mexican cartels. so the credit should really go to terry. prior to that,Meech was never a drug kingpin he was getting busted on petty drug charges. so at best they lasted 2 years,because the entire thing was brought down by 2003. i don't know why a rap lebel/drug front with such a small lifespan is being compared to the mafia. not to mention there have been many other wealthier and more successful black drug lords before them,and since their demise. freeway rick,rayful Edmonds,to name a few made more money and lasted longer,and the original philly black mafia was more of a mafia than what the BMF ever achieved.
