Originally Posted By: americafyeah
Originally Posted By: dave213
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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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.


The link says that they expanded into other states and grew into a multi-million dollar operation with links to the cartels by the 90's. They didn't create the label until 2000.