BMF on Starz (tv discussion)premieres 9/26 on STARZ.

Duece

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I think I've seen the mother on Family Matters when she was either a teenager or young woman?

I'm not sure if she was one of Eddie's girlfriends.
 

TimRock

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Not usually a cougar chaser, but the moms is cute as hell.
You don't remember her? She's been in a bunch of TV shows. Fresh Prince Martin, Family Matters. I just saw her in something as a cop, oh, that be horror movie that just came out.
 

footloose

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because we've seen that over and over with Power



Yeah, I was thinking how she's aging rather poorly
I’m taking it that kanan is loosely based on 50 real life. Most of these stories ain’t made up. Just mixed up the people it happened with.

the molitiff cocktail went in fatcats house in real life.
The cop shot was actually a Chinese cop in real life which led to the Rico sweep and Biden’s crime bill that took every dealer in the country down. Also fat cats crew. -
And 50 moms was apparently in them streets. Only story I knew of is she got killed by a dude that looked like Rick James on the street corner.
shit Maybe his mom’s was really like that. That would explain a lot about him
 

blackman80

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I just finished watching ep 1 of this show!!..It's ok to watch..It's just like every drug crime show but ill keep watching it


I hope they have alot of nudity/sex scenes in this show...That chocolate chick had some nice tits... :yes:
 

TimRock

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I think I'm confused as hell with pop not knowing the mortgage wasn't paid. You mean to tell me this nigga works a full time job and straight hands his check over to his wife? WTF :smh:
A lot of men do that beta, henpecked shit..
yep, men didn't want to deal with that. they just wanted to come home to a clean house and a cooked meal. nothing that would add to their stressful working days.
 

footloose

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I think I'm confused as hell with pop not knowing the mortgage wasn't paid. You mean to tell me this nigga works a full time job and straight hands his check over to his wife? WTF :smh:
Like a lot of married dudes.
 

$moneyPit$

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I think I'm confused as hell with pop not knowing the mortgage wasn't paid. You mean to tell me this nigga works a full time job and straight hands his check over to his wife? WTF :smh:
Like a lot of married dudes.

Yup there are households out there where the men basically hand over the checks to the wife to pay bills, shop and save. The men are basically given and allowance until the next pay day. I had a co worker that was stressing when his wife passed away, because he didn't know the first thing about paying the house bills.
 

Dota

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Yup there are households out there where the men basically hand over the checks to the wife to pay bills, shop and save. The men are basically given and allowance until the next pay day. I had a co worker that was stressing when his wife passed away, because he didn't know the first thing about paying the house bills.

Ironically I grew up in a household where my pop paid all the bills with my mother not knowing what's left on the mortgage balance. At the same time, my mother argues she should have handled the money for the household. I wouldn't argue against her as she's the one who taught me to manage my money :dunno:
 

dasailr03

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most these kingpins smart dudes
i disagree. mofos may be smart but dumb as shit if they think they black ass gonna get away with shit for long. Just think, nobody black retires and live out the rest of their days free from drama, worry, death or the next fool coming for you. We overly glamourize shit but on the real, we just be killing our own and acting like we doing shit bit. Fuck big meech and his brothers. but then again fuck all these parasite of our communities who ain't do shit to improve the very place they come from.
 

keone

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i disagree. mofos may be smart but dumb as shit if they think they black ass gonna get away with shit for long. Just think, nobody black retires and live out the rest of their days free from drama, worry, death or the next fool coming for you. We overly glamourize shit but on the real, we just be killing our own and acting like we doing shit bit. Fuck big meech and his brothers. but then again fuck all these parasite of our communities who ain't do shit to improve the very place they come from.
yeah but thats not what im talking about tho. you are talking more about the greed and ruthlessness.
im talking about to start empire u got to have brains.
yes its a dirty game and a lot dont think about the exit plan.
the better u are the more difficult it is to leave
 

dtownsfinest

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I think I've seen the mother on Family Matters when she was either a teenager or young woman?

I'm not sure if she was one of Eddie's girlfriends.
She be on a bunch of shit.....I feel like she might've been one of Eddie's chics in the past....maybe on Martin she was on all them shows back in the day lol.
 

dtownsfinest

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It was good

high production value great acting good editing great special effects

salute to the director

not too much narration

they gotta work on the dialogue cause some of the vocabulary etc was off and anachronistic.

Yeah I think Tasha Smith directed it. It was shot really well. Enjoyed it.
 

dtownsfinest

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So I don't really have no issues with it I think the 1st episode as dope but just a few things I'm kind of thinking about....

What's the age of these people? Why old ass Lil Zane with these kids and shit or is he suppose to be a kid too? :lol:
The leads acting.....I don't know. I don't think ol' boy from All American can act. I can't tell if its poor dialogue or if its the acting. Meech son too. I mean I don't think he's trained so I think he's doing a job but at times some of his bad acting shows up. I feel like that's on the director or the editor to make him look better as a actor than he is.
Kash doll fine as hell.......damn.
Lala fine as hell too.....



Kash Doll so fucking sexy. Shit props to them for getting her naked she been teasing since she been in the game lol.
 

TimRock

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She be on a bunch of shit.....I feel like she might've been one of Eddie's chics in the past....maybe on Martin she was on all them shows back in the day lol.
she was a nerdy chic on Family Matters that liked Eddie, and i believed she played the same type of role of Fresh Prince. On Martin she was one of the thieves that stole Martins rings and Jerome's gold tooth. Malignant is the movie i just saw her in.
 

RUDY RAYYY MO

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So I don't really have no issues with it I think the 1st episode as dope but just a few things I'm kind of thinking about....

What's the age of these people? Why old ass Lil Zane with these kids and shit or is he suppose to be a kid too? :lol:
The leads acting.....I don't know. I don't think ol' boy from All American can act. I can't tell if its poor dialogue or if its the acting. Meech son too. I mean I don't think he's trained so I think he's doing a job but at times some of his bad acting shows up. I feel like that's on the director or the editor to make him look better as a actor than he is.
Kash doll fine as hell.......damn.
Lala fine as hell too.....



Kash Doll so fucking sexy. Shit props to them for getting her naked she been teasing since she been in the game lol.
Oh shit so that is Cash Doll, bruh I was thinking doppelganger. Her fine chocolate ass she seeded up now
 

RUDY RAYYY MO

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she was a nerdy chic on Family Matters that liked Eddie, and i believed she played the same type of role of Fresh Prince. On Martin she was one of the thieves that stole Martins rings and Jerome's gold tooth. Malignant is the movie i just saw her in.
Yep, that light skinned cracked though lol
 

BigATLslim

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Black Mafia Family kingpins push for prison release amid COVID-19
Robert Snell The Detroit News
Published 9:06 AM EDT May 5, 2020
Detroit — Terry Flenory, one of the Black Mafia Family cocaine kingpins from southwest Detroit who headed one of the country’s most powerful cocaine empires that reaped $270 million in profits, is leaving federal prison Tuesday and his brother is trying to join him, citing COVID-19 health concerns.

Terry and Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory would join a growing list of prominent felons being released in an attempt to stem the spread of COVID-19 within the nation’s prison system, illustrating the extreme break given to some convicted criminals.

Black Mafia Family drug kingpin Demetrius "Big Meech" on the cover of The JUICE Magazine, which he co-owned.
JUICE Magazine
Terry Flenory, 50, who oversaw the national drug ring’s Los Angeles hub, is scheduled to be released from a Kentucky federal prison on home confinement Tuesday and could soon be joined by his 51-year-old brother, a legend within the drug and rap world who oversaw operations in Atlanta.

The brothers were sentenced to 30 years in federal prison in 2008 for heading a national drug ring with ties to Mexican cartels and selling kilos of cocaine during a 15-year crime spree. But both have sought release from prison during a COVID-19 outbreak that, according to federal prison data, has killed at least 40 inmates and infected more than 2,300 prisoners and staffers.

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents toppled the cocaine empire in 2005 by arresting the brothers along with more than 100 co-conspirators. Investigators seized $21 million worth of assets, including cash, jewelry, 13 homes in Metro Detroit, Georgia and Los Angeles, and three dozen vehicles, including a Lincoln limousine.

Terry Flenory
U.S. Marshals Service
Terry Flenory’s pending release comes amid continuing interest in the Black Mafia Family and support from rappers, including LL Cool J. Rapper 50 Cent is producing a cable series about the Black Mafia Family for the Starz channel.

Demetrius Flenory is a violent, fame-hungry drug baron who reveled in a lifestyle of "money, cars, houses, clothes, jewelry and ho's," according to a court filing.

"During his time in prison, Flenory continues to promote himself, and, through others his legacy as a highly successful professional drug dealer," Assistant U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison wrote in a Friday court filing. "Nothing in that promotion remotely suggests that Flenory has changed."

The brothers rose from humble origins in southwest Detroit. During his high school years, Demetrius Flenory started selling $50 rocks of crack cocaine on the Downriver streets of Ecorse.

Starting in 1990, their drug ring started distributing thousands of kilograms of cocaine across a sprawling empire that grew to cities in 11 states, including Detroit, Atlanta, Miami, St. Louis, Los Angeles and Birmingham, Alabama. The Atlanta hub alone distributed 2,500 kilos each month.

The drug ring might have lacked the innovation of other large-scale organizations like Young Boys Inc., which pioneered the use of underage drug peddlers, or the synonymous ties to Detroit, but made up for it in scope.

"They didn't earn their stripes in Detroit," said Carl Taylor, a Michigan State University sociology professor who has researched Young Boys Inc. and other gangs. "They were one of world's best kept secrets in terms of gangs."

That elusiveness fueled longevity. The Black Mafia Family's empire ran from 1990 until 2005.

"I think you are a very lucky man that it took the government that long to finally put it together," Detroit U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn told Terry Flenory before sending him to prison.

The Black Mafia Family drug ring hauled money and cocaine in custom-built stretch limousines.
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
The Black Mafia Family transported drugs and money across the country in cars, including a custom-built limousine with secret compartments and after-market devices that expelled drug-tainted air from inside in an attempt to foil drug-sniffing dogs.

The system was imperfect. When investigators searched the Black Mafia Family's stretch Lincoln Navigator limousine, they found $580,250 hidden in the secret compartments.

Cash seized during the Black Mafia Family investigation
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Still, the drug ring collected millions of dollars in profits. The Flenory brothers and co-conspirators invested the money in jewelry, real estate — including a $3 million, gated, Mediterranean mansion in Los Angeles — and cars both classic and exotic, including a 1970 Chevrolet Camaro and a 2005 Maserati.

The gang generated so much money, the Flenory brothers needed to wash the cash.

They laundered ill-gotten gains by buying jewelry from Manhattan jeweler Jacob Arabov, the so-called "King of Bling." They were such frequent customers that Terry Flenory had a $1 million line of credit with the jeweler and paid $300,000 for a pinky ring.

Jacob Arabov was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.
U.S. Marshals Service
During a July 2005 traffic stop in Illinois, troopers seized 22 pieces of jewelry from Terry Flenory and others worth more than $4.9 million. That included watches made by Rolex, Audemars Piguet and a 100-carat, white gold Piaget timepiece featuring 310 diamonds.

Demetrius Flenory also laundered money through his rap label and promotions business, BMF Entertainment, and co-owned JUICE Magazine. BMF Entertainment takes credit for helping launch the career of the rapper Jeezy.

"BMF Entertainment was nothing more than a front for and promotion of Flenory’s drug trafficking activities," Ison, the prosecutor, wrote.

Demetrius Flenory's involvement in the hip hop industry has led to prolonged support among rappers, including LL Cool J, who advocated for a pardon in 2017.

The brothers spent three years in jail before pleading guilty and being sentenced in 2008.

Earlier this year, as the COVID-19 pandemic intensified and as federal prison officials started releasing inmates to stem the spread of the virus, Terry Flenory was approved for release on home confinement. He has more than six years remaining on his sentence and is scheduled Tuesday to leave a Kentucky prison.

"Terry Flenory is a really good guy and anyone who knows him would agree with that," his former defense lawyer Steve Fishman said. "He has served a lot of time, and I am very happy to hear he’s coming home.”

It is unclear where Terry Flenory will live once he is released from prison. He had lived in California until his arrest.

His pending release led Demetrius Flenory to seek compassionate release from a federal prison in Oregon on April 22. His lawyer argues Flenory's age and underlying health conditions, including hypertension and heart problems, leave him susceptible to COVID-19.

Flenory is not scheduled to be released from prison until October 2031.

Calling Flenory "ubiquitous in hip hop culture," defense lawyer Wade Fink said compassionate release will help Flenory "continue to effect positive change for black youth and others all over the country — an effort he began while incarcerated by starting programs, including charity drives for financially struggling children in Detroit."

Federal prosecutors are fighting the request, which was considered Monday by U.S. District Judge David Lawson. He took the request under advisement and will rule later.

Demetrius Flenory is no Robin Hood, prosecutors said. He was accused of killing two men during a fight outside Chaos nightclub in Atlanta in November 2003, according to prosecutors. One of the victims was a bodyguard for hip hop star Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs.

The homicide charges are no longer pending, Fink said. He faulted prosecutors for painting Demetrius Flenory as an Al Capone-like crime figure.

"The government assumes that a human being like Flenory is without the capacity to evolve and that a thirty-year federal prison sentence is not capable of changing an individual’s mindset, not to mention his age of 51 and the changed world he is entering," Fink wrote.
The character bias and lazy description of this crime family is detestable.

Describe this sh!t with the same reverence you would describe The Five Families.

You can tell a white boy wrote it.
Im tired of deifying people that have caused so much pain in our communities. Im sitting this one out.
Anytime up until 20 years ago, I would be with you.

We get so used to complaining about being portrayed one way that we forget, we are all over television and streaming with projects we control, outside of the distribution company.

I respect your right to not watch, but the sight line to who and what destroyed our community is far longer than the lens you are looking through.

Just don’t watch content period if you are trying to avoid that.
Not usually a cougar chaser, but the moms is cute as hell.
Yeah, she is just now starting to show her age, but she been at it since I was a kid.
You don't remember her? She's been in a bunch of TV shows. Fresh Prince Martin, Family Matters. I just saw her in something as a cop, oh, that be horror movie that just came out.
I first started crushing on her when she played the teenage mother of Hank Gather’s baby in the made for TV movie The Hank Gather’s Story.
I think I'm confused as hell with pop not knowing the mortgage wasn't paid. You mean to tell me this nigga works a full time job and straight hands his check over to his wife? WTF :smh:
Man, it’s a way of life for decades.

Man makes the money and the woman manages it.

My household was not like that but most of my friends households were.
i disagree. mofos may be smart but dumb as shit if they think they black ass gonna get away with shit for long. Just think, nobody black retires and live out the rest of their days free from drama, worry, death or the next fool coming for you. We overly glamourize shit but on the real, we just be killing our own and acting like we doing shit bit. Fuck big meech and his brothers. but then again fuck all these parasite of our communities who ain't do shit to improve the very place they come from.
Truthfully, in drug dealer years, you did get at with it for long because you became a kingpin.
Meech sold for 15 years without interruption.

The article itself said it was unprecedented.

Sure, it is not the ideal retirement plan but there is a whole socioeconomic issue on why it’s that way.

It is not broadcasted, but cats get in this game and get a leg up going legit.

You have every right to be mad. Make sure you are mad at the creators of the system and not the rats in it.
Richard Nixon and his administration is a great place to start to be angry.

Was that Kash Doll showing her tits? :oops:
Indeed it was.

Long time, Fam.

The game has changed a bit since we last rapped.
 

jasonblacc

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Yup!! Showed her ass in a hood movie called 2Eleven awhile back.
Side note: 50 shitting on Michael K Williams while his old lady exec produces and directs this show is foul to me.
That’s 50 and it’s not that like he dislikes Michael K, it’s the fact he’s friends with a dude who tried to kill me and had someone in my crew killed. Then defend him and dissed me while doing so. 50 keeps the engery the same no matter if it’s life or death.
 

dtownsfinest

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she was a nerdy chic on Family Matters that liked Eddie, and i believed she played the same type of role of Fresh Prince. On Martin she was one of the thieves that stole Martins rings and Jerome's gold tooth. Malignant is the movie i just saw her in.
Damn you right that was the episode that Martin was just Jerome that whole episode. I remember her on She Hate me too….
 

dtownsfinest

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Yup!! Showed her ass in a hood movie called 2Eleven awhile back.
Side note: 50 shitting on Michael K Williams while his old lady exec produces and directs this show is foul to me.

Damn I didn’t even make that connection that Tasha was linked with Mike….that’s wild as hell….Fif probably don’t even know who the hell even directed the episode lol.
 
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