The American dream has never been one size fits all. Nobody knows that better than Detroit. For every southern immigrant that arrived in the 1950s in Detroit, looking for salvation in a Ford factory, there was a Tony Giacalone seeking financial deliverance of a different kind.Black Mafia Family Season 1 Download
For every 1970s middle-class family that felt accomplished because of their new Oakland county zip code, there was an Eddie Jackson and a Courtney Brown that felt the exact same way as they moved next door.Enter Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory, his younger brother Terry “Southwest T” Flenory, and their organization Black Mafia Family (BMF). If you’re a Generation X Detroiter you’ve heard so many BMF wild party and drug trafficking stories over the years that you don’t know where to separate facts from fabrication. But what’s for certain is that the Flenory brothers embodied a special kind of brotherhood and Detroit entrepreneurial spirit. In Starz’s new series, “BMF,” executive producers Randy Huggins and Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson drop us right into the genesis of the Flenory brothers empire, peeling back some unexpected layers.
The first episode starts off in 2005 with the kind of urban elements that let the viewer know you’re looking at Detroit: the Renaissance Center, a block party, ghetto tech music, dancers jitting, and Demetrius (played by his son Demetrius Flenory Jr.) yelling, “What up doe!” The scene immediately quantum leaps back to the 1980s. Sammy Davis Jr.’s rendition of “Hello Detroit” is circulating through the Flenory’s Southwest Detroit home.Their father, Charles Flenory (Russell Hornsby), is cheerfully hugging his preteen sons Demetrius (Johnnie Gordon) and Terry (Jaylon Gordon) and kissing his wife Lucille (Michole Briana White) on his way out the door to go to work.