good post but a few points I disagree with: 1st,the name "BMF" is constantly used in the media,but the full name is "BMF Entertainment". the authors never bring up that fact. is it because if people knew BMF Entertainment was a record label and not a gang,it would dispel the notion that they were a 'black mafia'? 2ndly: they weren't well organized. BMF had no initiation,there were never any official 'made' members of BMF. it was a loose band of hangers-on,mostly rappers (Fabolous,blue davinci,etc),and club-goers. the book says there were 500 members,but nowhere is there one shred of evidence to substantiate this claim. BMF were more famous for throwing parties,and concerts,than for anything related to organized crime. in Atlanta, they put up a few billboards promoting BMF entertainment. no organized crime group would ever promote themselves with billboards,or t-shirts plastering their name,the way that BMF did. the drug ring that financed the label was Los Angeles-based,and terry flenory was the head,not big meech as the media often gets wrong. terry's drug ring and meech's record company BMF were two separate entities. terry put meech in charge of the Atlanta stash houses,and invested his money so that meech could create his own music label based in Atlanta,but there was never a BMF gang. go back and check newspaper archives or ask anyone involved in the life if there was ever a BMF in Detroit,there wasn't. BMF existed maybe 3 years tops: from 2003 to 2006