BMF member arrested, Jay-Z’s ‘Death of Autotune’ gives nod to the crew
July 19, 2009 at 11:39 am by Mara Shalhoup in BMFIs it true? Has every last Black Mafia Family member been arrested? That’s what Fox News and the AJC are reporting, citing officials at the U.S. Marshals Service in Atlanta.
But really, it depends on how you look at it.
Impressively, the Marshals have rounded up pretty much every defendant named in seven federal indictments filed in Atlanta, Orlando, Detroit, St. Louis and L.A. That comes to nearly 150 men and women who played some role in BMF’s sprawling, quarter-of-a-billion-dollar cocaine enterprise, which launched an Atlanta-based record label and was well-connected in the hip-hop world — including a tight relationship with Atlanta rap star Young Jeezy.
Most recently, Vernon “Wu” Coleman, an alleged distributor for the cocaine crew who was named in one of the Atlanta indictments, was arrested July 16. As far as I can tell, there’s only one remaining defendant nationwide who’s still listed as a fugitive: an L.A. drug dealer who allegedly supplied BMF distributors with kilos of coke in the crew’s waning days, after BMF’s founders — the brothers Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory and Terry “Southwest T” Flenory — were jailed for running the criminal enterprise.
However, there are several suspected BMF members who, for one reason or another, were never indicted. So while it’s true that almost every BMF member who was indicted has been arrested, there are still some stragglers.
One thing is certain: The crew is, for all intents and purposes, dismantled. BMF no longer supplies Atlanta with the vast majority of cocaine that finds its way to the city’s streets — a distinction it once enjoyed. And BMF no longer has the capacity to dispatch hundreds of kilos (hidden in the secret compartments of limousines) across the country every month, or to make it “rain” money in the clubs while simultaneously causing a drought of Cristal.
But the crew’s legend lives on in the hip-hop world. Case in point: The wildly successful entrepreneur and iconic rapper Jay-Z references the crew in his most recent single, “Death of Autotune“:
Holdup, this might need a verse from Jeezy,
I might send this to the mixtape Weezy,
Get somebody from BMF to talk on this,
Give this to a Blood, let a Crip walk on it.
July 20th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
the best that ever done it…B.M.F….FREE THE BIG HOMIE WU…HE ALWAYS KEPT IT LIKE HE NATURALLY IS…GANGSTA!!!!!
July 21st, 2009 at 9:27 am
Ok, It’s time I got on the BMF Spamming gravy train. There’s got to be someone out there using leftover BMF cash to pay people to post gibberish like this on various message boards in some sort of guerrilla PR campaign. I want in dammit
July 21st, 2009 at 11:10 pm
In a minute maybe we(BMF) can have these CREATIVE BLOFFERS tell the TRUTH ONE DAY…I mean what about the good things we do in these streets. You are making it look like we are some animals or something. The GOVERNMENT put this out here so WHY when REAL HUSTLERS catch on…you try to shut it down. WELL SHUT THIS DOWN…
WE AIN’T GOING NO WHERE AS LONG AS THE CLOCK MOVES AROUND IN A CIRCULAR MOTION WE OUT HERE!!
T FRESHE
ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY
BMF 4 LIFE & DEATH
September 1st, 2009 at 11:13 am
Mara..who is this “LA DRUG DEALER FUGITIVE” you speak of??
November 14th, 2009 at 9:30 am
I still don’t get these ignorant fools that post BMF did good for the neighborhood….. what kind of good did they do? Last time I checked, most of the “hood” is still the “hood” dirty and dangerous…..
if BMF did good for the “hood”….. then the hood would be paved with gold, with all brand new housing and thriving businesses…. last time I checked, there are no gold streets (unless you count all these criminals hanging out with their fake gold caps), aren’t that many businesse in the “hood”, and there aren’t many new houses in the “hood”…..
these ignorant fools need to quit posting BMF was good for the “hood” shiit, because that is all that it is….. “bullshiit”…… BMF=Broke Mother Fuckers…..
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:34 pm
WHAT GOOD DID MEECH OR BMF DO INCLUDING MY HUSBAND TITO DON’T YOU PEOPLE SEE SPEAKING AND SPREADING SUCH IGNORANCE IS WHATS WRONG WITH OUR BLACK WORLDS HUSLTING IS WHAT YOU FOOLS ARE TRYING TO INSTILL INSTEAD OF EDUCATION BMF MADEMONEY OFF DESTROYING LIFE BUILDING A EMPIRE OFF ADDICITION THAT CRIPPLE FAMILIES
December 24th, 2009 at 10:35 am
BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF BMF……FREE THE HOOD!!!!!!!!
January 4th, 2010 at 2:41 am
bmf aint dead. unless everyone else went to jail a couple of hours ago we can guarantee theyr not