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[phone rings]
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[reporter]
DEA alleges brothers
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Terry and Demetrius Flenory
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are founders
of the cocaine organization
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known as
the Black Mafia Family,
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who began
their drug-trafficking career
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selling crack in the mid-'80s.
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[reporter]
Two brothers from Detroit
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who built a drug empire,
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then tried to turn it into
a legitimate hip-hop business.
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[50 Cent] BMF--you couldn't
really miss them.
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You watched them get bigger
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and bigger and bigger.
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[person 2]
When you talk about BMF,
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they talking
about a cultural phenomenon.
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[dramatic music plays]
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The lifestyle and the music
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are tethered together.
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[person 3] Everything start
with a leader.
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I'm a good leader, so I got
good people that follow.
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[person 4] This is a real mind.
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Meech is a mastermind.
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[person 5]
Terry was meticulous.
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This dude was good, man.
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[overlapping shouting]
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From this day forward, we hot.
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You don't know
when they comin',
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but you know they comin'.
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[gunshots]
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[person 6]
All hell broke loose.
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Gunfire was comin'
from everywhere.
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Death or jail--
one gon' catch you one day.
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♪ ♪
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It ain't no other crew
like this in the world,
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and never will be
another one.
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[person 7] The BMF story is
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one of rags to riches
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to wretchedness--
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the American dream
and nightmare
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at the same time.
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[moody hip-hop plays]
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[Meech] E-everybody move
like brothers.
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[echoing] Like brothers.
Like brothers.
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♪ ♪
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Everybody's shining
like new money.
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[echoing] New money.
New money. New money.
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♪ ♪
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It ain't no other crew
like this in the world,
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and never will be another.
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[echoing]
Never will be another.
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Never will be another.
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[children chattering]
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[Lucille] He was
my first-born son, Demetrius,
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and we called him Meech.
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[chuckles]
That's what the world
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basically knows him as.
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Meech. Big Meech.
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Terry is my second-born son.
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And Nicole is my daughter.
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I always wanted a girl,
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so I asked God
for a little girl,
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and He gave me a little girl.
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[Nicole] Growing up
in Southwest Detroit,
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it was, you know,
um, poverty, of course.
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They always called us
"downriver."
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It was rough,
but we made it work.
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[upbeat bluesy music plays]
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[Lucille] In the earlier years,
the kids were inseparable.
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I remember Terry
always trying to follow
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behind his big brother...
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[laughs]
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...and Demetrius
would- would tell him,
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"You gotta stay home.
You're too young."
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[laughing]
But he always wanted
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to go and hang out
with his big brother.
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[jazzy music plays]
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♪ ♪
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[energetic music plays]
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[Scott] The city of Detroit
in the mid-20th century
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was the epitome
of the American dream.
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You know,
streets being paved with gold.
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And Detroit opened up
the floodgates
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because of the auto industry.
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[Jamon] For years,
there had been this story
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of Detroit as this model city,
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particularly
for African Americans.
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Black people were
becoming the majority.
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Black people owned homes.
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You had a significant
Black middle class.
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People all over the country
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were looking at Detroit
as a model.
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Detroit became a melting pot,
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and it became one of
the most thriving metropolises
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in America.
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[Jamon] But on the other hand,
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there's housing
discrimination.
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Schools were unequal.
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The areas that were
predominately white
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have all kinds of resources.
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And another part of this
is police brutality--
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Black people being shot
and killed by police officers
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even when they were unarmed
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and even when
they were innocent.
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[dramatic music plays]
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[reporter] Four days of rioting
rocked the city of Detroit
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in the worst outbreak of urban
racial violence this year.
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Hoodlumism and lawlessness.
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[Jamon] On July 23, 1967,
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Black people
who've embraced Black power
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start a resistance
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and a response to the police
and their brutal tactics.
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This is gonna happen
all over America.
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It's gonna be a hot world,
not a hot summer.
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It's a hot world.
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[frenetic jazz music plays]
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[Jamon] We have
a five-day uprising
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in the city of Detroit.
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Forty-three people
were killed,
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almost 2,000 injured.
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Thousands of buildings
were destroyed.
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Thousands of arrests
were made.
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[person 8]
Communities have to rise up
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and do for themselves.
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[person 9]
Planners have been planning
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for people
rather than with them.
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[person 10] We gotta all
get together like a unit.
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And it would change Detroit
forever.
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♪ ♪
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After the 1967 rebellion,
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the white flight
goes into hyper speed.
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It's 20,000 whites leaving
every year,
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and the auto industry
and all the businesses
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that were built
around the auto industry
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are leaving with them.
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[distant siren wailing]
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[Scott] When the Flenory family
arrived in Detroit in 1969,
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the lights had really already
been turned out in the city.
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They got there
at the end of the party.
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[mellow R&B plays]
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♪ ♪
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[Roland]
I met the Flenory family
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when they moved
across the street from me.
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I was sittin' on the porch
watchin' 'em move in.
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My first impression was,
I could tell that, you know,
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they didn't have,
you know, good clothes,
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quality clothes,
and things like that.
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But Demetrius came over
across the street
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and introduced hisself to me.
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And then his little brother
Terry
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saw him over at my house
and came over.
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We instantly became friends.
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[Nicole]
Roland come from a big family.
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We kinda really
looked up to them
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because we were
a small family of five
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and we were all we had.
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Roland's like a brother.
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[Roland] Hangin' with Meech,
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I taught him
a little bad stuff, you know,
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smokin' marijuana
and stuff like that,
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you know, at a young age.
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We was little kids,
but, you know,
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hey, I come from a big family,
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and they were smokin' weed.
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[laughs]
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[jazzy music plays]
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♪ ♪
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[Lucille]
Their father, Charles, and I
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first moved to Detroit
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because he got a job working
for Fleetwood Cadillac.
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Detroit was kinda lively,
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but times were tough, you know.
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It was a pretty poor time
for a lot of families,
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not just us.
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Charles was
a very loving person.
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Caring, you know.
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[Roland]
Charles was a good man,
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hard-working guy.
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Good father. Very nice guy.
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I used to go to work,
do construction work.
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I'd come home, and he's sittin'
on my front porch,
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waitin' on me.
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But really, Charles wanted
to be a professional musician.
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He loved music.
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[Lucille] Let me just say
music was like--
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I used to call it
his girlfriend.
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[laughs]
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Charles and Demetrius
was really close.
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[bluesy music plays]
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[Lucille] Demetrius' dad
would get on the guitar,
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and we'd have jam sessions.
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[Nicole]
Well, music brought peace.
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It took you away from
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anything that was difficult
that was going on.
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It just kinda brought us
together
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where you bury or forget
about what's really happening.
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[Lucille] Charles had
this vision where he wanted
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to go to school and learn
to be a recording engineer.
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So what he did...
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he basically bartered
with this recording studio.
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He would do carpentry work
for the studio
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in order to pay
for his education.
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He would bring a guitar home
instead of a paycheck,
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and that wouldn't pay
the bills, you know?
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Couldn't eat a guitar.
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[Roland] The Flenorys...
it was hard time for them.
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They get
they, uh, gas cut off.
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They'll use kerosene heaters.
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But... that didn't bother them.
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[quiet music plays]
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[Nicole] My mom made miracles.
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There was one Christmas.
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Our gas was off.
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So she cooked things
on a hot plate,
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and she made Christmas dinner.
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[Lucille] I tried to make it
the best that I could.
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I was determined, you know,
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to... to have a holiday dinner.
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♪ ♪
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[somber music plays]
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♪ ♪
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The money... it caused
a strain on our marriage,
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you know.
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I was the one that decided
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that it was time for us
to, you know, part ways.
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[Nicole] My mom felt as though
the marriage was exhausting
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when constantly having
to come up with money
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and never getting over the mark
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or having a savings
or being able to travel.
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It was always
bills, bills, bills.
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[Lucille]
We were divorced um-
at 19 years.
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It was never because
we stopped loving one another.
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And I felt that maybe I could
do a little bit better
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by taking care
of the obligations by myself.
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[Nicole] It was difficult.
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The divorce...
it took a toll on us.
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It was really
a tumultuous divorce
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because my dad didn't want
my mom to leave
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or to leave my mom.
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[Lucille] I don't think
any of my children
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were happy about it,
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but I think our divorce
really affected Demetrius.
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[Lucille]
He was feeling like, "Okay,
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now I'm the man
of the household," you know?
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He kinda had the way of,
you know,
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"I wanna help take care
of my mom."
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'Scuse me.
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♪ ♪
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So he turned to the streets.
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[mellow percussive music plays]
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♪ ♪
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[Roland] First of all,
Terry and Demetrius...
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when they both was kids,
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they start sellin'
little bags of weed.
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They needed to do somethin'
to get him some money.
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[Scott] Detroit hustles harder.
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I mean, that's the mantra
of being from Detroit:
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Think big, live big,
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make a lotta money,
and live your best life.
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Everything, when it came
to Detroit drug bosses,
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was gettin' rich
in the coke game.
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Detroit in the 1980s
was the Wild West.
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It was
this surreal environment
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of comic book-like figures
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becoming rich off drugs.
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The largest players
to win the cocaine period
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in the city of Detroit
were the Curry brothers,
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Maserati Rick,
Young Boys Incorporated,
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Demetrius Holloway.
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And then you had
White Boy Rick,
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who was a 16-year-old
drug world wunderkind,
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a narcotics prodigy
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operating
at the highest levels
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of the drug game in Detroit.
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[Rick] We all started
on the streets.
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Listen, when Detroit
started to fail,
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our jobs started to go away...
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...kids that I knew
that were good kids,
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they got involved
in the drug business
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to try and help their parents
pay their bills.
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YBI was
a big drug organization.
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It was the way
they did business,
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like Fortune 500 companies.
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Everybody knew who YBI was.
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They knew, you know,
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if that stamp was on dope
back then,
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you knew that you were
getting good dope.
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[Roland] Me and Demetrius
used to ride across town
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to a car wash that was owned
by Maserati Rick.
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Maserati Rick was
the first person in Detroit
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with a Maserati.
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So we had guys like that
that we looked up to.
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We would just park
across the street there
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and just watch them.
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Studyin'.
We studyin' the game.
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[Lucille]
I felt like my children
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were easily influenced
by other people,
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you know, with their
flashy cars and jewelry.
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But I would tell my children,
you know,
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that that's not the route
to go.
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And I would call it
the devil's way, you know.
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There's no way in the world
302
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I was gonna compete with that,
you know?
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[dramatic music plays]
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[Scott] It was around this time
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that Demetrius encountered
a real turning point
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00:16:20,675 --> 00:16:23,547
and hooked up with E.D. Boyd,
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who was a local drug dealer.
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♪ ♪
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[E.D.]
I was raised in Brooklyn.
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I was 14 years old
when I came to Detroit.
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I came from the streets.
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My whole family, you know,
all the men in my family,
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were street guys, and I just
adapted to it, you know?
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00:16:45,482 --> 00:16:48,572
It--the-the game is
a addiction, you know,
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just like the drug.
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Money--you want more money,
more money, more money.
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[Derick]
Edrick was outta New York.
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Back then, that's like when
the rap had first took off
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and all that, so Edrick had,
like, a different style.
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He came with the, like,
gold chain and all that.
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♪ ♪
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He had the, like,
brand-new leather coats.
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He had the flyest cars.
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00:17:12,814 --> 00:17:14,816
But he was hardcore,
you know what I'm sayin'?
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He was a good guy,
but he ain't take no shit.
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[E.D.] I always want
to be a boss, okay?
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I don't think about
that workin' money, you know?
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00:17:25,348 --> 00:17:27,568
That ain't no money.
The boss get the money.
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00:17:27,655 --> 00:17:29,961
It takes intelligence,
and it takes...
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[laughs]
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You can't be scared.
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You gotta wanna take risks,
okay?
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00:17:36,403 --> 00:17:39,362
And yo, don't worry about
what the other person doin',
334
00:17:39,493 --> 00:17:41,538
and, you know,
get you a crew together
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that's gonna follow you
and boss up.
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00:17:44,672 --> 00:17:47,675
[punchy music plays]
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I met Meech,
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00:17:49,807 --> 00:17:51,853
and, you know,
we chopped it up.
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00:17:51,983 --> 00:17:53,550
I liked what he was sayin'.
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00:17:53,681 --> 00:17:55,770
He said, "Man, look,
I see what you doin', man.
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00:17:55,900 --> 00:17:57,989
"I'm tellin' you, man,
I could be down with you.
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00:17:58,120 --> 00:17:59,339
"You know, I could do this,
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00:17:59,469 --> 00:18:01,906
I could be this, man.
I'm your man."
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00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:20,273
[E.D.] You could see it
in his eyes, man,
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00:18:20,403 --> 00:18:21,448
he- he wanted money.
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00:18:21,578 --> 00:18:23,667
He was hungry.
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00:18:23,754 --> 00:18:25,147
I said,
"Okay, I'll tell you what.
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00:18:25,234 --> 00:18:27,018
We can do somethin'.
Let's try this out."
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00:18:27,149 --> 00:18:28,411
And that's how it started.
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Demetrius met Edrick...
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00:18:31,545 --> 00:18:34,461
and he introduced me,
and then Edrick tested us
352
00:18:34,591 --> 00:18:36,593
to see, could we handle
what we can do?
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00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:38,465
I had this thing
that I was doin'
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eight balls for $50
355
00:18:40,989 --> 00:18:43,165
'cause of the plug I had.
356
00:18:43,296 --> 00:18:45,341
A plug is your supplier.
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00:18:45,472 --> 00:18:48,127
I had a Mexican plug.
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00:18:48,257 --> 00:18:49,519
That's the first thing
you lookin' for
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00:18:49,606 --> 00:18:51,042
is a good plug, okay?
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00:18:51,173 --> 00:18:53,262
You got a good plug
with a good price
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00:18:53,393 --> 00:18:55,177
and a good product...
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00:18:55,264 --> 00:18:57,571
[scoffs]
...you could tear the city up.
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I had the ticket,
and I had some pure shit.
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00:19:02,489 --> 00:19:04,360
[Derick] He gave us some stuff,
you know,
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00:19:04,491 --> 00:19:06,145
to see what we can do wit' it,
you know,
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00:19:06,275 --> 00:19:07,842
see if we can, you know,
sell it and all that
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00:19:07,972 --> 00:19:11,106
'cause, you know,
just because you have dope
368
00:19:11,237 --> 00:19:13,717
or a product
don't mean you can sell it.
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00:19:13,848 --> 00:19:16,329
[E.D.] But it took on so fast
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00:19:16,459 --> 00:19:19,419
that it just destroyed
everybody out there.
371
00:19:19,506 --> 00:19:21,812
They was like, "What the hell?
How-how is he doin' this?"
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00:19:21,943 --> 00:19:23,858
When you in that type of game,
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00:19:23,988 --> 00:19:26,382
it's either you gon' be
in jail, kilt, or whatever,
374
00:19:26,513 --> 00:19:29,907
so you can't go into it
halfway.
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00:19:29,994 --> 00:19:31,474
So we said we--
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00:19:31,605 --> 00:19:33,563
"Hey, if we gon' do it,
let's do the shit."
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♪ ♪
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00:19:36,784 --> 00:19:38,742
[Roland] That's how they got
into the game.
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00:19:38,829 --> 00:19:40,701
They started off the 50 Boyz.
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00:19:40,831 --> 00:19:42,790
[E.D.] It was three 50 Boyz--
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00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,054
the Flenory brothers,
Terry and Meech, and Derick.
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00:19:46,141 --> 00:19:48,883
[Derick] Meech was
the, like... lieutenant,
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00:19:49,013 --> 00:19:50,711
so he was over us.
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00:19:52,147 --> 00:19:54,889
I sold a lot of the stuff,
385
00:19:55,019 --> 00:19:57,370
and if we had, like,
some problems or somethin',
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00:19:57,457 --> 00:20:00,111
I was gon' help protect
the crew.
387
00:20:00,242 --> 00:20:02,201
Terry was the businessman.
388
00:20:02,331 --> 00:20:04,768
He kept the tracks,
the money and everything.
389
00:20:22,046 --> 00:20:25,441
At first, Demetrius didn't
want me to sell drugs.
390
00:20:25,572 --> 00:20:27,922
But I became a 50 Boy.
391
00:20:28,052 --> 00:20:32,056
They was sellin' 50 rocks.
I was sellin' 50 powder.
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00:20:32,187 --> 00:20:33,536
We hustled from the time
we got up,
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00:20:33,623 --> 00:20:36,017
from 6:30 in the mornin',
to what--
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00:20:36,147 --> 00:20:38,976
sometime 2:00 or 3:00
the next mornin'.
395
00:20:39,063 --> 00:20:41,109
And then get right back up
and do it again.
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00:20:41,283 --> 00:20:44,199
♪ ♪
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[E.D.] Every Sunday,
it was mandatory
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00:20:50,597 --> 00:20:53,774
that we sat down like a family
and ate.
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00:20:53,904 --> 00:20:56,472
At that dinner table,
if you had a problem,
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00:20:56,603 --> 00:20:58,561
we settled it then, you know.
401
00:20:58,692 --> 00:21:02,217
We never--you know, it was
never no fightin' between us
402
00:21:02,348 --> 00:21:04,567
'cause I said
family doesn't fight.
403
00:21:04,698 --> 00:21:07,353
I was definitely
a father figure to them.
404
00:21:07,483 --> 00:21:10,399
You know, I raised them
like they was my sons.
405
00:21:10,530 --> 00:21:12,314
[soft music plays]
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00:21:12,445 --> 00:21:15,317
[Scott] At that point,
they started makin' money.
407
00:21:15,448 --> 00:21:17,928
You know, within six months,
they were able
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00:21:18,059 --> 00:21:20,061
to make
their family's house payment,
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00:21:20,191 --> 00:21:21,976
able to put groceries
on the table.
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00:21:22,106 --> 00:21:23,978
Everything changed at home.
411
00:21:24,108 --> 00:21:27,068
Now Terry got money.
Demetrius got money.
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00:21:27,198 --> 00:21:30,593
They helpin' out the mama
with the bills,
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00:21:30,724 --> 00:21:32,639
with the house.
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00:21:32,769 --> 00:21:34,989
You wasn't having
no more lights or gas
415
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:36,860
bein' cut off no more.
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00:21:36,991 --> 00:21:39,123
The refrigerator ain't empty.
417
00:21:39,298 --> 00:21:42,562
♪ ♪
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00:21:42,692 --> 00:21:45,304
[Lucille]
They hid a lot of things
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00:21:45,434 --> 00:21:49,177
up under my nose
that I didn't even know about.
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00:21:49,308 --> 00:21:51,484
[Roland] You know, the mama
didn't wanna accept it,
421
00:21:51,614 --> 00:21:53,181
but she accepted it
422
00:21:53,312 --> 00:21:54,791
because they don't wanna lose
the house.
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00:21:54,922 --> 00:21:56,619
Terry just said,
"Well, hey, you know,
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00:21:56,750 --> 00:21:58,752
throw the bills on the table,
and I'll pay 'em."
425
00:21:58,882 --> 00:22:01,320
Terry the one that stepped up
to be the man of the house.
426
00:22:01,450 --> 00:22:03,409
There was a change.
427
00:22:03,539 --> 00:22:06,803
There was a change
with friends,
428
00:22:06,934 --> 00:22:09,719
with girlfriends,
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00:22:09,806 --> 00:22:11,591
clothes.
430
00:22:11,721 --> 00:22:13,332
[E.D.]
When you young like that,
431
00:22:13,462 --> 00:22:15,334
that gets to your mind,
and all it tells you,
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00:22:15,464 --> 00:22:17,597
man, I want more
and I want more.
433
00:22:17,727 --> 00:22:19,120
Okay?
434
00:22:19,207 --> 00:22:21,557
And that's--and Meech,
Meech was like that.
435
00:22:21,688 --> 00:22:23,951
It was never enough for Meech.
436
00:22:24,081 --> 00:22:25,344
He was hungry.
437
00:22:36,790 --> 00:22:39,358
[Scott] As Demetrius and Terry
are getting bigger
438
00:22:39,488 --> 00:22:40,707
and learning the game,
439
00:22:40,837 --> 00:22:43,318
naturally,
this breeds rivalries.
440
00:22:43,449 --> 00:22:44,754
It breeds jealousy.
441
00:22:44,885 --> 00:22:46,887
When you in the drug game, man,
442
00:22:47,017 --> 00:22:48,628
you beefin' with--
443
00:22:48,758 --> 00:22:50,238
you don't know
who your enemy is
444
00:22:50,369 --> 00:22:53,415
and your friends is,
you know what I'm sayin'?
445
00:22:53,546 --> 00:22:55,286
[Derick] The problems
that come with the money--
446
00:22:55,417 --> 00:22:57,898
people that was envy of us...
447
00:22:58,028 --> 00:22:59,943
you can be the best guy
in the neighborhood,
448
00:23:00,074 --> 00:23:02,163
and you can feed everybody
in the neighborhood
449
00:23:02,293 --> 00:23:03,686
and throw picnics,
450
00:23:03,817 --> 00:23:05,949
but there's always one guy
in that picnic
451
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,996
that's hatin' on you.
452
00:23:09,126 --> 00:23:10,867
[Scott]
The first couple chapters
453
00:23:10,998 --> 00:23:12,739
of the BMF story,
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00:23:12,826 --> 00:23:17,047
the number one villain
is Layton Simon, the Beast.
455
00:23:18,092 --> 00:23:22,618
Layton's reputation was
for hair-trigger violence,
456
00:23:22,749 --> 00:23:26,100
for being unstable, unhinged,
457
00:23:26,230 --> 00:23:28,232
just someone that scared
the living daylights
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00:23:28,363 --> 00:23:31,148
out of almost anybody
that he encountered.
459
00:23:31,279 --> 00:23:33,324
[Roland] Layton is a terrorist.
460
00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:35,414
He terrorized people.
461
00:23:41,071 --> 00:23:43,683
[Derick] The devil.
Layton Simon is the devil.
462
00:23:43,813 --> 00:23:47,513
Layton had a-a gold chain
'bout this thick
463
00:23:47,643 --> 00:23:50,472
that would come down
to his private section
464
00:23:50,603 --> 00:23:52,126
with a big map on it.
465
00:23:52,256 --> 00:23:53,780
And he'd have on Adidas suit
466
00:23:53,910 --> 00:23:56,696
with some gators on,
every day.
467
00:23:56,826 --> 00:24:00,700
He was a beast.
And he hated us.
468
00:24:00,830 --> 00:24:02,963
[Scott] At that time,
in that part of the city,
469
00:24:03,093 --> 00:24:05,356
Layton was the big drug don.
470
00:24:05,487 --> 00:24:08,751
He was making lots of money
in Southwest Detroit.
471
00:24:08,882 --> 00:24:11,275
When we came around,
we took his territory.
472
00:24:11,406 --> 00:24:13,626
Layton had
the whole neighborhood shook.
473
00:24:13,756 --> 00:24:15,671
Layton had
the whole neighborhood on lock
474
00:24:15,802 --> 00:24:17,891
before we came around.
475
00:24:19,545 --> 00:24:21,634
[E.D.] He was mad
because I was just
476
00:24:21,764 --> 00:24:24,071
outbidding him on everything
that he was doing.
477
00:24:26,073 --> 00:24:29,076
[Scott] Demetrius wasn't
intimidated by Layton Simon,
478
00:24:29,206 --> 00:24:32,209
and... this caused issues.
[chuckles]
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00:24:32,383 --> 00:24:35,691
♪ ♪
480
00:24:36,692 --> 00:24:38,259
[E.D Violence is gonna
always catch up wit' you
481
00:24:38,389 --> 00:24:39,956
in some kinda way.
482
00:24:40,087 --> 00:24:42,437
[engine turns over]
483
00:24:42,568 --> 00:24:45,179
When you in the game,
you know, it follows you.
484
00:24:45,309 --> 00:24:48,225
[edgy music plays]
485
00:24:48,399 --> 00:24:50,140
♪ ♪
486
00:24:50,227 --> 00:24:51,751
[Derick] You could be sitting
right now in your car,
487
00:24:51,881 --> 00:24:53,622
having a wonderful time,
and somebody come out
488
00:24:53,753 --> 00:24:54,754
and blow your brains out.
489
00:24:54,928 --> 00:24:58,453
♪ ♪
490
00:24:59,585 --> 00:25:02,022
[Roland] It was Layton
lookin' for Demetrius.
491
00:25:02,152 --> 00:25:03,502
That was the only thing
on his mind--
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00:25:03,632 --> 00:25:05,547
Demetrius, Demetrius.
493
00:25:05,678 --> 00:25:07,723
You know, he tryin' to kill us.
494
00:25:09,116 --> 00:25:12,119
[engine revving]
495
00:25:13,250 --> 00:25:15,426
[Derick] We didn't fear him.
496
00:25:15,557 --> 00:25:17,298
We took over his territory,
497
00:25:17,428 --> 00:25:19,474
but we took
everybody territory.
498
00:25:19,605 --> 00:25:20,910
If you come for us, come.
499
00:25:23,130 --> 00:25:24,131
This is it.
500
00:25:24,305 --> 00:25:26,742
♪ ♪
501
00:25:26,873 --> 00:25:30,180
[Roland] Layton drives
fast, modified cars.
502
00:25:33,270 --> 00:25:35,882
One day,
Layton followin' Demetrius...
503
00:25:38,232 --> 00:25:40,756
just rammin' the back
of Demetrius' car.
504
00:25:40,843 --> 00:25:41,670
Rammin' him.
505
00:25:41,801 --> 00:25:44,760
[tires squealing]
506
00:25:44,847 --> 00:25:46,849
Demetrius say,
"Man, fuck this, man.
507
00:25:46,980 --> 00:25:48,329
"I'm tired of runnin'
from him, man."
508
00:25:48,459 --> 00:25:50,200
Let's fuck him up."
I say, "Okay."
509
00:25:50,287 --> 00:25:52,463
Layton pulls
on the side of us...
510
00:25:54,988 --> 00:25:57,033
...and pulls out a Uzi
and point it at us.
511
00:25:57,164 --> 00:26:00,515
[suspenseful music plays]
512
00:26:00,646 --> 00:26:02,822
And I just grabbed
the seat lever
513
00:26:02,952 --> 00:26:05,128
and just let it go
all the way back down
514
00:26:05,259 --> 00:26:06,347
and just grunt.
515
00:26:06,521 --> 00:26:09,437
♪ ♪
516
00:26:09,568 --> 00:26:11,613
And next thing,
you can hear his motor
517
00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:13,876
roarin' as he just pull off.
518
00:26:14,007 --> 00:26:15,965
[tires squealing,
engine revving]
519
00:26:16,096 --> 00:26:17,488
And I pull the seat up
and say,
520
00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:19,621
"Man, this motherfucker
crazy."
521
00:26:19,795 --> 00:26:22,755
♪ ♪
522
00:26:36,725 --> 00:26:38,858
[distant sirens wailing]
523
00:26:38,988 --> 00:26:41,904
[Scott] The entire dynamic
changed that night.
524
00:26:41,991 --> 00:26:46,256
After that,
it was all-out war.
525
00:26:46,387 --> 00:26:49,216
[heavy music plays]
526
00:26:49,390 --> 00:26:52,393
♪ ♪
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