Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
Cool episode
But the boogeyman motif is hilarious
But the boogeyman motif is hilarious
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EastsideRio
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Thats exactly what I said in the BMF season 1 thread. If Pops Flenory was working at GM in the 70's and 80's he was making $$$, the profit sharing checks alone would've got them caught up on the mortgage and they would've had some $$$ left for a trip to disneyworld or to visit family in the south. My pops worked at the Ford Rouge plant for 30 years and he never had a problem making ends meet, we went down south (Arkansas,Alabama) every summer or to disneyworld. Someone in the Flenory household either had a habit or they didnt know how to budget their money. GM employees got $10,000.00 profit sharing checks earlier this year.
GM's UAW workforce profit-sharing check will top $10,000
General Motors released its profits for 2021 and as part of its contract with the UAW, some 42,000 workers will take home a bigger bonus this month.www.freep.com
Auto plants were known for paying well but you’re always being laid off back in the day
From what I was told, my grandfather worked at GM and Ford all of his life from 1961-2001 and what would happen is almost everytime around Christmas Time or any random time in general at GM they would lay off all their workers.
So my grandfather always kept a side hustle in Detroit, rental properties, ice cream truck, doorbell repair service. The auto industry was cool if you were a single guy but raising a black family of three with a wife back then was kind of challenging with only one unsteady source of income. Watch the old Richard Pryor move called Blue Collar to see what I mean.
My aunt ended up quitting Chrysler back in the late 80’s/early 90’s because the work was so volitale. Nowdays plants don’t get laid off as much, and people are getting too much overtime.
EastsideRio
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The father worked at the GM Fleetwood plant in real life, they were usually always laid off a lot.
EastsideRio
You Can’t Stop The Rain ☔️
Meech never shot him either, Kato never died, B Mick never told, Lamar was never a broke drug dealer, ….a lot of this stuff was made up
And Lamar never shot meech in front of the Coney Island with a 1911 it was a fully automatic Uzi.
EastsideRio
You Can’t Stop The Rain ☔️
Cool episode
But the boogeyman motif is hilarious
From what I was told it was really like that with him, because he was a lone wolf but he had a few screws loose after his brother Elvis got killed. They even had him with the Adidas tracksuit with the Gators on riding in The “Beastagade” Jeep just to show you how wild Ladon Simon use to be in the 80’s. I’m surprised they didn’t have him walking two bull masters down the street like Nino Brown.
EastsideRio
You Can’t Stop The Rain ☔️
The person in charge of the scoring should be fired. It’s not hard to find new artists with 80’s sounding material.
The way the show is shot it does feel like the 80’s and then right after a song that sounds like it was from a J Armz instrumental CD comes on
I'm an oldhead (51) my dad worked @ Ford Rouge from 1959-1989, he was blessed to never get laid off after 1967. Maybe it was the particular plant Pops Flenory worked @, I still say the family always being in jeopardy of foreclosure is a stretch.
My nextdoor neighbor worked at that plant, they eventually closed. She was laid off a lot but didn't seem to have a problem keeping up with the mortgage.
Duke_Droese
Superstar
The mom is a milf but Abu Meech is going to eat good regardless of the divorce. The neighbour was looking 
and throwing herself at ol boy lol.
Unless he's one of those lighty only semi
brothers
and throwing herself at ol boy lol.Unless he's one of those lighty only semi
brothers
EastsideRio
You Can’t Stop The Rain ☔️
Nah Fam, that was all plants back then.
They paid good but the plants could get laid off at anytime. Especially GM!
My pops worked in a GM plant around 1983 and they laid him off the very next week later. He ended up going to college and they didn’t call him back to work until 1987, he was already into Architecture by then.
The Flenory family was similar to my pops, 3 kids, housewife with part time job and husband breadwinner who was always in and out of work at a plant. Only difference is my grandpops went and got a skilled trade so he got paid more and didn’t have a mortgage. Charles (the TV dad) was a regular line worker.
A lot of these plant workers is bad with money as well. How you pay a mortgage on a house you built?
@EastsideRio
Blue Collar is great movie, and the director is one of my favorites, check his other stuff if you like Blue Collar. Also wrote Taxi Driver.
My comment maybe sounded too harsh, I'm touching on the idea that this is a bloated, profit driven story, which lacks artistic vision (beyond 50 Cent's limited capabilities) and it's more like made for instagram
I know the stronghold was Detroit, and also LA, and Atlanta was later, but the stories they are telling in Detroit, are all origin story standard stuff. The billboards and murders, and excess of Atlanta was what made them legendary.
but in general, I don't like sweeping biopics,
Blue Collar is great movie, and the director is one of my favorites, check his other stuff if you like Blue Collar. Also wrote Taxi Driver.
My comment maybe sounded too harsh, I'm touching on the idea that this is a bloated, profit driven story, which lacks artistic vision (beyond 50 Cent's limited capabilities) and it's more like made for instagram
I know the stronghold was Detroit, and also LA, and Atlanta was later, but the stories they are telling in Detroit, are all origin story standard stuff. The billboards and murders, and excess of Atlanta was what made them legendary.
but in general, I don't like sweeping biopics,
EastsideRio
You Can’t Stop The Rain ☔️
They already announced Atlanta is coming this season, but that would mean they were skipping over a lot of years because that wasn’t until 1991. I feel like the series is moving too fast honestly.
FeverPitch2
Superstar
Watching the Starz BMF documentary earlier
There's no way Mr. Flenory was working at the plant.
Utilities cut off, kids got raggedy clothes, facing eviction?
They said he was going to school to be a music recording engineer and paid the tuition by working at the studio.
It would be hard to do all that and work at the plant.
The mother left him because he wasn't taking care of the family.
That nikka didn't work at the plant and if he did, it wasn't for long or it was part-time. He was chasing his music dreams.
You gotta span 20 years in 6 seasons, it’s tv