B.M.F. (Black Mafia Family) Season 2 Official Discussion Thread | Fridays On STARZ

[EastsideRio]

Show done turned into a horror movie

— Lamar back from the dead and popping up outta body bags
— Containers packed like sardines with corpses
— Limo crashing on some Final Destination shyt
— Meech getting schooled by a logical crackhead singing nursery rhymes
— community burning dudes alive in a house like Freddy Kruger
— detective chick burning herself and playing it cool

Lamar (Ladon never died). Bodies in containers were popular in the 80’s. The nursery rhyme shyt was weird but that was the 80’s breh. And Devils Night was still hectic up until like 2012, that shyt was real af, other cities had Mischief Night throwing eggs and shyt while we was around here burning shyt down in front of police. Detroit use to be hell brehs, still kinda is.

 

[EastsideRio]

Thats Lamars baby not Rizz baby. He only smashed once or twice.

No it’s not. The character Kash Doll is playing is Meech 2nd baby moms who passed in 2004, she had his 2nd daughter Demetria.

 

[EastsideRio]

The detective partner is all over the place. Is she Chinese or Vietnamese? If she's 40 then she was born aprox 1945/46ish. She says her family escaped Vietnam in 75 except her brother. So when was she riding her bike around Detroit as a kid? This story takes place in what 88/89 or so? Timelines ain't adding up.

It was China Town in Downtown Detroit back in the 50s/60s near where Comerica Park/Ford field is today. If you remember the movie 8 Mile when they was freestyling saying “10 freaky girls up in the Chin Tiki”, Chin Tiki was the last restaurant standing in the old Chinatown area in Downtown.

When my pops was a kid, they rezoned (moved) ChinaTown to 3rd street by Peterboro and all them streets. It was so dangerous over I’m that area all of the foreigners moved out, Now it’s non existent.

 

[EastsideRio]

I think you're right. I cant see Pops Flenory working @ GM and struggling like that. Motown left Detroit in 1972, but there were still remnants of the Motown era in Detroit in the 1980's, garage bands, 5 man Temptations, New Edition type of groups and rappers.

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.

I already spoke on this, Plants back then faced layoffs all the time. Imagine being the breadwinner in a family of 5 and working for three months just to being laid off the next four. This was every year. It’s not like it is today.

Watch the old movie Blue Collar with Richard Pryor to see how plants were back in the 70’s and 80’s. It’s only a good job if all you got is a high school diploma unless you have a skilled trade that will pay you more. Other than that you’re living check to check like any other job.

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?

 

[Zero]

They keep forcing Meech’s dialogue to insist B-Mickey is loyal

“Good thing you got my back”
“My right-hand man”

THIS. It's comical

 

[FeverPitch2]

I already spoke on this, Plants back then faced layoffs all the time. Imagine being the breadwinner in a family of 5 and working for three months just to being laid off the next four. This was every year. It’s not like it is today.

Watch the old movie Blue Collar with Richard Pryor to see how plants were back in the 70’s and 80’s. It’s only a good job if all you got is a high school diploma unless you have a skilled trade that will pay you more. Other than that you’re living check to check like any other job.

I'm from the D with two generations of family that worked in the plant.
The layoffs were jumpin off in the 80's when Reagan was tryna bust the unions, letting corporations run wild and send mad work to other countries.
It wasn't like working a Home Depot. Overall, it's still a fact that auto plant jobs built the Black middle class in Detroit.
Nobody I knew with a plant job was as broke as Pops Flenory.

 

[EastsideRio]

Nobody I knew with a plant job was as broke as Pops Flenory.

Shidd…. I know a few now. nikkas borrowing from that 401k damn near Every month

 

[Jplaya2023]

No it’s not. The character Kash Doll is playing is Meech 2nd baby moms who passed in 2004, she had his 2nd daughter Demetria.

Im talking about Kato's baby

 

[EastsideRio]

Im talking about Kato's baby

You believe baby rumors from a dirty cop breh?

 

[Jplaya2023]

You believe baby rumors from a dirty cop breh?

You think thats a fake ultrasound?

 

[EastsideRio]

You think thats a fake ultrasound?

The real Kato never fukked w/ B Mickey like that she was Pat (ED Boyd’s) sister in law.

But based on the TV show seeing how crooked Bryant and how most real-life DPD officers is I’m not surprised at all, they’ll tell you whatever to get you to co-operate.

They promised one dude I know a Benz to snitch on somebody we knew, he said alright take me down to Secretary of State and put it in my name first. They gave him a fake title and it was a Sargents wife’s car. They had to let him go after that.

 

[jshani]

Y’all complain after every show, yet still watch every episode lol

That's why we here

 

[WesCrook]

I'm from the D with two generations of family that worked in the plant.
The layoffs were jumpin off in the 80's when Reagan was tryna bust the unions, letting corporations run wild and send mad work to other countries.
It wasn't like working a Home Depot. Overall, it's still a fact that auto plant jobs built the Black middle class in Detroit.
Nobody I knew with a plant job was as broke as Pops Flenory.

Especially with a high year tenure. They got Pops acting like James Evans.

I guess the struggling dad adds more to the "I'll never take drug money from you no matter how poor I am" narrative.

 

[FeverPitch2]

Shidd…. I know a few now. nikkas borrowing from that 401k damn near Every month

Oh, it's way different now. With no unions, the plant workers are getting chumped something serious.

 

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