“I can’t even put words to explain how it feels. “Lil Meech” Flenory, who was raised in Atlanta after his father moved there, was discovered by 50 Cent during casting calls for “BMF.” Making his acting debut in the series, Flenory said, “was amazing.” Huggins, however, was unsuccessful when he tried to get a “Free Meech!” chant going prior to the screening. And we’re premiering it tonight, to the world. Yeah, we went to Atlanta and we went to New York, but I fought for it to be back here. This story is about Meech and Terry, but it’s also about Detroit. It’s everything, because this city made me. Huggins, a onetime elementary-school teacher with Detroit Public Schools who was a writer on 50 Cent’s Starz crime drama “Power,” said on the red carpet Sunday that bringing “BMF” back home “is everything.” Terry was released to home confinement earlier this year, but Demetrius, who licensed his story and cooperated with Jackson and Huggins, remains in the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Ore. The Flenorys - who 50 Cent said approached him early during his rap career - were arrested in 2005, and three years later were sentenced to 30 years in prison. They also launched the careers of rappers such as Fabolous and Young Jeezy via their BMF Entertainment, a “legitimate” operation through which they laundered drug money. “BMF,” which has eight episodes slated for its inaugural season, tells the true story of Detroit brothers Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory (played by his son, Demetrius “Lil Meech” Flenory Jr.) and Terry “Southwest T” Flenory, who built a multimillion-dollar national drug trafficking operation. A cast-signed poster stands at the premiere event the new television drama “BMF” on Sunday night, Sept. It’s a passion project for me,” said Jackson, who secured rights to the BMF story six years ago and put it into production about a year and a half ago, filming mostly in Atlanta during the pandemic. Rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, the show’s executive producer, joined writer and showrunner Randy Huggins, a Detroit native, and a half-dozen cast members for an invitation-only screening of the first episode and a Q&A session that followed. 26, on Starz, members of the show’s cast and crew gathered with friends and family at the Emagine Theatres Royal Oak to celebrate the series. Just as the new television drama “BMF” - about Detroit’s notorious Black Mafia Family - was premiering on Sunday night, Sept.

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