Big Meech (2)

American hip-hop artist, media executive and impresario. He was born on June 21, 1968 in East St. Louis, Illinois and was later raised in Columbus, Ohio (many trivial sources differ either Cleveland, Ohio or Detroit, Michigan as his birthplace). At the age of 7, he and his family settled in Detroit, Michigan, where he stayed until 1998, when he moved to Atlanta, Georgia to vent on his drug trafficking enterprise, the Black Mafia Family (2). Within the criminal enterprise, he formed the entertainment agency BMF Entertainment in September 1999. Meech is also responsible for discovering rappers Bleu daVinci, his son Lil Meech and more predominantly Young Jeezy. On October 18, 2005, Meech and his brother, Terry "Southwest T" Flenory, were both arrested on federal charges, related to running a continuing criminal enterprise. In 2009, both were convicted and sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.