Demetrius Flenory Jr. is an American actor and rapper.

Flenory Jr. rose to fame portraying his father, Demetrius Flenory of Black Mafia Family, in 50 Cent’s BMF series adaptation.

Flenory Jr. was born born in Detroit, Michigan on April 22, 2000 to Demetrius Flenory Sr and Latarra Eutsey. His father Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory Sr. has been incarcerated since he was five years old.

Flenory Jr. explains that he received a call from his dad in prison, in which he told him that rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson had the rights to the Black Mafia Family story and a movie or a TV series would be produced.

Black Mafia Family would portray the true story of two Detroit brothers, Demetrius “Big Meech” and Terry “Southwest T” Flenory, who make a name for themselves as notorious drug dealers in the 1980s, becoming one of the most influential crime families in America.

In the early 2000s, Flenory Sr. founded BMF Entertainment, a money laundering exercise that encompassed a record label and music promotions agency.

The first casting call was set in Atlanta, and his father wished for him to meet Jackson so that he could get a sense of how the adaptation was being produced.

After falling short of finding an actor, while present at the casting calls, the rapper/executive producer told Flenory Jr. that he wanted to move him to LA and enroll him in acting classes so that he could star in the series as his father.

At the time, Flenory Jr. was in enrolled at University of Nevada, Las Vegas studying business.

Flenory Jr. described the experience as “intense” as he had been taking lessons “five days a week, (sometimes) two times a day, for two years.