How About That: Young Jeezy May Have Been Involved In Trafficking Massive Amounts Of Coke

A witness in the Feds’ trial against Fleming “Ill” Daniels, the alleged third-in-command of the Detroit-based criminal organization Black Mafia Family, has claimed that the self-proclaimed snowman Young Jeezy may have, in fact, received multiple kilos of cocaine from the BMF. Creative Loafing Atlanta reports that Ralph “Ralphie” Simms, who is testifying after receiving a plea bargain on another drug case, said under oath that part of his job involved unloading coke from secret compartments in limos; once, at an Atlanta-area mansion that was nicknamed “Space Mountain,” two people stopped by to pick up a multi-kilo shipment. And one of them looked kinda familiar!

When asked by assistant U.S. Attorney Robert McBurney who the customers were, Simms gave two names: William “Doc” Marshall, a high-level BMF co-conspirator who testified earlier in the trial, and “Jeezy.”

“Young Jeezy the rapper?” McBurney asked.

“Yes,” Simms answered.

Aside from his whole “snowman” motif, which filled many a shop with angry-Frosty-emblazoned T-shirts for a long time, Jeezy and the BMF have something of a history, and it was chronicled in part in a 2006 Vibe article by investigative hip-hop journalist Ethan Brown:

Just after 9 p.m. on a hot and muggy night in late July 2005, a pair of chartered tour buses pulled up to Vision Nightclub & Lounge on Atlanta’s Peachtree Street for a party celebrating the release of Young Jeezy’s major label solo debut, Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101. Yet when the bus doors opened, it was not Jeezy who emerged but members of the storied ATL street crew Black Mafia Family (BMF).

Dressed in head-to-toe black, the hundreds-strong posse strode toward the megaclub in almost choreographed unison. “They moved like one mass, one organism,” remembers one of the party promoters. “I had never seen anything like that.” The club had expected BMF in force–they were even comped on the guest list as “+100”–but it was not prepared for an army. Panicked promoters hustled BMF through a special side entrance, VIP treatment that even Jay-Z, Ludacris, Fabolous, and Slim Thug did not receive.

Once inside, BMF awed partiers by tossing fistfuls of cash as they awaited Jeezy, who, though not officially a crew member, was considered “family.” And by the time he arrived, just after 1:30 a.m., the crowd was stoked and ready to receive him as A-town royalty. Jeezy took the stage surrounded by BMF members and employees of his Corporate Thugz Entertainment label and tore through songs like “And Then What” and “Go Crazy” with such swagger that the success of Let’s Get It seemed all but assured. Indeed, the 25-year-old rapper would move an impressive 172,000 copies of the album in its first week.

Witness: Young Jeezy received kilos of BMF coke [Creative Loafing via Gawker]