Before BMF: The Untold Story of Young Boys Incorporated — Detroit's Original Drug Empire

Love Long Gangster Night? Support the channel and keep the stories coming:   / membership   Before BMF became a legend, before Big Meech and Southwest T built their empire — there was Young Boys Incorporated. And almost nobody knows their story. In the late 1970s, a group of young men from Detroit's east side — Milton "Butch" Jones, Dwayne "Wonderful Wayne" Davis, and Raymond "Baby Ray" Peoples — built the most organized criminal enterprise Detroit had ever seen. Federal agents called it unusually well-organized for anything they had encountered at the street level. It ran on wages, territory management, and a violence-reduction strategy that kept it invisible to law enforcement for years. This is the full documentary. Two hours. No fluff. Just the real history. What you'll learn in this video: ▶ How YBI was founded and who really built Detroit's drug blueprint ▶ The corporate-style structure that made YBI nearly impossible to prosecute ▶ The FBI investigation and RICO prosecution that finally brought them down ▶ The human cost — the children recruited, the families destroyed, the neighborhoods damaged ▶ The direct organizational lessons that influenced BMF two decades later ▶ What YBI's story tells us about America, the War on Drugs, and economic abandonment 00:00 - The Blueprint Before BMF 03:25 - 1970s Detroit: A City at a Breaking Point 10:44 - Law Enforcement & The Disbanding of STRESS 17:15 - The Founders: Butch Jones & The YBI Vision 27:12 - Inside the Machine: How YBI Operated 31:00 - The Wage System: Loyalty Through Regular Pay 34:02 - Strategic Territory & Supply Chain Management 41:18 - The Strategy of Youth Recruitment 43:36 - The Peak Years & Community Impact 53:07 - The Federal Response: Building the RICO Case 1:02:07 - The Takedown & Federal Sentencing 1:04:46 - The Human Cost of the Heroin Epidemic 1:15:05 - Demetrius Holloway’s Rise in the Cocaine Era 1:16:51 - Post-YBI Chaos: Fragmentation & Increased Violence 1:29:29 - The BMF Connection: Inherited Lessons 1:40:00 - Legacy: Where Are the Founders Now? 1:53:50 - Why the YBI Story Remained Untold ──────────────────────────────────────── 📌 SOURCES & FURTHER READING ──────────────────────────────────────── → Detroit Free Press YBI investigative coverage (1982–1986) → United States v. Young Boys Inc., Federal Court Records → FBI Detroit Field Office Case Documentation → RICO: The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (18 U.S.C. § 1961) → "The Detroit Drug Trade" — Michigan State University Urban Studies Research → Coleman Young autobiography: "Hard Stuff" (1994) → Detroit Historical Society — East Side Neighborhood Documentation ──────────────────────────────────────── 🔔 JOIN THE COMMUNITY ──────────────────────────────────────── If this story gave you something — share it with one person who thinks they know Detroit. Subscribe for more untold stories told properly. Hit the bell so you never miss a drop. Drop a comment: Did you know about YBI before this video? Where are you watching from? Watch BMF: [   • BMF: The REAL Big Meech Story Hollywood Wa...  ] ──────────────────────────────────────── #YoungBoysIncorporated #YBI #BeforeBMF #DetroitHistory #BlackMafiaFamily #TrueCrime #DrugEmpire #DetroitDrugTrade #MiltonJones #BigMeech #RICO #UndergroundHistory #GangDocumentary #DetroitEastSide #WarOnDrugs ──────────────────────────────────────── © This channel produces original historical documentary content. All claims are sourced from public court records, journalism, and documented history.