Who is Kato in real life? Ajiona Alexus plays Kato in the Starz BMF series and many believe that Kato is based on “Lady” as discussed in the interview below:
This article was updated after Edrick “E.D.” Boyd’s interview with Al Profit. Click the following link to see what Boyd had to say: Update
The video answers a lot of questions but we still don’t know Lady aka Kato’s real name and we’ll probably never find out.
Showbiz Cheat Sheet explains that 50 Cent and creator/showrunner Randy Huggins tried to make the Black Mafia Family series as authentic as possible but they were unable to use the real names of some characters and creativity was used to make some of the past events funnier than they actually may have been.
In the video, Lady explains that she met Big Meech and Southwest T through her brother in law, Edrick “E.D.” Boy.
Meech came across Edrick “E.D.” Boyd, the Cocaine plug who was raised in New York and migrated to Detroit. E.D. took a liking to Meech because of his confidence and ego at 15 years old.
— Boss (@_ValTown_) October 24, 2021
Southwest T, E.D. and Meech. pic.twitter.com/dSuLkxANIb
Lady explains that Ed was married to her sister, Debra and reveals that her house eventually became the work house for the organizations drug activity in the 1980s. The crew was earning money fast and Lady was the only one with a job. She would take large garbage bags full of money to the bank on a regular basis before a bank employee questioned her about the deposits, leading Lady to never return to the bank.
Lady worked the door for the crew where she would meet buyers who would pay her $20 for cocaine in the early days. The crew eventually became “The 50 Boyz” and began selling $50 bags of cocaine. Lady started refusing to sell to customers who refused to pay the $50 per bag so they decided to stop letting her work the door and started making runs for $2,000 each.
I remember watching BMF documentary in class and thought it was 🔥. I just got done spending 4 hours on YouTube watching individual BMF members documentaries and they was MOVING DIFFERENT LOL. Lady said she blew through $500 Million 😳. Meech rented a plane to fly out 300 ppl 😂
— Juice🧃 (@JuiceMan3x) November 2, 2021
In her new position, Lady explains that she would put the cocaine in washing powder boxes and customers would pay her through a window and she would pop the trunk of a car to the customer could get their “washing powder.”
Since Lady was the only person that was employed, she would rent cars for the entire crew. They used her mother’s house to prepare the drugs until Lady’s mother’s house was shot up and one of the bullets nearly hit Lady’s son.
Big Meech and Southwest T worked with Ed for a period but as we see in the BMF series, the Flenory brothers eventually established their own organization, with Meech moving to Atlanta and Terry moving to Los Angeles.
Ajiona Alexus shared the pic below on Instagram leading up to episode 6 of BMF, “Strictly Business”:
In episode 6 of BMF, we see Kato and B-Mickie take their relationship to the next level. B-Mickie finds a note Kato received from her ex-boyfriend and he gets upset. Kato assures him that he has nothing to worry about since she’s over her ex-boyfriend.
Update
On December 13, 2021, film director Alan Profit aka Al Profit posted the following interview with Edrick “E.D.” Boyd. According to Boyd, the character Kato (played by Ajiona Alexus), in the BMF series, is not based on reality. “Never had a woman that was in my organization that I gave work to or that was considered a 50 Girl/50 Boy.”
Edrick explains that him and his crew would not walk into the clubs with women but they would often leave with women. Lady claimed to be a member of the crew but E.D. claims that the only women that were close to being “50 Girls” were Speedy and Yolanda.
E.D.’s nephew Kilo introduced him to Speedy. She was about 3 years older than the Flenory brothers and she is now in her 50s. Yolanda is the mother of one of Big Meech’s kids who sadly passed away in 2004:
E.D. explains that there were plenty of women who called themselves “50 Girls” because they would spend time with the 50 Boyz Crew but there were not any women putting work.
Boyd admits that Lady is the sister of his deceased wife and he says he didn’t consent to the interview she had with Doc Hicks TV. Edrick calls Lady out for telling stories that reminded him of Scarface and says that him and his crew never took bags of money to banks.
E.D. says that his wife Debbie was the only other woman that worked in his organization. She handled his money but Boyd never referred to her as a “50 Girl.” Sadly, Debbie passed away in 2006.
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