Sun 6 Dec 2009
The original Azie (Mobstyle) talks to Gasface about Harlem in the 80s, “Paid in Full” and more
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Snowman Talk from Gasface on Vimeo.
I just love the work that my boys from Media Gasface are doing. The team from Lyons, France, caught up with one of the original members of Mobstyle, Azie Faison, about the days of Harlem’s legendary 80′s crack hustlers and his feelings about the biopic that he gave Dame Dash the permission to make…
Gasface says:
“In the 80′s, kids already wanted to be like Mike.
But some of them also looked up to AZ, Alpo or Rich…
Guess what ? Most of them became rappers.
Azie and his partners lived the fast life in the 80′s,
Jay-Z and Dame Dash made a movie about it in 2002.
Now 46, Azie sits in his X6 and reflects on his past in the game,
why he never really liked crack, his sister’s boyfriend, nor the outcome of his Roc-A-Fella biopic, ‘Paid in Full.’”
Previously:
Fabolous’ “Pechangas” echos Mobstyle’s “What’s goin on”
December 6th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
so his problem with the biopic is that it glorifies the drug game? i dont think it does at all…
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circus Reply:
December 7th, 2009 at 12:52 am
i think his problem was the entire second half of movie being fraudulent. it’s a movie tho….most “real life ppl” are never happy with their biopics.
-Meyer Lanski hated Godfather II
-Nicky Barnes wasn’t happy with American Ganster
-Avon Barksdale not too happy with the Wire either.
movies can never be 100% authentic. That’s what documentaries are for.
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THE INFINESS Reply:
August 3rd, 2012 at 7:48 am
Im a uptown cat all day.. only people who lived the life and went through certain things from the game can understand where “z” is at now.
Like fat joe said to pun…
“I support z in anything he does “..lol
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December 6th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
So what was left out? Lets hear it..
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December 6th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
im really curious how a group from Lyon got so entrenched in this new york culture that they now get an interview that native hip hop enthusiasts have prob had on their wishlist for years.. is their any story behind them? this isnt me being a ny snob, but i’ve been to lyon and.. i just dont get it.
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December 6th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE ICONS IN THE NEW YORK CITY “DRUG CARTEL” FROM THE 80′S….BELIEVE IT NOT…AZ (ALPO,PORTER,ETC) ARE THE ORIGINAL GANGSTERS FROM NYC!!YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY RAP DUDES IN THE GAME THAT TRY TO COPY THESE DUDES LIFSTYLES AND SWAG!!..DAME DASH IS FIRM HARLEM, SO HE KNEW…JAY Z IS FROM BROOKLYN BUT ALWAYS LOVED HOW THE HARLEM DUDES GOT PAPER AND HAD THE BEST SWAG AND FASHION IN NYC IN THE 80′S…THIS IS WHY JAY Z WAS UP UNDER DAME FORM THE BEGINING,AND TOOK LOTS OF PEOPLE STYLES AND RAN WITH IT!!!…REMEMBER,THESE DUDES IN THE 80′S WAS GETTING MORE MONEY THAN RAP DUDES BACK THEN!!!…THERE IS SO MUCH TO THIS STORY…JSUT KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN ON ANY STORIES THAT YOU SEE AZ IN!!!THIS DUDE WAS A VERY OFFICIAL DUDE BACK THEN….AND HE IS STILL NOT BROKE!!
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S7 Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
GTFOH, don’t mean to burst your bubble but…
if it wasn’t for Ronnie Bump, Fat Cat & Supreme, there wouldn’t be no “War on Drugs”, think I’m lying ask Ronald & Nancy Reagan…. Didn’t Alpo snitch on his muscle from DC?
Not trying to glorify that era, but facts is facts…
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Uptop Don Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
can azie please expound on what had him so tight??…is there a part 2 to this shit???…when the screen faded to black i was like what the fuck???
^^^
oh yea homie u mustve been typin wild fast or just foolish as fuck…aint gotta be a well written essay but damn if you want people to feel what you sayin…step ya spell game up son…particularly the word “from”…that word is whippin’ ya ass in this post!
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mustafa Reply:
December 7th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
lls
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Frank Reply:
December 7th, 2009 at 1:47 am
If you think they were the first gangsters from NY you should read a book. I suggest you start with this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano
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circus Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
or you could start with his mentor…….Arnold Rothstein
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December 6th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Okay… I agree with him and disagree.
Honestly. I just listened to the story he told, and it is exactly the same as the story line in the film?
Do you guys see any big difference? Its pretty much the same story in P.I.F.
Calvin..
Rich..
The Dominican Dude/Drugs He Found And How He Got Put On.
Its pretty much all the same.
No movie can be 100% PERFECT! It has to have some fiction element to it in order for it to be interesting. If the story was told straight up it wouldnt have been as interesting. I liked Paid In Full and the streets liked it too.
Now… American Gangster. SMFH That was some BS.
But Paid In Full was on point and to me the story the movie told is very close to the story he just told. AND The movie made him look really good! So why is he so upset?
IDK
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BandanaMac Reply:
December 7th, 2009 at 6:50 am
Right! Exactly how he ran down the story is exactly how the movie played out. Give or take a few bodies when he got robbed. What are we missing?
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mustafa Reply:
December 7th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Brittany he’s talking about the sequel, and how foolish it came off and how if they would have just told the truth in the sequel, it would have been better. I agree. But Dame is kinda Hollywood, so he kinda sold out a little.
hey it happens
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December 6th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I’m not understanding what he is talking about with the Paid in Full movie and Dame Dash. Did they fabricate and fuck with the script or did Dame rip him off (like he’s done so many other times)? All I know is that if Cam had not been in that movie it wouldn’t of been that good.
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MzBrittanyLUVZ To Make ANNOYING Post On MissInfoTV Blog Reply:
December 7th, 2009 at 12:05 am
agreed! camron made the movie!
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December 6th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Survey Sayssssssss!!!
Is there More,Pretty Lady?
It was goin somewhere then it just stopped lol
U gotta get the rest of that lol
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December 6th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
iight let me say this im 18 years old & i watched paid in full when i was 16 w| a close friend , after my friend watched paid in full he was ready to sell drugs, he imitated rich porter so good & didnt care to the fact that he died , he said rich porter did it dumb ima do it smart , as time passed my friend got work started doing his own dirt & still is , whole point of this story is depending on who you are , the movie could influence you especially bronx & harlem natives , i mean lets face it who doesnt want mercedes benz’s & street love, i think the film could of been more real tho, they focused alot on the positive shit of drug dealing, i did not see 1 crackhead lurging or nothing , the reality is much more worse then the movie. & they shold of showed real shit in the movie.
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th!z Reply:
December 7th, 2009 at 1:10 am
thats a good point, the feigns were clean as shit in that movie
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sickwitit Reply:
December 7th, 2009 at 9:43 am
what kinda friend were you if you let him do some dumb shit like that?
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December 7th, 2009 at 3:07 am
At the 4:08 mark this cat says, “I might have saved alot of lives” You’ve got to be kiddin’ me?????? Does someone who pumps poison into the black and hispanic communities really believe he ain’t never hurt no body??????
I guess you gotta tell yourself somethin to make yourself feel good about the destruction you’ce caused so that you can sleep at night
Can we please stop giving these kinds of people a platform?? I mean really, haven’t they done enough?????
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circus Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
its easy to pass judgment from the comforts of the age we’re all living in. You gotta remember when all this was going on the country was suffering from reaganomics….unemployement was dumb high….and these dudes were all LIKE 16-19 years old.
I know if I was making like 40-100k a week at 17 I wouldn’t be thinking of no social ramifications.
These dudes aren’t 25-40 yr old rappers lying about street tales.
No1 knew that the coke craze was going to lead to the crack boom.
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December 7th, 2009 at 4:17 am
I wanna know the rest… the vid just ended. Azie was still talkin… um…
(Bout to go watch Paid In Full now
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December 7th, 2009 at 5:53 am
this is a great video
is there another part to it ?
i was going to type something else
But nah
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December 7th, 2009 at 6:51 am
That’s was a ill interview. I wanna know what he’s talking about as far as getting jerked though. Paid In Full was a aight movie.
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December 7th, 2009 at 7:01 am
watch the Alpo documentary on youtube and you’ll see how the ending of the film was fabricated.
Camron’s character’s story really gets goin when he moves up to D.C. but I mean, you can’t make a 3-4 hour movie about this shit.
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December 7th, 2009 at 8:58 am
what is the real reason for interviewing these ex-drug dealers? i never get it.. i kind of understand why people slang coke and all that because some people just do it for a hell of it and i will never know their real truthful REASON for doing it other than “our family had nothing, i had to feed my family, i can’t get a job cuz i’m a convicted felon, and etc” and i know why people wanted to talk to people like Frank Lucas after “American Gangster” came out but cotdamn.. but whatever their reason is for those kind of interviews.. every one of them ex-drug dealer ain’t going to say NOTHING but how he did this, how he did that, how many figures he made, how he almost died, how he had no choice but to go there, and at the end they always say “dont do it people” c’mon.. is this a part of hip-hop on some real shit? and if they really did regret on what they did in the past why won’t they just keep their mouth shut? cuz when they start letting their tongue loose when somebody is curious about their past.. all they do is brag about shit in a nice manner.. and yup SOME people get inspired by it..
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Slimm Reply:
December 7th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Well said. Everybody wants to be Scarface, but nobody remembers the end of the movie.
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circus Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
you have valid points….but u also gotta recognize that 99% of sh*t we see in hip hop today started with these young dudes in the street.
- cars w rims/tv’s
- big, gaudy jewelry
- custom clothing
These dudes inspired the MC’s at the time and took hip hop in a whole new direction much closer to the street.
RUN DMC got their whole dress code from street dealers. JMJ was always tight with all the neighborhood dealers & wore what they wore. In turn he inspired Run & D to do the same and then they spread it to the world.
So when ppl say narcotics dealers (especially from the mid-late 80′s era) have nothing to do with hip hop…they’re in denial.
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ali Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 4:25 am
im with you on this one
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December 7th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Not for nothing but Wood Harris was great in this movie!! The dude sound just like Azie now I can imagine when Azie was younger. Harris was on point
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December 7th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Paid In Full is a certified Classic jawn!! I’m not one to glorify but listening to some of those mothafuckas (dealers,gangsters) is interesting. You just gotta know how to separate the real from the embellishments.
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December 7th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
If people are still not sure of what happened why look at the “Movie” version that Dame put out??? (he may have been biased)
Just get the “Game Over” DVD that interviews the REAL players in that situation. A lot of what was in the movie we was hearing in the street in those days. Even the Rich Porter situation was so called “Block News” then.
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December 8th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
yo aint nobody peep how he did the lil hand clap just like wood harris did in the movie he had his mannerisms down to a tee
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December 27th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Stop reference AZ and RP as friends because RP did not even like this Mother f**ker, it was Rich sister that was his friend. And RP didnt like him because he treated is sister like shit. So for all you ignorant minds thirsty for crime stories and thirsty for lies go pick up a book and learn how to get ahead so you can stop blaming the white man. AZ should stop trying to eat off of Richard’s PLATE, but i guess hes hungry for pussy because he is the one that needed the money in order to please himself. Not Rich he didn’t need anything bitches loved his swagger they would give him anything. I have a little time to waste so i thought i would give you all a piece of the real truth. Iknow
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December 30th, 2009 at 9:59 am
I see you only post what you want to. But I listened to what this sneakly ignorant man said. And like I said he is a liar. He knows it but he’s just like the rest of the ignorant and greedy people that sell their souls. He sold drugs for no reason. now he’s selling lies fucking up the already weak minds. So he’s sneaky you see thats why RP didn’t like this nigger. So Im speaking for RP and like I said before Your Big Garbage Bag Ass should have stayed in the trash. Who are you benefiting not even yourself. This is why the hood stays fucked up we have ignorant minds teaching each other, a cycle. A perfect time to use the word nigger. LOL nigger you was jeolous when he was here and you are still jeolous of dead man. I don’t blame you but stop trying to jump in his place you can never make a impact like RP. He had a purpose other than pretty girls, flashy cars, and diamond rings unlike this nigger because thats all he seen. He didnt know RP he was on the outside layer and never got close. No vision, no education, no hope equals a loser like AZ. Like i said right now i have time to waste on fools like this nigger.
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July 27th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
I know the entry is old but I couldnt help telling you that there’s no S at the end of Lyon :p
Can’t wait to see the gasface documentary called “New York Minute” in september !
We love their work in France ! as much as we love yours Info !
Peace
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August 4th, 2011 at 11:02 am
I am from Hollis Queens. The grandson of PoP Freeman that lived with him during this time. He brought Ronnie Bumps in the number game. The movies couldn’t never depict the real thing had to be there to see the real deal up close.
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