Flashback: Azie Faison Tells the Real 'Paid In Full' Story (Full Interview)

Columbia Records. I think they approached us and they gave us a situation where we were going to sign with them for like 300,000 and we guaranteed videos or whatever, so on signing day, one of my guys like Tom didn't show up because he had A situation. sin was the name of that label death catch Deaf America or Deaf America oh yeah recruiting later Rick Rubin I think Sam Stein Tom on the side but he gave him some peanuts and then Columbia like now we wanted the whole group so that situation was To It was stupid for me to say yes but to say no because who was he, you understand, yes, you understand, but they believe it and now I always said it, we never got a contract and we didn't sell millions of records, but I will do it with contraband. the hordes in the streets, people make money with our CDs that they sell, that's like drugs, 20 hours per cassette, you know, in third record stores and for me it would be platinum, so this was your label, you are yours another time, right?

There was never anyone associated with it, no, but at the end of the day I say this to say yes they never blew up, but I know for a fact that a lot of these cats maybe the best rap was Damon, they took our true fingerprints. to create the true footprints of the blue friends to create his blueprint yes sir because this was

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now the rapper AZ came out yes sir he's not going to sue him let me fix that let me tell him read how that took place friend of mine from Sugar Hill Records I think his name is good he was a Sugar Hill Records he came to see me one day you're not married you put out a song right now I'm isolated I'm in the house they wrote in a treatise that was finally painted, like this which I'm like, so you know, yeah, listen, ring the phone.

Wow, listen to the real easy song, without sugar. Wow, show me the album covers. Cyan AZ's first single was called Sugar. Hill, yeah, and that's when I'm from Sugar Hill, which is Harlem Harlem, what's up? I don't know, it's AZ from Harlem Brooklyn, yeah, that's what I say, so when I look at the situation, these products bring it to me. I'm fine so I called a lawyer and listen to me I'm trying to work on a movie about my life and it's this song that came out right now call AZ for Sugar Hill and it basically sounds like I'm talking about my life now who ?

I have briefly approached him, look it doesn't look easy, he looked at the company he and my right had where we had a situation with EMI. I think it's on the table too at one point, so he likes, no, come on. He suits a small record label, so, looking at this kid, he has no money. We're going to sue the record company for 10 million, but you know, lawyers are fine, no matter what you say, because this could make your situation worse if you try to make your movie. Let's do it like this, basically, in a statement you see that I was right and the UH then I reached an out-of-court settlement that was not what my lawyer told me was 50,000, but in The Daily News newspaper what is in the name Print four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but all I got was maybe 1/3 of 50,000.

You only got 1/3 of 50,000 votes. It shouldn't be 2/3 if the lawyer is the lawyer. Suppose you take the third, it could have been 2/3. 2/3 still of $50,000 35 but the paper says 450 so did the lawyer so I'll get that amount of money and he told me this I don't know man I don't know how these people play with their evil, it's more evil in In the streets , did you ever meet the rapper? Is he? I met him once and he said, "You, man, you will respect yourself, there is no respect problem." I'm not that kind of person. I respect the man, also, I understand it, I understand that it's just like it's a way to eat them, it's that I'm paying homage, I understand it, but at the end of the day, brother, rest. bread that never took place never took place but still I'm not going to continue feel me because I get it, I get it, but the average person might take it another way, we should do this, y'all, let's go, leave me alone. yeah, walk away from when you look back on your life and the decisions you made and the decisions and in your decisions the way they affected the people around you do you regret it?

I wish I had never left the man cleaner, it may not be any of these stories. You'd have to tell me what that is if you know me and if you don't live, if it doesn't make sense, but I wish I could reproduce it and not this kind of future hell, no, I'll stay in the cleanest place. and like Rich said in the movie, I'm going to be the real George Jefferson next door when you look at the kids that are coming up these days that are selling drugs and trying to be the next AZ, trying to be the next Scarface. to be the next Freeway Ricky and think they're going to come in, make a billion dollars and jump, what would you tell them?

You're stupid and the game has been over since I think 1990 when the government wouldn't let it happen anyone we did it because we were in a fight we poor people broke me they're doing it because they fell in love with it you don't have to do it , there are many opportunities, other ways to make money, man, yeah. you understand so you're doing it because you want to be one of these characters it means to be yourself brother be yourself game over man say it yourself it's over you feel me you put yourself in yourself you like it you like it you know jumping in a costume that's already dead man , you know you gotta be original if it's always over, the drug game is over, yeah that's from my point of view so some people may not feel that way but to me man it doesn't make sense after see all The elements that are involved, this cat could be this dead, you don't know who is who, so it makes you say that if you are making money in the drug game the day you have to be connected to the government, That's the opportunity you have now.

I can do whatever I want I have a badge to kill you, lock you up or whatever, so that's the chance you take trying to get into the drug game young or even join any game, that's how evil this is, now Yeah. It doesn't make any sense look, I work with them in good guys crazy mmm-hmm good heart good guys give you the shirt daebak it's said ironic it's a coincidence that both of them, most of their friends are white and have white wives they like white women , I mean, they develop envy because they go home, they get out of the car with their friend with the other couple and he listens to your music, they enter the house, the girl listens to your music, they go down the stairs, the children do.

A dance to your music now they are hypnotized with hate.