![]() Greed is also a humongous x-factor in the movie. “Everybody eats b.” = The whole team shall flourish. Rico loved the attention but when you living good, you don’t really need nor should you really want the attention. “Live and maintain.” = Do your thing, handle your business, leave the extra shit alone, have your fun and stay afloat. ![]() Now I’m reminding you to stay cool exactly how you be cool. So in a brief cameo, Nore reminds Ace to stay cool like how he’s cool. ![]() Ace was always lowkey, always smooth, always cool, always himself. Cool, original people? Even harder to come by. After a while everything is like everything else and it’s boring. “Stay cool like how you be cool.” = You can be cool being yourself so just be yourself.Ĭlassic. If you could have it in 10 years then you could have it 10 days you just have to hustle and get to it. Mitch responds with: “10 years? I’m thinking more like 10 days.” Basically telling Ace, get your head right and boss up. One day Mitch pulls up in something new, Ace admires it and says they’re going to have matching ones in 10 years. But in any case, Money Mitch always was the one with more. They just click, which is crazy considering one comes from the street life and one comes from working in a Laundromat. The relationship that Mitch and Ace have in the film is crazy. “10 Years/10 Days Mentality” = You can get it, you just gotta go get it. If you look good and smell good then you feel good. Sonny gets taught the tricks of the trade of having the clean gear because well.cleanliness is next to godliness. Sonny looks up to Mitch and Mitch is always trying to make sure that his brother stays on the right track. In the movie, Mitch is perceived as one of his little brother Sonny’s only role models. “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” = Cleanliness is next to godliness. To me and most of the masses this is one of the moments in Paid In Full that solidifies it as a classic. “Any nigga that ever looked at me wrong, owes me money, or ever said some jealous bullshit about me is fuckin’ dead.” When Mitch said those words you felt it. Well more like Mitch venting and Ace listening but nonetheless it’s one of the more powerful, more emotional scenes and acted out masterfully. After Sonny gets kidnapped, Mitch and Ace have a deep conversation. One of my favorite scenes has been meme’d, gif’d and imitated time after time. You get to feel however you feel about a particular scene or situation then in the same instance get to hear Ace’s input on them all. So to watch the classic through your own eyes while A narrates it is a special experience in itself. ![]() That in itself adds a unique spin to the movie, especially considering it’s damn near the rise-and-fall?-and rise again of Ace’s life. Paid In Full is narrated by the main character: Ace. But Wood Harris, Mekhi Phifer, Cam’ron and the rest of the cast perfectly display all of the above on the big screen. Fewer people know of the dramatic, dark, trauma-filled side that comes with it. Everyone knows about the money, the women, fly gear, and nice cars that come with drug-dealing. The film showed the beauties and beasts of the street life.
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