Azie Faison
| Azie Faison Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 10, 1964 Bronx, New York, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | AZ |
| Occupation | Former drug dealer, entrepreneur, |
Azie Faison (pronounced "A.Z.") is an American former drug dealer, selling cocaine in Harlem, New York, as well as a rapper and founder of the underground hip-hop group MobStyle. His legacy has been referenced by several rap artists, and his life was the basis for the film Paid in Full produced by Roc-A-Fella Films.Template:Dame Dash date=September 2015
Azie Faison Jr. was born in the Bronx, New York on November 10, 1964. A fire destroyed his tenement in 1970, forcing the family to relocate to the Sugar Hill section of Harlem, New York.
Faison - a ninth-grade dropout - worked in a neighborhood dry cleaners. Faison maintains that the movie Scarface strongly influenced his decision to become a drug dealer. In that same year 1984, a Dominican cocaine supplier approached Azie about selling the drug.
By the time he turned 21, Faison had become a cocaine wholesaler in his Harlem neighborhood, and regularly earned from $90,000 - $100,000 a week from his operations during the peak of America's "War on Drugs" between 1983-1990.
In 1987, an attempt to rob Faison's stash house (where drugs or money were hid) left 3 people dead and 3 seriously injured, and Faison was shot nine times in the robbery attempt.
Faison retired from drug dealing, and adopted a mission to steer youth away from the path he once chose. In 1989, he formed a rap group called MobStyle and released a solo album in 1991. Following the murders of his drug-dealing childhood friend Rich Porter and his little brother Donnell Porter in 1990, Faison began working on a movie about his life which eventually became Paid in Full, which came out in 2002. The Faison character was portrayed by Wood Harris.
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