The Mob$tyle Case

A few years ago a movie called "Paid In Full" was released and is pretty fuckin' crazy......
But not as crazy as the real story that the movie was based on.



I didn't know a great deal about these guys until I bought a dvd called "Mob$tyle - Now & Then / Game Over" a while ago. Back in the early '80's in Harlem, Hip Hop was all about rocking parties and battleing skills on the mic, concrete, decks and trains but there were 3 guys that went through one of the most hardcore stories I've ever heard in Hip Hop. The 3 guys were Rich Porter, Azie (Also spelt A.Z.) and Alpo.


AZIE - ALPO- RICH

Rich grew up packing bags at the super market and selling newspapers before he realized that selling weed was where the cash was. He then moved up to selling coke where he used to slang with a guy named LA. They knew Azie from around the neighbohood who was also a bag packer before getting a job as a tailors assistant. Sick of being broke Azie decided to get in the drug game himself and started buying coke off of Rich and LA. Azie would then break it down into a cheap 10 pack deal and sell them off in his territory. After Azie kept coming back to Rich for more, Rich started wondering how he was slanging so much coke. After Azie told him about his scam Rich and LA started doing the same in their territory although LA was murdered shortly after and Rich and Azie joined forces and pretty much took over Harlem along with Alpo.

Back in 1981 Rich was packin' beepers and cell phones and bought his first car before he was 16 years old, a brand new BMW and at 16 years old Rich, Azie and Alpo would be driving around in brand new cars every few weeks like BM's, Merc's, Saab's and Porsche's. There is even footage on the DVD of the owner of the Porsche dealership in New York talking about how he remembers Azie coming in all the time with a bag of money ordering in brand new cars that weren't even in the country yet and letting him keep the change.

On August 20th 1987,Two men named Henry Bold and Ronald Timmons ran up the stair case of an appartment block in the Bronx where Azie was living on what they thought was a get rich quick scam. They kicked in the door and shot three people in the back of the head execution style killing them instantly, they shot three others including Azie who was shot in the head twice, the neck, shoulder, hand and three times in the leg breaking three seperate bones. Azie lost his sense of smell but not his life and he found God. He changed his name to AZX and stopped slangin'. The two men were caught and charged and sentenced to 112 years to life in prison. The incident and the court case were all over the news with footage of the news reports on the DVD.




On the morning of December 5th 1989 Rich's 12 year old brother Donnell Porter left for school as he did every other morning although later that night when he didn't return his mother and sister Patricia started worrying. They then received a phone call from someone claiming they had Donnell and would kill him if they did not get $500,000. They received several phone calls that night from the kidnappers trying to work out how they would get the money and threatening them not to go to the police. Rich claimed he could not get his hands on the cash as all his money was tied up. Frustrated on not getting the cash, the kidnappers called Rich and told him to go to the bathroom of the McDonald's on the corner of 125th and Broadway and look under the sink. Rich went there and found an envelope containing one of his younger brother Donnell's fingers and a video tape containing footage of Donnell begging Rich to give them the cash and crying over the loss of his finger.

Scared that her brother would be killed Rich's little sister Patricia dressed as a boy (worried the house was being watched) and went to the cops where things went from bad to worse. The cops told the Porters not to answer any more calls until they could get a tracer on the phone. Obviously when the Porters stopped answering the calls the kidnappers knew what was going on and stopped calling. On the 10th of December the Porters got a letter stating that Donnell needed medical attention and the last chance they would have to get him back would be to go to a pay phone and wait for a call, the call never came.

On the night of January 3rd 1990 a couple of Bronx police officers knocked on the Porters door and told Mrs Porter that her son had been found dead, as she started crying and screaming out Donnell's name the cops questioned why she was screaming "Donnell" and asked her if she had a son named Richard? Rich was found murdered from a close range shot.

On January 28th the cops returned to the house and told the Porters that they had found the body of a 12 year old boy they thought was Donnell. After viewing the body he was indentified as being Donnell Porter.





The fucked part about this whole story is that Rich was actually killed by his boy Alpo for no other reason than greed. Alpo descrived killing Rich as the one thing he would change if he could via an interview from prison where he still is today. Locked up for unrelated murders, he confessed to the murder of Rich to a reporter for F.E.D.S. Hip Hop magazine while serving his time. The man responsible for kidnapping Donnell was his own uncle Johnny for the same reason, greed.



Although this article was only mentioning Rich, Azie and Alpo there are plenty of other members of Mob$tyle like Whip Wop, Pretty Tone, Mr Nice, Fossil, D Mac, The Silent Hitman, "O" Double and Gangster Lou who have a heap of their own stories to tell, the DVD only scratches the surface of them.

The only releases I know of are:

Mob$tyle - The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1990)
AZ - Street Wise (1991)
Mob$tyle - Game Of Death (1992)
Silence 126 - Silence (1993)
Azie & Mob$tyle - Blood On My Money (2003)

The only albums I've heard are "Game of Death" which is Gangster Lou, Azie and Whip Wop and it is fuckin' incredible but unfortunately I can't rip tracks from wax to put an mp3 with this article and the other is "Blood On My Money" by Azie that I don't have.