Member Since: 13/04/2008
Band Website: WWW.YAHOO.COM
Band Members:MOB$TYLE…EST 1989MOBSTYLE WAS BORN IN THE HEART HARLEM OF NEW YORK, YES The big apple, THE MECCA OF ALL HOODS. IN THE MIND OF 4 young men –AZ, GANGSTA LOU, WHIP WHOP & PRETTY TONE CAPONE…YOU MAY KNOW OF THEM FROM THEIR PARTNERS IN CRIME RICH PORTER R.I.P AND ALPOTHEY WERE MAJOR PLAYERS IN THE DRUG TRADE IN THE MID 80’S
MAKING MILLONS OF DOLLARS, DRIVING THE BEST OF CARS. VERY FINE JEWELRY, WOMEN PENTHOUSE APARTMENTS AT A VERY YOUNG AGE …18 19 20
BUT YOU KNOW WITH LOTS OF MONEY COMES POWER AND BIG PROBLEMS..…AUG 20, 1987
AZ WAS GUNNED DOWN IN COLD BLOOD ALONG WITH SOME CLOSE FRIENDS AND LEFT FOR DEAD…..HE WAS SHOT 9 TIMES TWICE IN THE HEAD AT POINT BLANK RANGE… THE DAILY NEWS HEADLINED THIS STORYCALLING IT A MASSACRE A BLOOD BATH IN THE BRONX 3 WAS FOUND DOA AND 3 SURVIVED…THANK GOD (HE LET ME COME BACK,THE WORDS OF AZ )AZ ROSE FROM THAT WICKED NIGHT ONLY TO BEAR WITNESS TO SOME MORE DEVASTATING TRAGEDIES JAN 1990 CAME THE END TO THIS STREET DYNASTY BUT HOOD LEGENDS WERE BORN AZ, ALPO, RICH … HIS PARTNER RICH PORTER AND HIS LITTLE BROTHER DONNEL PORTER WERE MURDERED KILLED FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY. OR WAS IT KARMA?AROUND THE TIME OF THIS INCIDENT MOBSTYLE WAS CREATED. AZ AND HIS MOB GLOU WHIP AND THE PRETTY MAN WAS IN THE STUDIO WORKING HARD TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE LIFESTYLE, THEIR GOAL WAS TO PUT OUT A RAP ALBUM DEALING WITH THE REAL ELEMENTS OF THE DRUG game THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY ..THE TITLE OF THE FIRST UNDERGROUND GANGSTER RAP ALBUM THAT CONTAINED REAL PLAYERS FROM THE STREETS…THE ALBUM COVER SPEAKS FOR ITSELF … INCREDIBLEA SCALE, AN UZZI WITH A SCRATCHED OUT SERIAL NUMBER, CHAMPAGNE, GAMBLING DICE, COKE, DOPE, A PINKY RING AND A LICENSE PLATE THAT READ MOBSTYLE. A PEN, A PAD AND A LIT CUBA CIGAR ALL SITTING ON TOP OF A BLACK MARBLE TABLE, ALL THE DETAILS TO RUN AN UNDERGROUND EMPIRE.. THESE ARE THE TOOLS, THE CARDS WE WERE DEALT TO SURVIVE WITH IN THE HOOD IN THE EIGHTIES. THE STREETS WERE FLOODED WITH NARCOTICS.THE MID 80’S YOUNG KING PINS GETTING A LOT OF MONEY…THESE WERE THE TRENDSETTERS WHATEVER THEY DID MANY FOLLOWED……..YES MANY CAME TO THE LOCATION 132…….THIS ALBUM WAS DONE IN 1989 BUT RELEASED IN THE SUMMER OF 1990. THEN THEY RELEASED THE ALBUM STREETWISE – BY AZ, THEN THEY RELEASED THE ALBUM THE GAME OF DEATH…THESE YOUNG MEN BANKROLLED THEIR OWN VIDEOS WHICH AIRED ON RALPH MCDANIELS VIDEO MUSIC BOX… THE FIRST VIDEO WAS CALLED - THE QUESTION WHAT’S GOING ON BLACK….. A SONG THAT WAS DEDICATED TO RICH AND HIS LITTLE BROTHER AND ALL OF THOSE WHO LOSS THEIR LIFE IN THE DRUG GAME…..THE SECOND VIDEO WAS A MASTERPIECE WRITTEN BY AZ ENTITLED “CRACK THE MACKâ€, IN WHICH HE GOT THE IDEA FROM A SONG BY JAMES BROWN CALLED KING HEROIN… AZ FELT CRACK WAS THE DRUG OF THEIR ERA JUST AS HEROIN WAS THE DRUG OF SEVENTIES…..THE THIRD VIDEO WAS ENTITLED LIVE AND LET DIE DEALING WITH THE PRISON SYSTEM KIND OF LIKE A SCARED STRAIGHT ON HOW ROUGH IT IS IN PRISON….THE FOURTH VIDEO WAS A SONG ENTITLED FOR THE HONIES DEALING WITH THE WAY WE SHOULD TALK AND TREAT OUR WOMEN…EVEN THOUGH MANY PEOPLE RESPECT MOBSTYLE THEY NEVER MANAGED TO BLOW PAST HARLEM BUT MANY RAPPERS TO THIS DAY HAVE USED THEIR STYLE USED THEIR NAMES AND THEIR SONGS TO CONNECT TO THE STREETS BECAUSE ONCE YOU HEAR THESE NAMES IN THE STREETS GOOD BAD OR UGLY, PEOPLE DO LISTEN……AZ MANAGED TO WRITE A SCREENPLAY ENTITLED TRAPPED, WHICH WAS BROUGHT TO YOU AS PAID IN FULL, BY ROCKAFELLA FILMS AND MIRAMAX….AZ ALSO CO-DIRECTED A VERY POWERFUL DOCUMENTARY ENTITLED GAME OVER, THE FIRST STREET DOCUMENTARY EVER THAT SO MANY FOLLOWED….MANY SAY ALL HOOD DOCUMENTARIES WAS DONE AFTER THIS ONE EVEN YOUR BET SERIES AMERICAN GANGSTERS FOLLOWED THESE TRUE PRINTS TO THEIR SUCCESS…….THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FEDS MAGAZINE COVERED THE STORY, THE WORDS OF AZ WHICH SO MANY OTHER HOOD MAGAZINES AND STORIES FOLLOWED….AZ APPEARED IN THE LARRY DAVIS DOCUMENTARY (R.I.P.),
AND THE ALPO STORYAZ FINALLY CLOSED THE CHAPTER TO THIS STORY OUT BY WRITING A BOOK CALLED GAME OVER, PUBLISHED BY SIMON & SHUSTER AND ENTITLED GAME OVER THE RISE AND TRANSFORMATION OF A HARLEM HUSTLER, IT IS A WORK OF GOD IN STORES NOW - BARNES & NOBLES, ETC.MOBSTYLE IS NOW BACK IN THE STUDIO WORKING ON CLOSING OUT MOBSTYLE WITH AN ALBUM CALLED THE BLACK BOX, IN THE BLACK BOX YOU WILL HAVE ALL THE ORIGINAL MATERIAL PLUS 5 TO 6 NEW SONGS, 2 DVDS - MOBSTYLE NOW AND THEN AND THE ORIGINAL GAMEOVER FOR FREE, AND A POWERFUL, RIVETING, DIVINE MESSAGE FOR OUR YOUTH SPOKEN BY AZ.. THIS ALBUM WILL BE RELEASED IN JUNE 2008 PRODUCED BY AZ AND LG THE CUTMAN….THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT BY NOW WE SHOULD ALL KNOW THIS LIFESTYLE IS NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT……PEACE, LOVE FOR YOU
ALL …..MOBSTYLE, HARLEM NYCWE WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT
AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES, AGAINST POWER ,AGAINST
THE RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD,
AGAINST SPIRTUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES.
EPHESIANS 6:12GOLABAL WARMING …THE SUN IS GOD!
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