September 12, 2025 • 15 mins
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In this episode of Ink & Impact, we dive into the streets of Paid in Full — not just as a movie, but as a mirror. Through Ace’s quiet code, Mitch’s love for the hustle, and Rico’s reckless greed, we unpack what it really means to be “paid in full.”
Is it money? Status? Power? Or is it peace, freedom, and knowing that the life you’re building actually loves you back?
With raw dialogue, real stats, and soul-stirring reflection, Episode 19 asks: what hidden fees are you paying for the hustle you’ve chosen?
Tune in to hear how this story of survival, sacrifice, and self-destruction still speaks truth to us today.
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In this episode of Ink & Impact, we dive into the streets of Paid in Full — not just as a movie, but as a mirror. Through Ace’s quiet code, Mitch’s love for the hustle, and Rico’s reckless greed, we unpack what it really means to be “paid in full.”
Is it money? Status? Power? Or is it peace, freedom, and knowing that the life you’re building actually loves you back?
With raw dialogue, real stats, and soul-stirring reflection, Episode 19 asks: what hidden fees are you paying for the hustle you’ve chosen?
Tune in to hear how this story of survival, sacrifice, and self-destruction still speaks truth to us today.
🌺 iLily — Halloween Collection Early Access
Get into the season early! Our Halloween Collection is live with 15% off for a limited time. From planners to journals, these limited-edition petals are designed to help you plan with purpose and faith.
🛒 Shop now at iLilyink.com — supplies are limited, so grab your favorites before the season arrives.
✨ Follow @iLilyInk for shop drops, behind-the-scenes, and member perks.
✨ And if you’d like to dive deeper into each episode, head over to The Watering Hole. There you’ll find journal questions designed to take you beyond the surface — giving you space to reflect, grow, and pour into yourself. Journal away, Lilies 🌺
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back, my lilies, to another episode of ink and Impact.
This episode is nineteen ooh, we've made it very far,
and today we're diving into a story that's raw as
it gets. The movie Paid in Full. Now, you might've
(00:24):
seen it. It's just another hood classic story about three
friends hustling for their come up. But if you look
at it a little deeper, you'll see more than cars, clothes,
and chaos. What you'll see is a mirror because being
paid in full sounds right, like good right, But what
happens when that check comes with hidden fees, fees you
(00:48):
don't even see until it's two eight. Paid in Full
is more than a film. It's a reflection of how greed, survival,
and systematic pressure collide in our communities. It shows us
(01:09):
the dynamic of the easy come up, the chase for money,
and the way that culture has shaped the mindset of
get rich or die trying. For so many it feels
like the only way out, But at what cost? Each
(01:37):
character and Paid in Pool is more than a role.
There are symbols of choices we face. Take ace. He
wasn't trying to get rich just for the spotlight. He
wasn't trying to be flashy or have people hate on him.
He wanted balance. He wanted everyone to eat. Listen to
(02:01):
his words.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That for fifty this ship winking something and selling You
heard me, man, it's the best product in town.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Man one shot me here and sucking in. Give me
to what the drinks to the drinking trips.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, I was tripping all right, but I was getting money,
talking about real money.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Fall this shit up quick, mack.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
See, other dealers were selling at the highest price they
could get.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
I sold it cheaper, so I was selling it faster.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I sold it so cheap.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I started taking their customers away.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
See.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I was wholesale on the streets.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Understand some.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Hey, looking, you want.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Something to drink? Don't call me a look you got
said whatever, Lucky want you drinking?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
In the end, I made more money, and Lulu always
got his return when.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
He wanted it.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
But I wasn't trying to keep shit all of myself,
See I I I wasn't trying.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
To get on the stage, and I.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Didn't want people hating. I put people on understand street.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Everybody could.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah gems, And that's Ace's code. Stay humble, don't hang
(03:36):
and shine, spread opportunity. Compare that to Match who love
the game itself, or Rico, who only saw greed and chaos.
Each one reflects the path, a mentality, a choice. Let
(04:00):
zoom out, because what this movie really does is show
us how the system sets the stage. Here's the reality.
Black men in America have a twenty nine percent chance
of serving time in the state of federal prison during
their lifetime. Compare that to a white man at just
four point four percent. Among federal offenders with just one
(04:22):
year within release, over half fifty three percent are rearrested
drug related offenses, sixty eight percent are rearrested within three years.
Those numbers are in accidents. That's the systematic control. That's
the pipeline feeding this hunger for quick money because stapability
(04:45):
and opportunity are kept out of reach. So when the
hustle looks like the only way out, the trap is
already set. So here's attention. Does Payton full glamorize to
hustle or does it warn us about it? That's it.
(05:09):
In one of the most unforgettable exchanges between Mitch and
Ace talking.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Come out yeah man face baby.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Stick at the flash of the gun in my head man,
that white light and it was like that light.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Man was saying.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
It, dick, Hey, you ain't got to be thinking about that. Man.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You here, you blessed a baby, you blessed seeing that
light for a long time, getting this money, trying to stay,
you know, trying to stay about the light, about the spotlight,
the club and all that kind of stuff. Man, trying
to hide tryna you know, but it's all I fake.
(06:06):
And instead what I'm saying this life, this a game.
I ain't know loving and he thrown't love you back.
No I feelure he.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I do.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Man, I see man a nigga like me. Man, I
love a game.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I love a hustle.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Man, you feeling like one of them ball playing niggas,
you know, a bird or magic or something.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, you know a nigga got dull.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
My nigga could leave the league.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
But if I leave, the fans still gonna love me.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I get blocked out of here and hollered a man,
I done sol coke on these streets.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Man, hash weed have.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Run as long as niggas is feeling.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
And a nigga like me hustling.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
That's my gifted life.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Day.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
What the fuck you left?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Can that be Hugh Man. Fucking man, you're an hustling
motherfucking man for real, baby, fucking kill god.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
You know me?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Baby?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
That moment is the heart of the movie. Ace represents reflection,
the realization that the game is fake and fleeting. Mitch
represents the love of for the hustle, the adrenaline, the validation.
He's not blind, he just can't let go. And right
(07:56):
there is the trap. The hustle makes you feel like
a star, like you're being cheered on, but it's not
real love. Like A said, this life don't lay you back.
(08:16):
Here's the impact. Being paid in full isn't about how
much money you stack. It's about the wealth of your spirit.
It's about peace. And nothing shows that clearer than the
final exchange between Ace.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
And Rico ayr. A put up.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Might be, No, fucked up? You all fucked up over
the ship too, be murder that niggas who did that?
Shouldn't Minch be trying to find out found any.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Damn keys and that building mintion man keys, Yeah, I
gave you mich set the keys to get Sunny back.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Man. I know he had the fucking keys in there
with him. Man, Now you know I gotta get the
money or the keys man to pay this connect back
with helped me. Why you ain't calling you and that
shit be? You know I woulda went with that nigga
Mitch and made that shit happen. I know what I know,
I know, man, That's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I fucked up.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
You talked to miss yesterday. I ain't talking to minch.
You see that nigga the whole guy, Damn day yesterday.
Be it w happen in your face? Man? What I said?
What're happening in your face? This shit fucking with this
(09:59):
wild ass pitch last night? Nah, I play Big said,
Wow boy, you wild motherfucker. Man. Yeah, the video tape
that shit.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Think you know me and shit man, and I ain't
take that shit last night, Big, I kept another set
of keys f stand.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
To sell when advansom was paid. And look where shit
is now. Man, it's too hot outen the streets for
needed to call myself. Tryna, go, I didn't c conduct something.
When need you to do me this and want you
to sell these keys for me? Give me the money.
I compare it to the connect.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
You know what I'm saying. Then I take you in
there and introduce you too, so you want me to
sell all the keys.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Yes, like this, I've been talking to these kids from
out of town.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
We'll say that. You know they'll take these keys, don't
invite them at a higher price than what's going When
you stand on the sand and so you know all
you gotta do is sell 'em.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Then you take the extra cheese off the top and
you stand on sand.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Then I can walk away. We walk and walk away
set and we cool with that. I'm cool with cool
with that. I don't believe me. Hey, I mean you
gonna give up all this shit about how much? Yeah
(11:33):
nig gotta said I was gonna gonna want it out.
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I'm'a eat more than that shot oncen't playing when I
said down and stand sat so right at the nights wore.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Praise. Think if fucking giving up a love you be.
I can't gonna give up all this ship man where
right now? I'm fuck up? Man? You know what I'm saying.
Drop him back? Anything you need to let me know?
Speaker 6 (12:12):
Many downtown.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Look him out, play no ball, baby, you know hey,
call me B Call me B.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Alright, Yeah, I called him and I gave him the
number of the fake cass Deals who turned out to
(12:46):
be the fence.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
See.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
I knew Rico's greed would destroy him and set me free.
I'm sure or that he would say. I went out
like a pump, but fuck it, it's price I could
live with like motherfuck anyway, I did it. But twenty
five of life I did that we go.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Can't live with that.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
I ain't snitching on nobody from Harlling. Man, I give
you a couple of catches down to DC doing they
thing out of town. I'm doing anything, but I'm not
slitching on nobody in Harlem, cause when I come home,
I'm still gonna be the king.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Meanwhile, chance side by the phone or no more costs
can Mitch had it right about Ice. His uncle was
the one not looking out for family. His bitterness towards
his nephew, Mitch was taking out on his other nephew's Sonny,
(13:52):
his own blood. Timmy did ICE's dirty work. When the
ransom money didn't come, he killed Sonny.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
It came us over.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That's the difference. Rico couldn't imagine letting go because greed
consumed him. Ace finally saw that survival, freedom and peace,
that's the real win and that's the question for us.
Do we hold onto the hustle until it destroys us
(14:32):
or do we choose a life that loves us back.
That's it for episode nineteen. My lilies, remember your life,
your voice, your values. That's wealth no one can steal
(14:54):
until next time. Keep planting seeds, keep reflecting, and keep living.
Paid in full and spirit, not just in pocket. Back
and our lilies
Welcome back, my lilies, to another episode of ink and Impact.
This episode is nineteen ooh, we've made it very far,
and today we're diving into a story that's raw as
it gets. The movie Paid in Full. Now, you might've
(00:24):
seen it. It's just another hood classic story about three
friends hustling for their come up. But if you look
at it a little deeper, you'll see more than cars, clothes,
and chaos. What you'll see is a mirror because being
paid in full sounds right, like good right, But what
happens when that check comes with hidden fees, fees you
(00:48):
don't even see until it's two eight. Paid in Full
is more than a film. It's a reflection of how greed, survival,
and systematic pressure collide in our communities. It shows us
(01:09):
the dynamic of the easy come up, the chase for money,
and the way that culture has shaped the mindset of
get rich or die trying. For so many it feels
like the only way out, But at what cost? Each
(01:37):
character and Paid in Pool is more than a role.
There are symbols of choices we face. Take ace. He
wasn't trying to get rich just for the spotlight. He
wasn't trying to be flashy or have people hate on him.
He wanted balance. He wanted everyone to eat. Listen to
(02:01):
his words.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That for fifty this ship winking something and selling You
heard me, man, it's the best product in town.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Man one shot me here and sucking in. Give me
to what the drinks to the drinking trips.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, I was tripping all right, but I was getting money,
talking about real money.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Fall this shit up quick, mack.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
See, other dealers were selling at the highest price they
could get.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
I sold it cheaper, so I was selling it faster.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I sold it so cheap.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I started taking their customers away.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
See.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I was wholesale on the streets.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Understand some.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Hey, looking, you want.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Something to drink? Don't call me a look you got
said whatever, Lucky want you drinking?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
In the end, I made more money, and Lulu always
got his return when.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
He wanted it.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
But I wasn't trying to keep shit all of myself,
See I I I wasn't trying.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
To get on the stage, and I.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Didn't want people hating. I put people on understand street.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Everybody could.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah gems, And that's Ace's code. Stay humble, don't hang
(03:36):
and shine, spread opportunity. Compare that to Match who love
the game itself, or Rico, who only saw greed and chaos.
Each one reflects the path, a mentality, a choice. Let
(04:00):
zoom out, because what this movie really does is show
us how the system sets the stage. Here's the reality.
Black men in America have a twenty nine percent chance
of serving time in the state of federal prison during
their lifetime. Compare that to a white man at just
four point four percent. Among federal offenders with just one
(04:22):
year within release, over half fifty three percent are rearrested
drug related offenses, sixty eight percent are rearrested within three years.
Those numbers are in accidents. That's the systematic control. That's
the pipeline feeding this hunger for quick money because stapability
(04:45):
and opportunity are kept out of reach. So when the
hustle looks like the only way out, the trap is
already set. So here's attention. Does Payton full glamorize to
hustle or does it warn us about it? That's it.
(05:09):
In one of the most unforgettable exchanges between Mitch and
Ace talking.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Come out yeah man face baby.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Stick at the flash of the gun in my head man,
that white light and it was like that light.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Man was saying.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
It, dick, Hey, you ain't got to be thinking about that. Man.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You here, you blessed a baby, you blessed seeing that
light for a long time, getting this money, trying to stay,
you know, trying to stay about the light, about the spotlight,
the club and all that kind of stuff. Man, trying
to hide tryna you know, but it's all I fake.
(06:06):
And instead what I'm saying this life, this a game.
I ain't know loving and he thrown't love you back.
No I feelure he.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I do.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Man, I see man a nigga like me. Man, I
love a game.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I love a hustle.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Man, you feeling like one of them ball playing niggas,
you know, a bird or magic or something.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, you know a nigga got dull.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
My nigga could leave the league.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
But if I leave, the fans still gonna love me.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I get blocked out of here and hollered a man,
I done sol coke on these streets.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Man, hash weed have.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Run as long as niggas is feeling.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
And a nigga like me hustling.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
That's my gifted life.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Day.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
What the fuck you left?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Can that be Hugh Man. Fucking man, you're an hustling
motherfucking man for real, baby, fucking kill god.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
You know me?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Baby?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
That moment is the heart of the movie. Ace represents reflection,
the realization that the game is fake and fleeting. Mitch
represents the love of for the hustle, the adrenaline, the validation.
He's not blind, he just can't let go. And right
(07:56):
there is the trap. The hustle makes you feel like
a star, like you're being cheered on, but it's not
real love. Like A said, this life don't lay you back.
(08:16):
Here's the impact. Being paid in full isn't about how
much money you stack. It's about the wealth of your spirit.
It's about peace. And nothing shows that clearer than the
final exchange between Ace.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
And Rico ayr. A put up.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Might be, No, fucked up? You all fucked up over
the ship too, be murder that niggas who did that?
Shouldn't Minch be trying to find out found any.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Damn keys and that building mintion man keys, Yeah, I
gave you mich set the keys to get Sunny back.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Man. I know he had the fucking keys in there
with him. Man, Now you know I gotta get the
money or the keys man to pay this connect back
with helped me. Why you ain't calling you and that
shit be? You know I woulda went with that nigga
Mitch and made that shit happen. I know what I know,
I know, man, That's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I fucked up.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
You talked to miss yesterday. I ain't talking to minch.
You see that nigga the whole guy, Damn day yesterday.
Be it w happen in your face? Man? What I said?
What're happening in your face? This shit fucking with this
(09:59):
wild ass pitch last night? Nah, I play Big said,
Wow boy, you wild motherfucker. Man. Yeah, the video tape
that shit.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Think you know me and shit man, and I ain't
take that shit last night, Big, I kept another set
of keys f stand.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
To sell when advansom was paid. And look where shit
is now. Man, it's too hot outen the streets for
needed to call myself. Tryna, go, I didn't c conduct something.
When need you to do me this and want you
to sell these keys for me? Give me the money.
I compare it to the connect.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
You know what I'm saying. Then I take you in
there and introduce you too, so you want me to
sell all the keys.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Yes, like this, I've been talking to these kids from
out of town.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
We'll say that. You know they'll take these keys, don't
invite them at a higher price than what's going When
you stand on the sand and so you know all
you gotta do is sell 'em.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Then you take the extra cheese off the top and
you stand on sand.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Then I can walk away. We walk and walk away
set and we cool with that. I'm cool with cool
with that. I don't believe me. Hey, I mean you
gonna give up all this shit about how much? Yeah
(11:33):
nig gotta said I was gonna gonna want it out.
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
I'm'a eat more than that shot oncen't playing when I
said down and stand sat so right at the nights wore.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Praise. Think if fucking giving up a love you be.
I can't gonna give up all this ship man where
right now? I'm fuck up? Man? You know what I'm saying.
Drop him back? Anything you need to let me know?
Speaker 6 (12:12):
Many downtown.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Look him out, play no ball, baby, you know hey,
call me B Call me B.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Alright, Yeah, I called him and I gave him the
number of the fake cass Deals who turned out to
(12:46):
be the fence.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
See.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
I knew Rico's greed would destroy him and set me free.
I'm sure or that he would say. I went out
like a pump, but fuck it, it's price I could
live with like motherfuck anyway, I did it. But twenty
five of life I did that we go.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Can't live with that.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
I ain't snitching on nobody from Harlling. Man, I give
you a couple of catches down to DC doing they
thing out of town. I'm doing anything, but I'm not
slitching on nobody in Harlem, cause when I come home,
I'm still gonna be the king.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Meanwhile, chance side by the phone or no more costs
can Mitch had it right about Ice. His uncle was
the one not looking out for family. His bitterness towards
his nephew, Mitch was taking out on his other nephew's Sonny,
(13:52):
his own blood. Timmy did ICE's dirty work. When the
ransom money didn't come, he killed Sonny.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
It came us over.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That's the difference. Rico couldn't imagine letting go because greed
consumed him. Ace finally saw that survival, freedom and peace,
that's the real win and that's the question for us.
Do we hold onto the hustle until it destroys us
(14:32):
or do we choose a life that loves us back.
That's it for episode nineteen. My lilies, remember your life,
your voice, your values. That's wealth no one can steal
(14:54):
until next time. Keep planting seeds, keep reflecting, and keep living.
Paid in full and spirit, not just in pocket. Back
and our lilies
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