Dame Dash Reveals What It Would Take For 'Paid In Full' Movie Sequel To Happen

Dame Dash has been talking about a sequel to 2002’s Paid In Full for years. Now, he has finally revealed what he needs to get production started — and it has nothing to do with the actual film.

Dash went on Instagram Live recently to explain that the success of his America Nu Network, and specifically its app, are intimately tied to when fans get to continue the story of Rico, Mitch and Ace.

The Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder said that once his company’s phone app gets 100,000 downloads, he can begin working on the movie.

“We at like 18,000 now. I’m gonna see the numbers today — hopefully we hit that 18,000 threshold,” he began. “But at 100,000, I start prepping Paid In Full [2].”

Dash said that his reasoning was simple: he wanted to control the platform on which the movie would eventually appear.

“I tell everybody [who asks me], ‘Why you ain’t made Paid In Full [2]?’ What platform am I gonna put it on where I make the lion’s share of the money and where I can do it the way I want to do without being told what to do? That’s only gonna happen on my own network.”

The mogul has been talking about a Paid In Full sequel for some time now. Back in January 2022, he said he was getting ready to begin filming.

A few months later, he told Shannon Sharpe that the sequel was unlikely to feature much, if any, of the original cast, which was led by Wood Harris, Mekhi Phifer and Cam’ron.

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“They’re too old,” Dame — who produced the original Paid In Full — said matter-of-factly after he was asked if fans will see any of the original actors in the sequel. “They’re all 50 now. We’re going to make Cocoon: Paid In Full? It’ll be what? Paid In Full: Nursing Home? They’re too old to play young characters.”

Dash’s vision for the sequel, as expressed in interviews, is that it would be set in the late 1980s to early ’90s, and would focus on a new, younger batch of characters.

“You’ll see a perspective from the stickup kids at the time, see a perspective of the younger dudes,” he told AllHipHop. “You’ll see perspectives from Kevin Childs, Jay Black, everybody, Lou Simms. It’s going to be off the hook, trust me. A lot of other little stories will be told.”

Kevin Chiles, Jay Black and Lou Simms were all former Harlem drug kingpins who were active at the height of the crack epidemic.