That wasn't the half Slept with Donetta Let Marlo become too powerful to compete with Gave away all the corners with no product Didn't kill Butchy or Vincent And told Prop Joe's big mouth Mouzone was coming before they even payed him
Way deeper then that on Avons Part. when brother Mazone came to talk to Avon he was there about to kill him as well. Avon want worried about that and more worried about what Stringer did and knowing his friend had too go. brother Mazoune Mentioned it was his name and reputation why he was sitting there with him now(meaning he would have killed him if Avon wasn't about his word.)💯
@@Classichumor4lifethe brother wasn't gonna kill Avon that ain't how he do business 🤷🏾♂️ his target was Stringer he went to the barber shop just to tell Avon they can't do business anymore ever. Like Prop Joe said earlier in the show if the brother gunning for you ain't shit keeping him from knocking you off.
@@Reese1882yw now that's the most unrealistic part of the show , stringer getting ambushed and not killing muzone , the series only fault was killing stringer , the writers did it worse , stringer wouldn't have been written off
Colvin had all the gangstas respect thats how he took weebay son and move the workers off the corner he didn’t like snitches that’s why he looked at stringer that way
Wrong!! Season 2 is the best. It’s both overrated and underrated, both misunderstood and well written, and the closest thing to the Sopranos that I can defend whenever someone likes anything else in The Wire.
@@dg6099 no one else is asking for anyone else’s opinion yet folks still post it, Besides, us season 2 supporters like you and I, know season 2 is the best season and they shoulda made the whole show about season 2.
I never understood how Stranger expected to get away with that. Even without no paperwork Avon and crew would easily figure out it was Stringer who told and Avon would have him hit up from inside.
@chriso8193 yeah, but he has no street smarts either? Avon was going to easily put 2 and 2 together and pin it on Stringer and he still would have had enough juice to put hitters on him. Stringer didn't have the support from his people like that, especially if Avon calls him a rat.
Brother Muozone and Omar catching up to Stinger was the best case scenario..how long did he think he would survive in the game being a known rat!?He didn't have the Greeks' connections! They dropped dimes on their enemies,but hid it better. No way Avon was going to get arrested again,and Stringer stay free!
Still tho, even after he took out Stringer, Avon said Stringer was right about all of this. Dropping bodies ain't worth it. But that too was Stringers fault. He tried to break free from the crime game without taking out the enemies that would hunt them down. If you live by the sword you'll die by it. They should have took out Marlo early to protect themselves instead of thinking they can break free from the consequences of the game while still stepping halfway inside of it. They can only act clean after they've become clean and his partner Avon never wanted to go clean. So Stringer needed to isolate himself fully but he didn't do so and kept one foot in. He played away games instead of commiting to the business life and going away from crime! He could have been very successful. But as far as life goes, every man dies some day. Stringer lived the best life way better than 90% of Kings and died like a Man too that's good enough for a Man's story. Successful beyond anything and he made Avon too. Without Stringer the Barksdale were nothing but another Marlo
but I thought he said the "the boy gave you up, and we didn't have to poacher his ass" was because of the kid that String got got & tried to tell Omar it was Brother Mouzone who did the work on that?
@@carliushardin4229prop Joe was who they were buying product from. New York was his street connections. They were the equivalent of the 5 families of LCN. He was going to lose his reputation if he didn't give up Stringer.
if he was a regular snitch, then Bunny wouldn't need to check his bona fides. More like they knew each other way back, but hasn't been in touch for many year
@@PeterT-i1w that's what I thought too but Bunny and String are in two different age groups so it's unlikely they grew up together. My theory is that String helped Bunny put away all the Westside players that the Barksdale organization were fighting during Avon's rise to power. Essentially it's a similar situation to the real life case of Whitey Bulger, a mob boss who was an informant for the FBI and helped them arrest his rivals in exchange for his gang being overlooked by the authorities. I think it makes sense only because String is a dirty player of the game and has shown he's willing to do whatever it takes to win. Also, String and Bunny both want to limit the violence of the game.
@@stevenlovejoy6838 They didn't grow up together, but Bunny was likely a patrol officer when Stringer was a kid, starting with petty crimes. They could have also lived on the same street, could have been even distant relatives.
I'm not sure if that's true. Stringer tells Colvin that his doing in starting Hamsterdam is what made him come to him with this kind of information. But its possible that he's done something similar before.
They knew each other from before but Colvin doing Hamsterdam allowed Stringer to reach out. Colvin is old skool police, same attitude in some ways to McNulty before he went way over the edge. They knew the locals and weren't into stats but 'good policing' that probably held some sway, especially with some of the wild ones in the Western who were no less thugs than the actual thugs. That is my opinion at least.
I thought String, he was a solid dude at first. Come to find out he was coldhearted as a maw fucca crossed his own family out just to make it to the top. DAMN‼️
They had to separate ideas of where they wanted the business to go. Stringer wanted to be a hidden piece to the drug trade Avon wanted to be the face of the brand in the streets/ in stringers mind Avon was bad for the overall operation
Stringer was right. He just handled it wrong and couldn't convince the hot head that the game had changed and his moves were bad for business and outdated
@@deldarin No, he was wrong. Because the entire business was focused around the reputation and respect that Avon carried, and every little deal he worked with on prop Joe and Clay Davis worked to syphon money and power away from their organization. East side would've swallowed up Stringer eventually.
Wrong it really had todo with Stringer having D killed in Jail and all the Fuck ups Avon found out that Stringer ratted him out after! when the house got rated
@@DesireGalvez9 Avon didnt know anything he was being emotional about the D stuff even though String followed the code of the game. When they suspected of someone snitching or attempting to snitch they got rid of them. All of that went out the window though because blood was involved lol
Avon was always smarter than string. Avon knew the rule of the street game. String was dumb to the street game but took an economics class and thought he was smarter. That was his downfall. You can apply economics to the street game and be successful but you have to know and understand the street game to do so. A smart man of the streets would never cross the brother and most definitely wouldn’t use Omar to do so. String down played the intelligence of Omar, the brother and also Avon which in return was the downfall of himself.
Man this scene was so intense and deep..I can remember watching it on my CPU..😂...That was some real good ass acting on that show! They in the graveyard talking and made the scene that much more dramatic.
Like a true businessman, Stringer called the police on Avon. Like a true gangster, Avon had Stringer dealt with. Both men crossed each other but in the ways that described them personally.
To be fair to Stringer, before this Stringer tells Avon they’re gonna cut them out of the connect if the war keep up so even it they win they lose because they aren’t gonna have any dope to put on the corners.
You’re wrong, Avon and stringer had dope they dope was coming from New York, Joe dope came from the Greeks, Joe got inside stringer head, convincing him to give up some of his territory, he did the same thing with marlo. They did not need Joe dope because they had monopolize all the corners. New York dope was stepped on the Greeks had pure dope, you cannot sell your drugs if you have no territory, Joe knew this. And this was the downfall of Avon organization.
I just don't understand why it would take Avon 30 years to realize Stringer wasn't really about that life. I think that Stringer also did D'Angelo so dirty because he saw himself in him and didn't like it.
@@JBenzBTW Nah. He went up to the line but he turned around. It doesn't matter though. The rules for baltimore mobs are a lot more stringent and punishing than for cosa nostra.
Avon didn’t know how to play the corporate/buisness man role, stringer didn’t know how to play the street role. However they both thought their weaknesses were their strengths and it got them in trouble.👌🏾
As far as direction, Stringer Bell was ghost, Avon was Tommy. You got one that got tired of the game and wanted to further expand, and you got the other that was cool with the game, and didn't want change💯
Its part of the game! Ppl play the game different! Unless YOU in the streets and one of them street ppl! YOU shouldn't focus on rats! Focus on your children and living life like a regular human! Let me guess you a street N***a!
Stringer wasn't weak if Avon went down without him being killed. String still had the low rises, still had corners on westside. Yes there was Marlo but lets not forget String is a founding member of the Co-Op. One might say he would've been known as a rat, Avon was only showed his name because String had already went.
Hamsterdam worked on so many levels. Stringer says here "it was because of that shit that I came to you with this." Literally would have ended the ongoing gang war.
They were both in the wrong…Stringer shouldn’t have been making all those moves behind avons back and Avon shouldn’t have 💩on his homeboy for trying to better himself
He was smart, just not as smart as he thought. String looked at the world the way it could be but couldn't see it as it was. Avon lived for the moment but had no vision for the future.
It took me watching this series 60 x’s to realize that stringer was the weakest link the entire show he wasn’t built for the game that’s why he got rainmade but clay davis. Shhhhhhhhhh
Giant rat. Hated him from the start. Caused most of the problems, downfall of Barksdale crew and punked by a senator. Couldn't handle he got clowned. Thought he was smart but he was a dope. If not for this Avon and all of them would've lit up Marlow like it was xmas. Rat Stringer.
He was mad Slim and Avon aint help him w the Clay Davis problem.😂😂
😂 😂 Yep! And also getting kicked out of the Co-op 💯
Watch the Wire series in it's entirely
Not TH-cam Clips..
Smh
@@wayne9077you do understand the idea that people can do both, right? Like you understand you don’t have to be a dick for no reason, right?
@@ridleysomeliana-lauer5814💯
Avon told him bout playing those away games smh 🤦🏾♂️
“You’re boy gave you up!”
Stringer time was coming & so was Omar even though he didn't kill innocent people.
Your*
“And we ain’t have to torture his ass either!”
@@DJTravTV Torcha*
“We’ll get on with MF’s…💥💥💥”
Ratted avon , ordered to kill d, wallce , littleman etc, lost 250k this dude was a trip 😅
Avon is the one who wanted Wallace killed. And why not? Wallace DID snitch
Made a bunch of money too, took it to another level y avon was booked
N he was really telling on avon for his own good, ain’t like he was tryn get him life
That wasn't the half
Slept with Donetta
Let Marlo become too powerful to compete with
Gave away all the corners with no product
Didn't kill Butchy or Vincent
And told Prop Joe's big mouth Mouzone was coming before they even payed him
D and Wallace would have folded like laundry so it was probably the right call, and the chair doesn't recognize your ignorant ass as having the floor
It’s funny how stringer got Avon sent to jail to protect the business and Avon got stringer killed to save the business 😂 ant that ironic
Way deeper then that on Avons Part. when brother Mazone came to talk to Avon he was there about to kill him as well. Avon want worried about that and more worried about what Stringer did and knowing his friend had too go. brother Mazoune Mentioned it was his name and reputation why he was sitting there with him now(meaning he would have killed him if Avon wasn't about his word.)💯
@@Classichumor4lifethe brother wasn't gonna kill Avon that ain't how he do business 🤷🏾♂️ his target was Stringer he went to the barber shop just to tell Avon they can't do business anymore ever. Like Prop Joe said earlier in the show if the brother gunning for you ain't shit keeping him from knocking you off.
Both y'all right
Damn
@@Reese1882yw now that's the most unrealistic part of the show , stringer getting ambushed and not killing muzone , the series only fault was killing stringer , the writers did it worse , stringer wouldn't have been written off
Business my ass it was personal 😂
everybody is a person
No such thing as strictly business anywhere. Emotions are always involved.
Prolly a mix of the 2...
Ahahahahahahaahhahahahahahahaah that's was sooooooo fuuuuuunyyyyyyttt ahahahahabbaahababababb
Little did Stringer know, Avon had already given him up to Bro. Mouzone.
2:30 I take it at this moment McNulty realized that Colvin was Stringers contact in the Western. Never caught that before.
Yep! Solving the puzzle in real time lol
I have to rewatch this!!! 🙏🙏🙏
Colvin had all the gangstas respect thats how he took weebay son and move the workers off the corner he didn’t like snitches that’s why he looked at stringer that way
Yeah, never caught that before too. That's wild!
0:07 "Heavy is the head that wears the crown" and then it cuts to Stringer with a heavy looking gut instead
I think he drinks a lot more in s3 than he does in s1 and 2. And whiskey is very calorie dense.
Best comment on TH-cam yet 😂
"greed"
Avon and Stringer’s storyline has to be my favorite in the series.
Wrong!! Season 2 is the best. It’s both overrated and underrated, both misunderstood and well written, and the closest thing to the Sopranos that I can defend whenever someone likes anything else in The Wire.
@@steverogers7601lol talkin about he is wrong bc his opinion😭😭
@@steverogers7601he wasn’t asking for your opinion
@@dg6099 no one else is asking for anyone else’s opinion yet folks still post it,
Besides, us season 2 supporters like you and I, know season 2 is the best season and they shoulda made the whole show about season 2.
@@steverogers7601 loser
"Nah, it's just business."
The guy Stringer most wanted to be like, without ever knowing he even existed: "Business. Always business."
Stringer deserved to go. He broke so many rules of the game. Cold-hearted dude also.
Stinger was stressing out around this time
I never understood how Stranger expected to get away with that. Even without no paperwork Avon and crew would easily figure out it was Stringer who told and Avon would have him hit up from inside.
It was explained when Stringer told Avon the truth about D-Angelo. One bleed red, one bleeds green. Stringer don't play by the street code like Avon.
@chriso8193 yeah, but he has no street smarts either? Avon was going to easily put 2 and 2 together and pin it on Stringer and he still would have had enough juice to put hitters on him. Stringer didn't have the support from his people like that, especially if Avon calls him a rat.
@@ibramblebush Stringer would bounce. He was one of the few guys smart enough (or just willing) to leave the streets.
Brother Muozone and Omar catching up to Stinger was the best case scenario..how long did he think he would survive in the game being a known rat!?He didn't have the Greeks' connections! They dropped dimes on their enemies,but hid it better. No way Avon was going to get arrested again,and Stringer stay free!
Avon definitely had a decision to make. Give up his drug connection or his partner who's already gave you up to the police?
Still tho, even after he took out Stringer, Avon said Stringer was right about all of this. Dropping bodies ain't worth it.
But that too was Stringers fault. He tried to break free from the crime game without taking out the enemies that would hunt them down. If you live by the sword you'll die by it. They should have took out Marlo early to protect themselves instead of thinking they can break free from the consequences of the game while still stepping halfway inside of it. They can only act clean after they've become clean and his partner Avon never wanted to go clean. So Stringer needed to isolate himself fully but he didn't do so and kept one foot in. He played away games instead of commiting to the business life and going away from crime! He could have been very successful. But as far as life goes, every man dies some day. Stringer lived the best life way better than 90% of Kings and died like a Man too that's good enough for a Man's story. Successful beyond anything and he made Avon too. Without Stringer the Barksdale were nothing but another Marlo
but I thought he said the "the boy gave you up, and we didn't have to poacher his ass" was because of the kid that String got got & tried to tell Omar it was Brother Mouzone who did the work on that?
@@pharaohsmagician8329there’s always another Marlo
@@carliushardin4229prop Joe was who they were buying product from. New York was his street connections. They were the equivalent of the 5 families of LCN. He was going to lose his reputation if he didn't give up Stringer.
Bunk says you're only as good as your CI. What does it say about Colvin that he had the most powerful CI in the game?
wild when you think about it. Colvin had String as a CI and could sit down with Weebay and talk.
Colvin was natural PO-lice.
The dynamic between Stringer and Bunny makes you realize that this definitely wasn't the first time String supplied information to the police.
if he was a regular snitch, then Bunny wouldn't need to check his bona fides. More like they knew each other way back, but hasn't been in touch for many year
@@PeterT-i1w that's what I thought too but Bunny and String are in two different age groups so it's unlikely they grew up together.
My theory is that String helped Bunny put away all the Westside players that the Barksdale organization were fighting during Avon's rise to power. Essentially it's a similar situation to the real life case of Whitey Bulger, a mob boss who was an informant for the FBI and helped them arrest his rivals in exchange for his gang being overlooked by the authorities.
I think it makes sense only because String is a dirty player of the game and has shown he's willing to do whatever it takes to win. Also, String and Bunny both want to limit the violence of the game.
@@stevenlovejoy6838 They didn't grow up together, but Bunny was likely a patrol officer when Stringer was a kid, starting with petty crimes. They could have also lived on the same street, could have been even distant relatives.
I'm not sure if that's true. Stringer tells Colvin that his doing in starting Hamsterdam is what made him come to him with this kind of information. But its possible that he's done something similar before.
They knew each other from before but Colvin doing Hamsterdam allowed Stringer to reach out.
Colvin is old skool police, same attitude in some ways to McNulty before he went way over the edge.
They knew the locals and weren't into stats but 'good policing' that probably held some sway, especially with some of the wild ones in the Western who were no less thugs than the actual thugs.
That is my opinion at least.
Idris always good at villain roles
Shit Broke My Heart 😢
One of those clips where you keep rewinding to read all the comments. We had us a COMMUNITY.
Its not mentioned but alluded to in this scene that Phil did 20 years in the can thanks to Stinger Bell.
Good robot 👍
your brother billy what ever happened there
I thought String, he was a solid dude at first. Come to find out he was coldhearted as a maw fucca crossed his own family out just to make it to the top. DAMN‼️
Sometimes the game will put you up against ur right hand man or, as Stringer said, "his brother". The Wire will never get old. This was must see TV
“A man with no country”
All things must end!!!
Like Silvio, Stringer should have known his place as the number 2. He wasn't cut out to be no CEO.
They had to separate ideas of where they wanted the business to go. Stringer wanted to be a hidden piece to the drug trade Avon wanted to be the face of the brand in the streets/ in stringers mind Avon was bad for the overall operation
Stringer was right. He just handled it wrong and couldn't convince the hot head that the game had changed and his moves were bad for business and outdated
@@deldarin No, he was wrong. Because the entire business was focused around the reputation and respect that Avon carried, and every little deal he worked with on prop Joe and Clay Davis worked to syphon money and power away from their organization. East side would've swallowed up Stringer eventually.
That’s why avon threw his ass to the wolves !
Wrong it really had todo with Stringer having D killed in Jail and all the Fuck ups Avon found out that Stringer ratted him out after! when the house got rated
@@Sportysports396wrong goofy. barksdale been knew. It was just enough was enough. Had nothing to do with D.
Avon didn't know he snitched until he got arrested on the last episode of season 3
@@DesireGalvez9 Avon didnt know anything he was being emotional about the D stuff even though String followed the code of the game. When they suspected of someone snitching or attempting to snitch they got rid of them. All of that went out the window though because blood was involved lol
Avon didn't know yet he found out when they raided
Stringer done got real friendly! 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Avon: What I tell you about playing them away games
String still the best character in the entire show regardless if he's loved or hated
Stringer speaks to his muscle like their his kids
Avon was always smarter than string. Avon knew the rule of the street game. String was dumb to the street game but took an economics class and thought he was smarter. That was his downfall. You can apply economics to the street game and be successful but you have to know and understand the street game to do so. A smart man of the streets would never cross the brother and most definitely wouldn’t use Omar to do so. String down played the intelligence of Omar, the brother and also Avon which in return was the downfall of himself.
String wasn’t dumb, he just made too much sense to be a gangsta, he wasn’t a wolf like Avon.
"it's just bidness Strang" 🤣
Man this scene was so intense and deep..I can remember watching it on my CPU..😂...That was some real good ass acting on that show! They in the graveyard talking and made the scene that much more dramatic.
Shit get grimey out here
Stringer got taking for a ride by Clay Davis 😂
Like a true businessman, Stringer called the police on Avon.
Like a true gangster, Avon had Stringer dealt with.
Both men crossed each other but in the ways that described them personally.
this lookin like the hardest part of the game if you ask me
Nah, it's just bussines
One of the best lines in the show 💯
To be fair to Stringer, before this Stringer tells Avon they’re gonna cut them out of the connect if the war keep up so even it they win they lose because they aren’t gonna have any dope to put on the corners.
You’re wrong, Avon and stringer had dope they dope was coming from New York, Joe dope came from the Greeks, Joe got inside stringer head, convincing him to give up some of his territory, he did the same thing with marlo. They did not need Joe dope because they had monopolize all the corners. New York dope was stepped on the Greeks had pure dope, you cannot sell your drugs if you have no territory, Joe knew this. And this was the downfall of Avon organization.
I just don't understand why it would take Avon 30 years to realize Stringer wasn't really about that life. I think that Stringer also did D'Angelo so dirty because he saw himself in him and didn't like it.
@@quietchili Did we watch the same show? D was going to snitch, so Stringer killed em because Avon was his family and didn't believe he would snitch.
@@JBenzBTW Nah. He went up to the line but he turned around. It doesn't matter though. The rules for baltimore mobs are a lot more stringent and punishing than for cosa nostra.
Honestly jail would’ve suited him better than death…. It would’ve been the biggest yo lock that door moment in the series lol
I can't stand Idris to this day because of this scene
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What? Lmao. You can't stand an actor because of a role he played?
@@mastod0n1 He's a good actor
Part of the game eh Stringer? 😂😂
This guy here bro 🫢
Now he gonna be a rat for the cops...that look from Avon said it all when he got pinched..your days are numbered string!😳😑🙄😅👊💥💯💯
Avon didn’t know how to play the corporate/buisness man role, stringer didn’t know how to play the street role. However they both thought their weaknesses were their strengths and it got them in trouble.👌🏾
As far as direction, Stringer Bell was ghost, Avon was Tommy. You got one that got tired of the game and wanted to further expand, and you got the other that was cool with the game, and didn't want change💯
Shaka Zulu to Stringer bell
Your are a Man with no Nation
you are a Shadow!!! Avon was right
about stringer
Know honor amongst criminals
Playing away games stringer that he was smarter then everybody and got killed for it 😊
I never considered what Stringer did snithcing.
They all snitch in the end
Man
Heavy is the head that wears the crown 👑
Bottom line-Stringer got too ambitious-which ultimately led to his death.
While he was doing this Avon had to give him up for ordering the hit on brother muzone
Even police don’t like rats
Its part of the game! Ppl play the game different! Unless YOU in the streets and one of them street ppl! YOU shouldn't focus on rats! Focus on your children and living life like a regular human! Let me guess you a street N***a!
Crossed his own family smh
Stringer wasn't weak if Avon went down without him being killed. String still had the low rises, still had corners on westside. Yes there was Marlo but lets not forget String is a founding member of the Co-Op. One might say he would've been known as a rat, Avon was only showed his name because String had already went.
An amazing scene, almost Shakespearian.
After davon got killed he start thinking the game wasn’t worth it that one hurt stringer
How you tell the cops that there is my brother 😂😂😂 and talking about tryna make sense of it naw string that shit don’t make sense
One I can about Stringer he didn’t try to kill Avon just send him away.
Hamsterdam worked on so many levels. Stringer says here "it was because of that shit that I came to you with this." Literally would have ended the ongoing gang war.
there where there were there
They were both in the wrong…Stringer shouldn’t have been making all those moves behind avons back and Avon shouldn’t have 💩on his homeboy for trying to better himself
Still shameful
Snitch!
When you and your business partners no longer see eye to eye. The 48 laws of power didn't cover that.
Lost all respect for stringer
😂😂😂😂
Smh 😂😂
Stringer was not smart
He was smart, just not as smart as he thought. String looked at the world the way it could be but couldn't see it as it was. Avon lived for the moment but had no vision for the future.
It took me watching this series 60 x’s to realize that stringer was the weakest link the entire show he wasn’t built for the game that’s why he got rainmade but clay davis. Shhhhhhhhhh
stringer was right;
avon _had_ to go.
How he your brother 😂
An this Why Avon had him killed
😯
Giant rat. Hated him from the start. Caused most of the problems, downfall of Barksdale crew and punked by a senator. Couldn't handle he got clowned. Thought he was smart but he was a dope. If not for this Avon and all of them would've lit up Marlow like it was xmas. Rat Stringer.
Ain't no picture coming on the screen wtf