1992/01/17 (US) | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In the Ghettos of Harlem you don't buy respect... you earn it.
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.
Ernest R. Dickerson
Screenplay
Ernest R. Dickerson
Director
Gerard Brown
Screenplay
Omar Epps
Quincy 'Q' Powell
Tupac Shakur
Roland Bishop
Khalil Kain
Raheem Porter
No Image
Jermaine Hopkins
Steel
Cindy Herron
Yolanda
Samuel L. Jackson
Trip
Queen Latifah
Ruffhouse M.C.
$ 5,000,000
$ 20,146,880
Released
Ralph McDaniels
Associate Producer
Hank Shocklee
Original Music Composer
Preston L. Holmes
Co-Producer
Walter Blake
Carpenter
Kim Meinelt
Scenic Artist