Beanie Sigel,
Omillio Sparks,
Memphis Bleek,
Damon Dash,
Sundy Carter
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One man's efforts to get ahead on the streets lead him into a life of danger in this hard-hitting urban drama from Roc-A-Fella Films, the production company run by top hip-hop artist Jay-Z. Beans (Bea... read more
DVD Release Date: May 21, 2002
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February 28, 2002
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
January 21, 2002
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Basically a static series of semi-improvised (and semi-coherent) raps between the stars.
January 19, 2002
A.O. Scott, New York Times
Lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 10 years ago. Full Review
March 19, 2002
Joe Leydon, San Francisco Examiner
The acting is amateurish, the cinematography is atrocious, the direction is clumsy, the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing.
March 19, 2002
Rachel Deahl, Boxoffice Magazine
A dull, simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs, death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets. Full Review
March 7, 2002
Luke Y. Thompson, New Times
No one involved, save Dash, shows the slightest aptitude for acting, and the script, credited to director Abdul Malik Abbott and Ernest 'Tron' Anderson, seems entirely improvised.
January 25, 2002
Cynthia Fuchs, Nitrate Online
... for all its social and political potential, State Property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightful. Full Review
January 22, 2002
Bill Pearis, Citysearch
A shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns, expensive cars, lots of naked women and Rocawear clothing. Full Review
August 9, 2002
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
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