Beanie Sigel,
Victor 'Noreaga' Santiago,
Damon Dash,
Michael Bentt,
Omillio Sparks
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Hip-hop mogul Damon Dash wrote, directed, and stars in this hard-hitting examination of life in the criminal underground of a great city. Three different crime bosses are locked in a battle over the d... read more
DVD Release Date: July 12, 2005
Stats: 264 reviews
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Flixster Reviews (264)
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April 5, 2007
Absolute garbage. Racist, offensive, mysoginistic glorification of the drug life and murder. This movie is inexcusable and complete trash, with not a single redeeming quality. It is escencially a commercial for the image rap has been selling for the past 15 or so years: selling d... read more
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February 2, 2007
This movie was great because it was so bad and they were really trying their best. All in all, if you get past the shitty acting and the sometimes retched dialog, it had a really cool story line, though it didn't coinside with the original.
Critic Reviews
Dash can't decide whether he's making New Jack City or Friday.
You mean there was a State Property 1?
Dash's film is less the stuff cults are made of than fantasies. Full Review
Slicker, funnier and more professional than its predecessor. Full Review
No more three-dimensional than your average brand-name-laden hip-hop video. Full Review
This brutal chronicle of heavily armed drug dealers is best appreciated (or disdained) as a raw, bracing expression of the spirit of capitalism. Full Review
You may call the film blingsploitation but its fun-loving hoodlums know who's fooling whom.
At least Dash corralled every artist he knew into playing cameo roles, so bored or confused fans can bide their time star-spotting the likes of Mariah Carey, Kanye West and Angie Martinez. Full Review
Attempts at real ruggish posturing -- like that de rigueur sideways-gatted, full-body-exposure firing stance -- are just plain laughable. Full Review
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