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.


In the Ghettos of Harlem you don't buy respect... you earn it.
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Omar Epps
Quincy 'Q' Powell

Tupac Shakur
Roland Bishop

Khalil Kain
Raheem Porter
JH
Jermaine Hopkins
Steel

Cindy Herron
Yolanda

Queen Latifah
Ruffhouse M.C.

Vincent Laresca
Radames

Michael Badalucco
Detective Kelly
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