This powerful look at day-to-day life in 90s Harlem focuses on Q (Omar Epps) an aspiring disc jockey and his teenage friends Bishop (Tupac Shakur) Raheem (Khalil Kain) and Steel (Jermaine Hopkins) who have to make a difficult decision: Walk the straight and narrow or lead a life of crime. Eventually following the death of a friend they decide they have to rob a neighborhood store to get the respect or juice they feel they re due. With Samuel L. Jackson Queen Latifah; Ernest R. Dickerson directs. 94 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English DTS HD 5.1 Master Audio; Subtitles: English (SDH) French; audio commentary by Dickerson; featurettes.