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A slick, enlightening drama about two urban drug dealers (Nas, DMX) who come to a crossroads in their lives and friendship. The absorbing story follows two small-time hoods who hope their New York City street smarts will help them hit it big in Omaha. While one pursues a life of crime, the other's life changes when he becomes a daddy. Taral Hicks, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Method Man, Hassan Johnson.
1998
English
Stereo
Crime Drama
Drama
Organized Crime
Other
Cast & Crew
Nas
(Actor)
.. Sincere
DMX
(Actor)
.. Tommy Brown
Taral Hicks
(Actor)
.. Kisha
Tionne "T-Boz'' Watkins
(Actor)
.. Tionne
Method Man
(Actor)
.. Shameek
Hassan Johnson
(Actor)
.. Mark
Power
(Actor)
.. Knowledge
Louie Rankin
(Actor)
.. Lennox
Tyrin Turner
(Actor)
.. Big
Benjamin F. Muhammed
(Actor)
.. Reverend Saviour
Oli Grant
(Actor)
.. Knowledge
Kurt Loder
(Actor)
.. Himself
Stanley Drayton
(Actor)
.. Wise
Benjamin Chavis
(Actor)
.. Rev. Saviour
Jay Black
(Actor)
.. Black
Lavita Raynor
(Actor)
.. Kionna
Frank Vincent
(Actor)
.. Roger
James Parris
(Actor)
.. Lakid
Eric Keith McNeil
(Actor)
.. Shorty
Xavier Simmons
(Actor)
.. Young Tommy
Monica Michaels
(Actor)
.. Club Manager
David Edwards
(Actor)
.. Federal Agent
Jeffrey Kaufman
(Actor)
.. Federal Agent
Brant Spencer
(Actor)
.. Federal Agent
Adam Vignola
(Actor)
.. Federal Agent
John 'B.J.' Bryant
(Actor)
.. Thug No. 1
Prince "Blunt" Graham
(Actor)
.. Thug No. 2
Wondosas "Kilo" Martin
(Actor)
.. Thug No. 3
Shaun Morrison
(Actor)
.. Housekeeper
Micaal Stevens
(Actor)
.. Killer
Michael Woodhouse
(Actor)
.. Older Barber
Tyrone Lewis
(Actor)
.. Younger Barber
Carmen Yannuzzi Jr.
(Actor)
.. Guard
Crystal N. Johnson
(Actor)
.. Knowledge's Cop Girlfriend
James Gresham
(Actor)
.. Speaker
Michael Manning
(Actor)
.. Teacher
More Information
Did You Know..
Nas
(Actor)
.. Sincere
Born:
September 14, 1973
Birthplace: Queens, New York, United States
Birthplace: Queens, New York, United States
Trivia:
Acclaimed debut album, Illmatic (1994), spawned several hit singles and established him as a rising hip-hop star. Made his big-screen debut opposite rapper DMX in the 1998 crime drama Belly. Scored his biggest commercial hits with the back-to-back double-platinum albums It Was Written (1996) and I Am... (1999). Collaborated with his jazz musician father, Olu Dara, on "Bridging the Gap," from Nas' 2004 double album, Streets Disciple. Vied with Jay-Z for the East Coast rap crown following the 1997 death of rapper Notorious B.I.G.; the pair finally settled their feud in 2005, and went on to collaborate in the studio. Named No. 5 on MTV's list of the 10 Greatest MCs of All Time in 2006.
DMX
(Actor)
.. Tommy Brown
Born:
December 18, 1970
Trivia:
Rap star DMX is following in the footsteps of Ice-T, LL Cool J, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and countless other rappers who have moonlighted as actors. But if the great box office or the critical acclaim he received for his performance in the otherwise-maligned Exit Wounds means anything, chances are moviegoers will be seeing a lot more of him. Born as Earl Simmons on December 18, 1970, in Baltimore, MD, DMX got his start in the music industry as DJ within the Yonkers Street School Projects and rose to prominence guesting on tracks by LL Cool J and the Lox. Shortly after his first album debuted at the top of the Billboard charts, DMX took his first starring role in Belly, hip-hop video director Hype Williams' visually stunning but completely incomprehensible first feature. The film flopped and few noticed DMX's turn as a hyperviolent, drug-addled thug. But Belly's critical and financial shortcomings didn't deter him from acting again. He had a small role in Romeo Must Die and earned critical acclaim for his role as an enigmatic, shady businessman in Exit Wounds, which mirrored DMX's musical career by debuting atop the box office, eventually raking in upwards of 50 million dollars.
Taral Hicks
(Actor)
.. Kisha
Born:
September 21, 1974
Birthplace: The Bronx, New York, United States
Birthplace: The Bronx, New York, United States
Trivia:
Sang in her church choir since she was young.Her mother was her manager at the beginning of her career.Was inspired by her older sister to pursue a career as a singer and actress.Started her acting career in theater with her sister in a minor supporting role.Made her debut in film in the first film of Robert De Niro as a director.In 1997, she signed a record deal with Motown.
Tionne "T-Boz'' Watkins
(Actor)
.. Tionne
Trivia:
Known to fans the world over as one-third of the R&B girlgroup TLC, Tionne Watkins has been known for most of her career as her stage name, T-Boz. The Iowa-born songstress auditioned for the group when she was 21 while working as a hair stylist in Atlanta, and her distinctly low, deep voice made an instant impression. TLC was soon signed to a major label and got to work recording and touring in support of its debut album. Recording and touring would become everyday business for Watkins, as TLC proved to be a huge hit, topping the charts and selling out venues at every turn. It was during a 1996 tour that Watkins had a major health scare, forcing her to publicly confront that she sickle-cell anemia. The blood disorder had threatened her life and well-being for all of her life, and the singer subsequently became a spokesperson for the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, striving for education and advocacy for sufferers of the disease.Watkins' career with TLC lasted until the tragic death of bandmate Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes in 2002, though the act would remain one of the most successful girlgroups in recording history. As the 2000s rolled forward, Watkins weathered marriage, childbirth, and divorce, as well as appearances on-camera as an actress and behind it as an executive producer. She also began working on a solo album and signed with Universal Records.
Method Man
(Actor)
.. Shameek
Born:
March 02, 1971
Birthplace: Hempstead, New York, United States
Birthplace: Hempstead, New York, United States
Trivia:
Artistic partner of fellow rapper/actor Redman, Method Man was also an original member of the hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan before his solo rap career began. He made two solo albums, the first of which contained the original version of the Grammy award-winning single "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By," featuring Mary J. Blige, as well as numerous collaborations with the likes of Redman, Notorious B.I.G. Method Man has subsequently continued to accumulate a broad range of credits.Featured in Brian Robbins' documentary The Show (1995), preceded by appearances in his own music videos, Method Man officially became an actor in the late 1990s when he appeared in The Great White Hype, Copland, and Belly. He also played a small role in Kevin Reynolds' 187 (1997) and made a guest appearance on an episode of the pseudo-animated series Space Ghost Coast to Coast in 1996.Method Man has made many cameo appearances as himself, in roles ranging from walk-on to starring, in all genres including the film Black and White (1999), the video Backstage: Hard Knock Life, and as the host of the television series Stung in 2002. The HBO dramatic prison series Oz featured Method Man in a 2001 season episode. His acting credits continued with the feature films How High with Redman and Obba Babatunde, and Brown Sugar with Queen Latifah in 2002.Additionally, his background as a rapper aided Method Man's involvement in the film industry, as he is accredited on several soundtracks from the 1990s and 2000s. Soundtrack credits include the major motion pictures Batman Forever, Space Jam, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Rush Hour 2, and All About the Benjamins.He continued to work steadily in a variety of projects including Scary Movie 3, Garden State, Soul Plane, The Wackness, The Sitter, and Red Tails as well as contributing to a number of music documentaries.
Hassan Johnson
(Actor)
.. Mark
Born:
November 19, 1976
Power
(Actor)
.. Knowledge
Louie Rankin
(Actor)
.. Lennox
Tyrin Turner
(Actor)
.. Big
Benjamin F. Muhammed
(Actor)
.. Reverend Saviour
Oli Grant
(Actor)
.. Knowledge
Kurt Loder
(Actor)
.. Himself
Born:
May 05, 1945
Trivia:
To the millions who tune in to get their music information from MTV, he's the solemn voice who has delivered the good, the bad, and the ugly on celebrities. News correspondent Kurt Loder has withstood the obnoxious Jesse Camp trend, the out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new trend, and everything in between. Loder started at MTV in 1988 as anchor of the music news program The Week in Rock, which evolved into 1515, and has covered various teen-culture topics such as drug abuse and neo-Nazi bands. Not to be pigeonholed as merely a spouter of news reports, Loder has also interviewed everyone from Madonna to the Who. Raised in New Jersey, he spent three years in the U.S. Army and, before coming back to the States, was a journalist in Europe. After his return, he wrote for Circus Magazine in the late '70s and then spent nine years as a writer/senior editor at Rolling Stone, to which he still contributes. Loder has also written for Esquire, Details, and Time. He also does daily news reports for MTV Radio Network. The result of his writing talents not only earned him a New York Times best-seller, but a major motion picture as well. His biography on the tempestuous life of Tina Turner during her years with abusive husband Ike, I, Tina, was the basis for the movie What's Love Got to Do With It starring Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne. He has also written liner notes for the 1990 Led Zeppelin box set and the various-artists We Will Fall: The Iggy Pop Tribute, among others, and has played himself in a few movies, including Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 and Airheads.
Stanley Drayton
(Actor)
.. Wise
Benjamin Chavis
(Actor)
.. Rev. Saviour
Jay Black
(Actor)
.. Black
Born:
November 02, 1938
Lavita Raynor
(Actor)
.. Kionna
Frank Vincent
(Actor)
.. Roger
Born:
September 13, 2017
Died: September 13, 2017
Birthplace: North Adams, Massachusetts, United States
Died: September 13, 2017
Birthplace: North Adams, Massachusetts, United States
Trivia:
New Jersey-born character actor Frank Vincent is best known for playing threatening thugs and gangsters, but he actually started out working with Joe Pesci as a comedy duo during the early '70s. Before that, Pesci and Vincent had worked together in a honky tonk band, the Aristocrats, in which Pesci sang lead and Vincent played the drums. The duo broke up in 1975, but not before landing supporting roles as gangsters in the low-budget crime drama Death Collector. Afterward, Vincent disappeared from the entertainment industry until 1978, when he again encountered Pesci, who helped him land the part of Salvi, the gangster whom Pesci badly beats in Martin Scorsese's epic biography Raging Bull (1980). The former duo subsequently teamed in Dear Mr. Wonderful (1982), Scorsese's GoodFellas (1990), where Pesci gave Vincent a fatal beating, and in Casino, where the worm turned and Vincent got to kill Pesci. Vincent found fairly steady employment playing small supporting roles in films of widely varying quality through the early '90s. After appearing in Alan Rudolph's Mortal Thoughts and Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991), Vincent began getting larger screen roles.
James Parris
(Actor)
.. Lakid
Eric Keith McNeil
(Actor)
.. Shorty
Xavier Simmons
(Actor)
.. Young Tommy
Monica Michaels
(Actor)
.. Club Manager
David Edwards
(Actor)
.. Federal Agent
Born:
April 23, 1971
Jeffrey Kaufman
(Actor)
.. Federal Agent
Brant Spencer
(Actor)
.. Federal Agent
Adam Vignola
(Actor)
.. Federal Agent
John 'B.J.' Bryant
(Actor)
.. Thug No. 1
Prince "Blunt" Graham
(Actor)
.. Thug No. 2
Wondosas "Kilo" Martin
(Actor)
.. Thug No. 3
Shaun Morrison
(Actor)
.. Housekeeper
Micaal Stevens
(Actor)
.. Killer
Michael Woodhouse
(Actor)
.. Older Barber
Tyrone Lewis
(Actor)
.. Younger Barber
Carmen Yannuzzi Jr.
(Actor)
.. Guard
Crystal N. Johnson
(Actor)
.. Knowledge's Cop Girlfriend
James Gresham
(Actor)
.. Speaker
Michael Manning
(Actor)
.. Teacher
