New-er Jack City, Coming Soon..

Am I my brothers keeper?
Yes. I. Am.

Chris Rock As “Pookie”

New Jack City, is an urban classic, hands down. It stars & features your favorite 90’s celebrities: Chris Rock, Bill Dunn (Do The Right Thing), Vanessa Williams (Soulfood: The Series), Allen Payne, Westley Snipes, the fab Michael Michele, Mario Van Peebles, & Ice-T. It inspired Cash Money Records (orginally called Cash Money Brother after New Jack’s CMB). Also, Cash Money’s money-machine Lil’ Wayne, al la Tha Carter (more so TC2, the proof is in the interludes). Not to mention one of the greatest lines ever.. “sit yo five dolla ass down before i make change.”

LOL! You know you couldn’t wait to use that line on somebody.

And the soundtrack had some hot songs: “Im Dreaming,” For The Love Of Money/Living For The City,” & “I Wanna Sex You Up.” I swear the 90’s had the best music..

ahhh memories!…

With all that said.. there will be a sequel. Yes the death of yet another classic. The screen play was written by a NY Transit Authority worker. And of course like most straight-to-dvd films none of the original cast will be included.

Shame on it, somebody holler at Mr. Van Peebles.

And the orginal screen writer isn’t too thrilled either…

I know Warner Brothers is not only in the business of making movies, they are in the business of making money. So on that level, I understand why they want to make a sequel of New Jack City as fast and as cost-efficient as possible. But New Jack City is a franchise, and a movement and a template. If there was no New Jack City, there would be no Nino-swagger available for Sean Carter, Sean Combs, Dwayne Carter, and Clifford Harris to study and become Jigga, Diddy, Lil Wayne, and T.I. There would be no Paid In Full, and there would be no The Wire. So for Warner to do a direct-to-DVD New Jack City without Wes Snipes, Al Payne, Ice-T, Chris Rock, Mario Van Peebles, and myself, is almost like doing the Godfather II with the cast of ’70s sitcom Barney Miller. It’s a stinker. But it is what it is. I just had to speak on it. And my novella “The Diary Of Nino Brown” is my umbrella against the wack juice that sequel is going to be spraying.

do you a agree?

You can see the classic Sunday, August 31st on BET

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