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Stars Tupac Shakur (Bishop), Omar Epps (Q), Jermaine Hopkins (Steel), Khalil Kain (Raheem).
Story-- Q, Raheem, Steel and Bishop are a crew of teenagers in downtown Harlem. They each long for power and respect (Juice) of the community. Bishop is sick of getting chased by cops and not havin respect, so he decides that to get the respect they deserve they have to do something to prove themselves.
They hatch a plan to rob the local convienience store. Bishop and Raheem and up for this but Q and Steel have their doubts but do it reluctantly. They do the robbery but Steel accidently says Raheems name out loud and the owner of the shop hears, in desperation of not getting caught Bishop shoots the owner in the head. He dies instantly and the four make their gettaway on foot.
The crew are unhappy wth the fact Bishop pulled a gun on the owner and they all get on his case. Bishop loses his cool and gets in a fight with Raheem and shoots him, Raheem dies.
Bishop shows no remorse over what hes done while Q and Steel feel terrible over the whole thing and they distance themselves from Bishop. Bishop still high from the fact he is gettin power in the hood gets pissed that his homeboys aint wantin to hang around no more. So he traps Steel in an alley way and shoots him, thinkin hes dead Bishop leaves the scene and goes lookin for Q.
Bishop tried to frame Q by tellin people that Q shot Raheem and was capable of shootin anyone. Bishop goes lookin for Q and they have a fight on the roof, after a few minutes Bishop tries to throw Q off it, but Q accidently manages to throw Bishop off the roof, by then the whole block is watchin and see Q as the victim and respect him for the way he handled it.
I think this movie gave 2pac respect he wanted and contributed to his gangster image.
Stars Tupac Shakur (Lucky) and Janet Jackson (Justice)
Story-- Justice a hard workin hairdresser witnesses her drug dealer boyfriend get killed by gangmembers. She is traumatised by this and takes to a life of celibicy.
Justices friend persuedes her to come for a trip with her and her boyfriend and her boyfriends friend Lucky. At first Lucky and Justice despise each other but as they're friends argue constantly they become closer.
All seems to be going alright when they finally reach their destination (Oakland) where Lucky learns that his cousin had been murdered minutes earlier. Lucky is distraught and blames Justice because they stopped on the way there. He decides it wouldn't of happened if they had stopped. He tells Justice this and they have an arguement. Lucky finally comes to his senses and trys to make up with Justice. The movie ends with them being in love.

Above The Rim
Stars---Tupac Shakur (Birdie), Duane Martin (Kyle), Marlon Wayans (Bugaloo), Leon (Shep).
Kyle is a talented young high school basketball player who's dream is to play for the NBA. All is going well for Kyle but when Bugaloo gets out of jail they meet up and Bugaloo introduces him to Birdie, a local gangsta. Birdie who has alot of money invested in a local shoot out competition tries to bribe Kyle into playin for his team instead of his school team.
Kyle is persueded because is coach starts trippin over Kyles game. But when Shep a security guard at Kyles school sees whats happenin and tries to stop him from playin. Kyle pays no attention so Shep gives up trying.
Shep was once a young basketball player but started trippin when his best friend died and gave the game up leavin the town and his family behind broke. It turns out that Birdie and Shep are brothers, and Birdie wants Shep to join the ''business'' as partners. Shep is disgusted by this and decides to leave town again. But before he does, Kyle learns what Birdie is really like and tries to rejoin his school team. But as Birdie needs to win the shoot out he tries to influence Kyles decision by tellin him that he would tell the coach Kyle took money from Birdie which wouldnt be alowed in the game.
The shoot out begins just as Shep starts to leave, Shep changes his mind and makes his way to the shoot out where Birdies and Kyles team are in the final and are playin. But as Birdies team play unfair Kyles is team is left one player short, just as they are about to forfit the game Shep asks to step in for the injured player. He starts to play but Birdie is not happy and goes skitzo and tells the team members to take him out!.
The school teams wins and Birdie is unhappy and tells one of his team members to ''handle your business'' meanin to shoot Kyle for revenge. Shep sees whats happenin and steps jumps in front of Kyle to save him from being shot. Shep gets shot and so does the shooter by police. Shep lives and Kyle goes on to play professional basketball, Bugaloo decides to get revenge on Birdie by walkin into his club and shooting him.