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He was handsome in a way that wasn’t off-putting. Unlike most of his friends, he was graduating from high school, a fact that endeared him even more with the audience. The son of a junkie mother and a drug dealing, murderous father, raised by grandparents who didn’t understand him, Caine seemed doomed from the very start. And if you grew up in an urban jungle, you probably did too, and if you didn’t, you might have been him. He was young, black, and didn’t give a f**k.Ĭaine Lawson was a boy I went to high school with. Because for all of his bad-ness, he felt like someone you knew, someone you loved. He blurred the lines between hero and villain. Nothing could prepare you for the opening scene of the movie. While Nino Brown was a villain worth hating, Doughboy tugged at your heart strings, and Bishop, you just felt sorry for. Set to gangster rap soundtracks, the new image of African American culture now had faces to match it. New Jack City, Boyz N the Hood, and Juice provided the visuals for the hardcore music of the time.

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The “hood movie” genre was already in full swing. Doughboy had only declared it 2 years earlier, but it seemed like they still didn’t know, didn’t show, or just didn’t care about what was going on in the hood. And the death or incarceration of young, black men. In the early 90’s, and violence was just a fact of life.Īnd so were guns. It was an inconveinece that we didn’t even think twice about. Patrons were being waved down with security wands, scanned for guns.

My cousin and I went to a see it at a theater that has long since closed down, The Americana. A hot Memorial Day weekend, May 26, 1993.

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