if this be suppose to be the black experience and let me out at either the front or back door . a mama boy one day see 2 young hood walk by and from then on it all down hill for him . angela bassett and the one shin grace in this film and play his over protective and religious mother . despite her anger at how his life have turn and by the middle of the picture and she really decide to accept this . she allow his friend to come in and suddenly it all right to use the profanity as long a it not in front of the child . this be a sad state of affair regard gangster rap . you know where this film be head . i literally laugh out loud when at the end and when bassett be accompany her son body for burial and she state that while his life have be cut short at age 24 and he have become a man . what man . he have be a convict criminal and write the most atrocious rap music with constant vulgarity and and scorn society . that scene in the classroom where he tell a teacher that a a sanitation worker and he will earn more than the teacher be a perfect example of what go on in our school . the complete and utter lack of respect for the teacher . the east coast and west coast gang rap rivalry be never fully explain . all we see be guns blazing . a terrible picture do nothing to prevent gang violence . what horrible role model be these rap singer and their foul music . the african american community should take umbrage at their very be . who be this classless fat slob who portray biggie . he make rerun from the old television show look thin by comparison . i know it be the street of bedford stuyvesant that change this chubby little boy into the vulgar monster that he be . what a sorry state of affair when this be call motion picture entertainment .