Screenplay:
Tyger WilliamsCinematography:
Lisa RinzlerComposer:
Quincy Jones IIICast:
Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, Samuel L. Jackson, Brandon Hammond, Glenn Plummer, Khandi Alexander, James Pickens Jr., Jada Pinkett Smith, MC Eiht (more)Plots(1)
Directors Albert and Allen Hughes and screenwriter Tyger Williams were barely into their twenties when they sent shock waves through American cinema and hip-hop culture with this fatalistic, unflinching vision of life and death on the streets of Watts, Los Angeles, in the 1990s. There, in the shadow of the riots of 1965 and 1992, young Caine (Tyrin Turner) is growing up under the influence of his ruthless, drug-dealing father (Samuel L. Jackson, in a chilling cameo) and his loose-cannon best friend, O-Dog (Larenz Tate), leading him into a spiral of violent crime from which he is not sure he wants to escape, despite the best efforts of his grandparents and the steadfast Ronnie (Jada Pinkett). Fusing grim realism with a propulsively stylish aesthetic honed through the Hughes brothers’ work on rap videos, Menace II Society is a searing cautionary tale about the devastating human toll of hopelessness. (Criterion)
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Menace II Society
The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: Sony Legacy
Year: 1993
Country: USA
Format: CD
Length: 01:09:35
1. | "Nigga Gots No Heart" - Spice 1 | 03:07 | |
2. | "Streiht Up Menace" - MC Eiht | 04:36 | |
3. | "Packin' A Gun" - Ant Banks | 04:01 | |
4. | "Top Of The World" - Kenya Gruv | 04:04 | |
5. | "Only The Strong Will Survive" - Too $hort | 05:06 | |
6. | "All Over A Ho" - Mz. Kilo | 05:58 | |
7. | "Guerillas Ain't Gangstas" - Da Lench Mob | 04:09 | |
8. | "You Been Played" - Smooth | 04:20 | |
9. | "Lick Dem Muthaphuckas" - Brand Nubian | 03:20 | |
10. | "Death Becomes You" - Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth | 04:12 | |
11. | "Unconditional Love" - H-i-Five | 05:04 | |
12. | "'P' Is Still Free" - Boogie Down Productions | 04:57 | |
13. | "Stop Lookin' At Me" - Cutthroats | 03:57 | |
14. | "Pocket Full Of Stones (Port Arthur Remix)" - UGK | 06:13 | |
15. | "Can't Fuck Wit A Nigga" - DJ Quik | 03:23 | |
16. | "Trigga Gots No Heart (Bonus Remix)" - Spice 1 | 03:08 |