However, the local gang showed sympathy and take the wounded youths to a hospital. One night, Caine and Sharif are pulled over and assaulted by racist police and left in Mexican gang territory to die. Once released, Caine ups his game, buys a new car from a chop shop and robs a local hustler for his Dayton wheels, jewelry, and stereo.Ĭaine begins to enjoy his new hustler life with his crew, meeting a local girl named Ilena and shirking all ambition and responsibilities. Although, the authorities lessen the charge to joyriding a detective attempts to link Caine to the store killings by matching fingerprints from the dropped beer bottle. As a minor, O-Dog is released with a warning Caine, however, being the age of eighteen, is charged as an adult. Weeks later, Caine and O-Dog are hired by a local hood Chauncy, for a car insurance scheme but are caught in the process and arrested by Police. A week later, O-Dog informs Caine that he has learned the identity of the jackers and with A-Wax in tow, murder the assailants, exacting revenge. The robbers murder Harold and shoot Caine in the shoulder who is rushed to the hospital afterwards by O-Dog and their crew. Later, while en route to meet the others at a local fastfood eatery, Harold and Caine are carjacked. Cain reprimands O-Dog about showing the store video tape to entertain neighborhood friends. That night, Caine and his cousin Harold go to a graduation party where they meet up with O-Dog, an old school street thug called A-Wax, the muslim Sharif and highschool football star Stacy. During a voice-over, he explains that he deals drugs to financially support himself and help Ronnie, while living with his grandparents in the LA housing project Jordan Downs. Years later, on the last day of high school, Caine visits Pernell's ex-girlfriend Ronnie and her son Anthony, who congratulate him on graduating while Pernell is now serving life in prison without parole. Pernell, a local hood and friend of Caine's father, served as his would-be mentor. A short flashback shows a night in the life of young Cain and his parents, filled with partying, drinking, drugs and murder that hint at both of their eventual deaths. The titles flash over stock footage of the Watts riots in the 60's and the dawn of of the drug age in South Central Los Angeles during the 70's. Frightened, Caine drops his bottle and beckons his friend to flee the scene as Police sirens advance nearby. He then kills the wife and takes the store video surveillance tape. An argument ensues and while Caine drinks his beer, the now irritated O-Dog shoots, kills and robs the storekeeper. The couple repeatedly exhorts them to pay and leave, even as O-Dog and Caine approach the register to do so. The film begins with a cold open as Caine and his best friend O-Dog enter a local store to buy two bottles of malt liquor as the Korean storekeeper and his wife eye them suspiciously.

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