

New Jack City(1991)
They're a new breed of gangster. The new public enemy. The new family of crime.
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.

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