Justice and Bama initially have a clash of personalities, but Marcus calms them after a roadside stop. Marcus leaves with Bama, taking Justice with him. Majestic invites Marcus to become his right-hand man (taking June Bug's place), but Marcus tells him of his aspirations to being a rapper, which Majestic laughs off. When Marcus leaves prison, Bama, Justice, Majestic, and June Bug are waiting for him. Bama gets out of prison before Marcus, but promises he will see him again. After publicly torturing and murdering Odell for his "betrayal", Majestic then takes over Levar's empire as the new kingpin.Īfter encouragement from Bama, Marcus leaves the drug trade behind to pursue and fulfill his lifelong dream of being a rapper, calling himself Young Caesar. Meanwhile, Majestic makes his move to seize control of the local drug trade: he sets Levar up to go to prison, and then frames Levar's second-in-command Odell for it. Marcus is jailed, and during his time in prison, he befriends an inmate named Bama. After an anonymous tip off, cops raid his house and find a gun and drugs, which didn't belong to Marcus. When Raul refuses to identify Marcus as the shooter in a police line up, he is allowed to go free. In retaliation, Marcus attacks Raul, but stops short of murdering him when he realizes it's not worth throwing away the rest of his life, and instead shoots Raul in the legs multiple times as payback for Antwan.
Later one of his close friends, Antwan, is shot and paralyzed at a club by a Colombian named Raul the gunman initially aimed for Marcus.
Years later, Marcus reunites with Charlene and the two become intimate. Majestic, however, plans to become a major drug lord himself, often conspiring with a rap artist he manages named Dangerous. Eventually he abandons high school to sell drugs for local kingpin Levar and his underling, Majestic, full-time. As he grows older, he rejects the idea of legal work and decides to deal drugs, buying new clothing and a gun. No longer able to get the shoes his mother could afford, Marcus turns to selling drugs in order to afford new shoes. Meanwhile, Katrina is murdered by an anonymous figure in an apparent drug deal gone wrong.įorced to live with his grandparents full-time, they themselves also having children to look after, Marcus finds his life less appealing as his grandfather works long hours to support the family. As a result, she is forced to be sent away to live with her grandparents. He writes Charlene a song and sends her a cassette tape, though it is deemed inappropriate by her stepfather. Marcus enjoys the company of his friends, especially his love interest Charlene. She often has to leave him with his grandparents while she conducts business. Marcus is a quiet young boy who adores his loving mother Katrina, and the two live a relatively comfortable life on her drug-dealing income. As the unidentified shooter points the gun to Marcus' head and pulls the trigger, the film flashes back to his childhood. After Marcus Greer and his friends rob a Colombian safe house, Marcus is shot nine times.
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