Hot Boyz (film)
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Hot Boyz is a 1999 film written and directed by Master P
. It stars Silkk the Shocker, Snoop Dogg
, C-Murder and Mystikal
. This film started a brief rivalry between No Limit Records
and Cash Money Records
as the name "Hot Boyz" was already the name of the popular Trill Fam rap group, which consisted of: Lil Wayne, Juvenile, Turk, and B.G.
), poised and college bound. The movie starts with Kool jumping out of a two story window running towards his red Nissan only to be given chase by the Los Angeles Police Department he seems to have escaped police pursuit until they tail him again and the car hightails into a river then Kool narrates his story as the movie flashes back 6 months earlier. Kool, C-Dawg (Snoop Dogg
), Pee Wee (Anthony Johnson
), and Remo (C-Murder) are all seen playing a card game at a neighborhood barbecue. Kool impresses his friends at the table by free-styling while playing cards. Then the movie introduces LaShawna and Mrs. Ferrel (Pamella D'Pella) as LaShawna asks has Kool gotten to the Barbecue as Mrs. Ferrel just shuns him off not liking the company he keeps around him. LaShawna gets dressed and she goes out to the barbecue, Kool and LaShawna tries to persuade Mrs. Ferrel to let LaShawna go to Las Vegas, in which Mrs. Ferrel declines and tells Kool to take her daughter to the museum since she said Kool was an "artist". The movie then skips ahead to Kool sparring with other students in a Kenpo-karate class by the in which Master Keaton (Jeff Speakman
) is his mentor. Kool has made his transition from a brown belt to a black belt. The movie then skips to the next day and introduces Tyrel (Mystikal
) and he's arguing with C-Dawg about Mike Tyson biting Holyfields ear off in the boxing match . Kool changes the subject and turns on a song that he wrote in which his friends don't give him credit for. Then LaShawna comes they go over to Kools house and LaShawna remembers his birthday and had a cake baked for him.
The movie cuts to an office at the LAPD precinct Officer Mack (Brent Huff
) is interrupted from his work by Maurice (Maurice Lamont) and Mack tries to tell him that the deal is off due to there being an undercover cop on the deal. Maurice tells Mack that the deal is still on and that he'd better be there. The movie jumps back to Kool and LaShawna with Kool telling LaShawna that he had wrote her a song that was going to get them out of the hood and into a better place. Which is interrupted by Tyrel knocking on the door telling Kool to hurry up because something big is about to go down and C-Dawg and Remo are in the middle of it. LaShawna hears Tyrel screaming at the door and she gives Kool the go ahead despite Kool not wanting her to walk home by herself as she is walking home she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms, as he dies Officer Mack, who is a dirty cop, brandishes his gun, which causes LaShawna to run away from the crime scene just as help is arriving and LaShawna runs all the way home where she is apprehended and taken into custody. Kool arrives and Eddy Anthony Boswell explains that she has just been charged with murder despite he and Kool knowing that she would never kill anyone. Eddy is reluctant to help but can't due to the fact that it isn't his murder case. Kool wants to prove her innocence, and Tully (Gary Busey
), the cynical detective in charge, ignores LaShawna's case but uses Kool to break up an incipient crime operation. Which has Saint (Clifton Powell
) jailed and LaShawna's certain release. She's in danger because the guilty parties fear that the officer talked before he died.
While in jail, pregnant with Kool's first born child and awaiting a hearing and legal help, she's beaten to death by Mack. While at LaShawna's funeral Officer Mack pulls out an Uzi and fires upon the funeral. Kool gets into a hearse and gives chase to Mack, Kool eventually catches up to Mack and destroys the van he is driving, killing him. After being double crossed by a crooked cop and having his girlfriend wrongfully accused of murder and jailed, he begins to find difficulty in ignoring the lure of urban gang-life, Kool vows revenge: the Hot Boyz are born. Kool is eventually pushed over the edge by a pair of racist cops and decides to start his own gang called "Hot Boyz," who turn out to be the toughest new gang in the city. As the Hot Boyz continue their rise of dominance, they are all at a club and Tyrel comes and sits at the bar with them and tells them that Saint gets released from prison at 9 o'clock in the morning, Tyrel and Remo insists that they kill him before he puts together another crew and there will be a turf war between and Saint and the Hot Boyz. Moe (Master P
) is an informant who is helping out Officer Roberts (C. Thomas Howell
) with the case at hand Moe tells Roberts exactly what he wants to know and Moe skips town after it happens. Pee Wee makes a deal with Saint, who lets him in his organization when he told about the hit the Hot Boyz were planning on him. C-Dawg finds out what Pee Wee did and he and Kool confronts him about it and Kool is about to brandish a plane ticket to send Pee Wee to his hometown but Pee Wee, thinking Kool is about to kill him runs for his own safety and is shot and killed by C-Dawg and Kool says he was going to send him home. Saint finds the warehouse where the Hot Boyz do their business and has his crew guns drawn and ready to kill anybody not only saint's crew but the police find the warehouse and a 10 minute gunfight ensues in which Kool and Tully has a standoff in which Kool wins do to an assist from an injured C-Dawg, and in the end as he jumps out of the window hops into a car and jumps into the river and tells the audience that the police found him and he found himself locked in prison for 30 years until Eddy got him out on a legal loophole after only serving 5 years in prison, he got a second chance to live a good life a life that he says LaShawna and his baby would have approved of.
As the movie ends it shows flashbacks of LaShawna to the viewer and Kool says that a good life is worth living because as long as he lives the memory of LaShawna lives on forever, and that love is something to believe in, and besides all he has now is memories.
Master P
Percy Robert Miller , better known by his stage name Master P or his business name P. Miller, is an American rapper, actor, entrepreneur, investor, and producer. He is the founder of the popular label No Limit Records, which went bankrupt and was relaunched as New No Limit Records through Koch...
. It stars Silkk the Shocker, Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...
, C-Murder and Mystikal
Mystikal
Michael Lawrence Tyler , better known by his stage name Mystikal, is an American rapper, and actor from New Orleans.-1993-1994: Early career:...
. This film started a brief rivalry between No Limit Records
No Limit Records
No Limit Records was an American hip-hop record label that was founded in 1990 by hip-hop artist, Percy "Master P" Miller. It was distributed by Priority Records.-No Limit Early years:...
and Cash Money Records
Cash Money Records
Cash Money Records is a record label founded by brothers Bryan "Birdman" Williams and Ronald "Slim" Williams. Today it operates as a subsidiary of Universal Music Group, and is distributed by Universal Republic Records as of 2011...
as the name "Hot Boyz" was already the name of the popular Trill Fam rap group, which consisted of: Lil Wayne, Juvenile, Turk, and B.G.
Plot
Kool (Silkk The Shocker) is a good kid from the inner city with ambitions of becoming a successful rap star, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna (Shireen CrutchfieldShireen Crutchfield
Shireen Crutchfield is an actress best known for her role as Jace on the series Dark Angel and The movie Hot Boyz. She graduated from St. Bernard High School in Los Angeles, California, where she grew up. She was the lead singer of the R&B group The Good Girls from the late 1980s through the early...
), poised and college bound. The movie starts with Kool jumping out of a two story window running towards his red Nissan only to be given chase by the Los Angeles Police Department he seems to have escaped police pursuit until they tail him again and the car hightails into a river then Kool narrates his story as the movie flashes back 6 months earlier. Kool, C-Dawg (Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...
), Pee Wee (Anthony Johnson
Anthony Johnson
Anthony Johnson is the name of:* Anthony Johnson , American film actor* Anthony Johnson , a freedman of African descent in early Virginia* Anthony Johnson , NFL running back...
), and Remo (C-Murder) are all seen playing a card game at a neighborhood barbecue. Kool impresses his friends at the table by free-styling while playing cards. Then the movie introduces LaShawna and Mrs. Ferrel (Pamella D'Pella) as LaShawna asks has Kool gotten to the Barbecue as Mrs. Ferrel just shuns him off not liking the company he keeps around him. LaShawna gets dressed and she goes out to the barbecue, Kool and LaShawna tries to persuade Mrs. Ferrel to let LaShawna go to Las Vegas, in which Mrs. Ferrel declines and tells Kool to take her daughter to the museum since she said Kool was an "artist". The movie then skips ahead to Kool sparring with other students in a Kenpo-karate class by the in which Master Keaton (Jeff Speakman
Jeff Speakman
Jeff Speakman is an American actor and a martial artist in the art of American kenpo karate and Japanese Goju-Ryu, earning blackbelts in each.-Early life:...
) is his mentor. Kool has made his transition from a brown belt to a black belt. The movie then skips to the next day and introduces Tyrel (Mystikal
Mystikal
Michael Lawrence Tyler , better known by his stage name Mystikal, is an American rapper, and actor from New Orleans.-1993-1994: Early career:...
) and he's arguing with C-Dawg about Mike Tyson biting Holyfields ear off in the boxing match . Kool changes the subject and turns on a song that he wrote in which his friends don't give him credit for. Then LaShawna comes they go over to Kools house and LaShawna remembers his birthday and had a cake baked for him.
The movie cuts to an office at the LAPD precinct Officer Mack (Brent Huff
Brent Huff
Brent Huff is a former male model and actor, writer and film director.- Career :He studied on University of Missouri.Brent begin his career as a model after signing with Ford Models in New York and Nina Blanchard in Los Angeles...
) is interrupted from his work by Maurice (Maurice Lamont) and Mack tries to tell him that the deal is off due to there being an undercover cop on the deal. Maurice tells Mack that the deal is still on and that he'd better be there. The movie jumps back to Kool and LaShawna with Kool telling LaShawna that he had wrote her a song that was going to get them out of the hood and into a better place. Which is interrupted by Tyrel knocking on the door telling Kool to hurry up because something big is about to go down and C-Dawg and Remo are in the middle of it. LaShawna hears Tyrel screaming at the door and she gives Kool the go ahead despite Kool not wanting her to walk home by herself as she is walking home she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms, as he dies Officer Mack, who is a dirty cop, brandishes his gun, which causes LaShawna to run away from the crime scene just as help is arriving and LaShawna runs all the way home where she is apprehended and taken into custody. Kool arrives and Eddy Anthony Boswell explains that she has just been charged with murder despite he and Kool knowing that she would never kill anyone. Eddy is reluctant to help but can't due to the fact that it isn't his murder case. Kool wants to prove her innocence, and Tully (Gary Busey
Gary Busey
William Gary Busey , best known as Gary Busey, is an American film and stage actor and artist. He has appeared in a large variety of films, as well as making regular appearances on Gunsmoke, Walker, Texas Ranger, Law & Order, and Entourage...
), the cynical detective in charge, ignores LaShawna's case but uses Kool to break up an incipient crime operation. Which has Saint (Clifton Powell
Clifton Powell
-Movie career:Powell is known for playing the role of Pinky in the 2000 comedy film, Next Friday and its 2002 sequel, Friday After Next. Powell stars also in the Indie thriller Chain Letter.In 2009 he played "Bowman" in the film Just Another Day...
) jailed and LaShawna's certain release. She's in danger because the guilty parties fear that the officer talked before he died.
While in jail, pregnant with Kool's first born child and awaiting a hearing and legal help, she's beaten to death by Mack. While at LaShawna's funeral Officer Mack pulls out an Uzi and fires upon the funeral. Kool gets into a hearse and gives chase to Mack, Kool eventually catches up to Mack and destroys the van he is driving, killing him. After being double crossed by a crooked cop and having his girlfriend wrongfully accused of murder and jailed, he begins to find difficulty in ignoring the lure of urban gang-life, Kool vows revenge: the Hot Boyz are born. Kool is eventually pushed over the edge by a pair of racist cops and decides to start his own gang called "Hot Boyz," who turn out to be the toughest new gang in the city. As the Hot Boyz continue their rise of dominance, they are all at a club and Tyrel comes and sits at the bar with them and tells them that Saint gets released from prison at 9 o'clock in the morning, Tyrel and Remo insists that they kill him before he puts together another crew and there will be a turf war between and Saint and the Hot Boyz. Moe (Master P
Master P
Percy Robert Miller , better known by his stage name Master P or his business name P. Miller, is an American rapper, actor, entrepreneur, investor, and producer. He is the founder of the popular label No Limit Records, which went bankrupt and was relaunched as New No Limit Records through Koch...
) is an informant who is helping out Officer Roberts (C. Thomas Howell
C. Thomas Howell
Christopher Thomas "Tommy" Howell , known by his stage name C. Thomas Howell, is an American actor and film director. He starred in the films The Outsiders as Ponyboy Curtis and in The Hitcher as Jim Halsey. He has appeared in The Da Vinci Treasure,Soul Man, Red Dawn, Secret Admirer, Gettysburg, H. G...
) with the case at hand Moe tells Roberts exactly what he wants to know and Moe skips town after it happens. Pee Wee makes a deal with Saint, who lets him in his organization when he told about the hit the Hot Boyz were planning on him. C-Dawg finds out what Pee Wee did and he and Kool confronts him about it and Kool is about to brandish a plane ticket to send Pee Wee to his hometown but Pee Wee, thinking Kool is about to kill him runs for his own safety and is shot and killed by C-Dawg and Kool says he was going to send him home. Saint finds the warehouse where the Hot Boyz do their business and has his crew guns drawn and ready to kill anybody not only saint's crew but the police find the warehouse and a 10 minute gunfight ensues in which Kool and Tully has a standoff in which Kool wins do to an assist from an injured C-Dawg, and in the end as he jumps out of the window hops into a car and jumps into the river and tells the audience that the police found him and he found himself locked in prison for 30 years until Eddy got him out on a legal loophole after only serving 5 years in prison, he got a second chance to live a good life a life that he says LaShawna and his baby would have approved of.
As the movie ends it shows flashbacks of LaShawna to the viewer and Kool says that a good life is worth living because as long as he lives the memory of LaShawna lives on forever, and that love is something to believe in, and besides all he has now is memories.
Cast
- Silkk the Shocker as Kool
- Shireen CrutchfieldShireen CrutchfieldShireen Crutchfield is an actress best known for her role as Jace on the series Dark Angel and The movie Hot Boyz. She graduated from St. Bernard High School in Los Angeles, California, where she grew up. She was the lead singer of the R&B group The Good Girls from the late 1980s through the early...
as LaShawna - Gary BuseyGary BuseyWilliam Gary Busey , best known as Gary Busey, is an American film and stage actor and artist. He has appeared in a large variety of films, as well as making regular appearances on Gunsmoke, Walker, Texas Ranger, Law & Order, and Entourage...
as Tully - Snoop DoggSnoop DoggCalvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...
as Christoper "C-Dawg" - Master PMaster PPercy Robert Miller , better known by his stage name Master P or his business name P. Miller, is an American rapper, actor, entrepreneur, investor, and producer. He is the founder of the popular label No Limit Records, which went bankrupt and was relaunched as New No Limit Records through Koch...
as Moe - C-Murder as Remo
- MystikalMystikalMichael Lawrence Tyler , better known by his stage name Mystikal, is an American rapper, and actor from New Orleans.-1993-1994: Early career:...
as Tyrel - Clifton PowellClifton Powell-Movie career:Powell is known for playing the role of Pinky in the 2000 comedy film, Next Friday and its 2002 sequel, Friday After Next. Powell stars also in the Indie thriller Chain Letter.In 2009 he played "Bowman" in the film Just Another Day...
as Saint - Anthony JohnsonAnthony Johnson (actor)Anthony Johnson, sometimes credited as A. J. Johnson, is an American actor and comedian. He got his start in acting when he starred in House Party in 1990 as E.Z.E. He then went on to appear in other urban films. In 1992 he appeared in Dr. Dre's video "Dre Day", in which he was portraying Sleazy-E,...
as Pee Wee - Jeff SpeakmanJeff SpeakmanJeff Speakman is an American actor and a martial artist in the art of American kenpo karate and Japanese Goju-Ryu, earning blackbelts in each.-Early life:...
as Master Keaton - C. Thomas HowellC. Thomas HowellChristopher Thomas "Tommy" Howell , known by his stage name C. Thomas Howell, is an American actor and film director. He starred in the films The Outsiders as Ponyboy Curtis and in The Hitcher as Jim Halsey. He has appeared in The Da Vinci Treasure,Soul Man, Red Dawn, Secret Admirer, Gettysburg, H. G...
as Roberts