Director Mario Van Peebles and screenwriter Barry Michael Cooper (aka “B.M.C.”) could not have predicted that their film, New Jack City (1991) would be as big a...
"I saw you beat that man like I never saw no man get beat before, and the man...kept...coming...after you. Now we don't need no man like that in our lives."
Sy L. Shackleford is a jack-of-all-trades columnist for Action A Go Go. A University of Connecticut graduate with a degree in both psychology and communication sciences, he is a walking encyclopedic repository for all things Marvel Comics, movies, hip-hop, et. al. You can follow him on Twitter and Instagram @shack_house83.
