State Property
This story revolves around a gang who calls themselves the ABM. They comprehensively win against their enemies, so they can take control of the drug-selling operations. Steadily their territory grows in Philadelphia.
8 January 1975, Queens, New York, USA
2 May 1978, Seoul, South Korea
1976
12 September 1960, Washington Heights, New York, USA
January 21, 2002
Basically a static series of semi-improvised (and semi-coherent) raps between the stars.
March 07, 2002
No one involved, save Dash, shows the slightest aptitude for acting, and the script, credited to director Abdul Malik Abbott and Ernest 'Tron' Anderson, seems entirely improvised.
January 25, 2002
... for all its social and political potential, State Property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightful.
February 28, 2002
A film of empty, fetishistic violence in which murder is casual and fun.
January 19, 2002
Lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 10 years ago.
January 22, 2002
A shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns, expensive cars, lots of naked women and Rocawear clothing.
March 19, 2002
A dull, simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs, death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets.
March 19, 2002
The acting is amateurish, the cinematography is atrocious, the direction is clumsy, the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing.
