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'New Jack City' Cast No Sugarcoating Violence, But There's a Lesson ... And, We Got Ice-T's Stamp 👌🏼

1/20/2023 2:38 PM PT

Naughty By Nature's Treach and his "New Jack City" signifier play costars are good alert of the real-life unit successful hep hop today, and anticipation their accumulation of the classical '90s movie tin scare the genre straight.

We got Treach, Gary Dourdan, Flex Alexander and the 1 and lone Big Daddy Kane Friday successful Burbank, CA -- they're putting connected the play each play astatine L.A. Orpheum Theater, and they accidental the accumulation doesn't shy distant from unit ... adjacent with the caller drawstring of tragic headlines astir slain rappers.

Treach says 'New Jack' highlighted the brutality of the '80s ace epidemic, and delivered the connection "that wasn't the way to take." He's hoping today's procreation volition instrumentality that acquisition and use it to the rap game.

Flex says astir of the formed has known each different for respective decades, truthful it's been casual to mesh up of their unrecorded performances -- there's nary "take 2" successful theatre -- and they each recognition manager Je'Caryous Johnson for getting them game-ready months successful advance.

We precocious got BDK 1-on-1 backmost successful NYC, wherever helium told america having Allen Payne -- who's reprising his relation arsenic Gee Money from the movie -- was the cheat codification the remainder of the formed needed to enactment successful enactment with the original.

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Speaking of those NYC shows, Gary tells america different OG star, Ice-T, showed up to enactment his stamp of approval.

For fans of the movie ... Treach plays Wesley Snipes' pb quality Nino Brown, Gary steps into Ice's relation of Scotty and Flex is Chris Rock's Pookie.

There are a fewer tickets still available successful L.A. this weekend, earlier the formed heads to Dallas, Washington D.C., Norfolk and Chicago.