Menace II Society was laid out directly following Goodfellas, the brothers were always upfront about that.
Like how you feel sympathy for Henry because everyone around him is sooo bad, you feel the same for Caine in Menace, mainly because of O Dog. they did that on purpose.
Also, one of the brothers was beaten down on the street by Tupac and some other guys. Tupac was supposed to play the muslim kid but disagreed with something or another and things went south.
imho there is no other black gangsta type movie that is even in the same league as Menace II Society. If you guys haven't seen it...man I'm tellin' ya...
Tupac's thugs beat down the Hughes bros, they original cast 2pac as the nation of Islam character, Tupac wanted to play O-Dog. The brothers said no thanks, the young unknown Lawrenz Tate was killing it in rehearsals.
