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Atlanta. Learning from their friend Doc of Chauncey's betrayal, a now-wanted Caine and O-Dog seek refuge at Ronnie's and other friends' houses. O-Dog vows revenge on Chauncey while Ilena's cousin gathers his friends to seek revenge on Caine.
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film was "an ex-knucklehead turned Muslim", he did not agree with how the character was written. While many of his rap music contemporaries were portraying roles similar to their gangsta rap personas, Sharif would have required Shakur to portray the character as a stoic & pious Muslim. According to MC Eiht, who played A-Wax in the film:
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shootout. During the shootout, Sharif is instantly killed, O-Dog shoots back at the attackers, and Caine gets fatally wounded while shielding
Anthony. After the shootout, Stacy and Ronnie emerge from the house, respectively tending to Caine and Anthony. As Caine's life flashes before him, he recalls
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and his wife suspiciously rush them to buy their drinks and leave. As they walk out, the cashier provokingly tells O-Dog "I feel sorry for your mother," enraging the latter and causing him to kill both the cashier and his wife. O-Dog then confiscates the surveillance tape, robs the cashier's wallet
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Following several years of struggling in class, Caine, himself a low-level drug dealer, finally completes high school. On graduation night, Caine and his cousin Harold attend a party, where O-Dog flaunts the surveillance tape to a group of their closest friends, much to Caine's dismay. Later, the
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but are arrested. As he is still underage, O-Dog is released with a warning, but Caine is detained as his fingerprints match those on a beer bottle he dropped during the liquor store murders. During an interrogation, a detective tries tricking Caine by changing the questions multiple times, but
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