Appleton chases Pookie and shoots him in the leg, but the police release him. Meanwhile, undercover detective Scotty Appleton attempts to make a deal with stick-up kid Pookie, who absconds with the money. Gee Money and Keisha kill rival Fat Smitty, and the CMB forces out the tenants and the landlord. Nino converts the Carter apartment complex into a crack house. His gang consists of Gerald 'Gee Money' Wells, his best friend since childhood enforcer and personal bodyguard Duh Duh Duh Man gun moll Keisha Nino's girlfriend, Selina Thomas and her tech-savvy cousin, ex-bank teller Kareem Akbar. In the New York City neighborhood of Harlem in 1986, Nino Brown and his gang, the Cash Money Brothers (CMB), become the dominant drug ring in the City once crack cocaine is introduced to the streets. Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Judd Nelson, Bill Cobbs, and Van Peebles appear in supporting roles.
Released in the United States on March 8, 1991, the film stars Wesley Snipes as Nino Brown, a rising drug lord in New York City during the crack epidemic, and Ice-T as Scotty Appleton, a detective who vows to stop Nino's criminal activity by going undercover to work for Nino's gang. New Jack City is a 1991 American action crime film based upon an original story and written by Thomas Lee Wright and Barry Michael Cooper, and directed by Mario Van Peebles in his feature film directorial debut.
