Rap music was in their hearts, but they never appealed to audiences until Albert changed his name to MC Gusto, after fearsome club-owner Gusto Charlie Murphy , and reinvented his combo as hardcore criminals--rappers with a rap sheet--and renamed the group after a maximum-security prison. CB4 becomes a sensation and a crossover symbol of rage, lewdness and rebellion. But the group itself is torn by dissatisfaction. Otis just wants to score with the girls.
When the real Gusto sees that the kids from Locash have stolen his name and persona, he escapes Cell Block 4 and scares Albert into splitting up the band. As their solo careers languish, Albert thwarts Gusto with a lame, cross-dressing trick, and a reunited CB4, mellowing their urban-predator facade a little, pounds out a closing number surrounded by adoring fans.
This movie sends mixed signals up and down the dial. One scene, possibly meant as a parody, shows Albert binging on drugs.
The rap music biz gets nudged for glorifying violence, but there's a drive-by shooting early on for purely gag effect. Albert's lovely, intelligent girlfriend Daliha Rachel True lectures him for lyrics that demean women and others but stands loyally by him even as he publicly cheats on her with sexy groupies.
No groupie is sexier than Sissy Khandi Alexander , who delivers a very discomforting message to other backstage girls that she's better than them because she puts her vice earnings in the bank. And while Hip-Hop has always had a fascination with crime and punishment in cinema, CB4 is notably significant because it presents potentially real consequences for even just pretending to be a thug. And impressionable Hip-Hop fans can relate to that far more than Scarface killing people, doing a ton of cocaine in a mansion, and then being shot to death.
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Trailer CB4: The Movie. Photos Top cast Edit. Chris Rock Albert as Albert …. Allen Payne Euripides as Euripides …. Deezer D Otis as Otis …. Chris Elliott A. White as A. Charlie Murphy Gusto as Gusto. Khandi Alexander Sissy as Sissy. Art Evans Albert Sr. Theresa Randle Eve as Eve. Willard E. Pugh Trustus as Trustus. Rachel True Daliha as Daliha. Victor Wilson Lt. Davenport as Lt. Daniels Ben as Ben.
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