BELLY
FREAKY FRIDAYS: YOUR MONTHLY FIX OF CULT FILM
"Sanctimonious, silly, occasionally brilliant and exquisitely vivid, Hype Williams’s Belly crowned the decade in which hip-hop swallowed popular culture, and we never looked back."
—Screen Slate
Ever since they were kids, Sincere (Nas) and Buns (DMX) have lived life close to the edge, doing whatever it takes to survive. As adults, they build up their kingdom of crime on drug dealing and robbery. But Sincere grows weary of the criminal lifestyle and joins a black Muslim religious group. Buns, on the other hand, sinks deeper into criminality and faces serious prison time. The cops offer him a deal, however — assassinate the head of the Muslim group, and he will go free.