While filming Belly, the production was mired by frequent clashes between Williams and the producers, budget constraints, and cast members showing up drunk, high, or late. Sincere, now in Africa with his family, reflects on recent events and is happy to start a new life. He assaults Keisha, who gets hold of Shameek's gun and shoots him in the face. Shameek visits Keisha's home, in the hopes of finding Tommy there.
Saviour convinces Tommy not to go through with his mission, even though this will put his life at risk.Ī tearful Tommy agrees, and the two men embrace. Saviour before his scheduled speech and points his gun at him. Sincere kills Black and his accomplice in self-defense before fleeing the scene. While Sincere talks to a friend ( AZ) outside a barbershop, Black shoots him in the leg as revenge for his earlier humiliation. Tionne comes home and finds herself confronted by Shameek, who demands the whereabouts of Sincere and Tommy. Saviour, ( Benjamin Chavis) during a sermon on New Year's Eve. After being arrested over the shooting, Tommy is coerced by a shadowy organization with unclear motives into assassinating a Black Muslim leader, Rev. Meanwhile, while laying low in Atlanta, Tommy instigates an argument between Wise and LaKid, two marijuana dealers, which ends with both men to drawing their guns and LaKid shooting Wise. Sincere prepares to leave the drug trade and move his family to Africa, planning to leave on New Year's Day 2000. Ox is able to kill most of the hitmen before he dies at the hands of a female assassin. Pelpa, a close friend and associate of Sosa's, finds out that Ox ordered the hit and sends a hit squad to kill him in his home. Tommy finds out about the raid and leaves town. Back home, Tommy's girlfriend Keisha ( Taral Hicks) is arrested by police and later bailed out by Tionne.
Tommy travels to Jamaica and repays Ox by killing Sosa, the son of a local drug lord. He is shot by the bartender and stumbles out the club, evading the police. Shameek confronts Rico at a strip club and guns him down when he tries to flee. Father Sha ( Method Man), to both infiltrate Rico's gang and kill Tommy. Knowledge angrily realizes that Tommy will not bail him out of jail, and calls Shameek, a.k.a. The resulting raid at their stash-house ends with Mark's death and Knowledge's arrest. Big Head Rico ( Tyrin Turner), an Omaha dealer, informs the police of their activities.
The gang begins transporting heroin from Queens to Omaha, Nebraska, where they begin to overrun the local drug business. Enraged, Tommy forces Black to strip naked in front of the others, firing a handgun wildly into the floor. Knowledge tells Tommy over the phone that Black had been talking about robbing Sincere to get his larger share of the loot from the nightclub. In Mark's grandmother's basement, the gang convenes to discuss the nascent drug operation one of Tommy's associates, Knowledge ( Oliver "Power" Grant), will be involved in the operation. Tommy then visits Ox, a wealthy Jamaican drug lord, who agrees to obtain the heroin on the condition that Tommy repay him with a favor at a later date. Sincere, who has begun having second thoughts about his life of crime, reluctantly agrees. The following morning, Tommy asks Sincere to help him sell a new form of heroin. After celebrating with the gang, Sincere returns home to his girlfriend Tionne ( Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins) and infant daughter Kenya. In 1999 Queens, New York City, young street criminals Tommy "Buns" Brown ( DMX) and Sincere ("Sin") ( Nas), along with associates Mark and Black, murder five people during a violent nightclub robbery.