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New Jersey Drive is a 1995
1995 in film

The year 1995 in film involved some significant events....
 film about African-American youths in Newark, New Jersey
Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the largest City in New Jersey, and the county seat of Essex County, New Jersey. Newark has a population of 281,402, making it not only List of Municipalities in New Jersey but also the 65th List of United States cities by population Newark is also home to major corporations, such as Prudential Financial....
, the unofficial car theft capital of the world. Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts when they steal a police car and the cops launch a violent offensive that involves beating and even shooting suspects. The film stars Sharron Corley, Gabriel Casseus, and Saul Stein.






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New Jersey Drive is a 1995
1995 in film

The year 1995 in film involved some significant events....
 film about African-American youths in Newark, New Jersey
Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the largest City in New Jersey, and the county seat of Essex County, New Jersey. Newark has a population of 281,402, making it not only List of Municipalities in New Jersey but also the 65th List of United States cities by population Newark is also home to major corporations, such as Prudential Financial....
, the unofficial car theft capital of the world. Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts when they steal a police car and the cops launch a violent offensive that involves beating and even shooting suspects. The film stars Sharron Corley, Gabriel Casseus, and Saul Stein. At the time, the city of Newark had the highest automobile theft rate in the country, and Newark mayor Sharpe James
Sharpe James

Sharpe James is a Democratic Party politician and convicted felon from New Jersey, who served as New Jersey Senate for the New Jersey Legislature#District 29 and was 35th List of mayors of Newark, New Jersey....
 refused to allow filming of New Jersey Drive within the city limits; therefore, the filming locations were in the surrounding locations of Newark rather than Newark itself.

Plot

New Jersey Drive opens with Jason (Sharron Corley) heading off to juvenile detention then unfolds in flashback as, chronologically, the incidents leading to his arrest surface one by one. First the audience sees his violent and poverty-ridden project; next his go-nowhere delinquent friends are introduced, as is their hobby: joy riding. Soon some of the teens, including Jason, begin to convert their hobby into a part-time job as they steal cars and sell them to a sleazy chop-shop owner for pennies on the dollar. Eventually they are caught in a police sting and one boy is shot to death by the crooked Officer Roscoe (Saul Stein). Roscoe warns Jason not to tell a soul; however, the boys continue to steal cars. Meanwhile, Jason beats up a neighborhood acquaintance on the playground for a slight to his sister and finds himself the target of the boy's murder attempts. The action draws to a head as both Roscoe and the vengeful boy close in.

Cast

  • Sharron Corley ... Jason Petty
  • Gabriel Casseus ... Midget
  • Saul Stein ... Roscoe
  • Donald Faison
    Donald Faison

    Donald Adeosun Faison is an United Statesn actor, best known for his role as Turk in the American Broadcasting Company comedy-drama Scrubs and Toots in the MTV series Clone High....
    ...Tiny

Soundtrack

The films soundtrack was so popular that a second volume was released.

Volume 1

  1. Ill Al Skratch
    Ill Al Skratch

    Ill Al Skratch is a Hip hop music duo consisting of one rapping, Ill, and one DJ, Al Skratch. Both members are from Brooklyn and make East Coast hip hop....
      -Don't Shut Down On A Player (3:26)
  2. Redman- Where Am I? (5:40)
  3. Blak Panta - Do What You Want (4:22)
  4. Sabelle -Old Thing (4:13)
  5. Young Lay
    Young Lay

    Lathan Williams , better known by his stage name Young Lay, is a San Francisco Bay Area-based gangsta rapper.He has worked with artists such as Tupac Shakur and Mac Dre, and is known as the father of Le-Zhan Williams, a boy who later was reported missing and was found raised by abductors after they murdered his mother and Arson....
    - Featuring Mac Mall
    Mac Mall

    Mac Mall, is a West Coast hip hop who became known in the mid/late 1990s, as one of the local artists putting the San Francisco Bay Area on the hip hop map....
     & Ray Luv
    Ray Luv

    Raymond Tyson, better known by his stage name Ray Luv, is an American rapper from Santa Rosa, CA....
    - All About My Fetti (6:25)
  6. Total
    Total (band)

    Total is an United States R&B girl group and one of the signature acts of Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Records during the mid-1990s....
      -Featuring The Notorious B.I.G.
    The Notorious B.I.G.

    Christopher George Latore Wallace , popularly known by Biggie Smalls , and his primary stage name, The Notorious B.I.G., was an American rapper....
    -Can't You See (4:53)
  7. Lords Of The Underground
    Lords of the Underground

    The Lords of the Underground are a Hip hop music trio based out of Newark, New Jersey. MCs Mr. Funke and DoItAll Dupr? met DJ Lord Jazz when all three were undergraduates at Shaw University....
     - Burn Rubber (4:31)
  8. Poets Of Darkness - 21 In The Ghetto (3:50)
  9. Undacova -Love Slave (4:31)
  10. OutKast
    OutKast

    OutKast is an United States hip hop music duet based out of East Point, Georgia, a city south of Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia . The duo was originally known as The OKB but later changed its name to OutKast....
    - Benz Or Beamer (4:16)
  11. Heavy D -Check It Out (4:19)
  12. Queen Latifah
    Queen Latifah

    Dana Elaine Owens , better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American Rapping, Singing, CoverGirl and actress. Latifah's work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe Award award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nominat...
     - Jersey (4:54)
  13. Keith Murray
    Keith Murray

    Keith Murray may refer to:* Keith Murray , rapper* Keith Murray , lead vocalist for We Are Scientists* Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven , British academic...
     - East Left (3:31)
  14. MC Eiht
    MC Eiht

    Aaron Tyler , better known by his stage name MC Eiht, is an United States gangsta rapper. In an interview he stated that his stage name was partly inspired by the numeral in KRS-One's name....
     - Ain't Nuthin' But Killin' (5:02)
  15. Coolio
    Coolio

    Artis Leon Ivey, Jr. , better known by the stage name Coolio, is a Grammy Award-winning United States rapper and actor. He rose to fame in 1994 with his debut single Fantastic Voyage, and later in 1995 in music with the hit single Gangsta's Paradise , which appeared on the soundtrack for the film Dangerous Minds....
      -Thru The Window (3:30)
  16. Maze
    Maze (band)

    Maze a Soul music / quiet storm band , was established in San Francisco, California in the early 1970s....
     Featuring Frankie Beverly
    Frankie Beverly

    Frankie Beverly is a singer, wiktionary:Founder, record producer, and songwriter, known primarily for his sound recording and reproduction with the soul music and funk unit, Maze ....
     - Before I Let Go (5:04)
  17. Smooth
    Smooth

    Smooth could mean many things, including:* Draught beer served with nitrogen.* Smooth * Smooth function, a function that is infinitely differentiable, used in calculus and topology....
     -One And Only (4:10)

Volume 2

  1. E Bros Funky Piano
  2. Black Moon
    Black Moon (band)

    Black Moon is an American hip hop music group, consisting of members Buckshot , 5ft and DJ Evil Dee . The group is most well-known for their debut album Enta Da Stage, and their affiliation with the Boot Camp Clik....
     & Smif-n-Wessun
    Smif-N-Wessun

    Smif-n-Wessun is a Hip hop music duo consisting of members Tek and Steele . Smif-n-Wessun comprise one-fourth of the Brooklyn supergroup Boot Camp Clik, with Buckshot , Heltah Skeltah and O.G.C....
    - "Headz Ain't Ready"
  3. Naughty By Nature
    Naughty by Nature

    Naughty by Nature is a Grammy Award-winning United States Hip hop music group that at the time of its formation in 1989 consisted of Treach, Vin Rock, and the DJ Kay Gee....
    - "Connections "
  4. Biz Markie
    Biz Markie

    Marcel Theo Hall better known by his stage name Biz Markie, is a rapper, disc jockey, and comedian, best known for the single "Just a Friend"....
    - "Nobody Beats The Biz"
  5. Jeru The Damaja
    Jeru the Damaja

    Kendrick Jeru Davis, known as Jeru the Damaja is American emcee from Brooklyn, New York. He has worked extensively with Guru and DJ Premier of Gang Starr, whom he has known since high school....
    - "Invasion "
  6. Mad Lion
    Mad Lion

    DaLLioN Preece, known as Mad Lion, is a dancehall musician and rapper. He frequently collaborates with fellow hip hop artist KRS-One ? most recently on a DVD promoting the Temple of Hiphop....
     -"Own Destiny"
  7. OC
    O.C. (rapper)

    Omar Credle , known by his stage name, O.C., is an United States Hip hop music who has been involved with several renowned Alternative hip hop groups and also released many solo albums....
     & Organized Konfusion
    Organized Konfusion

    Organized Konfusion was an alternative hip hop duo from Queens, New York. Though not commercially popular, the duo was one of the most respected and acclaimed underground hip hop acts of the 1990s, largely due to the duo's intelligent rhymes, and the groundbreaking lyrics of Pharoahe Monch and Prince Poetry....
     - "You Won't Go Far"
  8. Flip Squad Allstars Featuring Funkmaster Flex
    Funkmaster Flex

    Aston George Taylor Jr., better known as Funkmaster Flex is a popular hip hop DJ on New York City's WQHT radio station. He plays hip-hop, r&b, old school, back in the day, 80's, reggae, dancehall and reggaeton....
     & Big Kap-"Flip Squad's In Da House"


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