The Undisputed Truth: Review of the Band's 1971 Debut Album

In 1995 Allen and Albert Hughes released their second movie, Dead Presidents, the long-awaited follow-up to their critically acclaimed 1993 debut, Menace II Society. For whatever bullshit reason, it's since slithered into obscurity, its only cultural toehold being the initial exposure of one Chris Tucker. Today Chris is regarded primarily as a motor-mouthed comic actor, but anyone who saw his gripping turn in Presidents, his helpless slide into heroin and doom, knows better. (Gotta give love to the cast all-around: the criminally underrated Larenz Tate, a righteous menace as O-Dog in the Hughes' inaugural double-barrel blast; Freddy Rodriguez in a scruffy early role; Keith David, solid as always; and N'Bushe Wright, downright intimidating in death makeup with that pistol at her hip.)