Nino Brown, played by Wesley Snipes. There are two cops hot on his trail, Nick Peretti and Scotty Appleton {played by Judd Nelson and rapper-turned-actor, Ice-T}. With pressure from the Govenor as well the streets, Stone {Melvin Van Peebles} gambles on Appleton and Peretti, two street-wise cops that are crazy enough to take the job, if they could just along with each other. Brown along with his brother, G-Money {Allen Payne} and his other ruthless co-hort, Duh Duh Man {Bill Nunn} have formed the CMB or "Cash Money Brothers", a ruthless, lucrative crack-cocaine empire that has the city on lockdown.