Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) is sent to the hood to live with his father (Tate), who somehow happens to be only a couple years younger than his son. His cousin Loc Dog, a violent, profane, drug addict who carries plenty of weapons (Marlon Wayans) and his friends Preach (a reformed gang member turned activist who is now simply confused) and Crazy Legs (a dancer who was paralyzed in a drive-by) school him on the realities of life in the hood. He falls in love with single-mother of seven Dashiki who wants to leave the hood with him. However his affair with Dashiki brings him into conflict with Toothpick, Dashiki's former boyfriend, a gangbanger fresh out of jail. Ashtray has to deal with getting Dashiki pregnant, surviving several drive-by shootings, being mistreated by self-hating cops, and being set up as a killer by "The Man". But Loc Dog always has an AK-47, an Uzi, or a tactical nuclear weapon from the former Soviet Union, on hand to help. And then there's Loc's...