'STATE PROPERTY' IS STATE OF PURE GARBAGE BY JEFFERY WOMBLE STAFF WRITER

A Prediction: ''state Property" Will Be In The Low-budget Theaters In A Week.

And people will probably go to see it there.

Sadly, there are people out there who love movies with drug dealers on
every corner, murders every minute, every sentence laced with a four-letter
word and the black women who have more weave than Suzy Wong's Wig Shop.

Plain and simple, ''State Property'' is as bad as a movie can get.

From beginning to end, producers of ''State Property'' perpetuate
stereotypes that blacks are trying to dispel. The one that seems the most
difficult to shake these days is that young, successful blacks obtained
their wealth illegally, i.e. selling drugs.

It begins with Beans (rapper Beanie Sigel), an unemployed thug who feels
he's been cheated out of something in life. He sees friends with the nice
cars, flashy jewelry and big houses and wants his share of it.

Message to Beans: Get a job!

Beans decides that the only way to the top is to take over the local drug
trade. He begins as a petty dealer, then graduates to the big time when he
takes out one of the big drug lords in the city. Fortune and fame become his.

Then Beans becomes greedy and wants to take over the drug trade in the
entire city. Left and right he takes down opposing drug dealers.

But he finally meets his match -- drug dealers portrayed by rapper Jay-Z
and Dash, the CEO of Jay-Z's record label.

Thes two characters have just as much money and power as Beans . The town
just ain't big enough for the three of them. So back and forth they battle
until one of the rival groups drops.

''State Property'' has no entertainment value, and it's a ripoff of ''New
Jack City.'' The parallels between the two movies were amazing. ''New Jack
City'' had the CMB (Cash Money Brothers) ''State Property'' has ABM (All
'Bout Money).

''State Property'' is about as cheap as movies come. With the exception of
one scene that supposedly takes place in Miami, the film is set in New
Jersey. Viewers only know that because Beans mentions the city of Camden.
None of the vehicles in the film have license plates. For a while, viewers
have no idea where the action is taking place.

The acting is equally low-budget. Rumor has it that many of the women in
rap videos take the parts for free just to say they were in them. That must
have been the case with ''State Property.'' It is my hope that no one was
paid money for those tired scenes loaded with head-bobbing, fake nails and
broken English.

If these women, and many of the men for that matter, are professional
actors, then Hollywood has a lot of explaining to do.

And Jay-Z.

You should be ashamed.

I guess public relations firms and press agents figured if they mentioned
the Jay-Z name, viewers would flock to see the film.

Viewers, please don't fall for it.

Even the Jigga Man can't save this horrible film.