Logline:
When an undercover cop grows tired of warring with the gangbangers and attending young people’s funerals, he gets into a battle rap with one of them and it goes viral around the world. He finally finds his way to reach the kids, but will the gang leaders reach him first with a hit they put out on him.
Writer / Producer: Steve Wilburn
Production Company: Windy City Images
Plot Summary:
Jaylen Johnson grew up in one of the roughest housing projects in Chicago and became a gangbanger. But because of his upbringing he beat the odds, quit the gangs and went on to college. When Jaylen came back to the hood, he became a police officer, hoping to make a difference. Because of his past he became a highly effective undercover cop.
Although he was one of the most successful plain-clothes officers in the housing projects, he felt like he was constantly losing ground to gangbangers intent on increasing drug dealing and gang recruiting. His main nemesis, Kwame, an ambitious, ruthless, on the rise druglord is Jaylen’s old running partner from back in the day.
One day after going to a young boy’s funeral Jaylen and his partner, Malik, go to a grammar school parking lot and confront a bunch of young gangbanger wannabes, goofing off and battle rapping. The kids pull out their camera phones in case of trouble. Two of the smart-alecky kids throwdown some hard rapping insults at the cops. Jaylen steps up, the kids brace themselves. Jaylen unleashes a blistering battle rap of his own that humiliates the wannabe rappers. A surprised Malik finds out later his partner’s tag name when he was a banger was, “MC-JJ.”
By the next day the kids YouTube post of the battle have gone viral. They called Jaylen, “Notorious P.I.G.” and it sticks. The community, the kids and the schools want to hear from this rapping cop.
Kwame becomes successful at overthrowing many of the drug kingpins. His territory expands as does his power. Jaylen and Malik work overtime because of the gang wars.
Jaylen is pulled into doing concerts and social media because of his powerful positive rapping messages. He has finally found a way to reach the kids instead of locking them up or burying them.
He is so successful and busy doing this extracurricular rapping his own police force initially threatens him to quit the rapping or think about retiring from the force.
An even a worse critic, Kwame grows angry over Jaylen’s success and the negative impact on his profits and recruiting. Kwame puts a $10,000 hit on Notorious P.I.G.
A bloody showdown that starts in the projects will determine the outcome of all their lives and show everyone’s true colors. The battle spills out into the drug supplier’s Hyde Park bar, exposing the dirty cops that own it. The lethal battle that follows changes the ones that live, forever.
