This story revolves around a gang who calls themselves the ABM. They comprehensively win against their enemies, so they can take control of the drug-selling operations. Steadily their territory grows in Philadelphia.
Lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 10 years ago.
Nitrate Online
January 25, 2002
... for all its social and political potential, State Property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightful.
Basically a static series of semi-improvised (and semi-coherent) raps between the stars.
New Times
March 07, 2002
No one involved, save Dash, shows the slightest aptitude for acting, and the script, credited to director Abdul Malik Abbott and Ernest 'Tron' Anderson, seems entirely improvised.
San Francisco Examiner
March 19, 2002
The acting is amateurish, the cinematography is atrocious, the direction is clumsy, the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing.
Boxoffice Magazine
March 19, 2002
A dull, simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs, death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets.
