Best friends Q (Omar Epps), Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Raheem (Khalil Kain), and Steel (Jermaine ´Huggy´ Hopkins) live in a world where fun and danger exist side-by-side, and violence is powerfully seductive. These four Harlem friends take on the neighborhood-- and each other--to get the power and respect they call Juice.In the Ghetto´s of Harlem you dont buy respect ... you earn it.

Q. Raheem. Bishop. Steel. They´re four Harlem friends who spend their days hanging out and looking for a way to ge the power and respect they call Juice. Q hopes to earn respect by becoming a scratch ´n´ mix DJ. Bishop has a dealier plan. He wants to take it through an armed robbery. And he wants his crew to be with him.