Big Money Hustlas is a 2000 American comedy film directed by John Cafiero as his feature film debut. The film, a homage to exploitation films of the 1970s, focuses on a streetwise San Francisco detective who tries to take down a New York City crime lord. It stars Insane Clown Posse's Joseph "Violent J" Bruce and Joseph "Shaggy 2 Dope" Utsler, and Twiztid's Jamie Madrox and Monoxide Child, and features appearances by Harland Williams, Johnny Brennan, Rudy Ray Moore, Mick Foley and the Misfits. Released direct-to-video, the film debuted at #1 on Billboards Top Music Videos chart, and was later certified platinum by the RIAA. A Western genre follow-up, Big Money Rustlas, was released direct-to-video on August 17, 2010.

Plot

Sugar Bear (Shaggy 2 Dope), a streetwise detective from San Francisco, is brought to New York City by its chief of police (John G. Brennan) to take down Big Baby Sweets (Violent J), a notorious crime lord who controls the entirety of the city's criminal underworld with his right-hand men Big Stank (Jamie Madrox) and Lil' Poot (Monoxide Child), and his personal security ninja Hack Benjamin (Robert Bruce). After getting a firsthand look at the police force's incompetence via Officer Harry Cox (Harland Williams), Sugar Bear prevents a robbery of a local doughnut shop by one of Big Baby Sweets' thugs, Ape Boy, and begins a romance with a 300-pound stripper, Missy (Sindee Williams).

He soon arrests Big Baby Sweets, Big Stank and Lil' Poot himself, but the police are forced to let them go because of a lack of evidence. The gangsters retaliate by terrorizing the city and sending a pair of stealthy Magic Ninjas to murder Missy, leading Sugar Bear to depressed alcoholism. Sugar Bear's idol, Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore), appears before him to reassure him and begin training him to bring down Sweets' evil empire. Sugar Bear kills the Magic Ninjas and Hack Benjamin, and has Big Stank and Lil' Poot carted off by their wealthy, upper-class parents before defeating another one of Big Baby Sweets' henchmen, Cactus Sac (Mick Foley), in a wrestling match. During Big Baby Sweets' personal confrontation with Sugar Bear, Sweets is shot by his mother, and Sugar Bear removes Sweets' face paint, revealing him to be Harry Cox.

Cast

  • Violent J — Big Baby Sweets / Ape Boy
  • Shaggy 2 Dope — Sugar Bear
  • Harland Williams — Officer Harry Cox
  • John G. Brennan — The Chief
  • Rudy Ray Moore — Dolemite
  • Jamie Madrox — Big Stank
  • Monoxide Child — Lil' Poot
  • Myzery — Green Willie
  • Alex Abbiss — Hazad
  • Kayla Kleevage — Phat Tittie Kittie
  • Fred Berry — Bootlegg Gregg
  • Sindee Williams — Missy
  • Bob Greenberg — Magic Ninja 1
  • Lee Willet — Magic Ninja 2
  • Stefan Kudek — Dr. Dinglenut
  • Mick Foley — Cactus Sac
  • Jumpsteady — Hack Benjamin
  • Floyd Vivino — Announcer

Production

Big Money Hustlas was inspired by the video Big Ballers. Insane Clown Posse and Twiztid had seen the movie and loved the video's low-budget comedy style. Using the ideas that he, Joseph Utsler, James Spaniolo, and Paul Methric created, Joseph Bruce wrote the entire script himself in one month. Even though Jerry Only only appeared in a small cameo with his band The Misfits, he stuck around for the entire shoot. On January 23, 2009, the film achieved platinum certification. A follow-up, entitled Big Money Rustlas, began filming in mid-January 2009 and concluded on February 24, 2009. Based in the Western genre,