• 
  Ernest R. Dickerson

  regizor

• 
  Ernest R. Dickerson

  scenarist

• 
  Omar Epps

  Q
• 
  Tupac Shakur
• 
  Khalil Kain

  Raheem
• 
  Samuel L. Jackson

  Trip
• 
  Donald Faison

  Student
• 
  Queen Latifah

  Ruffhouse M.C.

• 
  Michael Badalucco

  Detective Kelly
• 
  Vincent Laresca

  Radames
• 
  Victor Campos

  Quiles
• 
  Flex Alexander

  Contest Auditioner
• 
  Sharon Cook

  Record Store Clerk
• 
  Bruklin Harris

  Keesha
• 
  LaTanya Richardson Jackson

  Steel's Mother

• 
  Anthony 'Treach' Criss

  Radames' homie
• 
  Doctor Dré

  Contest Judge
• 
  Darien Berry

  Blizzard
• 
  Grace Garland

  Q's Mother
• 
  George Gore II

  Brian (as George O. Gore)
• 
  Cindy Herron

  Yolanda
• 
  Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins

  Steel
• 
  Eric Payne

  Frank

• 
  Neal H. Moritz

  producător