you story will be compromised if you stand in judgement of the characters you create/portray. it is handicapping to HAVE TO distance yourself from unsavory characters you might write about. it is patronizing to plug in political correctness for the sake of portraying a redeeming charactor. this movie earned points from me cause it told that story honestly without pandering to people's needs to be comforted by those redeeming characters/charististics. i saw enough in the main characters to know that they all had struggles that pulled them between good and bad behaviors. none were completely fucked up. obviously, none were angels. i mean really, Howard played a drug dealing pimp turned thug rapper spitting about slappin' bitches. how you gon' be upset that he had pimp-able women around him.