he COULD have been drawing. Two can play..came out yrs after his breakthrough with Boyz in the hood. maybe their werent opportunities or maybe he was picking the wrost out of what was offered, but he could have been a decent sized star, but a couple things work against that. Racism, and these black actors not having anywhere to go back in the early mid nineties. If u were black then, u did coming of age flicks about getting out the hood.