Twenty-five years ago, Boyz n the Hood ... Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996), Lockdown (2000) and Focus (2001). He was even in an episode of Doogie Howser, M.D., in which he played a gang ...

But did you know that the show shares DNA with 1991’s “Boyz n the Hood?” That’s a pretty big ... growing up in south Los Angeles, and he’d already written the screenplay.