Here's another hood flick, this time set on the mean streets of Dayton, Ohio. Jason Dbks Hampton—aka Dayton's Best Kept Secret—wrote, directed, and stars in some tedious bullshit that claims to be based on true events. Sorry, I'm not buying it. Naming the characters after the actors who play them doesn't make it a true story.

Jason explains in a voiceover that he works in pest control and child support payments are killing him. He complains about it to his partner Boo Pac. He argues about it in a phone call with his baby mama. His voiceover whines about the unfairness of child support laws. He makes it abundantly clear that his baby mama's nothing but a gold digger out to fleece him for that fat pest control money. Of course, we never get an inkling of her side of the story. She doesn't even get a name. The credits list her character as "baby mama."

Rapper Murda Pain plays Jason's friend Murda. I'm not sure if this is supposed to be the same Murda he played in 2eleven. Fresh out of prison, he wastes no time killing a guy in a gas station parking lot in broad daylight.

A couple hustlers scam Jason by selling him a fake MacBook. His voiceover says, "See, these are the type of n***as you gotta look out for, always trying to get over on somebody." Bro, your boy Murda just shot a guy in the head for his pocket money.

Jason's bank account gets drained to pay his child support. He retaliates by vandalizing his baby mama's car. Sadly, I suspect this part really is based on a true event.

Next comes a coincidence of cosmic proportions. Jason and Boo Pac get sent to a trap house to kill rats. (Actual rats, not snitches.) Seconds after they arrive, Murda's crew shoots the place up. Jason and Boo use this opportunity to steal the drugs and cash. If that wasn't unbelievable enough, after the kingpin tracks them down, he's so impressed by their hustle that he puts them to work. Jamal Woolard plays the kingpin. He should be able to find better roles after playing Biggie in three separate movies.

A bunch of other pointless rap cliches happen. After a string of montages about stacking money and making it rain, there's a last-minute twist that involves Jason's dead father and hinges on another stupid coincidence. Roll credits.

A few songs by Jason Dbks Hampton are featured on the soundtrack, including one called "Fuck Child Support." This is starting to feel personal.

Comedian Michael Blackson has a thankless cameo. I suspect the only parts of it that were remotely funny were the parts he ad-libbed. The Double Dose Twins have a cameo even more thankless than Blackson's. Their butts get as much screen time as their faces.

Got My Hustle Up made me curious if Hampton is getting his hustle up in real life. I'm guessing no. His only other IMDB credit is a short film, ominously titled Fuck Child Support the Animated Movie.

2 out of 10.

Seen on Amazon Prime.