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THE CATCH 22: DAMN IF I DON’T!
By Mansa Wilkerson Sr.

GENRE: Action, Drama
LOGLINE: Twin brothers; Mansa and Musa, also known as Lil Rong and Reel Ryte lead very different lives. Ryte becomes an international DJ/concert promoter and Rong is a drug kingpin that gets extorted to work for a crooked police Commissioner and the Mayor of Brooklyn, New York. Ryte has to become Rong to get their entire family out of a catch 22. Damn if you don’t, Damn if you do!

SYNOPSIS:

Twin Brothers; Musa Magic aka DJ REEL RYTE and Mansa Magic aka OG. LIL RONG, become estranged when their parents separate over a misunderstanding. Rong ( Mansa) leaves with his mother; Brenda when her husband accuses her of cheating when she was really drugged by her sister’s boyfriend’s friend; Mike. This was the first time she decides to get out of the house in over a decade after having her twin sons. She’s disgusted with her husband for not believing her and before she could want out, he had her bags packed at the door. Ryte (Musa) stays home with his hurt, embarrassed and confused proud father, Raymond when his mother and twin brother leaves home. Years past and Ryte quickly becomes NEW YORK’S best DJ and with the help of Logic and His fiancé, Terri, he quickly grows to a huge international concert promoter. He opens the biggest club in New York: 20/20 Club and becomes rich after a decade of hard work. Ryte marries his best friend and manager; Terri. Rong decides to marry the streets to help his mother not struggle and worry about bills. Rong also employed their childhood best friend, Logic, to assist him with his plans to the top of a criminal expire. Logic is a genius and finish college at 15 years old. While kids were playing video games and watching cartoons, logic was mixing chemicals to create his own acid or making his own C-4 to create time bombs. So planning bank robberies, selling drugs, gambling, prostitution and murder was an easy feat. Helping Ryte put on high tech shows with the best visual and audio effects helped get the attention of a huge promoter and they partner up to build the biggest R and B concert ProMotion ever made. Rong acquires a beautiful but crazy half black and Asian bodyguard. Her real name is Yung Ho but Rong comes up with a new name mixing Nigga with Asia; Niggasia! Rong thinks he has to save her from guys trying to attack and rape her. After she breaks the four guys arms and legs; as she promised, she dedicates herself to Rong for being the first man to want to protect her and stick up for her. Besides the huge infatuation and constant Flirting, Niggasia was the best anyone can get. She tends to shoot first and doesn't care about questions. Rong meets a pimp named Suga Shannon that he bonds with the moment they meet. Rong employs Shan to run his gambling spots and his prostitution. Rong makes Shannon extort the other pimps that want to work anywhere in Brooklyn; Rong’s territory. In return wrong builds, Shannon a $10 million horseshoe shaped whorehouse with a casino on one end and a five star restaurant on the other end. It was 200 rooms with Shannon’s layer hidden underneath. Visited by all of the rich, the famous, the politicians and law-enforcement. While Rong is taking overthe city, he kills Big Joey Crack. Rong is approached by Joey’s boss, the chief of police and is told if he doesn’t take Joey’s place they will kill Rong’s parents and his twin brother and his new wife/manager, Terri. It didn’t seem so bad. Police protection, info, product for days and bought a classy high in clientele to Rong and Shannons casino and whorehouse: THE HORSESHOE. Brenda has a heart attack and the near death experience brings her back with her husband and the only man she ever been with, Raymond. She makes the twins promise to spend time together, which they secretly already wanted to do anyway. They’ve been away from each other over two decades so they agreed to rebuild the bond they were born to have as twin brothers. Rong figures out that the real person that’s extorting him is the mayor. The police chief is just second in command. Election time comes and Senator Goods; the candidate up to be the new Mayor, figures out that the current mayor; Mayor Mann is dirty. Mann tries to set Rong up for Goods’ assignation and then plans to kill Rong right after it’s complete. Rong backs out at the last minute when Logic’s surveillance birds (half robotic/real birds) fly over the golf course Where the hit was to be and notices a team of hit men hiding nearby. Rong’s team comes to get him out. Chief Ross’s men kill Goods anyway. They chase Rong for miles on ATVs and trapped him in his mansion. Logic’s automated security system included with an AI fights off any law-enforcement breaches and Rong is Safe there, for a while anyway. Scared that the military would eventually blow the mansion up,, Logic and Niggasia talks Ryte in to pretending he’s Lil Rong and he gets mages a full confession from captain Ross and Mann. The FBI get’s it all recorded, arrest Mann and Ross and free the twins from their Catch 22. For now.

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