Next Friday

After the events of the first film that are summarized by Craig (Ice Cube), his father Willie (Witherspoon) decides it would be safer for Craig to move to Rancho Cucamonga and live with his uncle Elroy (Curry) and cousin Day-Day (Epps), who had won the lottery and were able to afford a nice house in a middle class neighborhood. Elroy spends his days consuming large amounts of marijuana and making sex tapes with his wife, Auntie Suga (Whitley) while Day-Day works at a record store and tries to avoid his pregnant ex-girlfriend D’Wana (Jones) and her violent sister Baby D (Allen).

Day-Day shows Craig around the house and neighborhood, introducing him to his neighbor Mrs. Ho-Kym (Hill). While there, they witness another neighbor family, Joker (Vargas) and his two brothers, return home in their lowrider. Day-Day explains to Craig that actually after winning the lottery, all of the taxes and fees that were taken out only left them with enough to buy their house and car. However, a letter carrier (Rapaport) delivers a delinquency notice that their house could be repossessed, but Day-Day is running late for work and unable to bring it to his dad's attention first.

Craig joins his aunt and uncle for a joint which is strong enough to make him pass out, and he later goes to visit Day-Day at work. While there, Day-Day finds D’Wana vandalizing his car with Baby D for the second time that day, and attempts to confront them, only to be physically attacked by Baby D. Pinky (Powell) arrives at the store finding that it has been locked up while Day-Day and his friend/coworker Roach (Pierce) are in the back. After an armed scuffle with Craig in which Pinky mistook him for a robber, Craig gains the upper hand and holds Pinky’s gun on him, attempting to explain that he’s Day-Day’s cousin. When Day-Day returns and confirms this, Pinky fires both him and Roach.

Craig, Day-Day and Roach then try to figure out how to resolve the delinquency issue so they can keep their house. Craig remembers seeing one of the Joker brothers carrying a hydraulic pump from their car inside, suspecting that they may be hiding cash inside. Craig convinces Day-Day and Roach to help him get inside the Joker’s house and see what’s inside the pump.

The trio drug the Joker’s guard dog Chico with an edible Roach had given them, rendering the dog unconscious. Craig then sneaks into the Joker’s house while the three brothers are partying with girls they brought home. Craig locates the pump and confirms that drug cash is hidden inside. Narrowly avoiding detection by Baby Joker, he slips into Karla’s room where he flirts with her before escaping out of her upstairs window.

Meanwhile, concerned that Craig is taking too long, Day-Day and Roach knock on the Joker’s front door, which is answered by all three brothers armed with handguns and an assault rifle. The brothers take Day-Day and Roach hostage while trying to figure out what happened to their money.

After learning that Craig could be in trouble, Willie returns to the neighborhood at the same time Deebo (Lister Jr.) and his fellow prison inmate Tyrone (Fingaz) arrive, the latter two having been tracking Craig down all day after they escaped from prison so Deebo could have revenge on Craig.

Willie teams up with Elroy, and the two incapacitate two of the Joker brothers and Craig is able to free Day-Day and Roach. Soon after, the police arrive and arrest all three Joker brothers on drug charges and re-arrest Deebo and Tyrone for their prison break.

Craig hands the cash from the pump over to Day-Day and his uncle so they can pay off their debt and keep their house, then Craig returns home with his dad, having learned the suburbs aren’t any safer than the hood.

• Ice Cube as Craig Jones
• Mike Epps as Daymond "Day Day" Jones
• Justin Pierce as Roach
• John Witherspoon as Willie Jones
• Don 'D.C.' Curry as Elroy Jones
• Tommy Lister Jr. as Deebo
• Jacob Vargas as Joker
• Lisa Rodríguez as Karla
• Tamala Jones as D'Wana
• Clifton Powell as Pinky
• Kym Whitley as Auntie Suga
• Sticky Fingaz as Tyrone
• Lobo Sebastian as Lil' Joker
• Rolando Molina as Baby Joker
• Amy Hill as Mrs. Ho-Kym
• Robin Allen as Baby D
• Michael Blackson as Angry African Man Customer
• Nicole Lydy as Ashley Nicole
• Michael Rapaport as Mailman with Tax Notice
• Chris Tucker as Smokey (archive footage)
• Faizon Love as Big Worm (archive footage)

The film's soundtrack, which featured appearances from Aaliyah, Eminem, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Ice Cube, N.W.A., Snoop Dogg, Wu-Tang Clan, and Wyclef Jean, peaked at number five on the R&B/Hip-Hop charts, and nineteen on the Billboard 200 in 2000.

In the United States, the film was released on Wednesday, January 12, 2000.

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