during the First Annual ‘How Can I Be Down’ music conference. Digital Underground’s Shock G. (Gregory Edward Jacobs) can be seen in the background during the event in Miami, Florida in February 1992. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)
Fans still remember him vividly. One recently commented, “Raheem from Juice… my teenage crush.” Another wrote, “My childhood crush 🥰.”
He later reflected on the film’s deeper impact, especially on Tupac.
Asked if Tupac’s dark character lingered, he added, “I think that character was always in him, but the movie was able to turn the volume up to 10.”
Still working, still evolving
After Juice, the work kept coming — films like Renaissance Man, Bones, For Colored Girls, and The Tiger Woods Story. On TV, audiences embraced him again as Darnell on Girlfriends, along with roles on Sister, Sister, CSI, and Blue Bloods.
He has also called Zooman, a Showtime film, his favorite role.
But the actor has also been open about the fact that work didn’t always come easily. There were stretches when the offers dried up completely, and reality hit harder than he expected.
“I definitely had delusions of grandeur,” he admitted.
“I understood that it was going to be difficult but I didn’t know it would be as tough as it has been. It’s a tough game — you gotta have a thick skin. Mine’s gotten thicker over the years.”
And by this point in the story, it’s time to say his name of this incredibly well-preserved 61-year-old.
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