The Players Club

The story is presented as a memory of Diana “Diamond” Armstrong (LisaRaye) sparked by her arrival at the ruins of the raunchy, dysfunctional Players Club she didn't like it at first but she needed the money for her apartment and to raise her son. She explains that she used to work at the club, beginning working there after getting pregnant with her son Jamal and getting into a heated argument with her father about wanting to go to a local historically black college (HBCU), prompting her to move out of her parents' home. Initially, Diana ends up working at a shoe store. There she meets Ronnie (Chrystale Wilson) and Tricks (Adele Givens), who work for Dollar Bill (Bernie Mac) at The Players Club. They convince Diana she would make better money stripping, saying, "Use what you got to get what you want."