The opening detective describing Genie Lamp's privates comes off as gay.

There is a long sequence with a cute girl trying to engage in prostitution with the gang. She reveals herself to be an undercover cop.

We see one sex scene between Carole and a white boyfriend, which is adultery. It's not explicit, but it's not mild and it's pretty obvious.

Rated R-Gang Violence, and for Language and Drug Content

some fleshy outfits, but thats about it

There are two version of this movie - depending on which, the violence is moderate and the violence is brutal (mostly referring to deleted scenes likely). The movie was cut for a 15 in the UK, so the movie originally was hard R.

shootings and beatings, fairly violent with some blood, but nothing overly explicit

Cinemax content advisory: rated R for violence (V), adult language (AL), and adult content (AC).

A good amount of the F-word, but rather tame by today's standards. Not as many as other movies in this genre

A man is forced at gunpoint to snort heroin

Characters talk about crack cocaine & marijuana

A man gives some kids a marijuana joint

A character is said to smoke marijuana with PCP

There is a scene that implies that rape took place (a man's girlfriend was drugged up by a major gangster), early in the movie. The whole film revolves around gang violence.