<Li> Athens' record company owes money to a gangster / producer, Sin LaSalle . </Li> <P> Chili Palmer, restless after years of filmmaking, enters the music industry after witnessing a Russian mob execute his friend Tommy Athens, owner of a record company . Chili offers to help his friend's widow, Edie Athens, manage the failing business, which owes $300,000 to hip - hop producer Sin LaSalle . </P> <P> Chili is impressed by singer Linda Moon and helps free her from contractual obligations to Nick Carr and Raji, who has a gay Samoan bodyguard named Elliott, an aspiring actor and the butt of Carr and Raji's homophobic jokes . Carr and Raji hire a hitman, Joe "Loop" Lupino to kill Chili before he can save Edie's company by arranging a live performance for Linda along with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith . </P> <P> Lasalle demands payment of the $300,000, but agrees to give Chili a few days to get the money plus the vig . When the Russians attempt to kill Chili, Joe Loop mistakenly kills Ivan Argianiyev, the Russian Mob's hitman. Carr is furious about the mistake . Raji then kills Loop with a metal baseball bat after Loop "disrespects" him . </P>

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