The game was scheduled to take place during the middle of winter break at the City College of New York.

Hosted by Puff Daddy and HeavyD, the event would be the highlight of December 1991. The hottest rap artists promised to be there and young people from all over the city converged on campus to attend.

The game made headlines in the most tragic of ways.

City College 9 unravels the moments that counted down to the event, and the circumstances that took nine people away from their loved ones.

It was a racially charged year. With Rodney King's video-taped brutal arrest making headlines in the Spring of 1991 and the Crown Heights riot spinning New York city into a turmoil that August, the circumstances of the City College 9 event piecre through any finger pointing. It instead lets us witness how prejudices become institionalized and how that effects something as simple and benign as a charity basketball game in Harlem with rap stars.