Raquel "Raq" Thomas has gained control over the city's drug trade, but her son is slipping away. After being whisked out of the city for his own safety at the end of season one, Kanan Stark returns to Queens uncertain of his future with the family business. Meanwhile, a secret about his mother and neighborhood antagonist, Detective Malcolm Howard, threatens to upend everything Kanan thought he knew about himself and his family. While trying to allay her son's concerns, Raq boldly expands the family business into hostile Mafia territory. She gets no help from her younger brother, Lou-Lou, who has other plans that revolve around his emerging record label. On the other hand, Marvin, the oldest of the Thomas siblings, remains Raq's loyal soldier, but struggles to earn his daughter, Jukebox's, forgiveness after their brutal fight in season one. The ties that bind this family together are becoming undone, but Raq will stop at nothing to hold them together.