Hip-hop cinema is born with the release of Ernest Dickerson's Juice

17 January 1992: Number 28 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of R&B and hip-hop musicSpike Lee's third film, Do the Right Thing, released in 1989, had brought the sensibilities of the hip-hop era to the multiplex and ushered in a new wave of black film-making. Hollywood began to give black directors decent budgets and started casting rappers as leads. After Ice Cube excelled in John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood and Ice-T impressed in New Jack City, Ernest Dickerson – Lee's lon...

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