Music and Popcorn #3: Sean Fennessey on the “Juice” soundtrack (1992)

Episode notes

We are on week three of our Music and Popcorn miniseries and we could not be more excited to have The Ringer’s own Sean Fennessey with us to talk about the soundtrack to the Ernest Dickerson classic, Juice.

We discuss the importance of New York rap in the film,the unique place Juice has in the lineage of hip-hop movies in the early 90s, and the…let’s say questionable portrayal of the art of DJing

More on Sean

• Sean’s profile on The Ringer
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More on Juice

• Yo! MTV Raps’ Interview with Tupac on the set of Juice
• Interview with Ernest Dickerson on the 25th anniversary of Juice (Shadow and Act)
• Juice fresh 20 years on (The Guardian)

Show Tracklisting (all songs from the Juice soundtrack unless otherwise indicated):

• ‘Nuff Respect
• It’s Going Down
• People Get Ready (remix)
• 2Pac: Hit Em Up
• The Village Callers: Hector
• Aaron Hall: Don’t Be Afraid (Sex You Down Some Mo’ Version)
• Special Ed: I Got It Made
• Uptown Anthem
• Flipside
• Jamal: Fades Em All
• Juice (Know The Ledge)
• Is It Good To You
• Uptown Anthem
• Juice (Know The Ledge)
• Cypress Hill: How I Can Just Kill A Man
• What Could Be Better Bitch
• 2Pac: Never Had A Friend Like Me
• Pete Rock & CL Smooth: One In A Million
• The Dogg Pound: Big Pimpin’

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there
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