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In honor of the release of Spike Lee ’s brilliant new movie Highest 2 Lowest   , a remake of Akira Kurosawa ’s High and Low , I’ve decided to do something I’ve never done before: rank every single one of his theatrical narrative films in order of preference. NOTE: Highest 2 Lowest is not included on this list. I just saw it...I have to let it ruminate for a while. This is strictly narrative, dramatic, fiction-based Spike Lee. That means no television work, no documentaries,

Hip-hop and movies have been linked since the beginning. Now sure, hip-hop music itself officially kicked off in the early 1970s, born from block parties in the Bronx where DJs were spinning disco, stretching those instrumental breaks, scratching records, letting MCs jump on the mic, and creating something totally new. It was disco rap at first, but it grew fast, into something more than music. It became a movement. A culture. A way of life. And film caught onto that energy r