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DK Rap composer explains why Nintendo didn't credit him in the Super Mario Bros. Movie
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DK Rap composer explains why Nintendo didn’t credit him in the Super Mario Bros. Movie

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DK Rap composer explains why Nintendo didn’t credit him in the Super Mario Bros. Movie

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  1. thecornballer1

    This is purely a Nintendo of Japan decision, going back to the early NES when they would credit their staff with nicknames to avoid other companies poaching their developers. It’s clearly not a greedy or malicious practice, but it’s just bewildering. Same with Metroid Prime Remastered not doing full credits for the original Retro team.

  2. AFineDayForScience

    I remember renting Donkey Kong 64 and leaving the intro screen up just to listen to the song

  3. Biggman23

    For a company that’s lawsuit happy around any sort of copyright infringement, this is baffling

    Music copyright is very complicated and typically each person who has had a hand in it gets credit and even royalties. If they own it, that’s fine, don’t pay out the royalties. However those people still made it and should be entitled to have their contributions known.

  6. Picolete

    Nintendo didnt had the money to credit him

  9. jaywinner

    If Nintendo owns the song, they can do whatever they want, right?

  11. Halvardr_Stigandr

    Nintendo, as ever, being incredibly petty.

  12. letsgucker555

    They did the same with the Fury Bowser theme. Why are we making this only about Grant Kirkhope?

  13. SVCLIII

    I mean if Eurogamer couldn’t even be bothered to put DK Rap composer Grant Kirkhopes name in the title of their article. then why should they care that Nintendidn’t?

    Also, I recommend the Game Grumps episode he guested on if anyone wants to hear about the other work DK Rap composer Grant Kirkhope has done on the N64/Rare games.

  15. Jazzlike_Category_40

    That song was the sole thing powering the DK fanbase from 1999 onward until earlier this month.

  17. fondue4kill

    “We own it and could credit you accordingly and provide you and your family with a nice little bit of savings…. But we own it so we can do whatever we want and not give you a penny. Why? Because we’re Nintendo and you’ll buy whatever crap we give you because we got you by the balls as a kid and nostalgia is a money maker”

  18. 98VoteForPedro

    >”They said we decided that any music that was quoted from the games that we owned, we wouldn’t credit the composers – apart from Koji Kondo. Then they decided anything with a vocal would get credited, so the DK Rap scores there. But then they decided if we also own it, we won’t credit the composers. And that was the final nail in the coffin.

    >”I said I appreciate you’ve got your policies and all the rest of it, but by the time the credits roll in the movie to show the songs, the theatre’s completely empty, everyone’s gone, it’s only me and my wife and my two kids sat there going ‘look daddy’s name!’. I said ‘for the sake of a couple of lines of text…’, but that was that.”

    >Bowser’s Fury, another song used in the film but also owned by Nintendo, was likewise not credited.

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