Amsterdam based Hip Hop Producer duo Zaplin & Powernap present a tribute to legendary film composer Ennio Morricone by using his soundtracks to remix Jay Z’s ‘An American Gangster’ and presenting to you ‘A Morricone Gangster’.
Morricone, who became world renowned with his scores for movies like ‘Once Upon a Time in The West’ and ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’, never won a single Oscar until 2007 when he received a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ for his works of more than 500 soundtracks! Without exaggeration we can currently call him one of the most influential film composers of all time.
Taking his discography from 1961 to the present as a starting-point, Zaplin & Powernap went on to create a new Morricone breed of Hip Hop. The result fuses the characteristic Morricone sound with a rap flow developed to perfection by one of all time’s best rappers, Jay Z. p p p