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‘The Simpsons’ Hip-Hop Episode Cued Curtains for Composer
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variety.comBy Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer In November 2016, the creative team behind “The Simpsons” began work on a special hour-long episode.
It was a hip-hop parody of “The Great Gatsby” — laden with references to the Fox soap “Empire” — that would succeed or fail based on the music.
The problem, in the view of executive producer James Brooks, was the show’s 75-year-old composer. Alf Clausen had scored more than 500 episodes in 27 years on the show, penning such immortal work as “We Put the Spring in Springfield.” But the producers knew that hip-hop was well outside his comfort zone. “Brooks questioned whether Clausen was the right person to prepare rap music and questioned his work more generally,” said Richard Sakai, a producer on the
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