“I don’t think they ever really liked DK 64 that much.”
Other pieces of licensed music were fully credited.
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.
He added: “It’s bizarre how they just sampled it straight from the game.
They just plugged in the N64 and sampled it and looped it.
There’s no re-recording done, straight out the game.
So it’s me playing guitar on it.
It’s the lads from Rare doing the [sings] ‘D-K’ thing.
They’re all the performers on the track.
So they’re all in the movie uncredited.”
“I wonder,” said Kirkhope.
“They have put some of Dave’s [David Wise] stuff on it.
They do own it all so it’s up to them.
I don’t think they ever really liked DK 64 that much.
That’s a rumour we got back through the cycle of whispers from Nintendo when we were at Rare.
I don’t know if that’s true or not.”
Kirkhope himself replied on social media: “Well fancy that…Rambi lives.”
