Nintendo ninjas assembling, surely.
As global companies go, Nintendo is notoriously relaxed about individuals and other companies picking from its vast catalogue of beloved IP, adapting it for their own works, and profiting from the results. Hang on, that doesn’t sound right…
In a move that surely has the Ninjaphone ringing off the hook in Nintendo Lawyer HQ, the latest release from American rapper Asianae, ‘Motion’, samples Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. theme. If you’re thinking, ‘Oh, it probably has a little coin sound in the background or something,’ er, no. We’ve linked the ‘Clean’ version below (still live on YouTube, for now), which has the artist rapping over the theme pretty much as is.
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