A new mash-up record from Team Teamwork combines the soundtrack from Final Fantasy VII with rhymes from rappers such as Jay-Z and Ghostface Killah.
Vinyl Fantasy 7, available as a name-your-price download via Bandcamp, spans thirteen tracks and transforms the memorable soundtrack tunes of Nobuo Uematsu into bumping hip-hop tracks. Standouts include the matching of Brooklyn stalwarts M.O.P. with the rousing Final Fantasy VII battle anthem and a tune that lays the searing coke rap of Clipse over the portentous gloom of Sephiroth’s theme.
This isn’t the first game-themed mash-up record from Team Teamwork. Last year’s Ocarina of Rhyme gave the Zelda series the remix treatment.
Neither is this the first time hip-hop musicians have looked to Square Enix games for samples: DJ Green Lantern flipped the same Final Fantasy VII battle music for the track “We G’s” with Kool G Rap from his Alive on Arrival mixtape.
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