{"id":1034,"date":"2025-06-18T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2025-06-19T12:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T12:17:30","slug":"sounds-like-the-dk-rap-is-in-donkey-kong-bananza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/sounds-like-the-dk-rap-is-in-donkey-kong-bananza\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds Like The &#039;DK Rap&#039; Is In Donkey Kong Bananza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>So it&#8217;s finally here&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/donkey-kong-bananza\">Donkey Kong Bananza<\/a> is stuffed full of musical references. After all, if you&#8217;re playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/mario-kart-world\">Mario Kart World<\/a> right now, you <em>know<\/em> Nintendo is going all-in on its musical history right now (it has always, but right now, we&#8217;re eating). We heard many a classic DK track during the Direct, but one in particular stood out to us.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, yes, it&#8217;s the DK Rap folks. Originally composed by Rare&#8217;s Grant Kirkhope for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/donkey_kong_64\">Donkey Kong 64<\/a>, it&#8217;s made numerous appearances throughout Donkey Kong&#8217;s life, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/super_smash_bros_melee\">Super Smash Bros. Melee<\/a> and beyond, and it&#8217;s back once again in Bananza.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/06\/sounds-like-the-dk-rap-is-in-donkey-kong-bananza\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s finally here&#8230; We shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that Donkey Kong Bananza is stuffed full of musical references. After all, if you&#8217;re playing Mario Kart World right now, you know Nintendo is going all-in on its musical history right now (it has always, but right now, we&#8217;re eating). We heard many a classic DK track [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}