Mufasa: The Lion King | Featurette: Music Of Mufasa - video Dailymotion

Now as the King of the Pride Lands, Simba is determined for his cub to follow in his paw prints.

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00:00The Lion King is already a genre of music, rooted in African rhythms, and then obviously

00:07Lebo M's voice is synonymous with Lion King.

00:10That's the first voice you hear in the 1994 original, it's the first voice you hear in

00:18this film.

00:19I read the script and I just saw so many different things that I'd done in my previous work,

00:26the relationship between the brothers, the family dynamics.

00:29Find your place in the circle of life.

00:31I was like, oh, I have to do this.

00:33What about you, my friend?

00:34What was your approach to writing the songs for Mufasa?

00:37It's very rare when you read a script and go, a song goes here, a song goes here, a

00:42song goes here.

00:45Most of the inspirations for the lyrics are there in that script.

00:49I have a secret, Mufasa, I always wanted a brother.

00:55I always wanted a brother.

00:56That was the line that made me lean in.

00:58I always wanted a brother.

01:00I always wanted a brother, just like you.

01:03We were thinking there might be a song there, and it was called, like, Brother Trouble.

01:06Yes, it was called Brother Trouble.

01:08And you were like, no, no, no, it's I Always Wanted a Brother.

01:10The song is about him wanting a brother, and I was like, oh, damn, that's great.

01:16What was the most difficult song to write?

01:18Melele was a really tough song.

01:19Really?

01:20I'm surprised to hear that.

01:22Melele swells and soars, sort of like, soaring is difficult.

01:33That's the thing that Disney does so well, so it was daunting.

01:36That's my favorite song in that film, by the way.

01:40I'm so glad.

01:41Which is crazy.

01:42The legacy of Lion King is so intimidating.

01:49It's also like Elton John, Levo M, Beyonce.

01:53That's a good hang.

01:54Like, I want to be in that hang.

01:56Exactly.