‘The Simpsons’ Hip-Hop Episode Cued Curtains for Composer

In November 2016, the creative team behind “The Simpsons” began work on a special hour-long episode. It was a hip-hop parody of “The Great Gatsby” — laden with references to the Fox soap “Empire” — that would succeed or fail based on the music.

The problem, in the view of executive producer James Brooks,

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