Music

All music is composed by Jeff Russo. Here is a list of the music that was played on the series:

## Season 1

### Pilot

* *West Coast Poplock* by **Ronnie Hudson and the Street People**
* *Monkey Man* by **The Rolling Stones**
* *Dance Floor* by **Zapp**
* *The Ghetto* by **Donny Hathaway**
* *Cutie Pie* by **One Way**
* *Cars* by **Gary Newman**
* *Jam On it* by **Newcleus**
* *Maneater* by **Hall & Oates**
* *More Bounce to the Ounce* by **Zapp & Roger**
* *Get Next to You* by **Everyday People**
* *Don't Let Me be Misunderstood* by **Nina Simone**

### Make Them Birds Fly

* *Feeling Good* by **Nina Simone**
* *Can You Feel It* by **Aggregation**
* *Strike* by **Union**
* *Que No Se Apague El Fuego* by **Stanislau Marino**
* *Lovely Day* by **Bill Withers**

### Slow Hand

* *I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)* by **Hall & Oates**
* *Pull Up* by **Universal Togetherness**

### Trauma

* *One Thing Leads to Another* by **The Fixx**
* *The Chicago Party Theme* by **Jesus Wayne and Willy Woods**
* *Even the Nights are Better* by **Air Supply**
* *Breakout* by **Arnie Love & the Loveletters**
* *Long Day* by **Frank Russo & Lettrice Lawrence**

### Seven-Four

* *New Generation* by **The Universals**
* *Love T.K.O.* by **Teddy Pendergrass**
* *Brotherman* by **The Final Solution**
* *Can You Get to That* by **Funkadelic**
* *Feel it in Your Bones* by **Directory**
* *Bionic Lover, Part 1* by **Gentle**

### A Long Time Coming

* *Mi Amor Es para Ti* by **Los Solitarios**
* *Smiling Faces Sometimes* by **The Temptations**
* *Como un Ave* by **Grupo Celeste**

### Cracking

* *Soul Searchin'* by **Mark G Hart & Emil Dudas**
* *In the Jungle* by **The Hygrades**
* *Dazed* by **Split Decision Band**
* *Hip Hop Bee Bop* by **Man Parrish**

### Baby Teeth

* *Disco Beat USA* by **Van & McFarland**
* *Word to My Song* by **Dry Bread**
* *Iz Ya Funkin' Tonight* by **Bright Moments**
* *DJ Rap* by **Poor Boy Rappers**
* *Funk You Up* by **The Sequence**
* *You're the Only Thing I've Got Going For Me* by **Bill Wright**

### Story of a Scar

* *Stone Crush On You* by **OT Sykes**
* *None Of Us Are Free* by **Solomon Burke**

### The Rubicon

* *Fantasy* by **Earth, Wind, & Fire**
* *California Dreaming* by **Lee Moses**
* *Hard to Know* by **Oneness**
* *Cold Blooded* by **Rick James**

## Season 2

### Sightlines

* *Hungry For Your Love* by **Phillip Anthony**
* *That's the Joint* by **Funky 4 + 1**
* *California Dreamin'* by **Eddie Hazel**
* *Keep On Doin' It* by **Jean Wells**
* *New Age* by **Blitz**
* *Backstrokin'* by **The Fatback Band**

### The Day

* *Yo Soy El Rey* by **Chilo Escobedo**
* *Quince Años* by **Chilo Escobedo**
* *The Ghetto* by **Ruthie Foster**

### Prometheus Rising

* *Young Turks* by **Rod Stewart**
* *At the Party* by **The Treacherous Three**
* *Everybody's Clown* by **Johnny Dynamite**
* *This is the Place* by **Kansas City Express**
* *Whatever You Do (Do it Good)* by **Gene Williams**

### Jingle Bell Rock

* *Someday at Christmas* by **Mario**
* *Someday at Christman* by **Stevie Wonder**
* *Why Don't You Put Your Trust in Me* by **4th Coming**
* *Gotta Stand For Something Part 1* by **Apple & the Three Oranges**
* *Silent Night* by **Mariachi Kings**
* *Let's Wrap it up Tonight* by **Roy Roberts Experience**

### Serpiente

* *Muriel* by **The Premiers**
* *The Panther* by **Manu Dibango**

### The Offer

* *Tamborito Swing* by **Los Silvertones**
* *Erotica* by **Aguaturbia**
* *Leave 'Em With Nothing* by **Emanuel Vo Williams and Robin Loxley**

### The World is Yours

* *Buffalo Gals* by **Malcolm McLaren and The Worlds Famous Supreme Team**
* *Quiero a Mi Gente* by **Abelardo Carbono y Su Conjunto**
* *Low Rider Rap* by **Poor Boy Rappers**
* *I've Got to Forget You* by **Bobby Story**

### Surrender

* *Blue Danube Waltz* by **Johann Strauss**

### Aftermath

* *You Don't Miss Your Water* by **Otis Redding**
* *Safety Dance* by **Men Without Hats**
* *Lonely for You Baby* by **Sam Dees**
* *Wawa* by **Lizzy Mercier Descloux**

### Education

* *Hard Times* by **Baby Huey & the Babysitters**
* *Home is Where the Hatred Is* by **Gil Scott Heron**

## Season 3

### Protect and Swerve

* *People Make the World Go Round* by **The Stylistics**
* *Super Jake* by **Chocolate Star**
* *Five Minutes of Funk* by **Whodini**
* *That Good Old Feeling Back Again* by **Johnny Gamboa**

### Cash and Carry

* *2000 People* by **Hit Shack**
* *Maldito Cabaret* by **Los Pamperos**
* *Guaguancó Moderno* by **Abelardo Carbono y Su Grupo**
* *Rappers Convention* by **Harlem World Crew**
* *A Lo Loco* by **Lucho Macedo y Su Sonora, Manolo Castro**
* *Caraqueño Vacilón (feat. Manolo Castro & Pochi Macedo)* by **Lucho Macedo y Su Sonora**
* *Everyway But Loose* by **Plunky Nkabinde, Oneness of Juju**
* *Ebony* by **Project Soul**
* *You Make Your Own Heaven and Hell Right Here On Earth* by **The Undisputed Truth**

### The Game That Moves as You Play

* *Searching* by **Infatuation**
* *When I Hear Music* by **Debbie Deb**
* *I'll Get to That* by **Tom Sanders**
* *All This Love* by **DeBarge**
* *Teen Machine Rap* by **Teen Machine**
* *I Keep Forgettin (Every Time You're Near)* by **Michael McDonald**

### The Bottoms

* *Big Bad John* by **Big John Hamilton**
* *All We Have is a Song* by **Family Underground**
* *Egypt Egypt* by **The Egyptian Lover**
* *No Tears* by **The Psychedelic Furs**
* *Electric* by **Red Alert**
* *Right Thing* by **Kick**

### Confessions

* *C.O.D. (I'll Deliver)* by **Mtume**
* *Hard Times* by **The Jetzons**
* *Nightclub In My Mind* by **Psychedelic Soul Crew**
* *Instant Replay* by **Dan Hartman**
* *You Put the Spice in My Life* by **Dale Chafin**
* *Burning Up* by **Donnell Pitman**
* *You Bring out the Best in Me* by **D.I.T. Band**
* *Ain't Gonna Wait Too Long* by **Thomas Meloncon**
* *The New Rap Language* by **The Treacherous Three**
* *Freak* by **N.C.C.U.**
* *Equidity Funk* by **Mistafide**
* *Jeopardy* by **Greg Kihn Band**

### Pocket Full of Rocks

* *I Need a Freak* by **Sexual Harassment**
* *Pin Thumpin'* by **Brother's Disco**
* *I'll Take Jesus For Mine* by **James Austin, St. Luke Church of God in Christ Youth Choir**
* *Summer Fun* by **DJ Smalls**
* *I'll Get to That* by **Tom Sanders**
* *Sail On* by **Lionel Richie**
* *I Feel Asleep (One Time Too Many)* by **Bobby Story**
* *Heartbreaker* by **Grand Funk Railroad**

### Hedgehogs

* *Everybody Loves the Sunshine* by **Roy Ayers Ubiquity**
* *Slice* by **World Class Wreckin' Crew**
* *Lollie Pop* by **Kick**

### Blackout

* *Am I a Good Man* by **Them Two**
* *A Shot in the Night* by **1933**
* *Ice Cream Truck* by **Chris Upton**
* *Positive Life* by **Lovebug Star-ski and the Harlem World Crew**
* *La Gigantona* by **Alfonso Lovo**

### Other Lives

* *Law of the Land* by **The Temptations**
* *808 Beats* by **Unknown DJ**
* *Just Another Day* by **Tessie Hill**
* *Break My Stride* by **Matthew Wilder**
* *Strange Fruit* by **Nina Simone**

## Season 4

### Re-Entry

* *Flashlight* by **Parliament**
* *I Got the...* by **Labi Siffre**
* *Can't Stop the Clock* by **1933**
* *Dame Amor* by **Chilo Escobedo**
* *Funkbox Party* by **The Masterdon Committee**

### Weight

* *Space is the Place* by **Jonzun Crew**

### All the Way Down

* *Super Freak* by **Rick James**
* *For Your Own Concern* by **Big Daddy Cane**
* *New Varmlands* by **The Morrie Morrison Orchestra**

### Expansion

* *Love of No Return* by **Peter Sivo Band**
* *Spoonin' Rap* by **Spoonie Gee**
* *Merry Go Round* by **The Equatics**
* *Why Did You Do It* by **Chicago Gangsters**

### The Get Back

* *Electric Kingdom* by **Twilight 22**
* *Don't Touch That Stereo* by **Trouble Funk**
* *Tell Me More and More and Then Some* by **Nina Simone**

### Say a Little Prayer

* *Across 110th Street* by **Bobby Womack**
* *Heptones Gonna Fight* by **The Heptones**
* *I Like the Way You Do It* by **The Loni Gamble Band, Lisa Warrington**
* *Don't Touch That Stereo* by **Trouble Funk**

### Through a Glass, Darkly

* *My Love Lingers On* by **Peter Sivo Band**
* *The Sweep* by **Westside**
* *Feel it in My Bones* by **Freewheel**

### Betrayal

* *Stand on the World* by **The Joubert Singers**

### Sleeping Dogs

* *A Man in Uniform* by **Lemonade**
* *Neon Lady* by **Bobby Barnes**
* *Ledger of Love* by **D Avenue**
* *Starry Night* by **Jimmy and Dino**

## Season 5

### Comets

* *Fresh is the Word* by **Mantronix**
* *Notorious* by **Duran Duran**
* *I Just Want to Love You* by **B & The Family**
* *Victim* by **The Crew**
* *Tagging* by **Decepta Tripps**
* *I Can't Wait* by **Nu Shooz**
* *Shape It Up* by **Up With People**
* *d2ML Disco Child* by **Fred Lederman**
* *Fired Up* by **X-MAN**
* *I Walk On Guilded Splinters* by **Dr. John**

### Lions

* *Gang Busters* by **Kenny Dope**
* *Don't Stop the Rock* by **Freestyle**
* *The Party's Just Begun* by **Freestyle**
* *Sugar* by **Hitshack**
* *Everybody's a Star* by **Ripple**
* *Just Say No (To Drugs)* by **New World Music**

### Revolutions

* *How Many Ballers (feat. Benjamin Earl Turner)* by the **Snowfall Cast**
* *A Selection* by **Fishbone**
* *Key to Love (Is Understanding)* by **The Majestics**
* *Oh What a Day* by **Whiz Kid**
* *The Way To Find Love (Sticky Dojah's Edit)* by **Family Love Band**
* *Fly With Me* by **Aiko**
* *Destroy the Block! (feat. Benjamin Earl Turner)* by the **Snowfall Cast**
* *Head for Heights (7" Mix)* by **Barry Upton**

### The Iliad: Part 1

* *Tu Me Amenazas* by **Ray Valenzuela**
* *Rood Khoneha* by **Ramesh**

### The Iliad: Part 2

* *Falling* by **The Undertow**
* *Love My Body* by **Suave Beso**

### Lying in a Hammock

* *Ronnie's Theme* by **Ronnie Walker**
* *The Streets Got My Lady* by **Bill Brandon**
* *I Can't Stand the Rain* by **Ann Peebles**

### Celebration

* *DJ Rap* by **Poor Boy Rappers**
* *Good Times* by **Chic**
* *Carry* by **Connie & The Rhythm Method**
* *I Need You* by **Infatuation**
* *Do You Really Love Me* by **Tyran Hill**
* *Give Me Your Love* by **Sandy Mercer**
* *Cool it Now* by **New Edition**
* *Jam On It (Instrumental)* by **Hit Shack**
* *Le Freak* by **Chic**
* *Don't Pull the Form Under Me* by **Blo**
* *One by One* by **Len Boone**
* *Clap Your Hands* by **Mike Theodore Orchestra**
* *Turn That Mutha Out* by **Idris Muhammad**
* *I Learned My Lesson* by **Willie Davis**
* *Call On Me* by **Four Tops**

### Departures

* *Grama Graphtos* by **Koko**
* *Love is an Illusion* by **Ronnie Walker**
* *Hip Hop 2* by **Joe Mansfield**
* *Superfine Feeling* by **Rare Pleasure**
* *The Bump* by **Floyd Smith**
* *Invincible* by **The Thompsons**
* *It's Like That* by **Run DMC**

### Fault Lines

* *Gangster of Hip Hop* by **Just-Ice**
* *In the Air Tonight* by **Phil Collins**
* *Straight Outta Compton* by **NWA**