Dumb Money

Dumb Money (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2023 film of the same name directed by Craig Gillespie. Featuring original score composed by Will Bates, the album further accompanies needle-drops used in the film performed by Mark Batson, Kay Ro$e, Darko, See You Next Year and SASH and featured artists such as Kitty Dynamo, Boom Boom and Blake Yung. The soundtrack was released by Milan Records on September 22, 2023. Development Gillespie enlisted Susan Jacobs as the music supervisor for the film. Jacobs wanted three songs that released during early 2020 and 2021, termed as the beginning of the GameStop movement and also setting back during the COVID-19 pandemic timeline. As she was tasked to design the soundtrack within the limited budget and resources, she needed an edgy sound that surrounded the hedge fund characters with Cardi B, Drake and Megan Thee Stallion providing those edgy vibes, and had contacted several hip-hop producers for licensing the music. The 2020 hit single "WAP" by Cardi B was used in the script in the first place as "it was about getting people to understand the story and scenes". Securing the rights for "Savage" was considered to be challenging as "It was in the script because that was the big TikTok dance at the time. But we couldn’t license any Megan Thee Stallion masters at the time because there were legal issues going on with them. They were frozen." Despite that Stallion allowed the production to use the song. Mark Batson, who was known for his collaboration with renowned artists, produced new versions of the songs "WAP" and "Savage" that felt greater than the original versions. Jacobs also worked with younger artists to collaborate for the new renditions who further performed some of the reworked songs from Batson's catalog. One of those includes, Cardi B's "Lit Thot" which Batson re-wrote with Rob Bressler and performed with Boom Boom. The song plays as the stock company Robin Hood is introduced. Jacobs described the song to be hard to replace, as Gillespie suggested it to be raunchier and edgier, but was appropriate to represent the Robin Hood members.