Snowfall (2017 - 2023) Soundtrack

Snowfall – Original Soundtrack refers to the official music released in connection with the television series Snowfall (2017–2023), created by John Singleton, Eric Amadio, and Dave Andron. The series, set against the 1980s crack epidemic in Los Angeles, features a blend of original score cues and licensed songs spanning hip-hop, funk, R&B, soul, and period tracks that reflect its cultural and narrative setting.

Across its run from 2017 to 2023, Snowfall has not been accompanied by a single unified soundtrack album covering all seasons. Instead, the music has been released in multiple music releases and compilations tied to specific episodes or seasons, including singles and curated track sets. These releases feature both original compositions and licensed songs that underscore key narrative moments.

The series’ score was primarily composed by D’Angelo Lacy and Michael McQuiston (with contributions from additional composers across seasons), blending atmospheric scoring with period-authentic textures and rhythmic motifs that support dramatic tension and emotional depth throughout the show.

Summary Overview

Seasonal and Episode Singles

Over the course of the series, individual tracks featured in Snowfall have been released as standalone singles or themed music sets through digital platforms. These include original compositions tied to episodes as well as licensed songs that gained attention through prominent placement in key scenes. Such single releases are officially available on platforms like Apple Music and Spotify under the Snowfall artist profile or contributing artist profiles.

Official Score Album (2023)

In 2023, Snowfall: Original Series Soundtrack was released as an official score album composed by Jeff Russo. The album contains 15 score tracks totaling approximately 30 minutes and was released digitally via Hollywood Records / 20th Century Studios. This score focuses on narrative-driven musical cues and underscores dramatic tension and character arcs throughout the series, complementing the licensed songs and episodic singles used in earlier seasons.

Licensed Music and Score

Licensed songs in Snowfall are drawn from a range of hip-hop, R&B, funk, and soul artists, chosen to reflect the 1980s Los Angeles setting and thematic tone of the series. These period tracks are often selected to heighten emotional scenes, underscore cultural context, or contrast with on-screen tension. They are not always included in official releases but are part of the show’s musical identity.

Original score compositions by Lacy, McQuiston, and others provide the series’ dramatic musical foundation, with cues that support character arcs and heightened narrative moments. These cues are generally not compiled into a traditional full-length soundtrack album but are instead released selectively as part of season-specific or episode-specific music packages.

Licensed music note: Licensed songs featured in Snowfall episodes may not be included in official score releases or compilations; availability varies by season and platform.

Composers (Primary): D’Angelo Lacy, Michael McQuiston, Jeff Russo
Release Period: 2017–2023
Labels & Partners: FOX / FX Networks music partners, digital distributors
Types of Releases: Episode/season singles, licensed track compilations, episodic music sets
Genre: Score · Hip-hop · R&B · Funk · Soul · Period Soundtrack

Music from Trailers, Teasers, and Promos

Run‑D.M.C. — It’s Tricky Season 1
Mesosphere — Justin Black & Oscar Hill Season 1
RUN DMC, Jason Nevins – It’s Like That Season 3

Snowfall: Tracklist

Unofficial Tracklist

Snowfall Season 5 Soundtrack by Episode

Season 5 • Episode 1: «Comets»

Mantronix – Fresh Is the Word
Duran Duran – Notorious (Extended Mix)
B & The Family – Just Want To Love Ya
Nu Shooz – I Can’t Wait (Powermix)
Up With People – Shape It Up
Dr. John – I Walk On Guilded Splinters

Season 5 • Episode 2: «Commitment»

(no songs)

Season 5 • Episode 3: «Lions»

Freestyle – Don’t Stop The Rock
Freestyle – The Party’s Just Begun
HBFS – You’re Going Bananas
New World Music – Just Say No (To Drugs)

Season 5 • Episode 4: «Revolutions»

Fishbone – A Selection

Season 5 • Episode 5: «The Iliad: Part 1»

Ray Valenzuela – Tu Me Amanazas
Ramesh – Rood Khooneha

Season 5 • Episode 6: «The Iliad: Part 2»

Suave Beso – Love My Body

The Undertow – Falling

Lonette – Stop! (Don’t Worry About It)

Season 5 • Episode 7

Ronnie Walker – Ronnie’s Theme
Bill Brandon – The Streets Got My Lady
Ann Peebles – I Can’t Stand The Rain

Season 5 • Episode 8

Poor Boy Rappers – DJ Rap
Chic – Good Times
Connie & The Rhythm Method – Carry
Infatuation – I Need Your Love
Tyran Hill – Do You Really Love Me
Sandy Mercer – Give Me Your Love
New Edition – Cool It Now
Chic – Le Freak
BLO – Don’t Pull The Form Under Me
Les Boone – One On One
Mike Theodore Orchestra – Clap Your Hands
Idris Muhammad – Turn This Mutha Out
Willie Davis – I Learned My Lesson
Four Tops – Call On Me

Season 5 • Episode 9

KOKO – Grama Graphtos
Ronnie Walker – Love Is An Illusion
Loleatta Holloway – Only A Fool
Floyd Smith – The Bump
the Thompsons – Invincible
Run-DMC – It’s Like That

Season 5 • Episode 10

Just-Ice – Gangster of Hip Hop
Cast – Adonai Israel (worship song)
Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight
N.W.A. – Straight Outta Compton

Snowfall Season 6 Soundtrack by Episode

Season 6 • Episode 1: «Fallout»

Isaac Hayes – Walk On By
Universal Togetherness Band – Pull Up
West Coast Crew – Crazy Cut

Season 6 • Episode 2: «The Sit Down»

Rie Yanagisawa, Clive Bell – Kurokami (Arr. Yanagisawa)
Robbie Nevil – C’Est La Vie
Universal Togetherness Band – I Want You
Ronnie Walker – Someday
War – Slippin’ Into Darkness

Season 6 • Episode 3: «Door of No Return»

Assase Ase – Ohiani Sua Efir
K. Frimpong and His Cubanos Fiestas – Kyenkyen Bi Adi M’awu
Hedzoleh Soundz – Hedzoleh!
Cymande – Brothers On the Slide
Steinski & Double Dee – The Payoff Mix

Season 6 • Episode 4: «Projects Boy»

Just‑Ice – Turbo Charged
T La Rock – Breakdown
Darondo – The Wolf
Master Jay & Michael Dee – T.S.O.B.
Gonzalez & Zuñiga – Lupe Se Llama

Season 6 • Episode 5: «Ebony and Ivory»

Little Richard – Bama Lama Bama Loo
West Coast Crew – Baby Girl

Season 6 • Episode 6: «Concrete Jungle»

Rappin’ Duke – Message From the Duke
Boogie Down Productions – The Bridge Is Over

Season 6 • Episode 7: «Charnel House»

Enya – Boadicea
Cast – Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior
Eddie Kendricks – My People…Hold On

Season 6 • Episode 8: «Ballad of the Bear»

Ice‑T – 6 N’ the Mornin’
La Calandria & Claudio Ferrer Y Sus Jibaros – Los Dias De Mi Vida
The Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil

Season 6 • Episode 9: «Sacrifice»

(no songs)

Season 6 • Episode 10: «The Struggle»

Donell Pitman – A Taste of Honey
Rodney O & Joe Cooley – Cooley High
Kendrick Lamar – PRIDE

Note: The track list is an unofficial compilation created by fans. It is not an official soundtrack release and includes music from Seasons 1 through 6 of Snowfall. Use this list for reference only.

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Run–D.M.C. – It’s Tricky
Run–D.M.C. – Hard Times
Ronnie Hudson – West Coast Poplock
The Rolling Stones – Monkey Man
Zapp – Dance Floor
Donny Hathaway – The Ghetto
One Way – Cutie Pie
Gary Numan – Cars
Newcleus – Jam On It – 12-Inch Vocal
Nina Simone – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
Nina Simone – Feeling Good
Bill Withers – Lovely Day – Remastered
Daryl Hall & John Oates – I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)
Universal Togetherness Band – Pull Up
The Fixx – One Thing Leads To Another
Jesus Wayne – The Chicago Party Theme
Air Supply – Even the Nights are Better – Live
The Universals – New Generation
Teddy Pendergrass – Love T.K.O.
Final Solution – Brotherman – Extended Mix
Funkadelic – Can You Get to That
The Temptations – Smiling Faces Sometimes
The Hygrades – In the Jungle (Vocal Version)
Dry Bread – Words to My Song
Poor Boy Rappers – DJ Rap
The Sequence – Funk You Up – Long Version
Solomon Burke – None Of Us Are Free – Live
Earth, Wind & Fire – Fantasy
Rick James – Cold Blooded
Funky 4 + 1 – That’s the Joint
Eddie Hazel – California Dreamin’
Jean Wells – Keep on Doin’ It
Blitz – New Age
Fatback Band – Backstrokin’
Ruthie Foster – The Ghetto – Live
Rod Stewart – Young Turks
Kansas City Express – This Is the Place
Stevie Wonder – Someday At Christmas
The 4th Coming – Why Don’t You Put Your Trust in Me
Manu Dibango – The Panther
Los Silvertones – Tamborito Swing
Aguaturbia – Erotica
Emanuel Vo Williams – Leave ‘Em With Nothing
Malcolm McLaren – Buffalo Gals – Edit
Abelardo Carbonó y su Conjunto – Quiero a Mi Gente
Poor Boy Rappers – Low Rider Rap
Johann Strauss II – Blue Danube Waltz
Otis Redding – You Don’t Miss Your Water – Mono
Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance
2016 Dynamo Hitz – Lonely For You Baby – Originally performed by Sam Dees
Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Wawa
Baby Huey & The Baby Sitters – Hard Times
Gil Scott-Heron – Home Is Where the Hatred Is
The Stylistics – People Make The World Go Round
Whodini – Five Minutes of Funk
Ann Peebles – I Needed Somebody
Los Pamperos – Maldito Cabaret
The Undisputed Truth – You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell Right Here On Earth – Extended Version
Infatuation – Searching – 1984
Debbie Deb – When I Hear Music
Tom Sanders – I’ll Get to That
DeBarge – All This Love
Michael McDonald – I Keep Forgettin (Every Time You’re Near)
Big John Hamilton – Big Bad John (They Call Me)
The Egyptian Lover – Egypt Egypt
The Psychedelic Furs – No Tears
Tom Lucent – Run This Town
Mtume – C.O.D. (I’ll Deliver)
The Jetzons – Hard Times
Dan Hartman – Instant Replay
Donnell Pitman – Burning Up
Spoonie Gee and The Treacherous Three – The New Rap Language
Mend The Sound – Freak
The Greg Kihn Band – Jeopardy
Sexual Harrassment – I Need A Freak
Lionel Richie – Sail On
Grand Funk Railroad – Heartbreaker
Roy Ayers Ubiquity – Everybody Loves The Sunshine
Them Two – Am I a Good Man – Instrumental
The Temptations – Law Of The Land – Alternate Mix
Tessie Hill – Just Another Day
Matthew Wilder – Break My Stride
Nina Simone – Strange Fruit
Parliament – Flashlight
Labi Siffre – I Got The…
Chilo Escobedo – Dame Amor
Jonzun Crew – Space is the Place
Rick James – Super Freak
Peter Sivo Band – Love of No Return
Spoonie Gee – Spoonin’ Rap
The Equatics – Merry Go Round
Twilight 22 – Electric Kingdom
Trouble Funk – Don’t Touch That Stereo
Nina Simone – Tell Me More And More And Then Some
Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street
The Heptones – Heptones Gonna Fight
Westside – The Sweep – 1985
Curtis Mayfield – Pusherman
Country Comfort – To Be Lonely
Gil Scott-Heron – Home Is Where the Hatred Is
Baby Huey – Hard Times
Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Wawa
Luther Vandross – Don’t You Know That?
Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance – Extended Dance Version
Otis Redding – You Don’t Miss Your Water
The Premiers – Muriel
Clodomiro Montes – Traigo Salsa
Tipica Leal ’79 – Donde Estabas
Swithold – Slowburner
Jackie Stoudemire – Invisible Wind
Malcolm McLaren – Buffalo Gals
Plunky – Every Way But Loose
La Solucion – A Bailar Son Montuno
Gary Davis – The Pop Ft. M.C. Chocolate Star (Vocal Version)
Roy Roberts Experience – Let’s Wrap up Tonight Baby
Pablo Moses – Dig On
Alice Swoboda – I Think It’s Time
Apple & The Three Oranges – Gotta Stand for Something Pt. 2
Gene Williams – Whatever You Do (Do It Good)
Johnny Dynamite – Everybody’s Clown
The Staple Singers – The Ghetto
Diane Denoir – Mejor Me Voy
Chilo Escobedo – Yo Soy El Rey
Ify Jerry Krusade – Everybody Likes Something Good
Brother’s Disco – Thumpin’
Johnny Gamboa – That Good Old Feeling Back Again
Gary Davis – Super Jake
The Undisputed Truth – You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell Right Here On Earth
Plunky – Every Way but Loose – Remix
Lucho Macedo Y Su Sonora – Caraqueño Vacilón
Lucho Macedo Y Su Sonora – A Lo Loco
Harlem World Crew – Rappers Convention
Abelardo Carbonó y su Grupo – Guaguancó Moderno
Los Pamperos – Maldito Cabaret
Michael McDonald – I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near)
Teen Machine – Teen-Machine Rap
Family Underground – All We Have Is a Song
Mistafide – Equidity Funk
N.C.C.U – Freak
James Austin – I’ll Take Jesus for Mine
Dave Tough – Never Let Um See You Sweat
Commodores – Sail On
Archie Thompson’s Soul & Psychedelic Funk Crew – Nightclub In My Mind
Thomas Meloncon – Ain’t Gonna Wait Too Long
La Sonora Matancera – Oro Falso
Lemonade – A Man in Uniform
Bobby Barnes – Neon Lady
The Joubert Singers – Stand on the Word – 1982 Version
Inger Lise – Feels Like Heaven
Parliament – Flash Light
1933 – Can’t Stop the Clock
Fat Girls – Vicious
The Norselanders – New Varmlands
Chicago Gangsters – Why Did You Do It
Fab 5 Freddy – Down by Law – Kenny Dope Edit
Nina Simone – Tell Me More And More And Then Some
The Loni Gamble Band – I Like the Way You Do It
Kenny Lynch – Built to Last
The Ink Spots – If I Didn’t Care
Joaquín Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez: I. Allegro con spirito
Fat Boys – Stick ‘Em

Score Soundtrack

This player features the only official score album for Snowfall currently available: Snowfall: Original Series Soundtrack (2023) by Jeff Russo. All other compilations or track lists are unofficial fan-made collections.

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Jeff Russo – Another Reality
Jeff Russo – Coke Lab
Jeff Russo – Do Something for Me First
Jeff Russo – Frankeisha
Jeff Russo – Franklin Asks for a Gun
Jeff Russo – Franklin Gets Choked
Jeff Russo – Franklin’s Memory
Jeff Russo – I Know Where You Live
Jeff Russo – Leon’s Shot
Jeff Russo – Long Day
Jeff Russo – Our Future
Jeff Russo – Pick a Side
Jeff Russo – Stay and Fight
Jeff Russo – Talk to Me
Jeff Russo – Teddy Finds the Bug