Monsted and Luhrmann’s latest collaboration, the much buzzed about Gatsby soundtrack, is perhaps their most ambitious yet. The idea to fuse traditional jazz with modern-day hip-hop, sometimes in the middle of a song, came from Luhrmann after Leonardo DiCaprio introduced him to Jay-Z, who was recording “No Church in the Wild” at the Mercer Hotel for his Watch the Throne album with Kanye West. Immediately the song was commandeered for the film, as was Jay-Z himself, who agreed to contribute music — though his participation eventually earned him executive producer credit for the soundtrack. He identified with the aspirations of the movie’s title character, who mirrored the hip-hop fascination with money, power, violence and sex…The album’s centerpiece — and certainly the film score’s — is Lana Del Rey and Rick Nowel’s “Young and Beautiful,” which repeats throughout the movie, a haunting, sad lament for the ill-fated Gatsby-Daisy romance that mirrors the singer’s own poor-little-rich-girl persona.” — Hollywood Reporter