Two songs in Prime Video’s The Greatest
Nominee · Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2026
Walk with Kings
Heard in episode 7
The story behind the song
When I was nine, Miss Noble lived across the street. She was the grandmother of the block. For my ninth birthday she handed me a poem in a frame: Rudyard Kipling’s “If.” I read it and thought, I want to be that one day. I kept it with me for decades.
A couple of months before the show came out, the music supervisor called. She told me “If” had been the favorite poem of the man the series is about, and asked if I could write from it. I said, I know “If.”
I read it again that night and saw myself in it. The title comes from one line: walk with Kings, nor lose the common touch.
Miss Noble wasn’t family. She just handed a kid some words and believed in him.
The other song in the series
The Weight of the World
Heard in episode 1
I wrote this song to be a blanket. If life is piling on and you feel overwhelmed, I want you to hear it and know you don’t have to be alone. You have support, and a place to rest.
I took the sound back to the ’60s on purpose. It should feel like walking into grandma’s house and smelling what she’s cooking in the kitchen.
The show’s music team put it in episode 1. He’s just come home from winning at the Olympics, and a janitor stops and salutes him. They share a moment: pride, responsibility, dignity, purpose. They put the song right there.
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