 The film features both original and existing music tracks . Tracks composed specifically for the film include " 100 Black Coffins " by Rick Ross and produced by and featuring Jamie Foxx , " Who Did That To You ? " by John Legend , " Ancora Qui " by Ennio Morricone and Elisa , and " Freedom " by Anthony Hamilton and Elayna Boynton . The theme , " Django " , was also the theme song of the 1966 film . Musician Frank Ocean wrote an original song for the film 's soundtrack , but it was rejected by Tarantino , who explained that " Ocean wrote a fantastic ballad that was truly lovely and poetic in every way , there just wasn 't a scene for it . " Frank Ocean later published the song , entitled " Wiseman " , on his Tumblr blog . The film also features a few famous pieces of western classical music , including Beethoven 's " Für Elise " and " Dies Irae " from Verdi 's Requiem . Tarantino has stated that he avoids using full scores of original music : " I just don 't like the idea of giving that much power to anybody on one of my movies . " The film 's soundtrack album was released on December 18 , 2012 . Ennio Morricone made statements criticizing Tarantino 's use of his music in Django Unchained and stated that he would " never work " with the director after this film , but later agreed to compose an original film score for Tarantino 's The Hateful Eight in 2015 . In a scholarly essay on the film 's music , Hollis Robbins notes that the vast majority of film music borrowings come from films made between 1966 and 1974 and argues that the political and musical resonances of these allusions situate Django Unchained squarely in the Vietnam and Watergate era , during the rise and decline of Black Power cinema . Jim Croce 's hit I Got A Name was featured in the soundtrack . 
