2K Sports Announces Jay-Z as NBA 2K13 Executive Producer, 24 Song Soundtrack Included

[JerzeyReign]

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Ok then.It's time for a poll because your statement is arbitrary.How are you pretty sure that 70%-80% of bball fans listen to hip hop?Nobody of my friends that love real basketball and videogame basketball listen to this music.Don't get me wrong though.Jay Z is good but having every year a 80% hip hop soundtrack is a bad decision imo.

Asking OS won't prove anything when it comes to who enjoys hip hop and basketball. Well, we can but I'm sure if we head to another board the scales will tip for hip hop. Something like that is community based -- OS doesn't seem like it has a strong hip hop community following. We have a good grip but its not like other boards where their entire music section is nothing but hip hop news. Then you have to think about all the people who don't visit forums -- Twitter is going crazy over this announcment -- I don't see many saying this is a bad move. The only people upset are the guys on the forum and we all know that we are the small percentage of 2k gamers.

Hip hop and basketball go together like peanut butter and jelly. If you take 1 million basketball fans, I'll stand by my numbers, I will say 700,000 people listen to hip hop -- even if its casual listening. But thats just my personal opinion.

[AirJordanFan93]

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Wow their biggest announcement was the soundtrack to the game well that sucks. I think 2K just annoyed a lot of people with this one.

[Ramboooo]

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Hey hype or not, this is pretty cool feature to have JayZ and any new feature to make the game better should be welcomed. It's all about context though. If resources went towards getting JayZ at the expense of bringing back the very popular Crew mode (with a solution for the cheaters), then yeah reason to be annoyed. But since the amount of 2K13 info is far from being released, this could just be an icing on the cake. Honestly if 2K13 has Crew mode (cleaned up), better footplanting, and some gameplay tweaks - I'll eagerly pluck my $60 down. Crew is such a dominating feature where it could be a game mode in itself and people would buy the game just for that alone.

[fearwhatnow]

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Asking OS won't prove anything when it comes to who enjoys hip hop and basketball. Well, we can but I'm sure if we head to another board the scales will tip for hip hop. Something like that is community based -- OS doesn't seem like it has a strong hip hop community following. We have a good grip but its not like other boards where their entire music section is nothing but hip hop news. Then you have to think about all the people who don't visit forums -- Twitter is going crazy over this announcment -- I don't see many saying this is a bad move. The only people upset are the guys on the forum and we all know that we are the small percentage of 2k gamers.

Hip hop and basketball go together like peanut butter and jelly. If you take 1 million basketball fans, I'll stand by my numbers, I will say 700,000 people listen to hip hop -- even if its casual listening. But thats just my personal opinion.

Going crazy over this type of announcement is just..crazy.That's why most OS members are upset.It's not an adventure game or a rpg one where music has a deeper impact in gameplay.It's a sports videogame that needs gameplay innovations and ingame/on court presentation improvements.

[JerzeyReign]

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Going crazy over this type of announcement is just..crazy.That's why most OS members are upset.It's not an adventure game or a rpg one where music has a deeper impact in gameplay.It's a sports videogame that needs gameplay innovations and ingame/on court presentation improvements.

Do you know that Jay Z didn't only hand pick the soundtrack but he also gave ideas on presentation? A celebrity basketball fan that has thrown concerts all over the world helping with presentation -- I'm sure he dropped some golden nuggets and some duds but hopefully his golden nuggets are something really special.

This doesn't get me hype (really wanted to CHoops but oh well) but I will look for the positives -- thats just me though.

http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/tech/post/_/id/1431/jay-z-named-nba-2k-executive-producer

[jr2424]

So the soundtrack consists of Jay-Z, Kanye West and some fillers? Come on 2K

I wouldn't call Nas, Biggie, Eric B and Rakim, and Mobb Deep fillers. Far from it. Victory, Public Service Announcement and Shook Ones are serious tracks. And "I ain't no joke" is a hip-hop classic. This is by far the best soundtrack in sports gaming history, in my opinion. I agree with you guys, I wish the announcement was more gameplay centric, but we all know 2K.They aren't going to announce gameplay until late August going into September.

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[JasonMartin]

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This list sucks, coldplay wtf? That song sucks big time, it's doesn't even suit the game.


Jay z chose his own songs, Kanye and P diddy's songs, other friends he likes AND THEY ARE ALL OLD SONGS WHICH EVERYONE KNOWS. Where are the new and upcoming songs?

[mdoud10]

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Looking back at it, we all were pretty stupid. If I hadn't discovered this website like two weeks ago and checked it religiously for that period of time, I wouldn't be let down by this announcement. I'm not complaining, because that is clearly my doing; Everyone should realize that this isn't 2K's fault (maybe just a little for saying "biggest announcement ever", but what do you expect?), but it is really our own for building everyone else's hopes up.

I understand that CHoops or 2k Football would be awesome; but we commited the worst crime of all:

Don't ASSUME; you make an *** out of U and ME

[Gosens6]

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I tried to tell everyone for weeks that the announcement wouldn't be the return of a game or anything that huge. People got their hopes up for absolutely no reason.

That being said, this soundtrack looks AMAZING. I can't point out one bad song on it. This might be the best soundtrack in video game history. Kudos to Jay-Z for this track list

[Knickerbocker]

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Oh cmon. I mean sure everyone that knew the 2k hype machine knew that the announcment would be something completely dissapointing. But don't act like this was hyped up by OS only. I'm a member of a few 2k communities and everyone was expecting the "biggest announcment in 2k history". And everyone is dissapointed.

Also acting like this is a big deal with Jay-Z "working" on the soundtrack. Jay-Z with his musical knowledge prolly chose the soundtrack in 5 minutes over the phone. Now if he made the music for the soundtrack that would be something, but choosing a few songs, that's hardly groundbreaking. Most of the people turn it off after a week or two and just listen to their I-tunes anyhow.

This would be a nice little (yes little) addition if it wasnt talked about.

[NBASLAM2001]

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This video is also available on the OS Youtube channel, please subscribe while you're there.

As mentioned yesterday, 2K Sports has officially announced Jay-Z as the as Executive Producer of NBA 2K13. 2K Sports has been promoting this "BIG" announcement for weeks.

In an article, over at ESPN, Jon Robinson describes some of the details he brings to the game.


24 Song Soundtrack includes:

• The Hours: “All in the Jungle”
• Too Short: "Blow the Whistle" (Main)
• Eric B. and Rakim: “I Ain’t No Joke”
• Phoenix: “1901”
  
• Jay-Z: “Pump it Up” (Freestyle)
  
• Puff Daddy and the Family: “Victory” (feat. Notorious B.I.G. & Busta Rhymes)
• Daft Punk: “Around the World" (Radio Edit)
• Santigold: “Shove It” (feat. Spank Rock)
• Kanye West: “Amazing”
• Jay-Z: “Run This Town”
• The Dirty Projectors: “Stillness in the Move”
• Nas: “The World is Yours”
• Coldplay: “Viva La Vida”
• Roy Ayers: “We Live in Brooklyn, Baby”
• Justice: “Stress”
• Jay-Z: “The Bounce”
• Kanye West: “We Major” (feat. Nas & Really Doe)
• Mobb Deep: “Shook Ones, Pt. II”
• Meek Mill: “Ima Boss” (Instrumental)
• Kanye West: “Mercy” (feat. Big Sean, Pusha T, and 2 Chainz)
• U2: “Elevation”
• Jay-Z: “On to the Next One”
• Jay-Z: “Public Service Announcement”
• Jay-Z: “H.A.M.” (Instrumental)

If you're interested in listening to some of the tracks, head on over to the official NBA 2K Facebook page.

[kennyacid]

THERE IS NO BIG ANNOUCEMENT ...its been confirmed already, wish people would just get over it.

As for this announcement..meh its cool, not really a fan of his but there are some nice tracks on there. Im more interested in knowing exactly what kind of input he gave for presentation.

[bigfnjoe96]

Anyone see the video for Justice-Stress? Not sure if it was mentioned already, I know videos are usually not indicative of a song, but the video to this song is..............

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[DatGD12guage]

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At first I was kind of mad but I'm a humorous person so now this shh is actually kind of funny to me lol, I mean some of you even went as far as to say "ehhhhhhh.......they might add college hoops to the game! No you get MJ announcing a jay-z soundtrack Lol........? You really cant blame them its all a sales pitch with all the announcements and I know everybody paid attention to that scheme they did trying to trend number 1 on twitter this is no different and they are masterfully advertising. I think NBA 2k13 will be great, they are showing to much confidence and being arrogant. Dam you TwoKay! Daaam, Daaam, Daaam!

[funkworthy]

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This is kind of huge as the music in 2k12 is monumentally obnoxious. It's like they scoured the bottom tier of major-label manufactured pop-punk, indie hip hop, etc and added throw away tunes from Lil Jon and Eminem and topped it with a charming old song by Kurtis Blow that slowly evolves into the worst thing you've ever heard. The best thing about 2k13 will be not rushing for the mute button before "they're playing basketball..." comes on.

Huge announcement.