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

[blackcaliber2k9]

I will reserve my judgement for the actual features of the game.

[Ajknowsit]

Quote: Originally Posted by LD2k

Again, I will clarify it's more than simply a soundtrack. We'll be detailing more in the future.

Great more stay tuned for more announcements. Let me guess, at the all-star game you have a guitar hero mode where you can play 99 lives and make Jay Z rap for the halftime show.

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by jersez

lol That's what I've been saying!!!! Physics, foot planting are the only things worthy of an announcement. I hate using this but "more of the same" is starting to come true. smh

LOL! I can see it now "NBA2K13....NOW WITH FOOTPLANTING!" Yep, that will get NBA 2k13 trending on Twitter way more than a partnership with one of the biggest musicians in the world.

[gator3guy]

Who would have thought Jay Z was a "1901" fan?

Wish Meek's song wasn't the instrumental version, although the beat is sick.

[JerseySuave4]

Quote: Originally Posted by jersez

lol That's what I've been saying!!!! Physics, foot planting are the only things worthy of an announcement. I hate using this but "more of the same" is starting to come true. smh

I'm sorry but if you were expecting something like foot planting to be a big announcement then you need to check your definition of big.

Announcing that one of the most famous rappers out there as well as a partial owner of the Nets is helping as an executive producer is a big announcement. Maybe it's not what we wanted but what do you think would generate a headline, "2k IMPLEMENTS FOOTPLANTING!" or "JAY Z SIGNS ON TO BE AN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF NBA 2k".

[kjjnesb]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

LOL. 70-80% of NBA2k's soundtracks have always been rap/hip-hop. The same as this year. Bottom line is the game is 7 weeks away and there will be plenty of videos, blog posts and screenshots for people. Today wasnt a day for OSers...its was for the casual fan.

I agree 100% its not like this is the only feature that will be ever announced 2K has always hyped stuff up early then came with the features in the dev diarys closer to release. I for one think it will be awesome to have authentic music integrated into the ingame imo.

And lets be honest crew returning and numerous gameplay improvements can still be lurking but on a social level Jay Z moves the needle and lets people know 2K13 is coming heavy this year.

[jersez]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

LOL. 70-80% of NBA2k's soundtracks have always been rap/hip-hop. The same as this year. Bottom line is the game is 7 weeks away and there will be plenty of videos, blog posts and screenshots for people. Today wasnt a day for OSers...its was for the casual fan.

I was saying people that don't care for jay-z or rap in general must really be mad, disappointed, annoyed etc. Because I love jay-z and this is still a fail.

It's not about screenshots, videos, blogs. It's just the fact that 2k hyped it up, and it wasn't even worth a glance. I'm not disappointed I actually like it. And the people that follow ronnie2k I doubt are casual gamers, you are right this is for a casual fan, it's just that they don't really check for update,insights, tweets or gameplay videos. But It's not announcement worth in my book.

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by gator3guy

Who would have thought Jay Z was a "1901" fan? Wish Meek's song wasn't the instrumental version, although the beat is sick.

Way too many edits because of profanity. Same reason HAM is an instrumental.