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

[Ramboooo]

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]

Quote: Originally Posted by JerzeyReign

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]

Quote: Originally Posted by fearwhatnow

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/tec...utive-producer

[jr2424]

Quote: Originally Posted by mitch820

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.