Sports video game soundtracks do matter—just spend 20 minutes in the menus of NCAA Football 14. 2K Sports has done a good job with theirs, even before bringing in Jay-Z last year to both “executive produce” the game and make that job into a verb. This year, cover star LeBron James got to pick NBA 2K14‘s set list.
This is what he—or some member of his management team—chose:
Big Krit, Cool 2 be Southern
Cris Cab, Paradise (On Earth)
Coldplay, Lost!
Daft Punk (feat. Pharrell Williams), Get Lucky
Drake, Started From The Bottom
Eminem, Not Afraid
Fly Union, Long Run
Gorillaz, Clint Eastwood
Imagine Dragons, Radioactive
Jada Kiss (feat. Ayanna Irish), Can’t Stop Me
Jay Z, The Ruler’s Back
John Legend (feat. Rick Ross), Who Do We Think We Are
Kanye West, All Of The Lights
Kendrick Lamar, Now Or Never
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat. Ray Dalton), Can’t Hold Us
Nas (feat. Puff Daddy), Hate Me Now
Phil Collins, In The Air Tonight
Robin Thicke (feat. Pharrell), Blurred Lines
The Black Keys, Elevator
The Black Keys, Howlin For You
We’ll see how much of that has to be hilariously censored, courtesy of the ESRB and it’s yes-goddammit-we-mean-E-for-everyone-rating, once the game releases Oct. 1.
https://kotaku.com/you-cant-say-that-in-a-video-game-why-someone-might-th-5949703
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