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NBA 2K14 soundtrack revealed

20-song soundtrack chosen by LeBron James includes "Blurred Lines," "Howlin' For You," "Clint Eastwood," and more.

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2K Sports today announced the soundtrack for this October's NBA 2K14.

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Chosen my cover star LeBron James, the 20-song soundtrack features Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," "Howlin' For You" by The Black Keys, and "Clint Eastwood" from Gorillaz.

"2K is letting me take control of some important elements in NBA 2K14, including this year's soundtrack," James said in a statement. "I love that I'm the first NBA 2K cover athlete to choose the soundtrack."

The full track list is below.

Developed by Visual Concepts, NBA 2K14 launches October 1 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game will also release for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 later this year. A Wii U version is not in development.

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"

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I could just turn the radio on if i wanted to listen to any of those songs

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Look at that no underground artists, again. (sometimes I hate when great products go mainstream) It ruins their essence.

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Better playlist than expected - The Black Keys, Daft Punk, cool.

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Seriously? Macklemore and Drake? I was hoping there wasn't going to be any bad songs on this Soundtrack but i guess i'm horribly wrong, But it's good that the whole soundtrack isn't all hip hop even though i love hip hop.

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I guess to many people think that LBJ is like what Skip Bayless says he is. NEWS FLASH Bayless, your team LOST! SCOREBOARD!!! People need just stop watching ESPN in general and this LeBron hate would not an issue because of ESPN's hate for being a PAWN for once instead of the other way around for a change during "The Decision", they spew on the airwaves for him leaving Cleveland. GET OVER IT PEOPLE, ESPN First Take is not gospel!!!

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Looks cool at least compared to last year's own, but i still prefer the 2K12 soundtracks, it had some cool tracks like Machinedrum's Let it(edit remix) feat Melo X.. that Rocked :)

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Two Black Keys songs! Badass!

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I have to be honest, having Phil Collins on this soundtrack is pretty awesome.

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That's actually pretty good!!

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Hah! People would hate it no matter what it was. That's internet fact.

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Man they know good and hell well this fool don;t listen to that alternative crap!

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So much hate for the soundtrack...Just play your own damn music okay

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i will not buy the game unless the soundtrack includes Eminem, Lil Wayne, Kim Kardashain Wait .... i must be trippin

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I rate this soundtrack 4.5

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@eimantas64 out of 10?

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Can't be any worse than Jay-Z last year can it!?

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168 comment over a NBA game soundtrack...lulz

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@xolivierx Because this soundtrack is ass compared to 2k5's.

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@Enforcer246 @xolivierx Still living in the past almost 10 years ago. Mute that shit and play your own then, DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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nba live 2014 is better than nba2k14

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@handsome222222 don't you remember how bad those games were, they had the same layup animation every single time you drove to the basket

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@handsome222222 I'm hoping that is true.

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cant wait to play 2k14 with my king's soundtrack

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TY LEBRON!

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Anybody remember 2 Ball for the PS1? Games have come a long way.

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You might not realize how difficult it is to get some of these songs in game with how much money licensing and copyrights cost.

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When I thought Lebron couldn't be any more lame...

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Pretty horrible song list. Only songs I can tolerate are Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" and that Macklemore song.

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@AvatarMan96 You think it's horrible yet you think Phil Collins is the best of it? Good thing it's only our opinions and they aren't right or wrong. Not Afraid is a shitty song, though. Eminem should give it up IMO.

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Well it depends on your taste in music really, if you can't stand Hip Hop then i don't expect you to favor it!

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I miss the days when Basketball games had great soundtracks

So hopefully I can turn off the music, because I really don't want to hear Eminem, Coldplay, & Phill Collins whining in my ear at the menu screen.


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@lorider25 Putting Eminem and whining in the same sentence just seems right.

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Robin Thicke...really LeBrony?

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You know you like it!!!!

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@avery04 Well maybe a little. :3

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I know you want it ;)

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@csvichf apparently i did not speak clearly enough.. 90 % is ...meh ( not really my type )

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@digits52 Oh well than... 40% is pure shit, everything wrong with modern day Hip-Hop and music in general, even Nas is shit compared to what he used to be.

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Music looks fine, I'm just hoping they'll fix all the bugs that were in NBA 2K13. Especially the 6yr old stats/gametracker bug. How come there are no quarterly stats for players in the boxscore. EA has been doing that since NBA Live was on the PS2. We get Team Quarterly stats, but no player ones?

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and that reminds me, will i be listening to the music or playing the game.

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That soundtrack isn't too bad but I'd prefer to play my own. Please, just give us the option to CHOOSE OUR OWN MUSIC. Listening to it in just the freakn' arena or after a player of the game replay just doesn't cut it for me.

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The fact that the soundtrack being chosen by Lebron and then turned into some huge announcement tells you exactly where the priorities are for the actual game itself and what its demographic is perceived to value in a game.

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what is up with the cliche that the NBA community is only interested in this shit music?

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That's a better list of menu music than they've had for A WHILE. But would it really be that hard to maybe have some sorta "soundtrack" update a couple months after the game releases? Maybe even put all the songs that have been on the NBA2K soundtracks up, and let you choose the ones you like?

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...Also, already looks so much better than live '14, that they might as well cancel that shit... AGAIN.

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I'm a 2k fan but his mouth looks so unrealistic at the end of the video when he is yelling

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@dummpymonkey123 they are not really known for that

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wait, what? this is music? Ive never heard of any of these people. And wtf is Lebron James?

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Run The Jewels! Nuff said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGmhAUKDNjI

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radioactive needs to take a break now its in evrything related to sports

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