NBA 2K12 Soundtrack

          On October 4th, the video game NBA 2K12 was officially released. I immediately went to Gamestop and purchased this wonderful game. Everything about the game is beautiful. But every year when a new NBA 2K game is released, the thing that I am always impressed by is the music soundtrack that they put on the game.

          Every year they seem to impress me more and more with the music choices. The creators always seem to find music that is pretty underground and not common to the average radio hugger. Yes I am stating that the music is not mainstream and that is a big reason why I enjoy it.

          I'm not that guy who shuns all mainstream music. I don't mind listening to some of it, the fact that it plays on the radio has nothing to do with whether I like it or not. A lot of people in our school/town try to hard to be individuals, so by trying so hard they are just conforming to what they are striving not to be.

          But back to the music… I love this soundtrack! So I'd like to share some of my favorite songs on the soundtrack!

          Basketball by Kurtis Blow is such a great song. Very similar to the Lil Bow Wow version in the hit movie "Like Mike".  When many hear this song they will think of the Lil Bow Wow version but Kurtis Blow actually is the one who wrote the song. He released this song on an album of his in 1984 called Ego Trip. The link is below…

Kurtis Blow - Basketball

          Skeleton Boy by Friendly Fires has been set on replay on my IPod for the past four days. This song is great, I honestly don't know how else to describe the song. It has a great beat, singers have great voices and it is fun to sing along too. I would recommend this song to anyone. Link below…

Friendly Fires - 'Skeleton Boy'

          One of my all time favorite songs ever. I honestly have never been much of a fan of Flo Rida but when I heard this song for the first time I knew I was going to be hooked on it. I first heard this song on the soundtrack to one of my old favorite video games, NBA 2k10 for the xbox 360. I loved the game and whenever this song came on I would always want to just set it on replay.

          One day after just listening to the song while playing the game, I decided to buy it and put it on my IPod and now I listen to it all the time. Ryan Schneider and I fell in love with the song with all of the hours we put into NBA 2k10. That song became a great song to play in cars when we were driving places and it just a great song to play anywhere.

          It's a great song because it doesn't have any "bad words" that our society frowns apon, and because of this, R.O.O.T.S. became a great song to play on our soccer warm up CD. Between us players it has almost become a theme of the season. Through all the hard points of the season and the times were you just want to give up, this song gives a lot of us some energy and motivation to be great!

          R.O.O.T.S. stands for the Route Of Overcoming The Struggles. This song is always going to have a place in my heart because of what it means to me. Hopefully this year, our high school boys soccer team will make a deep run in the playoffs this year. We have a great team with lots of potential if we play as a TEAM.

          I believe it's just a matter of heart. It's just about who wants to win more and how bad everyone wants it and I know all of us seniors want to win.

R.O.O.T.S. - Flo Rida

KiD CuDi Top 3 Songs - Dat New New, Soundtrack 2 My Lyfe, The Prayer

          I could seriously write for ages about this man. Kid Cudi, Cleveland native, is and has been my favorite musical artist since 2008. Many have proclaim the "Man on the Moon" to be the new King of Cleveland since the abandonment of a certiain NBA superstar/chump.

          His real name is Scott Sergio Ramon Mescudi, he was born and raised in Shaker Heights. He went to The University of Toledo for one year and then later dropped out to pursue a career in music. It's safe to say that he has been quite successful with his music career. He also has a hit show on HBO called "How to Make it in America."

          Now back to the blog! one of my favorite Kid Cudi songs is "Dat New New". I love this song because it was one of Cudi's first big time songs that really made him heard and noticed by many hip hop listeners. This was actually the very first Kid Cudi song i ever heard, and I immediately fell in love with it after i listened to it. Shout out to MacKenzie Bates for first introducing his wonderful music to me back during our freshmen year of high school.

          This song has a great beat to it and Kid Cudi's voice really compliments the whole song. The reason that there is an F5 button is because of this song. The point Cudi tries to get across in this song is that his music is unique and unlike any other. Cudi is a very unique artist and wants his songs to be unlike any other artist has produced.

KiD CuDi - Dat New New

          Another one of my favorite Cudi songs is Soundtrack 2 My Lyfe off of his first album "Man on the Moon : The End of the Day". I can relate to this song on so many levels that it is almost unreal. The chorus goes: "I've got some issues that nobody can see, And all of these emotions are pouring out of me, I bring them to the light for you, It's only right, This is the soundtrack to my life, the soundtrack to my life." I feel like many people are afraid to really express themselves and find it hard to really talk with someone on a deeper level, so a lot of emotions are bottled up inside and all come out at once.

KiD CuDi - Soundtrack 2 My Lyfe

          And last but certainly not least, my favorite Kid Cudi song off of his very first mixtape ever created called "A Kid Named Cudi". This song is called "The Prayer" and really is one of my favorite songs ever. Cudi says he thinks God gave him a purpose and made him for a reason, so he is trying to make a difference in this world. He says in the song that he prays that God takes his soul if he were to die before he woke up. I really like how Cudi is not afraid to speak his heart about God and how he really feals about such a controversial belief.

KiD CuDi - The Prayer