1/2/2023 0 Comments Nba 2k18 labScared to death, scared to look, they shook ‘Cause ain’t no such things as halfway crooks Really, for a trailer about a basketball game, the hook would’ve been enough. What effects me so deeply about this trailer, is that the beat, the instrumental in of itself is so profound and so revered, they really could’ve just played it on loop with probably the hook through the video. If you knew the Infamous Mobb Deep, then you invested in rap on a level below surface conversation. They did not have the dualism and crossover appeal (or rather, interest) that Pac (who they would feud with) or Biggie or what Nas would become. Mobb Deep, especially in their debut, was not a commercial or mainstream darling that some of their contemporaries were. It is instantly recognizable and yet instantly qualifying for the level of hip hop head you were. Havoc’s Shook Ones beat (I & II) are among the most iconic instrumentals in rap history. Immediately, when the trailer begins, I knew this was the latter. Or if we are being appropriated, yet again, in some fashion. Mostly to see if this is a wink and a nod from another Black passenger across the capitalist table. Shook Ones trailer? Any time that an AAA produced, mainstream product advertises with what I consider deep cuts of AAVE lore, I often feel the need to investigate. But as YouTube is wan to do, at the end, it showed me other videos that might interest me and I saw I had missed one. Jordan’s Bulls vs Steph Curry’s Warriors, type shit. I was watching the trailer for the NBA 2K18’s All Time, a pioneered feature for the 2K franchise that lets you play the best possible teams from each franchise, no matter the time period, against each other. Nothing has changed to alter that status quo any more than having the privilege to recognize an addiction and simply avoid it. I had always been a surface Madden player, but specifically the Show series on Playstation and NBA 2K series would swallow my life whole if I let it. There was a time and place where I toiled away hours, days, and weeks of life to sports video games.
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