User_Name's 2KRetro Soundtrack (2K6 to 18) RELEASED

User_Name's 2KRetro Soundtrack
A brand-new soundtrack with 66 songs ranging from 2K6 to 18.

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How to install: Copy and paste the folder as-is to your main 2K folder, and then activate it via Looyh’s NBA 2K_Hook which is obviously required.
Tracklist available on Spotify, minus a few unavailable songs

Quick Q&A:

Q: Is the soundtrack compatible with 2K24?
A: At the time of this writing no, because the vanilla mod folder does not support .wav files (i.e. the actual songs). That could change in the future, depending on Looyh working his magic and making such a feat possible.

Q: Is this compatitible with other soundtrack mods?
A: Nope. There is a way you could do this (by manually editing every filename and changing the music.json file to your preference), but it is a very arduous process.

Q: Why are many songs shorter? Where is P Diddy’s verse on Victory, etc.
A: Due to limitations on the original .wav files, any song over ~3:45 mins may get cut off abruptly by the game before it actually ends. That’s why every song on the soundtrack had to be edited, if necessary, in order to be under said limit.


User_Name's 2K23 Soundtrack #2
A brand-new soundtrack with 75 new songs and album art for each and every one of them!.

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How to install: just copy and paste the contents of the .rar file into your MODS folder. Looyh’s NBA 2K_Hook is required.
TRACKLIST: (click for the Spotify playlist!)

2Pac - California Love
A Tribe Called Quest - Black Spasmodic
A$AP Rocky - A$AP Forever (feat. Moby)
Algiers - I Can't Stand It!
Ancient Astronauts - Eternal Searching
Bad Meets Evil - Fast Lane
Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
Blackstar - So be it
Busta Rhymes - Look Over Your Shoulder (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
clipping. - Story 2
Coldcut - Timber
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
DJ Food - Dark Lady
DJ Shadow - High Noon
Daft Punk - Daftendirekt
Danger Mouse - Strangers (feat. A$AP Rocky and Run The Jewels)
Danny Brown - Best Life
Depeche Mode - John the Revelator
Drake - Over
Faithless - Insomnia
Fatboy Slim - Praise You
Fort Minor - High Road (feat. John Legend)
Genesis Owusu - Get Inspired
Gil Scott-Heron - Home Is Where the Hatred Is
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
Grimes - Violence - Club Mix
High Contrast - Shotgun Mouthwash
Ishmael Ensemble - Wax Werk
J Dilla - Workinonit
J. Cole - Wet Dreamz (Instrumental)
JAY-Z - Dirt Off Your Shoulder
Jaylib - The Official
John Newman - Love Me Again
Jungle - Smile
Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (WWW)
Kendrick Lamar - Backseat Freestyle
Khruangbin - People Everywhere (Still Alive)
Kruder & Dorfmeister - Speechless (Count Basic)
Linkin Park - Ppr:kut [feat. Rasco and Planet Asia]
Little Simz - Gorilla
Lorde - Sober
Madvillain - Accordion
Massive Attack - Voodoo In My Blood
Mobb Deep - Survival of the Fittest
Moby - Go
Mr. Chop - Shut Em Down
Nas - The Message
Naughty By Nature - Hip Hop Hooray
N.W.A. - Express Yourself
Outkast - Rosa Parks
PRhyme - U Looz
Phoenix - 1901
Recoil - Jezebel
Run The Jewels - ooh la la (feat. Greg Nice & DJ Premier)
Run–D.M.C. - Peter Piper (Instrumental)
Santigold - Shake
Saul Williams - Talk To Strangers
Sleaford Mods - Tweet Tweet Tweet
slowthai - Doorman
Snoop Dogg - Gin and Juice
Stereo Nova - New Life 705
Stormzy - Vossi Bop
THE SCOTTS - THE SCOTTS
The Chemical Brothers - Leave Home
The Prodigy - Firestarter
The Streets - Turn the Page
The xx - Intro
Theophilus London - I Stand Alone
Transplants - Diamonds And Guns
Twenty One Pilots - Hometown
UNKLE - U.N.K.L.E. Main Title Theme
Underworld - Cherry Pie
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
Young Fathers - Wire
Zeal & Ardor - Sacrilegium I


User_Name's 2K23 Ultimate 2K Beats
The final version of my soundtrack is released! 149 songs (the maximum allowed by the game itself) are included: 50 retro 2K songs from 2K8 to 2K19 - 50 rap/r&b/electronic songs - 49 "rock" ones encompassing many subgenres.

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How to install: just copy and paste the contents of the .rar file into your MODS folder. Looyh’s NBA 2K_Hook is required.
TRACKLIST: (click for the Spotify playlist!)

2K Retro Beats (2K8-2K19) - Press RT/LT to exclusively play these songs!

A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario
Art vs Science - Hollywood
Beastie Boys - Root Down
Big Boi - Shutterbugg
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Dan Brown ft. Kid Cudi - Symphonies
Diddy feat. The Notorious B.I.G. & Busta Rhymes - Victory
Drake - Started From the Bottom
Dynamicduo feat. DJ Premier - AEAO
Eric B. & Rakim - I Ain't No Joke
Flo Rida - R.O.O.T.S.
Fly Union - Long Run
Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy
Gnarls Barkley - Going On
Grimes - Kill V. Maim
Hogni - Bow Down (To No Man)
Illinois - Hang On
J Dilla - Lightworks
JAY-Z - Public Service Announcement (Interlude)
JAY-Z - Heart Of The City (Ain't No Love)
Justice - Stress
K'NAAN - Wavin' Flag
Kid Mac ft. Mat McHugh - Hear You Calling
Kiiara - Gold
Kurtis Blow - Basketball
Lorde - Team
MGMT - Electric Feel
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us
Major Lazer feat. MØ & DJ Snake - Lean On
Middle Class Rut - New Low
Miike Snow - Black & Blue
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones, Pt. II
Mr. Chop - Intermezzo 2
Nas - The World Is Yours
Nas feat. Diddy - Hate Me Now
PRhyme - U Looz
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)
Pharrell Williams - How Does It Feel?
Phoenix - 1901
Ratatat - Seventeen Years
Run–D.M.C. - Sucker M.C.'s (Krush-Groove 1)
Santigold - Disparate Youth
Saul Williams - List Of Demands (Reparations)
Skeewiff - Light the Fuse
The Alan Parsons Project - Sirius
The Black Keys - Howlin' for You
The Chicharones - Little By Little
The Constellations - We're Here To Save The Day
The Death Set - It's Another Day
Two Door Cinema Club - I Can Talk

Red & Blue Beats - from rock to rap to electronica and everything in between!

A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?
Algiers ft. Zack De La Rocha - Irreversible Damage
Amyl and The Sniffers - Hertz
Bastille - Pompeii
Beastie Boys - So What'Cha Want
Body Count - Body Count's in the House
Boysetsfire - One Match
Bring Me The Horizon - Go To Hell, For Heaven's Sake
Brutus - Space
Carpenter Brut - Le perv
clipping. - A Better Place
clipping. - Say the Name
Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
DJ Shadow - The Number Song
DJ Shadow - Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)
Daft Punk - Derezzed
Danny Brown - Ain't it Funny
Danny Brown - Tell Me What I Don't Know
Scars On Broadway - They Say
Death From Above 1979 - Freeze Me
Depeche Mode - Wrong
Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg- Still D.R.E.
Eminem - Lose Yourself
Fontaines D.C. - Big
Fort Minor feat. Styles of Beyond - Remember the Name
Genesis Owusu - Drown
Gorillaz feat. Mos Def and Bobby Womack - Stylo
Grimes - Oblivion
Halsey - Girl is a Gun
Hot Water Music - State of Grace
IDLES - Never Fight A Man With A Perm
Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day
J. Cole - i n t e r l u d e
JAY-Z & Linkin Park - Numb / Encore
Jungle - Busy Earnin'
Justice - Audio, Video, Disco.
KIDS SEE GHOSTS - Fire
Kendrick Lamar - N95
Kid Cudi with Skepta & Pop Smoke - Show Out
Kino - Mama, We're All Deathly Ill
La Roux - Bulletproof
letlive. - A Weak Ago
Linkin Park - Faint
MF DOOM - Doomsday
Madvillain - All Caps
Manic Street Preachers - La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
Maybeshewill - Sputnik-2
Misfits - Dig Up Her Bones
Moby - Honey
Molchat Doma - Sydno (Boris Ryzhy)
Ms. Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
Muse - Map of the Problematique
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Outkast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)
Outkast - Ms. Jackson
Parquet Courts - Walking at a Downtown Pace
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake
Pinkshift - i'm gonna tell my therapist on you
Placebo - Post Blue
Queens of the Stone Age - Go With The Flow
Radiohead - The National Anthem
Rage Against The Machine - Renegades Of Funk
Ramones - Pet Sematary
Ratatat - El Pico
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Throw Away Your Television
Rise Against - Prayer Of The Refugee
Royal Blood - Figure It Out
Run The Jewels - the ground below
Santigold - L.E.S Artistes
Sheck Wes - Mo Bamba
Shinedown - No Sleep Tonight
Simple Minds - Theme For Great Cities
Sleaford Mods - Jobseeker
St. Vincent - Los Ageless
System Of A Down - I-E-A-I-A-I-O
The Black Keys - Gold on the Ceiling
The Casting Out - Quixote's Last Ride
The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize
The Cranberries - Salvation
The Death Set - We Are Going Anywhere Man
The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
The Prodigy - Omen (Reprise)
The Smiths - London
The Streets - Fit but You Know It
The Strokes - Reptilia
Theophilus London - Last Name London
Therapy? - Stories
Tony Allen - Cosmosis
Touché Amoré - Reminders
Turnstile - T.L.C. (TURNSTILE LOVE CONNECTION)
Turnstile - MYSTERY
Twenty One Pilots - Jumpsuit
Underworld - Push Upstairs
Volbeat - Still Counting
Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile
Wolf Alice - Yuk Foo
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Burning
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
Young Fathers - Toy

Last edited by User_Name on Sat Sep 16, 2023 4:29 am, edited 4 times in total.

Thank you for sharing!

UPDATE 29/10 - the final version of my "full" soundtrack is released!

Will probably do some smaller soundtracks on the near future, but if 2K increases the available soundtrack "spots" on S3, I could update this one with some songs that narrowly missed the cut.

Thank you for this, it is AMAZING! I made an account just to download! Music that is so censored half the song is just dead air was driving me absolutely bonkers, and your playlist is better than the game's anyways. Thank!

Update 2/6: Soundtrack #2 has been released, and finally I figured out how to insert album art for each track, so that's included as well.

Thank you for this, it is AMAZING! I made an account just to download! Music that is so censored half the song is just dead air was driving me absolutely bonkers, and your playlist is better than the game's anyways. Thank!

Thanks for the kind words, appreciate it! Hope you'll like the new one as well!

Thank you! How do I add my own songs to the game?

this is the first mod i'm ever getting woo! can't wait to escape into the nostalgia of the retro 2k tracks.

Hello, I am enquiring for help regarding your "User_Name's 2K23 Ultimate 2K Beats" So from what I can see I can download two mod links from the forum you posted.

So I downloaded these mod files and added them to the mod directory (yes I do have the hook file) but whenever I add it, and load it into the game the music does not show up in the "2k beats" section. Here is the path I took to get to the .rar files (User_Names 2K23 Soundtrack #2.rar\newaudio\jukeboxmusic).

I do also have some questions.
-Will these songs overwrite the existing vanilla songs in the game? or will it add a separate "playlist" accessed by LT/RT?
Do I need to download the two download links from your forum, or just the "User_Name's 2K23 Ultimate 2K Beats" as you did say it was the final version?

Hello, I am enquiring for help regarding your "User_Name's 2K23 Ultimate 2K Beats" So from what I can see I can download two mod links from the forum you posted.

So I downloaded these mod files and added them to the mod directory (yes I do have the hook file) but whenever I add it, and load it into the game the music does not show up in the "2k beats" section. Here is the path I took to get to the .rar files (User_Names 2K23 Soundtrack #2.rar\newaudio\jukeboxmusic).

I do also have some questions.
-Will these songs overwrite the existing vanilla songs in the game? or will it add a separate "playlist" accessed by LT/RT?
Do I need to download the two download links from your forum, or just the "User_Name's 2K23 Ultimate 2K Beats" as you did say it was the final version?

So, as I understand it, you have put the .rar file as itself onto the folder. What you need to do - if you have installed the 2K Hook correctly, you can check that out by seeing whether there is a panel on the top left of your screen at startup - is to open the .rar file via an app (most popular is WinRar, you can easily find it on google) and then paste the files within it as-is on your main Mods folder.

As for the other questions: a) yes, it will overwrite any and all vanilla songs, the RT/LT "playlist" thing just differentiates the retro 2K songs from the rest on it b) you may download whichever soundtrack you like from the two posted, however be aware that it's one or the other, you can't have them both at the same time.

Thank you! How do I add my own songs to the game?

It's a relatively easy process, there is a tutorial @ the 2K20 section of the forum I believe which works 100% for all subsequent games as well

this is the first mod i'm ever getting woo! can't wait to escape into the nostalgia of the retro 2k tracks.

Thanks man! There are many more mods by people much more talented which will completely transform your game, mods are literally the lifeblood of this game

Update 15/9: Uploaded a standalone Retro soundtrack, for all of you who haven't jumped onto 24 - plus a Q&A which explains some things.