NBA 2K9 Soundtrack

2K Sports, the sports publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., announced today details regarding the music soundtrack for NBA 2K9, this season's highly anticipated basketball title. Known for consistently tapping the freshest and most relevant artists for the NBA 2K franchise, this year's soundtrack continues the tradition with an eclectic mix of artists. Standouts include N.E.R.D, Santogold, Gnarls Barkley, The Pharcyde, and Beastie Boys with an exclusive track by DJ UNK, along with an original recording by The Cool Kids titled "2K Pennies." Beyond the soundtrack, 2K Sports continues to embrace its artists in a myriad of ways, including in-game characters, national tours, music videos, gameplay trailers, radio promotions, mix tapes, community promotions, music downloads and digital sales.

Along with special The Cool Kids integration, NBA 2K9 will include in-game character likenesses of other past and present 2K music artists including ?uestlove (from The Roots), DJ Steve Aoki, Aceyalone, the legendary Bobbito Garcia, and Phife Dawg (from A Tribe Called Quest). Fans can now listen to and purchase individual songs from the NBA 2K9 soundtrack through the new 2K Beats channel at www.2ksports.com/beats/games/nba2k9.

Below is the full list of tracks in NBA 2K9 (exclusives are denoted with **):

•  Beastie Boys -- Root Down


•  Blackwizard -- Dem Nah Ready fe We


•  Blockhead -- Duke Of Hazzard


•  Bloody Beetroots -- Mac Mac


•  Dangerdoom -- Sofa King


•  Dawn Penn -- You Don't Love Me (Extended Mix)


•  DJ Rasta Root -- RootZilla Beez


•  DJ UNK -- In Yo Face **


•  Gnarls Barkley -- Going On


•  Jamalski -- That Undaground (Remix)


•  Mochipet -- Sharpdrest


•  Mommy and Daddy -- Pretty Loser


•  Money Mark -- Silly Putty


•  N.E.R.D. -- Spaz


•  Nickodemus -- Funky In The Middle


• Santogold feat. Switch & Freq Nasty – Creator


• Skeewiff -- Light the Fuse


• Spank Rock & Benny Blanco -- Loose (inst.)


• The Brand New Heavies -- Jump 'N' Move


• The Cool Kids -- 2K Pennies **


• The Heavy -- Coleen


• The Limp Twins -- Moving Closer to The Sofa


• The Meters -- Cissy Strut


• The Pharcyde -- Passing Me By


• Ursula 1000 -- Step Back (Deekline & Ed Solo Remix)

NBA 2K9 is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB and will be available on October 7 for Xbox 360PS3 and PS2, on October 21 for Windows PC.