Def Jam Rapstar distributed by Konami this fall

by Justin McElroy on Apr 8th 2010 9:05AM

A little less than a year after the game was officially revealed, Def Jam Rapstar finally has a distributor and a release window. Konami revealed that it will be bringing the Rakimulator to junior MCs on Wii, 360 and PS3 this fall. We only know a handful of the game's 40+ songs, but we've listed what we know right after the break.

A tip for the future rappers this game inspires: When trying to appear "hard" amongst your colleagues and the subject of paying dues arises, admitting that you got your start "on the streets of Def Jam Rapstar" probably isn't going to win you any brownie points. And if there's one thing that holds sway in the rap industry, it's brownie points.

Def Jam Rapstar

2 Pac - I Get Around
50 Cent - I Get Money
Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg - Nuthin' But a "G" Thang
Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx -Gold Digger
Lil' Wayne - A Milli
Notorius B.I.G. - Juicy
Slick Rick - Children's Story
T.I. featuring Rihanna - Live Your Life
Wu Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
Young Jeezy featuring Kanye West - Put On

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Tags: 4mm-games, autumn-games, def-jam-rapstar, konami, Microsoft, Nintendo, release-date, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (64)

Is he really rapping about tartar sauce?

I'm impressed by the translations too

'Pocket full of celery' (that means money)

Er, thanks, I guess

Doesn't say what tartar sauce means though, I'm guessing its something to do with 'bling'

Jeezy continues on to say that he's puffing on some broccoli...man he loves his veggies!

Yo, let's get some ants-on-a-log up in this bitch!

"Inside fish sticks, outside tartar sauce"

He's talking about the interior and exterior colors of his car.

In the context of the song it sounds way better than something like "inside tan, outside creamy off white"

They know he's got that broccoli, so he keeps that Glock with him...er, me...no, it was definitely him...

clearly the "(That means money)" is photoshopped on there by the marvelous justin mcelroy.

Oh god, gaming has just become a little worse...

no translation needed, he is literally rapping about tartar sauce

This guys just a dubious ruffian without the chops

._. No.

please, no. And I love hip-hop.
Just .... no.
tracklist has some classics though (which are always best performed by the original artists)

Its not like rockband, where some of the songs will actually sound GOOD when sung by the right amateur vocalists (either in ernest or in jest),.

With the upload feature I think I'll just rent this one so I can listen to some Xbox Live freestyles... lol

OH! I thought it was called Rapstar and then I saw Kanye, Wayne, TI & Jeezy and realized I must have misread something.

Def Jam Rapster!

Now you too can be just as talentless, overpaid and egotistical as Kanye West!

Get your copy today for 60 celery!

T.I's a good rapper I don't know where you've been at. If you listen to most of the stuff that doesn't hit the radio you'd know that...

I think you read correctly.. those are better much some of the prominent names in RAP atm.. now if it were Hip-hop star and it didn't have one track featuring Talib, Tribe, Pharcyde or Black Sheep then that's a different story -_-

tr1cky I dunno what you are talking about talentless. Kanye has made nothing but classics before he started on his emo shit. Sure he's an asshole but a damn good artist. Calm down son.

I'd rather eat my celery sticks

(that means money)

No. TI is not a good rapper. Nor is Kanye a good rapper (even if he's a good producer).

Good rappers? Talib, Mos Def, Chuck D, KRS1, Black Thought, Big Daddy Kane, Nas, Jayz (older stuff), Eminem, and many more. But NOT TI. NOT lil Wayne. NOT Jeezy. NOT Kanye.

I bet you're the kinda guy that's angry because all of his old favorites are hasbeens now...the fact that you listed Chuck D and KRS-1 is testament to that (nursery school rhymes where SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 20 years ago)...Nas has been wack since forever, Jay-Z STILL IS dope, most of the other guys you listed barely even drop a verse anymore...

T.I. and Kanye are excellent rappers; Weezy and Jeezy are decent; however, all four of them are stars...that rap...

Hence the name *gasp* "RAPSTAR"...

It takes a lot less than the flawed logic of a nostalgic fanboy to realize that, so I don't see why you're having a problem...

with rapstar i figure that would be from Sony for a thing of it's own like Singstar but just Rap.

only song i actually care about that on the song list is

Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg - Nuthin' But a "G" Thang

i don't own singstar .. but i rather buy singstar then this game as singstar holds more variety.

you obviously missed C.R.E.A.M. being on that list.

Some Public Enemy and Beastie Boys and tis could be pretty solid.

this*

Woof. Good luck with that, Konami. I'm sure everything will work out great for you.

Rakimulator? Smh...

I'll wait until it hits clearance 4-6 months after realese....

I think you are being quite generous with the 4 to 6 month range.

well it could always go the Haze route and be marked down in a few weeks

Slick Rick - Children's Story for the win.

This is going to be as successful as Konomi's other music game.

Where the hell is my Def Jam Vendetta 3??!

After that shit they put out known as Icon I hope they go back to the drawing board if they make another one

i only played one and Snoop Dogg was the Games End Boss on top of a building or something like that... i thought that was a pretty fun game.

I sincerely hope that the reference to Rakim wasn't just a cheap street-cred name drop; his presence turns this into an autobuy...

But why not support the artists we like, and Just... you know....

buy their albums?? You can recite the lyrics to those as well....

Oh my! It's this generation's version of Git On Da Mic.

This couldn't be any more worse than Rock Revolution though, but yeah, I'll get this when it hits clearance too. Hopefully the engine is solid.

Def Jam does have one of the best rap catalogs to pick from song from at least... Beastie Boys, LL, Public Enemy etc.

Atleast they managed to throw a Tupac song in there. Too bad it's one of his pointless songs. Why couldn't they throw something with educational value to it like

Words of Wisdom
Violent
So Many Tears
Dear Mama
Until The End of Time

The rap industry is going to tank one of these days. I can already tell they are running out of stuff to rap about. Whereas, rock music..they talk about consciousness and stuff like that, but rap is all about worthless material posession.

What's going to happen to the rap industry when people become enlightened, and physical posessions dont matter anymore?

Ur crazy... take a listen to Lupe Fiasco

1. That's never going to happen, on the whole people will always prefer physical possessions to enlightenment

2. All the best hip hop has nothing to do with spouting brand names, its not all 50 Cent & Lil Wayne, you need some Jeru the Damaja

^This.. Also Kid Cudi. He's a pretty welcome change to the genre's current state.

Also anything by Dj Format, as quarlie below mentioned

I Get Around was his biggest party track after California Love & How Do U Want It, so it makes sense from that perspective. But yeah, there's far better ones to chose from.

I can relate to the materialism. I love having stuff. That's why I
visit Engadget, AutoBlog, and Joystiq.

@ third eye Jedi....

non-commercial Hip-hop just laughed at your thread.

But I see what you mean, except for the "rap will tank" part. It just evolves. Hence this wave of overtly commercialistic b.s. that plays on the airwaves

Listen to any OutKast album and then try to tell me that Rap is all about worthless material possessions.

Can we get the game from DJ Format's 3 Feet Deep video instead?

Anything with Dj Format and Abdominal would be too good to be true

Hell, I'd play some kind of Ill culinary behavior dinner party game

Can we get a YouTube channel of white people playing this in the middle of Best Buy?

cringe worthy Lols? i'll pass

worst game ever. Why even bother with releasing this crap.

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