![]() "I love and appreciate and respect Top 40 hip-hop, but that music tends to be about satisfying your cool and your swagger," Williams said. Williams, a Sarasota, Fla., native making music in Los Angeles for 12 years, has also devoted his life to perfecting a sound he's dubbed "Epic Hip Hop," inspired in part by stadium-stunning rock legends like Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Guns N' Roses and Queen. The Bucks have worked through multiple generations to get to this point. Watch Video: Vo Williams does a sound check for "History in the Making" Perfecting 'Epic Hip Hop' RELATED: 'So grateful already': Milwaukee Bucks' DJ Shawna just dropped her first original song RELATED: 28 hip-hop songs that give Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo a shout-out ![]() RELATED: The man who wrote the 'I Love My Green Bay Packers' song is back with 'Got Bucks Lust' … You can't help but feel like this is a pretty special moment." "It's really rewarding for us as an organization to see how this team has embodied it. "The lyrics just fit so well in a lot of ways with what we were doing," said Dustin Godsey, chief marketing officer for the Bucks. The words "History in the Making" have circulated on social media from Bucks fans, been printed on rally towels during the playoffs, and tower over the Deer District on a massive poster plastered on Fiserv Forum featuring the Bucks' starting lineup.Īnd the Bucks are indeed making history, from playing their first finals games in five decades to Giannis Antetokounmpo's out-of-this-world performances. One behind-the-scenes video caught Jeff Teague rapping the verses to get himself pumped before the Bucks crushed the Atlanta Hawks in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Hopefully this can become an iconic walkup song for him if he decides to keep it in future seasons."History in the Making" has become more than a hype song for a basketball team. This one is really catchy and upbeat, and it really fits Brown’s exciting style of play. Winkel walked so Brown could run with picking Felly walk-up songs. Not much else to be said here, it does the job. I’m ambivalent on Kodak Black as an artist, but I think this is a song that works really well as a walkup, especially the instrumental. He has a very laid-back personality in interviews, and this song is nothing if now laid back. This isn’t his most exciting song, but props to Winkel for clearly starting this trend and selecting Felly songs for, I believe, all four years of his UConn career.Īs much as this isn’t usually my type of music, or a traditional walk-up song, something about it just works for the type of player Kyler Fedko is. Local artist Felly makes his first of a few appearances on this list. It’s still a good song overall, and this is a Michael Buble-positive blog, but I know a missed opportunity when I see one. ![]() ![]() I’m not usually one to judge, but I feel like if you’re not going to use the Nina Simone version of this song then you’re going to get knocked down a few pegs. Novelty: This is a hard field to quantify, but if a batter picks something out of the ordinary and it works, then they’ll get extra points. This will naturally be harder because my musical taste doesn’t exactly align with a lot of 18-23 year-old baseball players but we play the card we’re dealt.įit: Basically, how well does the song work as a walk-up song? Does it focus the batter, does it get the fans into the game? When you hear it, does it make you think of the batter walking out to the plate? Quality of the song selected: How good the song is, removed from everything else. Here’s my criteria, borrowed somewhat from the good folks over at And The Valley Shook, SB Nation’s tremendous LSU blog (they know a thing or two about college baseball.): Still, a good walkup song is just as important in a pandemic season, serving to focus the batter as much as to pump up the fans.Īnd now, because we’re in sports media in 2021, we’re going provide nuanced discussion on what a walk-up song means personally to each batter, and the psychological effect they have on the crowd and opposing team. UConn baseball has most of the ingredients for that situation - all but the packed house since Elliot Ballpark attendance limited to friends, family and a select student population. At a brand new stadium, under the lights, in front of a packed house at the beginning of the season, what’s the one thing you can do as a baseball player to endear yourself to the fans before they ever see you play? Pick a kick-ass walkup song, that’s what.
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