How Def Jam Accidentally Made Hip Hop’s Greatest Game 

Remastered version would sell. Imagine adding on additional characters to the roster.

That Def Jam intro with everyone walking together was legnedary

When Fat Joe hit you with the pedigree in story mode, you knew it was over.

Let's not pretend like those 50 Cent games weren't fire

When EA was the unquestionably the best publisher on the planet.. Def jam FIFA street NFL street NBA street need for speed underground ssx 007 Lord of the Rings Black Battlefield medal of honor Burnout not to mention the main line sports titles EA was the standard setters of the industry.... how far they've fallen.... Edit:..they even out did Tony hawks with Skate 1,2 and 3...and made tony hawks loke like an arcade game instead of a serious skateboarding game.

This game series(besides icon) revolutionized the culture for me. I still play fight for New York on gamecube 😩

Def Jam: Fight for NY really put me on older rappers. Prior to the game, I was listening to Radio Disney and Kids Bop lmaoo

This game has GTA V levels of awareness in terms of presentation and atmosphere. The only way something like this could come together again would be if Rockstar published it. No one else has the budget, the connections, and the pedigree to pull it off.

69: Im king of New York Me: Lemme grab my remote.

Def Jam Vendetta was originally supposed to be a sequel to WCW/nWo Revenge and World Tour. However since the company shut down in 2001 with them losing everything including all IP’s they dropped the project and instead used the AKI engine for Def Jam itself.

When you heard that “awwwww yeahhhhh” from fat joe getting his blaze ! You knew it was over 😂😂😂

Absolute Classic Game! A Must for Fans of Fighting Games!

I had Def Jam on game cube and Fight for NY on PSP. Man those were the days. I remember I begged and begged my momma to get Icon but you know she hit me with the “I already bought the other ones. You better play them”. 😂😂

I said it once I'll say it again remastered fight for new York I can not stress this enough us the people need fight for new York remastered

We need a new Def Jam Game so bad

I miss this game. The finishing moves were brutal as hell 💯

This game is very expensive and hard to find. Because it's the greatest hiphop fighting game of all time

Shout-out to all my Snoop Dogg and Slick Rick mains

Hands Down, Top 5 Game of All Time

Ngl this game required strategy on how you build your character’s fighting style, how to counter grapple, use the environment, etc.. FFNY was a classic but Idk what the hell happened with Icon.

No mention of Mark Ecko's Getting up huh? It's been overlooked since day

A modern Def Jam game with the old school vs new school theme would be amazing.

I still rate this as my fav PS2 game🎮. We need an update. Imagine having a tag team match with Migos or cage match with J. Cole and Travis Scott 😭😭😭 WE NEED DEF JAM 😵

I passed this game so many times. Best create-a-character mode, legendary names of Hip Hop, great tracks, awesome story with death matches inserted. I couldn't get enough!

This game is going for $185 on amazon and some lame ass dude tryna sell just the case on eBay for $50 (no disk just the case) 😭

I bought this game again a few years ago for $14 on Ebay, Now you can't find it cheaper than $80

As a life long lover of hip hop and video games, as was utterly amazed and completely obsessed with the Def Jam games as a kid. I’d be one of the first in line to buy a new installment in the series.

50 cent bulletproof remember playing that on my ps2 back in the day great game blood on the sand is alright that helicopter level is trash tho Roadhouse

I still remember when I was 7, it was this cab that used to come pick me and my homie up to take us to this school in the suburbs on the fridays in the summer. 1 day a cab driver got out the car at a gas station and left 110 dollars in the mirror above the driver seat. My boy took it, don't know if he noticed or not but when we got home I took that shit from my from my homie and counted it in the bathroom it was 110. I told my brother, next morning he took me to the mall and I bought DJ FFNY and Streets Vol 3 on gamecube. 😂😂💯 true story I miss those days

Give me an hd remix

Didn’t realize Fat Joe and Danny Trejo were snoops henchman in this game lol

This to me is the best fighting game ever... simple .. but deep enough... characters with character... 4 player battles.. great stages and the best fight ending system in any game.. you can finish a fight with a toe like... I love this game.

One thing you didn’t mention about why this game is so beloved; all the AKI engine wrestling games are beloved, this is the pinnacle of that engine used in an incredibly imaginative way. I’m actually working on an engine that I hope will be very similar in a lot of ways to the AKI engine for a project I’m working on.

I was taking to a friend of mine about this game a couple days ago, he had never heard of it, and I was just reminiscing of how much fun I had as a kid playing fight for NY

i miss this game so much. This game has so much replay value, but I understand it would be hell to clear all of the music and licensing because most of those artists are no longer def jam.

They need to bring it back

This is basically a new Def Jam game confirm

D-Mob aka Suge knight

Imagine a 2021 Def Jam with current rappers and old school rappers that would be hella lit

In my Xbox right now. Never gets old

This game was THE perfect storm. Def Jam as a label still had relevance, the rise of Southern hip hop and Crunk when the game came out, the AKI engine that made WCW vs. NWO Revenge, WWF No Mercy, and Def Jam Vendetta bonafide classics, and hip hop artists who were over the top and brash that fit perfectly with a video game. You'll never be able to recreate that.

Favorite song from the game: "Take a look at my life" by Fat Joe.

Could you do a video of Mark Echo getting up? A remake of that game with a open world would be fire

Icon messed up by getting rid of Blazin

We need a remaster!!

I don’t understand how they haven’t remastered this game yet!!! This was my game back in the day🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Yo this video can cure depression just taking you back to simpler times

Man i think this was the last game that me and my freinds really annihilated our controllers battling each other with our own custom characters.This was the only game we actually shit talked back and forth on in the same room...good times!!This was such a solid game!

I think what makes people come back to this title, its the fact that they were able to capture early 2000s hip hop culture so well. Not only that, but what kid who wouldn't like to use their favorite rapper in a fighting game.

No lie, Rap instrumentals at that point in time we're just Godly. That game had THE best sound track

Imagine if they just called it something different so they can have artists from other labels beyond there cuz I'll love to see Lil Uzi vert versus Young thug

Still a fan of this game, I don't know how many game CD's I bought to complete this game. Am from India, and we didn't had the privilege of getting original game disc for this game during the release of this game, so we had to buy pirated game CDs cause I was an instant fan of this game and still to this day.

This game series (excluding Icon) is right up there with Super Smash Bros and Dragonball FighterZ.

Why isn’t this on the PlayStation store?

Why can't they make a new one? With throw back companies? Kind of like Wrestling Legends...? It would be sick! Old school rappers Battling out... Ruthless Priority Death row Rap-a-lot Old school Def Jam Murder ink Shady Aftermath Cash Money No limit Slip n Slide Rockafella Ruff Riderz Bad Boy I'd buy the fuck outta a game like this... Play 2Pac vs B.I.G N.W.A vs Beastie Boys Scarface vs Baby Ice cube vs Eminem 50 vs ja Man.... I.wanna.play this N O W !

The best part was when characters "rage".

I love explaining what the game is and people automatically respond with that’s dumb. It was one of the most surprisingly great games I’ve ever played. Please remaster it at least.

Thank you for making this video

We used to make ourselves and fight each other. I actually owned an Ecko shirt that you could unlock in the game. The attention to to detail was uncanny.

Good old days when EA was making quality

Awesome breakdown!

The best game ever I remember playing it for the game cube

The fact that def jam fight for ny had so many different fighting styles based off the styles you picked and what order you picked them in, I loved trying drunkin master, all 4 street fighting styles, tuai qon do, and I forget the others. I know I spelled the last one wrong but that’s my favourite style

The soundtrack was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

This game was classic I still play it today and made a bunch of current rappers lol

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!

I wish the memory of this game wasn't so distant

This was really good back in the day. We need a remaster

Def Jam Vendetta was my 1st PS3 game, I was hugely in love with this game

A remastered version would be epic!

Wow! So many memories with Fight for NY...

I made like 6 Fighters since Quarantin and I bought it earlier this year Greatest Video Game on Earth

I miss that game!!

This game was my shit back when I had a PS2. My homie put me on it and I was hooked. They should definitely make a remaster.

I had this game for the old school Xbox. It was a monster game. Lot of fun to play.

Was kicking ass and taking names in this game, yesterday! #classic

how def jam accidentally made hip hop greatest game so far

Loved! Loved! Loved! This game wished that brought this back to the next generation consoles

Great vid!

The title of this vid alone shows you are one of great intelligence. This game is just greatness.👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾

90s-00s was a special time man.

After watching this, I downloaded a ps2 emulator and the game just to play it again.

I didn’t know Wu tang had a game!!! Good or bad, I’m looking for it

They need to bring this back and make it oldskool vs new school,fight for new York hand's down was my sh@#.

Best times I ever had growing up playing this game with my brother and friends nothing will ever come close it was this and the warriors on ps2 last games I ever played..

Great work 👌🏽

I still have Def Jam Vendetta AND Fight For NY

LEGENDARY 💯💯💯💯

Amazing game. Its in my all time top 5

The soundtrack to this game was mega hype Eat em up pick em up eat um picky head. Friggin hard

Def Jam Vendetta and Fight For NY are legendary

Man, Fight for New York was the shit. I wish they'd make another one

69 gotta be the main villain in the remastered version 😂

I always wondered what happened to this game we need a new one frfr

We need a another def jam game

Its still so criminal how Def Jam FFNY has not been ported or remastered for future consoles. I've played almost all types of fighting games and Def Jam was literally up there. Might not be as technical as games today but just the sheer fun of it is something sorely missed in today's landscape.

Still play this! In my PS2 right now!

Wu-tang Shao lin style started it all. I had never played a 4 player brawl until the wu. I was amazed when that game came out

I'm glad that I bought this game while it was somewhat cheap a few years ago ($40). Now these prices are ranging from $80 (disc only) to $200.

This shit brought back so many memories ,💯💯💪💪