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Editor’s note: the linked/embedded music videos below contain NSFW language.

One of the best playlists on Spotify is called “Discovery Weekly.” Spotify updates it once a week with new music. I usually wait around until the office clears before I jam it loud from my laptop (in wannabe Michael Burry fashion) while I do stuff for work.

As soon as the office emptied out on Friday, I hit the play button again and got back to it. But then I heard one of the best words I have ever heard to start off a song: a too familiar insert coin noise followed by a man yelling “Fight!” The very same sounds from the beginning of every round from Street Fighter II. And then, an awesome beat dropped that sounded like the perfect mashup of all the best tracks from the game (produced by Yoko Shimomura, Isao Abe, and Syun Nishigaki).

I’m probably late to the party on this one (about a year late actually), but the great song is “Sorry Not Sorry” by Bryson Tiller (Trapsoul, 2015). It was produced by Timbaland. If you haven’t heard it already, listen for yourself:

Since I heard the song, I have been thinking back to and looking for other songs that reference, sample, or are somehow related to fighting games. I also went through my iTunes to look at some of music members of the FGC have produced inspired by fighting games too. A few of my favorites are listed below.

Childish Gambino – Heartbeat (Camp, 2011)

There’s a clever Super Smash Bros. pun around the three-minute mark.

Kanye West – Facts (The Life of Pablo, 2016)

Kanye samples Dhalsim and Guile’s voices from Street Fighter II to use at the end of some of his verses on this track. Kanye also samples Street Fighter II on a Life of Pablo track titled “Pt. 2.”

Kyle – Sex and Super Smash Bros. (Beautiful Loser, 2013)

Title really says it all on this one.

Drake – Pop Style (Views, 2016)

The Street Fighter II announcer makes another appearance in this song featuring Jay-Z and Kanye West.

Drake – Pop Style (Feat. Kanye West & JayZ)

Goldike Sounds – Combo Breaker (Killer Instinct Tribute) (K.O. Music Vol. 1, 2014)

The guys at Godlike Sounds have more than a few awesome takes on fighting and other video game music. But this one is an open love letter to Killer Instinct fans (as if the original SNES soundtrack wasn’t good enough).

You can listen to the track here.

Lupe Fiasco – Gold Watch (The Cool, 2007)

Even in 2007, well before the infamous Daigo match, Lupe Fiasco was rapping about his appreciation for Street Fighter.

For my own sake, I just have to say that no respectable video game music list should go without at least mentioning the Street Fighter III soundtrack. You can find it here.

Honorable Mention: James Chen, Indestructible Cover (Street Fighter IV, 2009)

A classic.

Know of any other songs that reference or sample fighting games? Feel free to comment and post below.

She’s not Super Street Fighter IV’s spider anymore.

Juri’s Street Fighter V iteration is significantly changed from her Super Street Fighter IV origin; fans returning to the character have been met with a fighter that feels both similar in some respects, but very different in others.

In the video below, marlonlonmilk addresses how Juri’s fireball has changed–now much less viable for zoning, but instead very effective as a pressure tool, combo extender, and finisher. New SFV Juri players in particular, or those struggling to adjust to “new” Juri: have a look.

Source: marlonlonmilk

It was recently discovered and revealed by both TOOLASSISTED and desk that Street Fighter V’s Urien has a glitch, in which he can not only combo into throw off of certain reflected projectiles, but he can do so from a full screen away. This is obviously unintentional, and will likely see a patch addressing that in the near future–but it still remains one of the craziest and most shocking glitches seen in Street Fighter V to date.

While initially it was hypothesized that the glitch was triggered by the opponent performing a kara-cancelled projectile, desk has uploaded a video dispelling those rumors. As explained in the video, two conditions cause the glitch to happen. Firstly, the opponent must do one normal move before discharging their projectile. Secondly, Urien must not perform any normal move prior to the reflected projectile hitting his opponent. If any of these two conditions are not met, the situation will result in the glitch not happening.

Another observation from desk is that the glitch is performed, the next hit following the projectile will not be damage-scaled. This shows that when the conditions are met–although the game will deduct damage from the opponent’s health bar–the game disregards the projectile as being connected within a combo.

Even still, desk believes that there is still more to the glitch, and needs further research. He thus, at the end of the video, asks the community to submit their research and questions to him for a planned follow-up to this video.

Source: desk