The Ultimate Sixers Preseason Playlist
Our hot girl summer is coming to an end, but we still have a few more weeks until NBA preseason tips off. The summer weather is finally cooling down, as we get closer to fall we’ve caught our breath relaxed all summer, now we get to look back on the previous season and just as Lizzo proclaimed it’s time to, “Shampoo press, get (Last year’s disappointing loss to the Raptors) out of my hair”. To help with moving on, here’s a playlist I created featuring Philadelphia and PA naive musicians, The Ultimate Sixers Preseason Playlist , is for putting the past season behind us and getting excited for this coming one.
For the full effect to listen to the playlist as you read, or before, or not at all, I have no control over you.
1. Trust: The Jonas Brothers
2. The Process: Yaahn Hunter Jr & Louie Lou
I know not a great start for my all PA artist plug but saying “Trust the Process” as a Sixers fans is like “Amen” for a Christian, nothing you say counts unless you say it at least once. PS I know that Yaahn and Louie are singing about god, but I can way to easily replace that with Sam Hinkie in my head… that’s probably not great.
3. Dreams and Nightmares: Meek Mill
The Sixers after fighting their way out of the first round, had an even greater fight to overcome, Kawhi and the Toronto Raptors. At the part in “Dreams and Nightmare” where Meek says “Yall thought I was finished” really symbolized how the playoffs changed gears from round one with Jared Dudley too, fighting for our lives against Kawhi. This song will also go down in history as Philly’s greatest fight song.
4. 4th Quarter: Chiddy Bang
This song being on this list is a little on the nose, but Chiddy is a Philly icon from my childhood, I just wish he wasn’t singing about Kawhi, “late night whippin’ it”.
5. It Should Have Been You: Teddy Pendergrass
This is the song you blast to drown out the sound of your crying as you stroke a picture of Joel Embiid. How many times did you say if it weren’t for the Raptors, we would have beaten the Bucks and possibly the injured Warriors, seriously, IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOU!!!
6. Erase Your Social: Lil Uzi Vert
This can be referring to one of two instances this offseason, one being the loss of JJ Redick, Infamous supporter of human trafficking, NOT being on twitter, and two, The Woj bombs we all were receiving every other second that completely devastated the NBA landscape.
7. Self Care: Mac Miller
Self-care is all about treating yourself right. Letting Jimmy go, is self-care for the teams’ mental stability, and adding Horford to give Embiid a break is physical self-care.
8. Revenge: P!nk & Eminem
Now that our new team is assembled it’s time to take revenge on Kawhi and the Tor- wait he’s in LA now, well fuck. So now who’s the bigger revenge game, the Clippers or the Raptors? Toronto won’t feel as good so I guess it’ll have to be the Clippers, let’s make the two times we see them next year count.
9. Cheesesteak: Vinnie Paz
Vinnie Paz has major “Get me in a gym with Ben Simmons, I’ll teach him to shoot” energy. His song named after Philly’s biggest export is big mood amongst the “Joel Embiid needs to stop eating Cheeseburgers before games” crowd as well. It’s a perfect harmony between some of the most vocal and infuriating fans. This song is unapologetically Philly.
10. Fall in Philadelphia: Hall & Oates
This breath of fresh air is a great relaxing way to signal the beginning of the NBA season. Fall in Philadelphia is the time of the year Basketball begins and we all can breathe again.
11. Came Out Swinging: The Wonder Years
Came out swinging from a south Philly basement, is how most sixers fans describe their commute to the Wells Fargo Center, but it also expresses the state of mind the team should have for this coming season if they want to make the finals.
12. Rolling with Heat: The Roots
The roots are one of Philly’s most well-known bands and now that Josh Richardson, formerly of the Miami Heat, is part of the Sixers, it’s fair to say we’re “Rolling with Heat”. You’re lucky that we made it this far and this is the only Pun I used.
13. Switch: Will Smith
Elton Brand assembled a roster full of defensive studs, so when your point guard can cover other team’s centers, you should get accustomed to hearing the word “switch” yelled at a Sixers game. also, you can’t mention Philly musicians and the sixers without talking about Will Smith.
14. Motownphilly: Boyz II Men
This was only the second year that the Sixers made the playoffs, Ben was still a sophomore and Embiid was just coming off his first healthy offseason. This team has barely scratched the surface of its potential. Entering this season, the team is looking at the Eastern Conference Finals as a possibility, Motownphilly is certainly back, and these all-stars are no longer Boyz.
15. The City: The Disco Biscuits
“While I look upon the city that I’ve grown to call my own
No matter where this journey takes me this place will always be my home”
Says it all, this is a basketball city and it will always be one, the fans will always have the teams back if we can handle the process we can handle anything.
16. Unemployed: Tierra Whack
Joining the small sample of dominant Female rappers is Tierra, she’s one of the newest names in rap and she’s already making a name for herself. Just like the Sixers making Lindsey Harding the 7th female assistant coach the league has ever seen. They are both in good company.
17. Welcome to the Party: Diplo/ others
This banger from Diplo (Temple Grad) is how every Sixers fan is going to feel this season when we’re running over teams to the number one seed in the east and favorites to make the Finals, you can quote me here and now.
18. Here They Come the Sixers: Reed Streets
This song has all you could ever want in a Sixers themed song, Marc Zumoff, fans chanting “Trust the Process”, and a beat that drops hard as Furk.
Bonus song
$ave Dat Money: Lil Dicky
This song doesn’t have anything to do with the Sixers unless you imagine this is exactly how Hinkie approached his budget every year he was with the Sixers.
