CD Shop - Giga Macho - Persona 2 Innocent Sin (PSP)

[@Windrays]

For everyone wondering, this genre is called New Jack Swing. It was huge in the 90s, which was the decade Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment both came out and took place in, so having it be the theme in the CD shop is pretty appropriate. :)

[@TheCelt93]

Got any tips for music like it? I gave some njs compilations a go and they were pretty different, this is more like DJ shadow to me.

[@gordonfreeman5872]

not even close

[@chrisdurand1441]

I literally work in the music industry and grew up in the 90s, but ok

[@chrisdurand1441]

And that's an astute observation: DJ Shadow was mega in the 90s. He wasn't strictly New Jack (he had elements of trip-hop and acid jazz, among others) but some of his tracks dip into it.

[@sugarless.y2k]

​@TheCelt93 I would mainly check out groups like New Edition (particularly songs like "If It Isn't Love" which this song is reminiscent of." A more contemporary track would be Hideki Naganuma's "JACK DA FUNK" , he uses a lot of the samples present in this song. Tracks to check out include.. Do You Remember The Time - Michael Jackson Poison - Bel Biv DeVoe and On Our Own - Bobby Brown..

[@nyx3659]

Top 10 rappers eminem was too scared to diss

[@cheesusabidas77]

and all of them are in this track

[@foughtthelol]

Before gigachad there was gigamacho.

[@drugsforhugs7106]

1:01 Made me laugh so bad 😂 I was not expecting that.

[@dylannicholson3112]

If there was a Persona 2 Dancing, I personally see Eikichi dancing to this.

[@RainerRilke3]

It'd work pretty well for a Yukki song too

[@dylannicholson3112]

@@RainerRilke3 You’re right !!

[@Ouiss94]

Michel danced crazy!

[@idk-o4j1m]

I'd like to see furher get griddy to unbreakable tie

[@Rayfist090]

This song is so good. Never expected this from a Persong ame, sounds like something out of a 90's rap video.

[@MagillanicaLouM]

the beauty of persona 2 is the more 90's urban sound it has in a lot of tracks. the beauty of each persona is how the soundtrack of every game has its own aesthetics, so to speak

[@gamerprince-tl5hg]

@@MagillanicaLouM Yeah I love that aspect of P2.

[@pottedplant37_]

most Soundcloud beat I ever heard and it's still fire

[@hexenvexen]

Funny to think that the guy who made this is currently working on SMT5

[@kaidene573]

wait really? i thought it was composed by the smt 1/2 composer before he left atlus

[@hexenvexen]

@@kaidene573 Nah, they have different composers. SMT1 and 2 were done by Tsukasa Masuko. P1 was done by Hidehito Aoki, and P2 has multiple composers for different songs. This song was composed by Ryota Kozuka, who is the main composer for SMT5

[@manuelmateo3392]

That's the Atlus Sound Team baby.

[@oosci6579]

that scream at the beginning kinda sounds like the death grips guillotine scream lmao

[@banjo304]

I honestly had to look it up because it wouldn't be totally impossible; the original version of this song sampled Prince. But Exmilitary came out 2 weeks afterwards lol

[@charleslynmartin795]

Jet Set Persona!

[@kikata7604]

Was thinking the exact same thing and it's why I like this track so much

[@tylerpettit921]

both version's sound like a really 90's rap commercial!!!!

[@MaoKittyMaoMao]

THANK YOU for uploading this one I ALWAYS have a hard time finding it

[@drowzee6076]

This sound like some shit from SoundCloud. It’s so weird but I love it

[@daintytrait]

1:21 this part 🔥🔥

[@br3akstuff]

The bangerness of this

[@SuperMiIk]

Iconic

[@chel-ssiah]

Great song.

[@reggislowgas993]

This song ballin

[@akliose]

cant believe this guy made battle a2 and tokyo

[@DolanDuking]

banger guy made banger tracks?

[@pareona3163]

This is honestly my exact reaction to finding out that a decent amount of this game's tracks were composed by kozuka. That man is insane fr (and insanely good at composing music)

[@macriye6831]

Nice!!

[@Skyloc]

this is groovy

[@TheSuperNerdsShow]

This song is without a doubt the culmination of a composer who has had to scour sample CDs for hours deciding to throw a bunch of the cool ones together. I would also guess that the CD shop was named after the "Gigamacho" sample, it wouldn't be too far out to imagine other ATLUS employees might have asked one of their composers for suggestions for the music themed store.

[@godoatthegoat2884]

They must have been on some serious drugs while making this

[@scoob2cool516]

yes, because you CANNOT be creative while sober

[@godoatthegoat2884]

@@scoob2cool516 This goes beyond creative This is some William Blake level shit There's fucking dogs panting and barking and then it goes "HALLELUJAH" Clearly the person who composed this had ascended

[@pottedplant37_]

Fun fact: Daisuke Ono, the creator of Guilty Gear, thought of the Gunflame sound effect because he shouted it randomly once whilst drunk.

[@manuelmateo3392]

@@godoatthegoat2884 You're off your rocker. This is just 90s.

[@melvint-p9500]

@@godoatthegoat2884 have you never heard of sampling before

[@Demi-Joker]

Obviously this is funk, but it sounds like Hideki Naganuma made this. Hideki Naganuma's music is like its own subgenre of funk

[@ibrahimiftikhar9240]

I WAS THINING THE SAME THING. This track fits perfectly with the Jet Set stuff

[@taylordiclemente5163]

This ain't funk

[@GoldenJeansFatesToInfinity]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who got a Hideki Naganuma vibe from it. Hell you could even consider it being a Richard Jacques song.

[@Dudester100]

Straight fire!

[@ryoskuma]

some shit babytron would rap to

[@Shadowtopia69]

This song is very catchy, albeit very weird. Like, it sounds like there are dogs barking in the background, police sirens blarring, a generic recording of someone repeating "halleluaha", which I am almost certain I've heard being used many times outside of this game, gunshots, and a woman rapping, whom I'm not sure whether she is a Japanese woman who just sounds African-American, or if they had an actual African-American woman rap in the song, neither of which is a bad thing, but that just brings me to my next point. At 1:33, I can't tell whether the woman said the "n" word, or if I just misheard what she said, since the music drowns out what she said at 1:33-1:34, and I can't tell if that was intentional or not. Regardless, I have some doubts that Atlus would go that far as to include "that" word, whether their singer was dark-skinned or not, given the controversy the word causes, I don't assume that they'd take the risk.

[@handsomezack2204]

The vocals are sampled from another song, and she says "I'm an independent diva" in the part you're wondering about

[@PeskyBOI43]

Do you know what song that sample comes from? I know it has to come before 2012, but the lyrics im finding online aren't very traceable

[@Hikaru0kamiki]

Not gonna i stayed to listen to this song i even added in a mugen

[@floridaman8412]

The female samples can be found in Logic Pro X under the Tia lyric section.

[@TheSbugZone]

yeah that wasn't the n word

[@caesar1309]

does anyone know the specific samples used in this song? I’ve been wanting to know where they’re from for aaages lol

[@thanatosdv4369]

Nice

[@cheesusabidas77]

what the dog doin

[@GuillermoValdez-rz9vo]

Yeah, that's a Shin Megami Tensei

[@melvint-p9500]

If this didn't have the hallelujahs this would be my favorite song in this already great soundtrack.

[@gordonfreeman5872]

cringe take

[@melvint-p9500]

@@gordonfreeman5872 The hallelujahs have warmed up to me. -quest battle still better tho-

[@Nick-os3gn]

The hallelujah ruins this song so badly for me

[@margarita2077cyber]

Why. It's great.