This is a double fistful of 2010s music for BJJ. It’s a mashup of iconic rock riffs, hip-hop bars, electronic drops and funky grooves that will bring a nostalgic glow to the mats and make you think there was more good music back then than there actually was.
These bangers will be the soundtrack of you and your training partners as you takedown, pass, sweep and submit each other over and over again.
Perfect for maintaining a consistent atmosphere across multiple classes or an extended training session.
Hit random, turn it up loud and play jiujitsu!
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Full Track Listing
- Stone - Alice In Chains
- Snarling of Beasts - Bedowyn
- Gold On The Ceiling - The Black Keys
- Baby I'm Yours (feat. Irfane) - Breakbot
- Moving - Bugzy Malone
- New Gods (feat. Jay Prince & Oscar Jerome) - Catching Flies
- Hats Off to the Bull - Chevelle
- X-Ray Visions - Clutch
- Sleeping on the Blacktop - Colter Wall
- Get Lucky - Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers †
- Open Fire - The Darkness
- Hey Mama (feat. Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha & Afrojack) - David Guetta
- Seeya (feat. Colleen D'Agostino) - deadmau5
- Diamond Eyes - Deftones
- Capsize - DELS
- (All Along the) Watchtower (Acoustic) - Devlin
- Mammoth (Radio Edit) - Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, MOGUAI & Like Mike
- Raise Hell - Dorothy
- All On You (feat. Natalia) - Eligh
- Take It Easy (feat. Natalie Pa'apa'a) - Fdel
- Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar) - Flying Lotus
- Rope - Foo Fighters
- Houdini - Foster the People
- Night Flight - Franc Moody
- Rats - Ghost
- Satoshi Nakamoto (feat. Adrian Lau & ProbCause) - Gramatik
- Lighthouses - The Grouch
- The Spark - GZA
- GET SOME (feat. Jared Laville) - Isiah Dreads
- Atomaton - Jamiroquai
- Waves - Joey Bada$$
- No Good - KALEO
- Alright - Kendrick Lamar
- Speed - L.A. Guns
- Curl of the Burl - Mastodon
- Deadly Nightshade - Megadeth
- Sometimes - Miami Horror
- The Hulk - Murs, 9th Wonder & The Soul Council
- NY Se Mumbai (feat. Divine, Naezy & Ranveer Singh) - Nas
- Wifey Material - Naughty By Nature
- Stronger - NGHTMRE & A-F-R-O
- Liar - ONE OK ROCK
- Lemme Find Out - The Perceptionists
- Who Knows - Protoje & Chronixx
- I'm Taking Off (Shield Your Eyes) '19 - Space Knife
- The Burden of Being Wonderful - Steel Panther
- Song #3 - Stone Sour
- We Were Set Up - Tangerine Dream, Woody Jackson, The Alchemist, Oh No & DJ Shadow
- Fight to Survive (feat. Mr. Lif) - Thievery Corporation
- Something Good Can Work - Two Door Cinema Club
- Crystal Spiders - Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
- No Presents for Christmas - Victim Mentality
- Chase the Feeling (feat. Chris Cester) - Wolfmother
- She's American - The 1975
⠀† "Get Lucky" snagged two Grammys in 2014—Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
2010s Rewind
The first couple of years of the decade were a bit of a struggle for the wife and I. Although we'd been in Victoria for a few years, it still felt like a new city and we were trying to figure out what to do with ourselves. I had reconnected with a previous (and current) employer and the wife was still working for MAC Cosmetics.
We were still using BlackBerrys.
My extensive music library was rarely listened to, mostly when I was at the desktop. I was burning CDs for the wife and me to listen to while driving, but with all the windshield time, a short attention span, and hating the process, I was driving around mostly listening to commercial radio.
No surprise it was such a struggle.
The radio station introduced me to some great music. When we retired our BlackBerrys (too soon) for HTC Magics, becoming early Android adopters, I finally started listening to music on my smartphone. My wife's car never had an AUX input, so she continues playing many of the same CDs from a decade ago.
We started making annual trips to South Korea in 2012 and life suddenly got a lot better. We got back from that first trip (a measly 10 days) and started planning our next visit the following year. With that goal on the horizon it became a little easier to work on short term projects, and we started building more structure into our lives. For me, that meant deciding which projects and hobbies were priorities—one of them was BJJ.
The New Retro
I'm appropriating that word and prepared to die on the hill.
Too many people use it to refer to a bizarre re-imagining of the 80s, but I was there and remember what it was actually like day to day. By the 90s I was over it—over the poofy hair, blocky cars, musical themes and other bits of culture that just stuck around too long.
There was cool stuff back then, but this playlist isn't about wailing guitars, tight pants, and bitchin' Camaros—it's about the hustle of the previous decade. If you're old enough to remember these tracks, I hope they take you back to a 2010s moment, hitting at an unexpected time like mid-roll or sulking off the mat, reminding you of where you were versus where you've been.
This isn't about memberberries, it's about appreciating our past and future if we look forward.
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What Did I Miss?
The decade was deep—I omitted some obvious tracks to make room for others and missed some that weren't on my radar. What track from 2010s gets you hyped? Comment below or hit me up on X.
Let's keep the vibe rolling!