Your walk up song is a trademark part of your sports personality, whether you’re playing in high school games or the big league.
You need a song that’s recognisable, memorable and reflects your unique character to spectators who don’t know you yet, whilst evoking fear in your opponents as you take centre-stage.
Our playlist of funny walk up songs puts a spin on the concept, collecting some hit pop, rock and hip-hop tracks to make you stand out, turn heads and earn your place in the history books; each piece hosting its own comedic twist to be enhanced by your own vibrant personality.
Funny Walk Up Songs
1. Britney Spears – Toxic
As increasingly retro and overplayed as Britney Spears’ iconic track, Toxic, might be in pop culture, this 2003 hit is sure to fire up your crowd with humour as well as inspirited sports passion.
This is a track for anyone embracing and exhibiting the feminine side of their sports personality, spurring the crowd with an iconic, singable hit as nostalgic as it is fuelled with motivating energy.
Lyrically focused upon romantic passion, this track’s lyrics encompass the theme of getting pumped up for action, whether you’re interpreting it as referring to sports, sex or something else entirely; “Too high, can’t come down, it’s in the air and it’s all around, can you feel me now?”
Lined with dominating synth riffs and a fierce beat exuding the ambience of power and control, Toxic becomes the perfect song for a memorable and hilarious walk-up routine, assuming you’re able to rise up to match Britney’s own levels of stage confidence!
2. Jim Johnston – Real American
It’s easy getting the rallying support and recognition you deserve in sports if your walk up song is as iconic as yourself.
There’s hardly a better choice for some than Hulk Hogan’s classic WWE theme, Real American by Jim Johnston, if you’re looking for a track which turns heads and sparks the indomitable American sports energy your crowd is craving.
Jim Johnston’s lyrics revolve around the theme of being a man and standing up against enemies and competition with unquenchable patriotic spirit;
“When it comes crashing down and it hurts inside, ya’ gotta take a stand, it don’t help to hide … I am a real American, fight for the rights of every man, I am a real American, fight for what’s right, fight for your life.”
Embellishing searing guitar solos upon a synthy backdrop, Real American is both comedic and monumental for its mix of ‘80s-style cheesiness and compelling, all-American atmosphere.
This fire-fuelled piece is a throwback for the whole crowd, ironically and iconically transferring a well-known wrestling theme to another beloved sport.
3. SOB x RBE & Kendrick Lamar – Paramedic!
Appearing on the Black Panther soundtrack, SOB x RBE and Kendrick Lamar’s 2018 collab, Paramedic!, hosts an ominous, foreboding ambience of personal strength.
Setting their track against a dark grime/trap inspired beat, Paramedic! is flooded with heavy, heart-gripping bass lines and siren samples, each conjuring a cutting, ‘game-on’ atmosphere.
Whilst evoking irrepresible strength and power, Sob x RBE and Kendrick inadvertently thread their track with soft yet striking comedic elements, including their addictively unique choice of bell synths to amplify the main riff, overlayed with quirky, ear-catching vocal techniques.
Paramedic! illustrates self-worth and self-confidence with rap’s trademark flair of narcissism, its lyrics inspiring your own self-belief and fight to play the best game you can.
Beware, though – this track is fairly explicit, and might spur the wrong type of comedy if your high school’s soundtrack is unequivocally clean-natured!
4. Donna Summer – Hot Stuff
This is a walk out song to throw your competitors off track, but you’ll need to be a real man to pull it off!
Donna Summer’s iconic disco / pop hit, Hot Stuff, resounds with the classic energy of a modern drag queen anthem, her fiery determination in love translating to your sports efforts, if only you’re wild enough to take that leap;
“Looking for some hot stuff baby this evening, I need some hot stuff baby tonight, I want some hot stuff baby this evening, gotta have some hot stuff, gotta have some love tonight.”
While this disco anthem isn’t inherently comedic, walking out in style to Donna Summer’s hit will undoubtedly spark laughs, respect and support amongst the crowd and awe-inspiring envy in the opposing team who wouldn’t dare have the confidence to touch such a dated yet forever feel-good track such as this.
5. Kanye West – Black Skinhead
Kanye West’s 2013 album track, Black Skinhead, is an instantly ear catching and provocative song centred in a horror movie-style soundscape, flooded with dirty, dominating bass lines, screaming samples and empowering marching beats which could easily induce fear in your opponents.
Produced by electronic icons Daft Punk, Black Skinhead captures an array of artfully odd harmonic additions, each strange sound catching the audience off-guard and mobilising spectators with both unexpected humour and military-style determination.
There are tons of segments you can take from this song to use as your walk up track, including sections overlayed with the sound of heavy breathing, reflecting your commitment to training and climbing to the top of the league, as well as strange backing vocals and horror-inspired samples charged with both humour and threat.
This clean version of Kanye’s hit is styled with static and other sleek audio effects in the place of explicities, so thankfully you won’t have to worry about sticking to high school standards with this one!
6. A$AP Ferg ft. A$AP Rocky – Pups
This catchy and outlandish 2019 collab between A$AP Ferg and A$AP Rocky, entitled Pups, focuses its high-energy in old school hip-hop samples, their eccentric, retro-inspired sound transformed masterfully into the modern age of rap music.
Detailed with dog barking, ice cream van samples and trap-style drum machine beats, this quirky track resounds almost like an evolution of Baha Men’s 2000 anthem, Who Let The Dogs Out, its comical lyrics performed with gripping rap rhythms inherently rallying to both your team and spectators;
“Where my dawgs at? (We right here, dawg); Where my dawgs at? (Right here, dawg)”
Pups is a track which conjures instinctive good energy, carrying its head-turning, bright and cool nature effortlessly throughout the audience. Some of its verses are explicit however, so watch out for which segment you pick!