Last year, an octogenarian and a former college football walk-on one third his age teamed up to honor the 1966 Texas Western basketball team ... in rap. OnlyAGameNPR
On Mar. 19, 1966, Texas Western College and the University of Kentucky met in the men’s college basketball championship game.
If that wasn’t enough, that 1966 Texas Western team is now celebrated in rap. The song was the result of an unlikely collaboration.Wide receiver Jean-André Moore walked onto the football team at Division I University of Texas at El Paso. He played for the Miners during the 2016 and 2017 seasons. And around the same time, he received an email with a request from a guy he’d never met. The guy’s name was David Snell. And he wanted help making a rap."No idea at all," Jean-André says."No idea. Talking on the phone was the first time it clicked for me that, like, ‘Oh, I mean, he might be on the older end of things.' But I literally had no idea."David grew up in Michigan, the son of a Methodist minister and a stay-at-home mom.
"And over a period of — well, I've known him for 30 years — I'd heard so many stories that I said, ‘There's gotta be a book in this,’"David says.David interviewed players from that 1966 Texas Western team. The Miners starting lineup in the title game was Bobby Joe Hill, David"Big Daddy D" Lattin, Willie Worsley, Harry Flournoy and Orsten Artis. Willie Cager and Nevil Shed came off the bench.
"When I read his words, it already had rhythm to it," Jean-André says."Yeah, 'Let me tell you a story of a team of glory and the history that they made one day, when tiny Texas Western played mighty Kentucky to be the champions of the NCAA.' Like that's — it had flow."
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