A&R and then-Senior Vice President of
Atlantic Records Craig Kallman wanted Quad City DJ's to create a song for the film, believing they would be the most suitable group for it. The group began developing the song upon his request. In regard to the process, C.C. Lemonhead stated: Most of it was me by myself working on the track, which I probably spent two weeks on give or take. Vocals we spent like three hours tops. [Jay Ski's] yelling so much we pretty much had to get it on the first or second take before he's too hoarse. Then we'd come back and clean it up later. But I'd say three hours tops, because he knows what he wants when he gets in there. We were trying to figure out what speed we wanted to go with, and experimented with a couple of backtracks. We tried beats with a slower tempo, and one with a lot more rock n' roll feel—there's a
song that they played at the basketball games. We did experiment because we were on a bigger playing field now—I mean, a
Michael Jordan movie—but we just wanted to explore every option. The song actually turned out way better than I expected at the beginning. ==Critical reception==