Spend a minute in the final episode of The Last Dance. It is 1998, and the Chicago Bulls in the NBA Finals. Michael Jordan is absolutely interference with your headphones (and connected to a Discman) when boarding the team bus, complete with shades blocking your eyes. Someone on the bus asks what you’re listening to, and a very excited Jordan responds: “Kenny Lattimore. Brand new. Not even out yet. He is a friend of mine.”
The time in question generated all of a Twitter account called @jumpmanjammingdedicated to memeing the time with a variety of songs paired with the clip. But if you want to see the clip with the real Lattimore playback of a song, you need to queue “on Days Like This,” from his From the Soul of a Man the album, which was released later in 1998. After viewers took to Twitter to find out which unreleased song Jordan was interference, Lattimore himself the answer.
In 1998 I sent Michael Jordan advanced copy of my “in the Soul of Man” album. Who knew “Days Like these”, was his pre-game hype song though. 😆 #TheLastDance #RealR&B
— Kenny Lattimore (@kennylattimore) The may 18, 2020
The @jumpmanjamming Twitter has provided almost endless meme-ery though, allowing Jordan to dance to everything from the Doja Cat Kanye West and even the Spice Girls. Naturally, the account already has more than 45K followers eagerly waiting to see what Jordan could jam to the next, but none of them hype to the star of the basketball up as much as Lattimore did in 1998. With the help of Lattimore music — and the rest of the team — Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to win the NBA Championship and won the trophy of MVP. You can take the full The Last Dance docuseries in the demand or in the app of ESPN now, and streaming on Netflix on July 19. In the meantime, the rock to Kenny Lattimore of “on Days Like This.”
