Common & 9th Wonder Craft Inspirational ‘Vision’ Track for ESPN’s Stuart Scott ’30 for 30′ Documentary: Watch

Stuart Scott was cooler than the other side of the pillow. The late ESPN anchor’s suave, unique style and knowledge of culture and hip-hop allowed Scott to change the course of broadcasting history and leave a legacy at the Worldwide Leader.

The SportsCenter staple’s impact will once again be memorialized with ESPN’s Boo-Yah: A Portrait of Stuart Scott documentary on Wednesday night (Dec. 10).

Common and 9th Wonder, sports savants in their own rights, teamed up for an inspirational track “Vision,” which will appear in the doc’s final credits. Billboard premieres a first listen of the song, which embodies Scott’s strength and glowing spirit, on Tuesday (Dec. 9) ahead of the 30 for 30 arrival.

“Behold, a rebel with a cause without a pause/ One after another, yo, I battle for ours/ And push bars on TV screens/ Quoting rap gods, hip-hop kings and queens,” Common raps in an homage to the late SC anchor.

9th’s thumping drums, triumphant strings and a vocal lift from PJ and Bilal provide the soundtrack for a career highlight reel of Stuart Scott’s decorated tenure at ESPN, which began in 1993 over on ESPN2.

By the mid-to-late ’90s, he found a home on SportsCenter, where he transformed the program and became known for his flair and phrases such as the titular “Boo-Yah” or “He must be butter, ’cause he’s on a roll.”

Stuart Scott was diagnosed with cancer following an appendectomy in 2007. The cancer returned in 2011 and again in 2013, but he continued to fight.

Less than six months before his death, Scott left not a dry eye in the building with his memorable speech at the 2014 ESPY Awards, where he was honored with the Jimmy V Award. “When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer,” he told the audience. “You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.”

Scott tragically died on Jan. 4, 2015, from appendiceal cancer at 49 years old. He’s survived by his pair of daughters, Taelor and Sydni.

Listen to “Vision” below. Watch 30 for 30’s Boo-Yah: A Portrait of Stuart Scott on ESPN on Wednesday night (Dec. 10) at 9 p.m. ET.