“It looks like I was able to get the details and the percentages worked out,” Clark said late Friday night after negotiating terms with talent manager John Gomez, who had initially reached out to Beasley's camp to connect the athlete and DMC. “That means that you can say that the record is going to come out in a couple of weeks. I could have it drop by next weekend, actually.

“We’ve been sitting on this for a minute.”

Gomez confirmed a deal was in place to release the song, which includes performances by Chris Perez, a Grammy Award winner perhaps best known as Selena’s lead guitarist and widower; Blue October bass player Matt Noveskey; and a chorus by 18-year-old De’Stani Bryant, who has appeared on FOX’s the Four: Battle for Stardom and advanced to Hollywood Week on ABC’s American Idol.

“It was awesome just to see somebody who’s done it for a long time and did it at a high level and watch their process in the studio, because that’s very interesting to me,” Beasley said about collaborating with DMC. “He doesn’t write anything down when he’s in the studio. He kind of just does it, remembers it and goes.