Through 20 years in professional basketball, Jason Kidd has earned a Rookie of the Year award, taken home two Olympic gold medals and won an N.B.A. title. His team, the Brooklyn Nets, is storming toward the playoffs, and Tuesday he was named the N.B.A.'s Eastern Conference coach of the month.

And still, Kidd’s career has not been an endless string of triumphs. Case in point: “What the Kidd Didd.”

In 1994, as he was beginning his first N.B.A. season, he made a brief and inglorious foray into rap music that has, thankfully, been largely forgotten. Kidd’s contribution to the musical canon consists of four minutes of stilted rhyming over a luxurious G-Funk beat. Sample lyric: “I’m the new kid on the block, but they jock, still/I got skills with the rock.”

The song, “What the Kidd Didd,” was Track 10 on a stunt album called “B-Ball’s Best Kept Secret,” which paired 1990s basketball stars like Gary Payton, Cedric Ceballos and Shaquille O’Neal with rappers and producers of the same vintage.