Last night rapper Andy Mineo won the EPSN.com inaugural Whammy award crowning him with ‘the best walk-up song in baseball.’ This was after a week long voting process for his really catchy upbeat 2014 single You Can’t Stop Me.

In the finals, the song won 93% percent of the vote against Led Zepplin’s ‘Kashmir,’ and in the preliminary rounds also faced up against Taylor Swift’s ‘Bad Blood’, ‘Blessings’ by Big Sean, Jim Johnston’s ‘WWE Entrance Music’ and ‘Fly Me To The Moon’ by Frank Sinatra.

The song has, over the last year, become a bit of a sports soundtrack and has featured on Madden 15 and in promos for a Showtime Boxing show. It has also featured as my alarm for most of this year, just because it’s that good! HAHA!

In his interview with ESPN.com’s Aimee Crawford, Mineo explains his inspiration for the song saying, “…I think the thing that stops us more than anything is not other people, it’s ourselves. So the approach I took when writing the song was to tell myself, “I can’t stop me.” And to take on the challenge of not just the external influences but the more difficult ones, which are the internal ones. It’s just kind of an anthem that everyone can relate to – facing self-doubt, fear, and working through that and saying, “The only thing that can stop us is ourselves.””

I remember the first time I heard New York based rapper, Andy Mineo (if we’re being technical the first time was in Lecrae’s 2010 hit, Background that actually led to Andy getting signed to Lecrae’s Reach Records), his mixtape Formally Known had just come out and my sister and I sat on the kitchen floor listening to it through my mum’s cranky laptop speakers. It was fresh, it was special, and it held an authenticity that caused you to want to play if over and over again.

Mineo has released much more music since then. In 2013 he released his debut album, Heroes For Sale (peaking at #11 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart), in 2014 he released the Never Land (2014) EP (peaking at #13 on the chart), and also had a two-season run of his mini-documentary series, Saturday Morning Car-Tunes – the third of which is underway at the moment in preparation for the release of his sophomore album, Uncomfortable to be released on the 18th of September this year.

Read the full ESPN.com interview at Official ESPN.com article.