TIFTON — While it may never be on “American Top 40,” a new song created and written by a pair of Tifton natives could soon be the No. 1 song on local playlists.

“Devil Walk” was written by Lester Cromer Jr., a.k.a. DJ FREEZ, and Josh Jordan, a.k.a. LiL’ TRILL, in honor of the 2006 Tift County Blue Devil football team. Jordan performs the rap on the song, while Cromer produced the track.

The song was written and produced around the beginning of October. The song later became a music video, which was shot Oct. 26 at Brodie Field.

Making the music video, which features several players as well as longtime Tift manager Walter “Dog” Burgess, was fun for Jordan and the Tift players.

Cromer directed the video, which is the first that is scheduled to be done be OneVision.

“It was actually a lot of fun,” said Cromer. “I have been mainly doing music production for years. It was an opportunity for my directing debut.”

As far as the song is concerned, the idea for the “Devil Walk” came from Cromer, who did a similar song for the 2006 Blue Devil baseball team and wanted to do something with the football team.

“I came up with the idea and presented it to Josh Jordan,” Cromer said.

Cromer knew of Jordan through his work with OneVision Media Group. Cromer wants Jordan to be one of the first acts on the music side of the company.

Jordan said the actual making of the track was “not hard.”

“When I got there, everything was set up,” Jordan said. “He gave me the melody of the song and he told me to start writing. I started writing and when it came time for us to do it, we did it.”

When he is not performing as LiL’ TRILL, Jordan is an 11th grade student at Tift County High. Since he goes to school with the team members, he knew the project would be a success with the Blue Devils.

“They were amazed by the production of the song and how it was presented to them,” Jordan said.

The song has received positive feedback from the Tift coaching staff.

“It is fun for the kids,” said Tift head coach Jay Walls. “It is something they can have fun with and they go through so much during the season, it is nice for them to get a chance to have a little fun and act like kids. There is a lot of pressure for them and this gives them a release.”

Walls was also happy about the song’s content.

“There are no mentions of our opponents and there is no ugly talk. It is just a chance for the kids to have some fun in a positive way,” the Tift coach stated.

Cromer also wanted to keep the song positive.

“It was a motivational idea to pull Tift County together,” said Cromer. “It was thought about as a way to ‘let’s pep these guys up’. Along with pepping them up we wanted to get the city behind the song.

“Music can be produced in a way that everyone likes it, parents to the streets to everything else. It is a certain way that you can approach that appeals to everybody.”

Both Jordan and Cromer said the feedback from the song has also been very positive.

“It has been crazy,” Jordan said.

“At school, I think he has been almost a BET (Black Entertainment Television)-type star,” Cromer said.

While his co-worker is not old enough to remember the 1985 Chicago Bears, Cromer does remember that team and the song they made that year, the “Super Bowl Shuffle.” That song was done and a music video was produced as the Bears went on to win the Super Bowl championship.

“(We hope) it will actually go to that level, because to us the state title is like the Super Bowl,” Cromer said.

He also had another motivation, the song he did for baseball.

“I did a song for the baseball team and I thought I can’t do one for the baseball team and not do one for football,” Cromer said. “But I wanted to top the one for the baseball team. I felt like I done that by a landslide.”

Jordan played football at Tift County and his first cousin, Anthony Holloway, is a current member of the team. Holloway is featured in the song, as well as the video.

Asked if would have been disowned if he had not included his family, Jordan said with a chuckle, “yes.”

Besides working on the “Devil Walk,” the duo have also been working on a LiL’ TRILL album. The first single is projected to be out around spring time.

Cromer is high on Jordan’s budding music career.

“He is actually the first person that I have crossed while I was searching for artists that has that ‘it’ factor,” Cromer said. “I feel like he has it all the way.”

The “Devil Walk” video will be available for sale at OneVision beginning on Monday of next week. For more information, call 382-8801.