JOHN CENA'S THEME MUSIC WAS ORIGINALLY FOR GHOSTFACE KILLAH

“I made the beats initially to give them to Ghostface Killah,” Jake One says. “But I didn’t have the conviction at that point to present them to him.”

(WWETV) John Cena has become the biggest star of the last decade in WWE, but he also became the most polarizing WWE World Heavyweight Champion ten years ago when certain parts of the audience did not take a liking to the crowned champion. Before that though he was a young rising star who attracted the hip hop demographic with his raps.

One thing that endured all his critics has been his theme music. The horns of the song is reminiscent of other classic hip hop songs such as Pete Rock and CL Smooth's "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y). That song is also a timeless and enduring soulful piece.

The sample used by the group came from a song called "Today" from Tom Scott and The California Dreamers. You can hear the original below. The sample appears at 1:38, 0:55

It has now been revealed that John Cena's horns in his theme song came from this song below:

In the 1960s and '70s, Pete Schofield was a music instructor in Toronto, teaching kids ages 13 to 21 the art of jazz and classical music on various instruments. The song above belongs to Pete Schofield and The Canadians. According to LA Weekly, Jake One shopped in Vancouver and picked up the record. For the uninitiated Jake One has worked with top hip hop artists such as Drake, T.I. and De La Soul.

“I remember John saying that he wanted something that sounded like the theme from Rocky,” says Predka. “We put a bunch of CDs full of beats we received in a five-disc changer and kept pressing ‘play-change-play-change-play-change.’ But as soon as we heard the beats Jake One had put together, we said ‘Oh my God, this is it!’ We stopped and decided that it wasn’t even worth going through the rest of the beats we received at that point.”

In the arrangements he had submitted on his original CD, Jake One had taken the ominous closing coda from Schofield’s rendition of “The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia” and moved it to the front of the song, followed by a vocal effect from ‘90s New York hip-hop act M.O.P’s 2000 song “Ante Up,” followed by three minutes of the opening bars of Schofield’s arrangement on a loop. Both Predka and Jake One recall that outside of Cena adding his vocals, the final arrangement of “The Time Is Now” is virtually unchanged from what Jake One had originally submitted.

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