John Cena’s Shocking Truth About Rap Album

John Cena has revealed an interesting tidbit about his rap career.

It was on the Halloween edition of WWE SmackDown in October 2002 when John Cena was dressed as Vanilla Ice and showed off his rapping skills. Prior to that, Cena was going nowhere and he thought he might get fired, but the rapping gimmick helped him a lot.

John Cena recently revealed that former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon hated the rapper gimmick at first, but later came to love it, especially because of how fans reacted to it.

In 2005, John Cena’s first and only CD was called “The Time Is Now” and it was so big that it actually went platinum. Cena made music videos for some of the songs on the CD and used “Basic Thuganomics” as an entrance song. However, “The Time Is Now” is the song Cena has used since March 2005, and it’s what WWE fans have heard many times over the last 20 years.

John Cena Calls Rap Gimmick In WWE An “Accident”

During his exclusive WWE interview with Tom Rinaldi, an excerpt was released to Billboard with Cena talking about his rap career.

“My affinity for hip-hop came to me through teenage rebellion. When someone says ‘F–k tha police,’ my parents are the police — ‘F—k them.’ It was exactly what I needed as a teenager. I loved the rebellious nature of hip-hop and that’s how I became an unlikely source connected to that. I loved the bravado and the strength and the truth in the message.”

At 48 years old, Cena is no longer in the rap game, but he knows that the “accident” was a good thing for him.

“It is a young man’s game and I’m not in it anymore. The rapping thing was an accident. I listened to the music they played for me and I’m like, ‘I can do better than this — wait I could do better than this.’”

That’s when Cena revealed there were a whopping 70 lost tracks that could have been on the album or future albums.

“There’s like 70 lost tracks of the album that never made it out. I was able to shave off the ones that shouldn’t make and give you the ones that should, and I’m lucky to get that.”

John Cena will face The Last Time Is Now Tournament winner Gunther at Saturday Night’s Main Event in Washington, D.C., on December 13th in a match where Cena will give it all to try to defeat the former 2-time WWE World Champion in their first (and last) match.

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