Two decades after stepping out of the ring and into the studio, John Cena has resurfaced with a revelation that’ll light up anyone who still bumps ‘The Time Is Now’ unironically.
In a new sit down with Tom Rinaldi, the WWE icon reflects on his rap career and casually drops the bombshell that he’s sitting on more than 70 unreleased tracks from the sessions for his 2005 debut album ‘You Can’t See Me’.
Cena’s relationship with hip-hop goes back to teenage rebellion.
“My affinity for hip-hop came to me through teenage rebellion,” he explained.
“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.”
That spark eventually pushed him to record his own entrance music after deciding he could do better than what WWE offered him, that instinct birthed ‘Basic Thuganomics’, and later ‘The Time Is Now’, the latter becoming his permanent walk out anthem and the lead single for his Platinum-certified debut.
Despite selling more than 43,000 copies in its opening week and debuting at No. 15 in the US, Cena never returned to the studio for a follow up.
The reason?
“It is a young man’s game and I’m not in it anymore,” Cena said. “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.’”
And then the kicker:
“There’s like 70 lost tracks of the album that never made it out,” he revealed, shutting down any hope of a second LP.
Whether those songs ever surface is anyone’s guess, Cena’s full interview premieres after RAW on December 13th.
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