5 John Cena ideas that WWE used

#1 John Cena’s theme song and album were his ideas

Speaking on Billboard's Ballin' Out podcast in 2016, John Cena explained the creative process behind the entrance music that he used on WWE SmackDown during his run as The Doctor of Thuganomics earlier in his career.

“At WWE, we have the opportunity to define your character as much as you want, so when I got the opportunity to rap on television, they gave me some stock music that was so bad.”

John Cena went on to say that, while WWE has produced good rock ‘n’ roll themes over the years, he felt that he needed to record his own hip hop music because the company’s original music was not good enough.

“You could tell that WWE, to its credit, does rock ‘n’ roll very well. It did not understand hip hop culture and I was like, 'Well, I'm not any good, but I can do better than this,' and I went into a friend's studio and recorded my original theme music that I used for a year or so and it was better than what they gave me.” [H/T Wrestling Inc.]

During the interview, John Cena also revealed that it was his idea to record a rap album, You Can’t See Me (2005). He got in the studio to record "The Time Is Now" and realized that he could easily make eight or nine songs.