John Cena used to rap. It feels like a lifetime ago, and in some ways, it was. In the two decades since Cena dropped his debut album, he's become a household name and a bankable movie star.
He doesn't need music to bolster his fame anymore. That being said, he still has a love for the genre he dabbled in. John Cena recently went on the Club Shay Shay podcast, and was asked to break down his four favorite emcees.
His Mount Rushmore. His answers were unexpected, but admittedly pretty airtight in terms of logic (no, Logic is not one of his picks). John Cena knew that the question of who comprises a Mount Rushmore is meant to spark debate.
He tried to get out in front of the inevitable pushback he'd get for excluding certain rappers. "Everyone has their bias," he noted. "I know the list is gonna incite riots, [but] we all have our bias, our favorites.
That's what makes music special." Despite his reticence, John Cena took the bait. He told host Shannon Sharpe that New York artists made up the bulk of his Mount Rushmore: Nas , JAY-Z and Rakim .
"I was brought up in like the East Coast, boom bap [era]," he explained. "I love wordplay, I love poetry. It's what I based my [WWE] character on.
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He even tried t.