John Cena’s Theme Music Suit
The guys from 90s hardcore rap group MOP say that John Cena and the WWE jacked one of their songs for John’s entrance music and they’re alleging some pretty slippery moves in the process. Jamal Grinnage and Eric Murray, Lil Fame and Billy Danze respectively, want to pull the plug on the wrestler’s song ‘The Time is Now’ saying that it borrows a lot from their hit ‘Ante Up’. In a federal lawsuit, they claim that WWE’s lawyers actually found some guy to sign off on the license who turned out to only be a receptionist without any authority to do so. The biggest point of contention is one non-English line, ‘BRRR Abado’, that appears in the original song once and thrice in John’s version. The suit asks for destruction of John’s version and $150,000 from the defendants.