Insight into CM Punk’s connection to Living Colour.
Dating back to 2011, CM Punk has been using Living Colour’s Cult of Personality as his theme song. The band’s lead vocalist, Corey Glover, guest appeared on Drinks With Johnny and spoke about the multi-time World Champion being connected to the song for over a decade.
I am now (a pro wrestling fan) now that (CM) Punk’s around. Yeah, sure.
And then to find out that this guy, who went from backyard to the WWE, WWF to back to (AEW) and then back to WWE and the whole time, he never let go of Cult of Personality as his entrance music, and the way he tells it was like, when he was in Little League in the suburbs of Chicago, the team’s entrance music was Cult of Personality. Evidently, they had a very progressive coach and he really dug the song. So he kept it his whole career.
When asked how it came together on the business side with them and the company Punk is working for, Glover jokingly stated that it keeps his children happy.
For WWE, they license it to them at particular points like for WrestleMania and Monday Night Raw for an entire ‘season’. Glover said a big check comes from it.
That kind of stuff keeps my children very happy. How about that? (Glover responded when asked about the business side of Cult of Personality being used by the company CM Punk is with) … Whatever pair of sneakers they want.
With the WWE, they license it for a particular point for a particular time… We’re licensing it for WrestleMania, we’re licensing it for Raw for a season. Because Punk is gonna be like the middle card on every place they play for this season and you know, there’s a fat check for it.
When Punk was with AEW, the company was granted the rights to the song. Looking back at when he originally started using Cult of Personality, Glover shared that WWE was going to have their music department create a song similar to it.
Glover said Punk was not on board with that and he wanted the legit version from Living Colour. He said Punk has it in his contract that wherever he goes, the song goes with him. Glover made another joke about the impact Punk using the song has had and said car payments are always good because of him.
They had it for a minute, yeah (Glover said about AEW using Cult of Personality), and I think once WWE, WWF got sold, I think the McMahons — once they sold, it’s like a huge, ridiculous amount of money.
There’s some ridiculous deal. They called back a bunch of people. Everybody but of course Chris Jericho because Chris (is with) AEW. But I’m sure he’ll be back soon too. We met Chris too. We did his podcast a couple years back… Like I said, back in the day when Punk was first going to WWF, they were like, ‘Okay, so we’re gonna get you your own entrance music.’ He’s like, ‘No, I already have entrance music.’ He made it a point that I’m not changing my entrance music. Because they had their own music division of the WWF and they were gonna have somebody make up a song that sounded similar to Cult of Personality. But that was gonna be his entrance music. ‘No, I don’t want that. I want the real thing.’ He’s like one of the talent that actually got that in his contract that wherever he goes, that goes with him… Car payments are good because of CM Punk (he laughed).
While Punk is recovering from surgery for a torn triceps, he’s been engaged in a feud with Drew McIntyre. The latest on that front is Punk teasing showing up to the Clash at the Castle: Scotland P.L.E. and brawling with McIntyre in his home country.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Drinks With Johnny with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
