Cody Rhodes brought a lot of things over to WWE when he re-signed for the company last year, including his incredible theme song, “Kingdom” by Downstait.
While speaking with Insight with Chris Van Vliet, lead vocalist for Downstait, Zack Call, revealed that there was a bit of a legal battle to get Kingdom in WWE.
“I don’t want to give away too much (about how Cody Rhodes was able to use Kingdom in WWE). But we were aware that Kingdom was coming, and we were in a little bit of a legal battle and Cody Rhodes is absolutely the f*cking man.
“We were on the phone with lawyers and agents and WWE’s lawyers and composers before, and we have been with them since 2009. And we all have regular jobs. And we just wanted our cut of the pie on this one.
“We know what happens when you — we’re not Joan Jett, we’re not Living Colour, but when you use a real song, they get paid, those artists get paid. It’s not a part of WWE’s work. And this is a song that we wrote.”
Zack Call
Rhodes of course came over with pretty much his entire gimmick from AEW, and has shown that it still works in the different company.
Rhodes is currently scheduled to face Brock Lesnar at Night Of Champions this weekend.
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