Booker T Reveals What Made Him Choose His Iconic Entrance Theme
Booker T and Stevie Ray, also known as Harlem Heat, used one of the most well-known theme songs in WCW. Their theme song later played a big part in Booker T's entrance theme when he became a singles wrestler.
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While speaking on the Club 520 Podcast at WWE World, Booker T revealed how he and Stevie Ray first heard their entrance theme. As soon as they listened to it, they knew right away it was the perfect fit for Harlem Heat and said it sounded like a champion's theme.
Booker T says his theme song was meant to sound like a champion's
'I remember back in late '91 when they first approached us with this sound right here. It was just out of an abundance of music that we just had to pick from. As soon as we heard it, man, I was like, 'Man, that's it. That's the song.' Just because it's very, very important as far as the music you have. You do your name, like Booker T and Stevie Ray, [we thought they were] championship names. We wanted championship music as well. And I wanted everybody, all of the fans, to have an experience when they heard that music.
'And that music was so unique it wasn't rap, you know what I mean? It had its own feel, its own flavor, and when you heard it, you'd go, 'Oh, man, here come them boys, and they about to come out here and do some work.' Man, that music still, to this day, man, it hypes me up. Man, my wife got that on her phone, and so I got to hear it every day, you know? But it's awesome, it really is.'
Did you know that 'Rap Sheet' was full of shocking samples?
Harlem Heat's theme was originally called 'Rap Sheet,' a song written by Didier Leglise & René De Wael. However, the song featured several surprising samples of other songs. This includes 'Music Non-Stop' and 'Sex Object' by Kraftwerk.
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There is also one other pretty prominent sample in the song, which was discovered by Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp in 2021. Sapp revealed that the snippet of an odd 'brrr-like' sound actually came from a sample of 'Hateful Head Helen' by Sweet Pussy Pauline.
On her song, Pauline describes how men want to stick their faces in a woman's buttcheeks and motorboat them, but 'they don't know how to ask.' Sapp asked a pretty fair and important question that still rings true… what are these wrestling music producers thinking?
If that wasn't hilarious enough, non-wrestling fans even remember 'Rap Sheet' being used in a sketch on the classic comedy series Kids in the Hall.
Read More: Booker T Reveals The Crowning Moment Of His Career: I Wouldn't Change It For Anything
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