Santana then discussed the other back-up options they looked for once DMX became unavailable. So that I have to break the news like, oh man, we don’t have DMX.” He tells me, ‘So I heard that we don’t have DMX.’ I’m like ‘What are you talking about?’ So then this domino effect goes to where we were originally given permission, but the family has to sign off on it, and they didn’t sign off. “So then a couple days before, poor Darrell, one of our production managers, he’s on the field with us during the Stampede, you got the guys in the truck, and you got us and he’s the middleman. They came back and said yes, for ‘X Gon’ Give It to Ya’, and it was for not Van Halen money and not Frank Sinatra money, which is 15 grand but somewhere lower than that where it was affordable. That’s kind of one of her forte’s for the NFL to get licensing for songs.

So DMX was the idea, and I thought, well, there’s no way, so I asked Mega, who’s, as Konnan would call, the AEW legal girl. Sony, who owns our publishing, has to approve. Even like for ‘Judas’, when I want to use ‘Judas’, I can’t just use it. “He didn’t write the song, but it’s the publishers who own it. Frank Sinatra was a lot cheaper, but it was really hard to get, ‘Me and My Shadow’. They came back and said for one time use is $500,000, which is basically a nice way of saying go f**k your ass. “So to kind of talk about the music for a bit, first of all, we tried to get Van Halen ‘Running with the Devil’ when Max and I teamed that one time. “The dichotomy of that was so great, and the original idea was, Max mentioned we should try and get DMX,” Jericho revealed. He also revealed other licensed music he tried to get in the past and how much it would cost him. And I think it came across like so.”Ĭhris Jericho then revealed the licensed music they wanted to get for that scene. So that was our idea where it shows a contrast between us because FTR and us are very much alike in a sense, but we’re from different worlds, and we wanted to kind of portray that in the scene. There’s a shift change with Konnan changing the music and then hip hop is playing. Bam, here we come busting through the doors. Originally, we wanted a country song playing in the background so it’s kind of FTR’s scene.

“With the music, we wanted to kind of set up the world. We had many different ideas going into it,” Ortiz stated. Ortiz talked about his and Santana’s scene with FTR and what they were going for in their vision. The Inner Circle came together on today’s episode of Talk Is Jericho where they discussed the behind the scenes details of Stadium Stampede 2.

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