CM Punk: The Pipe Bomb Is ‘No Vaseline’

CM Punk compares the Pipe Bomb to one of the best diss songs ever.

In 1991, Ice Cube dropped “No Vaseline,” a diss track aimed at his former NWA mates Eazy E, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, and DJ Yella.

In 2011, CM Punk dropped his Pipe Bomb, a promo aimed at all of WWE.

Speaking to Matt Barnes on All The Smoke, Punk compared the two when asked how long it took him to construct the Pipe Bomb.

“This is the parallel I drop. I think the greatest rapper of all-time is Ice Cube. The greatest diss track of all-time is No Vaseline. He wrote and recorded that in one take. That Pipe Bomb is No Vaseline in a pro wrestling setting. I did not dwell on it or have days and weeks to think about it. I was out the door. Mentally, I was so checked out, and for [Vince McMahon] to say, ‘I want you to air your grievances.’ You don’t. You don’t want that. I know that if I wrote that all done or explained to him what I was going to say, he’d be like, ‘No, you can’t say that.’ It didn’t take long. Backstage, if you mentioned Paul Heyman in a conversation, he would spit on the ground. It didn’t make any sense to him. I didn’t say anything in that promo that wasn’t something highlighted on our television show, except maybe dropping a New Japan or Ring of Honor reference. My fans knew what I was talking about. That was just enough peek behind the curtain to get people to go, ‘What is he talking about? Oh, he’s not supposed to say this.’ That’s the line. I try not to leap over it. I just try to step over it, then you toe it, then you go back and forth, and you craft that. It didn’t take long. It literally just spilled out. [It’s like a freestyle]. A lot of it was. One of the things, when I wave to the camera and say, ‘I’m breaking the fourth wall,’ it’s because I lost my train of thought. The adrenaline hit me at that moment, and I was sitting there going, ‘Ah man. Alright, we’re already here.’ I looked at the camera, ‘Hi, I’m breaking the fourth wall.'”

With no Vaseline, just a match and a little bit of gasoline

Elsewhere during the interview, Punk gave even more insight into the Pipe Bomb. You can find his comments here.

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