ST. PETERSBURG (SNN-TV) – History will be made tomorrow night when All Elite Wrestling debuts in Tampa. One St. Pete-based rapper and wrestling podcaster is contributing mightily to said history.
“It’s changed my life. It’s given me so much, being a wrestling fan to being involved now. Having my niche and staked claim in it musically has been a blessing, especially starting with the blank canvas I did. To be here now, I can’t ask for any other blessings. I’m a die-hard fan, I watch every week like everybody else.” – Monteasy
Originally from New York now residing in St. Pete, Monteasy is approaching 10 years of combining his passion for wrestling and music by producing theme songs for professional wrestlers. Catching viral fame in 2014, Monteasy has worked with multiple wrestlers in varying promotions, most notably with All Elite Wrestling.
His song “Take Flight” composed for AEW original Sammy Guevara debuted for the company on the first episode of Dynamite back in October 2nd, 2019.
Along the way, a budding friendship with wrestling-veteran and rapper Swerve Strickland, turned into a partnership by way of the Swerve City Podcast. Compounding their passions, the duo is in the midst of a six-year stretch of podcast and music producing together. With a growing list of notable guests and records released, Monteasy says the constant grind and the sticktoitive nature of their partnership, is where their success originates.
“Consistency and adaptation are the biggest tools to being successful. You’re not always going to be on top. You’re not always going to be the most talked about. The longer you get in anything in success, the more you have to prove yourself to people. Once you start everybody roots for the underdog, and once you make it to the top, you have to work through consistency and stay at that level.”
In conjunction with AEW’s composer Mikey Ruckus, five of Monteasy’s songs were published in the company’s debut video game, “AEW: Fight Forever”. Growing up watching wrestling and playing related video games, Monteasy valued the opportunity to check a goal off his bucket list.
“There are multiple songs that I have on there. [I] Play in the menu music and look through the soundtrack and see it. The first thing I did when I turned the game on was go straight to the menu and the jukebox. I was like, ‘You, what the heck?’, and then you see your name and hear the music, I was like, ‘Yo, this is wild!’…I’m blessed beyond belief, it’s a dream.”
Aside from wrestling, Monteasy of course has his own personal music ventures, while also creating music for organization’s such as the Big 3 League and the XFL. With goals of further opportunity and growth still in mind, Monteasy wants to make mainstream waves for the theme music community.
“I want to bring to wrestling music to the MTV Awards, BET Awards. I want theme music to have its own category in the music awards someday, ‘Theme Song of the Year’. There’s so many great theme songs, why aren’t there awards for it every year?”
Recently finding himself in the U.K.’s Top 100 Charts for rap for his newest Sammy Guevara theme song “Energy”, Monteasy wants to continue to ascend and become the face, in not only the wrestling music word, but in the entire theme song space.
“I want to be able to be that person to bring that to the upper-echelon platforms. That’s my goal is to step it up in more of an executive direction and build on what I’m already doing.”
