When Jinder Mahal’s main event push came around difference fans noticed was his theme song. The upbeat Punjabi rap song was performed by Ali Kaz, a Canadian-Pakistani rapper. Mahal’s song is called “Sher” which translates to Lion and this entrance music resulted in something plenty ferocious at the end of the day.
Pratyay from Sportskeeda had a chance to sit down with Ali Kaz, the voice behind it all. He spoke with Kaz about several subjects including how Mahal’s adrenaline pumping theme song became a reality.
Kaz revealed when he first heard the news WWE was interested in working with him he initially thought it was a joke. But when he did a little investigating Kaz discovered this offer was a very real one.
“I was sort of shocked because I thought it maybe was a prank by one of my friends. But when I looked at the domain of the email it said WWE and I was confused because I wasn’t expecting a Punjabi Rap song in WWE.”
Ali Kaz worked closely with WWE head music honcho Jim Johnston on the song. Johnston was instrumental in creating some of the most iconic entrance music in WWE’s history and Mahal’s theme song was a special project.
“Jim only gave me two days to get this done and he mentioned the topic of lyrics and said that I had to write it and send it so as to check lyrics with translation and description of references.”
Kaz explained the process he went through in crafting the lyrics to Jinder Mahal’s theme song. It didn’t take Ali Kaz very long to craft the lyrics to Mahal’s famous entrance music. Once it was finished, all it needed was Jim Johnston’s approval and time in the studio to lay down the final tracks.
“I started writing lyrics of this song and within 1 hour I was done with the first half of the track and the rest of it I finished when I got home after work. Took me 2-3 hours to complete writing lyrics and then I sent them with translation and description to Jim in an email. Jim sent me a 4-bar loop to record the full track on, and he said that the music beat he was going to make was around my vocals, but the same tempo, so I recorded that the next day and sent him my vocals via email.”
