According to Punk, part of the magic of the promo comes from its impromptu nature. The wrestler compared it to a 1991 track written by rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube.

“The greatest diss track of all time is ‘No Vaseline,’ and he wrote and recorded that in one take,” Punk noted. “‘Pipe Bomb is ‘No Vaseline’ in a pro wrestling setting. I did not dwell on it; I did not have days or weeks to think about it.” The veteran further explained that he was mentally checked-out of WWE by the time they let him cut the promo that he had far more issues than Vince McMahon might have realized.

“I know if I wrote that all down or explained to him what I was going to say, he’d be like, ‘No, you can’t say that, you can’t mention Paul [Heyman],'” Punk further claimed, stating that McMahon spit on the ground whenever Heyman was mentioned in conversation. 

“My fans knew what fans were talking about, and that was just enough [of a] peak behind the curtain to get people to go, ‘What is he talking about? Oh, he’s not supposed to say this.'” Additionally, Punk revealed that one of the most memorable moments of the promo happened totally by chance. “When I waved at the camera and said ‘Oh, I’m breaking the fourth wall!’ it’s because I lost my train of thought.”

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