Chris Warren, who was best known for the D-Generation X theme song "Break It Down", has died. He was 49 years old.
Warren performed live at WrestleMania 14 in 1998 and again at SummerSlam that same year at Madison Square Garden. At the time, Warren’s WrestleMania performance was heavily criticized as he sang a rendition of “America the Beautiful” in what was considered a disrespectful, almost screaming tone. The criticism subsequently led WWE to edit out his performance on the home video and WWE Network versions of WrestleMania 14.
Warren also performed Sean “X-Pac” Waltman’s theme, the intro for the late 1990’s edition of WWF Superstars, and Triple H’s “My Time” theme song.
This is sad. He was someone that made some overlooked contributions to wrestling. DX were what the Attitude Era was all about and Chris Warren had a big role in that with his music. This guy's great voice made the music of the Attitude Era. DX, and god damn, I can't think of a better song to represent DX. That's one of those cases where the music is just as much a member of the group as the performers in the group. Then there was Triple H's first song when he broke away from DX. Honestly, Triple H really benefited from the greatly improved "My Time" theme over what they were using prior to it. That one just clicked when some of the other previous attempts clearly didn't and HHH's whole persona seemed to morph along with the tune.
A shame how both people that did music for Triple H are dead.
RIP