Cody Rhodes Reflects On Jay-Z Facetime Chat, Thanks Michael Rubin For Making It Happen

Cody Rhodes talks chopping it up with Jay-Z and Michael Rubin.

During the Fanatics Fest in August, Cody Rhodes was able to chat with Jay-Z after Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin gave him a call via FaceTime. This video went viral on social media, scoring over 150,000 impressions on X/Twitter alone.

During a new interview with Carl Lamarre of Billboard, Cody Rhodes talked about the moment and thanked Michael Rubin for making it happen.

“I have to thank Michael Rubin at Fanatics for that. He was just having a normal, regular chat like he does with somebody like Jay-Z. That whole moment was incredible for me to go Fanatics Fest, first time ever, and to hear from the horse’s mouth himself what I only been told about some of WWE’s merchandising numbers and my own specifically. To be in the top five of all of the athletes represented, as a kid, trying to tell everyone around him, “Hey, wrestling is really cool. You should come over to my house, you’ll like it. Hey, come to the show with me, you’ll be a fan,” to see it hit this mainstream level again, I don’t wanna take it for granted.”

Rhodes went on to talk about working with Metro Boomin for Bad Blood ads.

“With Bad Blood, Triple H and Nick Khan, they asked me to do the packages and sizzle reels with Metro Boomin. I’m thinking, “Yes!” This is what we do. This is what we want. To be able to have done the stakeout [with Metro] and hopefully it goes somewhere as we head towards Bad Blood, that was such a really sweet moment. It was really cool to connect with someone like that, not just an artist in a different medium, but with someone trying to tell stories like how we’re trying to tell stories.”

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Special thanks to Billboard for the quote(s).