"Born for Greatness" was first released on March 31, 2017, in a lyric video, to promote the then-coming release of Papa Roach's eighth studio album, "Crooked Teeth". In April 2017, the song was used as the theme song for the 2017 iteration of WWE Payback, and was later used as the theme for Raw, beginning on January 29, 2018 and ending on September 23, 2019. In addition to the studio recording of the song being released on "Crooked Teeth" on May 19, 2017. Two days after the album's release, the band released a live recording of an alternate version of the song performed at Rock on the Range with a high school marching band. A separate, live version of the band performing song by themselves was released on a separate EP entitled "Live At BBC Radio 1" in October 2017. In November 2017, the song was released as "Crooked Teeth's" third official single, after "Help" and "American Dreams", and in December 2017, a full music video was released, featuring footage of the band performing the song from their 2017 European tour. The song peaked at number one on the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock Songs chart in 2018.