Edited by Azizi Powell
Latest revision of the preface to this compilation - July 5, 2017
This is Part III of a three part pancocojams series that documents some text examples (words) of stomp & shake cheerleading cheers.
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT STOMP & SHAKE CHEERLEADING
"Stomp & shake cheerleading" is a referent for a relatively new form of African American originated style of cheerleading for football games or for basketball games. The earliest date that I've found for stomp & shake cheerleading is the early to mid 1970s. (as cited in https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/overview-of-stomp-shake-cheerleading.html).
Stomp & shake cheerleading is particularly known among African Americans from middle school through university levels in Virginia and North Carolina. University squads perform these cheers on the sidelines of football or basketball games and during half-time of those games. High school and younger squads perform either standing on the sidelines during football games, or while seated or standing in the bleachers during basketball games. Stomp & shake cheers are performed by two squads who face off prior to the competitive games in a "cheer battle". In addition, stomp & shake cheer are performed during cheer competitions and at non-competitive performance events that aren't associated with any athletic games.
Stomp & shake cheerleading focuses on the group performance of choreographed percussive, rhythmic foot stomping, (individual) hand clapping, African American social dance moves and some signature moves such as "upstomps" and "jiggapop" that may have been created or adapted for stomp & shake cheerleading. These body movements are often but not always accompanied by the cheer squad's performance of self-bragging and/or competitor insulting/taunting (mostly) unison chanting. Like mainstream cheerleading, the purpose of the cheer squad is to increase the enthusiasm of event attendees. Fans of these styles of cheerleading get "hyped" by the squads' performance moves and by their often confrontational cheers. Almost all stomp & shake cheers are self-bragging and/or insult/taunting compositions with the squad itself rather than their athletic team being the subject of the brags and the opposing cheerleader squad rather than the opposing athletic team being the target of the insult/taunting. However, some stomp & shake cheers-particularly basketball stomp & shake cheers such as "Shoot For Two" -focus on the actual game itself and not the cheerleaders. One feature of stomp & shake cheerleading is that the cheerleaders deepen their voices to increase the probability that the cheers would be heard in the football stadium or basketball gym. However, it usually is difficult to understand the words for many stomp & shake cheerleading cheer routines that have been posted to YouTube.
Although most stomp & shake cheerleaders are female, YouTube videos document that a few males also are members of some university stomp & shake squads. This may particularly be the case for those university cheerleading squads that perform mainstream ("traditional") cheerleading moves as well as stomp & shake cheerleading. In any event, male stomp & shake cheerleaders don't do the characteristic "Jiggapops" (rhythmical, fast double shake of the hips) move that the female stomp & shake cheerleaders do, or at least it appears to me that they don't do that movement the same way as the females on that squad.
Stomp & Shake cheerleading has vehement supporters who love the creativity, innovation, skill, showmanship, "hardness" and "for realness" (according to Black cultural criteria) of this type of cheerleading. However, stomp & shake cheerleading also has vehement detractors who don't consider it to be "real cheerleading", but a form of fraternity/sorority stepping and/or cheer dancing. Stomp & cheer detractors also routinely negatively label stomp & shake cheerleading and its (almost exclusively) Black female squad members as being "ghetto" (behaving and dressing in ways that are highly inappropriate by middle class standards, particularly to behave and dress in sexually provocative ("slutty) ways, and behaving in loud and overly aggressive confrontational ways.
This post is part of pancocojams' ongoing series on Stomp & Shake cheerleading.
Click the stomp and shake cheerleading tag to find additional pancocojams posts about this type of cheerleading.
*"Upstomps" is a signature movement that is performed by female and male members of some stomp and shake squads where the cheerleaders stomp two times with their left foot and perform a knee lift (raise the right leg bent at the knee). In the videos I've watched of upstomping, the toes are usually pointed to the ground. Also, reflecting the style of some stomp and shake squads, when those equads perform "upstomps" the knee is bent at a slight angle toward the right.
Note: These movements names and descriptions were written on this internet discussion forum* and/or shared with me via online communications with former HBCU stomp & shake cheerleaders UpstompJunkie and Charlottefashionicon.
Click https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/07/21/race-and-the-changing-shape-of-cheerleading/ Race and the Changing Shape of Cheerleading by Guest Blogger Azizi Powell on July 21, 2011 for more comments about these terms.
*https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/07/21/race-and-the-changing-shape-of-cheerleading/ Race and the Changing Shape of Cheerleading by Guest Blogger Azizi Powell on July 21, 2011.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PANCOCOJAMS COMPILATION
Selected YouTube video of certain cheers or hyperlinks to YouTube videos of these cheers are included in this post. This post also includes some brief explanatory comments about vernacular terms that are used in these cheers.
In addition, this post includes my comments about the debate about cheerleading squads using stomp & shake cheers that are attributed to other cheerleading squads.
Please add to this compilation for folkloric purposes by sharing words to stomp & shake cheers and/or sharing links to stomp & shake YouTube videos videos in the comment section below. Thanks!
Additional cheer examples that are added after this initial publication are indicated by the publishing date in brackets after the cheer's title.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/06/examples-of-stomp-shake-cheerleading.html for Part I of this series.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/06/examples-of-stomp-shake-cheerleading_29.html for Part II of this series.
The content of this post is presented for folkloric, historical, cultural, and recreational purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who composed these cheers. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post, all those featured in these videos, and the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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DISCLAIMER:
This post documents a very small number of stomp & shake cheers and isn't meant to be a comprehensive compilation of those types of cheers.
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PERFORMING OTHER SQUADS' STOMP & SHAKE CHEERS
There's considerable disagreement about whether other cheerleading squads should perform stomp & shake cheers unless members of the cheerleading squad that originated those cheers teach them to those cheerleaders (in cheer camps or otherwise) or unless prior permission is given to those squads to perform those cheers. Opponents of the use of another squad's original stomp & shake cheers- and particularly using the same moves as the original composers of those cheers consider such use to be stealing and believe that such use is evidence those squads' lack of creativity.
However, it's a widespread custom-particularly among high school, middle school, and younger cheerleading squads- to perform cheerleader stomp and shake cheerleader cheers from unknown and from unknown sources -just as it's a universal custom for cheerleading squads on those levels to squads to perform any mainstream cheerleader cheer that they like.
Also, for whatever reasons, cheerleading squads that are known to have originated certain cheers (and who are often opposed to these cheers being performed without permission by other squads) did publish YouTube videos of their squads performing those cheers. Doing so certainly makes it easier for other people to "copy" those cheers.
I can see both sides of this debate, but, as a (self-described) community folklorist, I'm glad that these videos and lyrics are available for people in the present and the future to see, hear, read, and study for information and insights about the people who composed them, perform/ed them, and watch/ed them.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THESE EXAMPLES
All the cheer examples that are given in this post were retrieved from YouTube videos. The text (words) of these cheers were either retrieved from a comment in a video's discussion thread, or were transcribed by me from that video.
There many more stomp & shake cheers that I'd LOVE to add to this compilation, but unfortunately I can't find their words online and I can't understood what is chanted in their videos.
The titles used below for these cheers may not be the only titles that have been used in the past or are now used for these cheers. Also, the words for these cheers may not be the original words or what was considered the definitive words for that cheer or what is now considered the definitive words for that cheer.
When no title for a cheer is given, I�ve chosen a title for that cheer and placed an asterisk next to it to indicate the fact that this title is my guess.
Particularly with regards to high school and younger cheerleading squads, in most cases, readers shouldn't assume that the cheerleading squad who performed these cheers in these video is the original composer of that cheer or even the original choreographer of that cheer's movements.
I've selectively included a video for some of these cheers. In some cases, I've included a video for cheers that (I believe) are widely popular, based on YouTube comments and videos. In other cases, I've selected (usually high school cheerleading squad) cheer performances to document how stomp & shake cheers are performed.
If your squad uses these cheers, when applicable, substitute the names of opposing high school, and/or that school mascot, or substitute your school's name and/or mascot.
Additions and corrections to these cheer examples and the words to these cheers are welcome.
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EXAMPLES OF STOMP & SHAKE CHEERLEADER CHEERS
S, T
SAY IT IN OUR FACE
Eeeyep!
Fight fight the power,
Hey go head go head.
Hey fight fight he power.
Go head go head.
Hey fight the power.
We are the Rams
And we stay on your case.
If you have something to say
Say it to our face. Haw!
Hey fight the power
Hey fight the power,
Say what
Say what
We are the Rams
And we get on your case.
If you have something to say
Say it in our face.
Say it in our face.
Say it
in
our
face.
HAWHHHHH!
-Winston-Salem State University WSSU Cheer Phi Cheerleaders, 2007; as posted by SAC010 in that video's discussion thread by secalong, February 2011 (along with some transcription by Azizi Powell)
Featured video: WSSU Cheerleaders Getting� Crunk
ORIGINALCHEERPHI,Published on Feb 22, 2008
WSSU CHEERLEADERS SHOWING U HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE AT THE ULTIMATE CHEER & DANCE EXPERIENCE TRIAD HIGH SCHOOL CHEERLEADING COMPETITION 2007
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The title for this cheer might be "Fight The Power". It is the second cheer that is performed in that video.
"CheerPhi" used to be the name of Winton-Salem State University (WSSU)'s cheerleading squad. I believe that university now uses the names "Red team" and "White team" for its cheerleading squads. That university's mascot is the ram.
The word "original" denotes the video publisher's belief that WSSU was the originator of stomp & shake cheerleading. From my online research, I agree that WSSU was the originator of their style of stomp & shake cheerleading (movements), a style that many stomp & shake cheerleaders try to imitate, but a style that is somewhat different from Virginia State University's Woo woos, another Historically Black College & University (HBCU) cheerleading squad that my research suggests is also a stomp & shake cheerleading originator.
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SET IT OFF [WSSU Band Chant]
Pancocojams Editor's note: The verse below isn't a stomp & shake cheer, but is instead something that the band (and that university's fans) chant while the cheerleaders and majorette dancers perform. Nevertheless, I found two videos of Winston-Salem State University's (WSSU) cheerleaders performing to this instrumental composition, and decided to add that chant and also add a video and a video link as examples of how stomp & shake cheerleaders don't always cheer, but sometimes just move (dance, or tumble, or do stunts) to instrumental music.
Hannah Jones, 2015
"what is their chant that they say for this song"
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Reply?
jasmine harris, 2015
@hannah jones the words are "we're the red sea and we gonna punish you... You don't want it with this band when we're in front of you we set this thing off!" I learned it last month when I played with them!?
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"We" in this chant is Winston-Salem State University's band and not their cheerleaders.
Here's one video of WSSU's band, their majorette dancers, their fans, and their cheerleaders performing to "Set It Off" and at the end of their dancing, the cheerleaders doing their signature "eeeyup!" yelp:
2013 WSSU Set it off
Artistry Photography, Published on Nov 4, 2013
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Here's a link to another WSSU "Set It Off"video:
2014 WSSU Cheerleaders, Set It OFF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJE2QXaneB4
Artistry Photography, Published on Sep 21, 2014
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COMMENT ABOUT "SET IT OFF" [WSSU Basketball cheer] [text revised jULY 4, 2017]
Pancocojams Editor's note:
A comment in the discussion thread for St. Augustine University cheer "It's About To Go Down" indicates that that cheer is copied from a 1994 Winston- Salem State University cheer basketball cheer entitled "Set It Off:
Here's that comment:
CheerPhi93, 2013 [in the discussion thread for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Fszc4_seI Saint Augustine's University 2009 Bluechips Cheerleaders- "Its About to Go Down"
"Can you say that is nothing but WSSU "Set it up lets Go SU" basketball chant...Yes it is original for it was made up in 1994..I was there when it was made up! THE END! #dooces!"
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"It" in the comment is the cheer "Its About to Go Down"
Regretfully, I can't understand the words to St. Augustine's "It's About To Go Down" cheer, and I can't the words online. If you know the words to this cheer, please add it to this compilation for the folkloric record. Thanks!
I also haven't found any words to WSSU's basketball cheer "Set It Off"
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Here are two definitions of "set it off" from https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=set%20it%20off
Set it off
"to do something major, either something that can cause a huge disturbance or significance."
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"set it off
"To do something with intensity or hurricane like force."
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SHAKE IT UP
shake it up
really get tough
u cant get enough
of that
what
eagle stuff
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Performed by Sassy (Prince George County High School, Virginia), words posted by Dom H, 2009 (reformatted from sentence to line form for this post.)
SASSY (Shake It Up)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHdDoTcZF3U
woowooworkit Published on Aug 31, 2007
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SHOOT FOR TWO (version #1)
Shoot shoot!
Shoot shoot for 2,
shoot shoot!
Shoot shoot for 2.
Shoot 2 ! Take it to the hoop and shoot for two
- posted by Teya J, 2013 in the discussion thread for the video " WHS Cheerleaders...We got the Juice" which is given below.
I think that this is the version of the cheer that Teya J knows rather than the way that WHS performed this cheer.
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SHOOT FOR TWO (version #2)
Shoot 2 (aye) shoot shoot for 2
Shoot 2 (aye) shoot shoot for 2
Shoot 2 ( aye, aye)
Take it to the hoop and shoot for 2"
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performed by WHS cheerleaders (I think that this is Westover High School, Fayetteville, North Carolina), words posted by Tamera coleman, 2015 [This commenter wrote 2x after the first line. For this post I repeated that line instead of writing those instructions.]
Featured video - WHS Cheerleaders...We got the Juice
jalin94, Uploaded on Oct 23, 2011
This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
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The title of this basketball video is a folk processed version (a misunderstanding) of what the cheerleader were chanting.
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SHOOT FOR TWO (Example #3) [added July 3, 2017]
Shoot Shoot
Shoot Shoot For Two
Shoot Shoot
Shoot Shoot For Two
(shoot shoot)
*Aye 3x's*
Take It To The Hoop & Shoot For Two?
- posted by Alexis Hatch, 2012 in the video given below:
Featured video: West Charlotte Jv Squad pt. 2 2010-2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yiGjHrmBw0
Angelica McClure, Published on Feb 11, 2011
Our Last Basketball Game Against Vance ! =(
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There are other YouTube videos of this apparently rather widely known basketball cheer. The stomp & shake feature for this cheer is in the way that the cheerleaders perform this cheer, and not in the cheer's words.
Here's an interesting comment exchange from that video's discussion thread:
Kella Chavis, 2014
"I have never known cheerleaders to sit in bleachers"
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Reply
Firstclass82 A/D, 2015
"A first for me too"
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Reply
Keke B., 2016
"+ANTHONY EWING its only for basketball season we can't exactly stand on the court"
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SIT BACK DOWN
(One cheerleader):
Step to us
You betta
sit
back
down.
(Entire squad)
Some of ya'll think
that HU aint got no style
But when it comes to us,
you better sit back down.
So sit back, and relax,
cause we came to show you that [rival's name]
ain't got nothin on HU.
You shake like this,
You move like this.
But in the end
your squad aint SHHHHH"
-Howard University [Washington D.C.] Bison Cheerleaders' Battle Cheer
[The first line of this very widely used Stomp & Shake cheer may be given as "come to us" -as per a transcription in that video's discussion thread by Keana Mayberry, 2013 and exeria poole, 2013. However, Derein Rogers, 2014 writes that the first line is "step to us".]
Featured video: Howard University Battle Cheer "Sit Back Down"
CoachSpence, Published on Oct 19, 2006
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I believe that the African American Vernacular English (AAVE) pronunciation and spelling that is used in this (and many other) stomp & shake cheers is an example of code switching on purpose from standard American English to AAVE to evoke and reinforce toughness, self-confidence, and "for realness" -all of which nowadays might be called "street cred".
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THIS IS HOW WE GET DOWN* (added July 7, 2017)
we got the juice, AYE!,
so we could probably show it,
STAY ON YOUR SIDE SO WE DONT HAVE TO THROW IT!,
got the juice, AYE!,
number one on the team,
please go sit down
'cause this is how we get down.
THIS IS HOW WE GET DOWN,
THIS IS HOW WE GET DOWN,
SO YOU NEED TO SIT DOWN!?
-[last cheer in this video by the team wearing orange, posted by
Keep Ari Weird, 2016 in response to a request
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*This may not be the title of this cheer.
I reformatted this cheer's lyrics from sentence form to line form.
The vocalization given here as "AYE!" is quite common in a number of stomp & shake cheer discussion threads. It's usually spelled with multiple "e's" to indicate that the sound is extended.
Featured video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndziLS2diU4
SEHS vs Booker Cheer Battle part 2, Published on Oct 28, 2016
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U, V
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W, X
WE ARE THE BEARS [added July 1, 2017 6:00 PM)
We are the Bears - Morgan State Cheerleaders - Celebrating Victory
B. T. Gibson, Published on Sep 23, 2014
Morgan State's "We are the Bears" campaign originated in an attempt to solicit more school spirit by President David Wilson and others. Mr. Melvin Miles, MSU Marching Band Director, was instrumental in the video that was eventually posted on YouTube about two years ago. That video included several flavors of the Morgan Community showing how they love being a Bear. The choreography was created so almost anyone could join in�.and when this song is played�..they do�.each adding their own flavor! "Feel the Roar".
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Here's words to this song/cheer from a Morgan State University Facebook page:
We are the bears
WHAT
We don't take no mess
WHAT
We get mad in a minute
WHAT
We'll stomp you in your chest
WHAT DID YOU SAY
-https://www.facebook.com/151044298291247/photos/pb.151044298291247.-2207520000.1462789316./151234414938902/?type=3&theater Morgan State University 2014 SGA
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WE ARE THE TROJANS
We are the trojans and we are h-o-t- hot
we keep it goin and we just dont stop.
We are so fresh, So Smooth,
You can't catch these moves.
Cause were just to hot.
Cause were bad,
and watch us as we "ROCK"!
(rock, rock, rock, rock) "ROCK"!
Trojans Stay Hot. So Hot!"
- transcription by Charlottefashionicon; July 2011 from the video whose link is given below:
Featured video: Olympic High cheerleaders 09-10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSjZrMqrtDQ
Uploaded by batay1978 on Feb 17, 2010
Olympic high cheerleaders (Charlotte, North Carolina); 9-2010
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WE DON'T STOP (added July 3, 2017)
Cardinals
we take it to the top
we don't stop
we rock (we rock )
we rock (we rock )
you know we don't stop (repeat)
-posted in the video discussion thread by Shadaishu Yarbrough, 2017 (at 14:06) of the video whose link is given below.
Featured video: Cheer Battle!!! Harding University High School Cheerleaders Vs. Phillip O Berry Cheerleaders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVaGOwoc-dI
Kevin Crawford, Published on Dec 17, 2016
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These two high school cheerleading squads are from Charlotte, North Carolina.
Here are two comments from that video's discussion thread about that cheer battle::
Kenneth Anderson-Jasper, 2017
"If you're looking at crowd impact and effective diss cheers ... HU just slight edges out POB .... However most judges would be looking at uniformity, look, and precision which POB dominated on.... hard call on who the cheer battle winner would be.. but the cheer where the POB cheerleaders and alum when in together and the coach closed it out was EPIC!!!"
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"diss cheers" = confrontational insult cheers
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Uniquely Created, 2017
"I've seen this video multiple times and I can finally put into words my response. I don't think there is a clear winner of the battle. POB had great energy, great voices, great facials. But their Alumni took a majority of the show. They were HOT and was eager, if you couldn't tell, to battle HUHS. HUHS has been a favorite of mine for a while now, but as many of the comments have mentioned, they did lose their energy mid way through. They were getting a little sloppy and as a former cheerleader who use to battle I know it's simply because of momentum. They wanted to show out and there's nothing wrong with that. Obviously POB and HUHS are long time rivals and with POB being so cold, it could cause a loss in momentum. But both teams did their thing so I don't think I can determine a winner. But a great video."
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WHAT CAN WE SAY
What can we say?
Those Mighty Rams don't play.
We'll take down any team that comes our way.
-Winston-Salem State University cheerleaders, posted by OneVoice412, 2016
in the discussion thread for 2014 WSSU Cheerleaders, What time is it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E2ca-9XwM4
Artistry Photography, Published on Sep 8, 2014;
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WHAT TIME IS IT
What time is it? It's time!
What time is it? It's time!
Time to go, time to fight
Time to win this game tonight!?
-Winston-Salem State University cheerleaders, posted by OneVoice412, 2016
in the discussion thread for 2014 WSSU Cheerleaders, What time is it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E2ca-9XwM4
Artistry Photography, Published on Sep 8, 2014 [second cheer, begins at 1:06 in this video]
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WHAT TIME IS IT
What time is it? It's time!
What time is it? It's time!
Time to go, time to fight
Time to win this game tonight!?
-Winston-Salem State University cheerleaders, posted by OneVoice412, 2016
in the discussion thread for 2014 WSSU Cheerleaders, What time is it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E2ca-9XwM4
Artistry Photography, Published on Sep 8, 2014 [second cheer, begins at 1:06 in this video]
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WHAT YOU GONNA DO (added July 7, 2017)
Ohh Ahh, what you gone' do?
"Other team name" ain't nothing you can do
Ooohhhh, what's new?
It's a new season can you get some new moves??
-Huguenot High School (Richmond, Virginia), posed by HHSCheeringFalcons, 2016
Featured video: HHS Varsity Cheer - Battle Cheer
HHSCheeringFalcons Published on Jan 11, 2016
Huguenot Falcons vs. Thomas Jefferson Vikings
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Both of these high schools are in Richmond, Virginia.
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WHO SHAKES THE BEST [version #1]
Shake it to the east.
Shake it to the west.
It really doesn't matter who shakes the best.
Shake it to the east.
Shake it to the west.
It really doesn't matter who shakes the best.
Shake it to the east.
Shake it to the west.
Cause everybody knows that we shake the best
- Virginia State University Woo Woos (as performed in 2008)
Featured video: VSU Woo Woo's 2008 "Who Shakes The Best"
BlaWaiian2008, Published on Mar 17, 2013
VSU Cheerleaders (Virginia State University)
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Featured video of that same cheer version: SASSY (We Shake The Best)
FIERCED_2006 Uploaded on Feb 17, 2007
JV And Varsity SASSY cheerleaders cheer at the last game against bluestone
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WHO SHAKES DA BEST [version #2)
Shake it to the east.
Shake it to the west.
It really doesn't matter who shakes the best.
Shake it to the east.
Shake it to the west.
It really doesn't matter who shakes the best.
Ah hey!
'Cause we shake the best
Everybody knows that we shake the best
To the East.
To the West.
Shake it!
-from VSU Woo Woo (Who shakes Da Best video, Mar 31, 2011,
This is my transcription of that cheer from that video
Featured video: VSU Woo Woo (Who shakes Da Best video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIKS5JRSXhI
TrueVSU1882, Uploaded on Mar 31, 2011
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WORK IT
V-S-U let's work it
ayeee yee yee
work it
ayyeee yee yee
trojans you know how we do
get out ya seats and work big blue
ahhhhh work it
ayeeee yee yee
(repeat)
-Virginia State University Cheerleaders (Woo Woos)
*transcription by Azizi Powell from this video.
Featured video: Virgina State University Woo Woos - "Work It"
Uploaded by GoTrojans on Sep 11, 2008
VSU vs. NSU Labor Day Classic August 30, 2008
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Y, Z
YOU ARE DISMISSED
Baldenburg mustangs you've got to go,
you try to step to us,
we know you think we tuff,
jaguars now run the show
bladenburg mustangs you've got to go
you watch our cheers and all our moves
you know our steps what can we do,
we marked you off our check list,
bladenburg mustangs you are dismissed
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performed by the jaguars in the video which is given below, words posted by Earl Quirino, 2017 (reformatted from sentence form to line form)
Blade vs. Flowers Battle Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye8WmgyWuCI&feature=youtu.be
Dimples1luv Published on Sep 19, 2016
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YOU GETS NO RESPECT
You gets no respect in here.
Hey Hey Hey Hey
We see our moves in all your cheers.
We know you think you are the best.
S.U. will put you to the test.
Dont start no stuff wont be no stuff.
Dont start no stuff wont be no stuff.
When ya messin with Rams
Ya bound to get-
ahhhhh-"Say what"
Crushed!
-Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) Cheer Phi Cheerleaders; 2007 (Cheer #3)
transcribed by Azizi Powell
WSSU Cheerleaders Gettin Crunk [video given with the "Say It In Our Face" cheer entry in this post.]
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"Crunk" is an African American slang term which may have been derived from the two words "crazy and drunk". In some contexts, "getting crunk" may just mean to be very energetic, to be "pumped up", " to be hyped". However, I believe that in the context of this stomp & shake cheer, "get crunk" also means "to be 'hard"; "gangsta"; "street" - meaning to use African American stances, gestures, and words to emphasize the confrontational nature of that particular cheer routine.
"Don't start no stuff/ won't be no stuff" is a familiar saying among certain populations of African Americans. It serves as a warning that people shouldn't try to start trouble unless they are prepared to deal with the consequences of their words and actions.
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Added July 8, 2017
Here's a comment from this video's uploader in that video's discussion thread:
CheerPhi93, 2009
"I Coached in 2003 and remember when the cheer was made up...It has been revised..and never never ever ever...Did it say Cowboys...lol...it's When you are messing with the Rams you are bound to get Krushed...
Great Job Cheer Phi
WSSU ALUM
CHEER PHI 93 (POPPA-RA)?"
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I've seen other videos of this cheer battle in which the cheerleaders change the ending to "You bout to get....what, what, what, WHAT!" [That line is spoken in a taunting, aggressive manner with aggressive body motions as done in the WSSU video.]
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YOU NEED TO BE A MIGHTY BULLDOG
One cheerleader: Let's go! Hey!
Entire squad: Alright! Hey! Hey!
You need to be a mighty Bulldog
'Cause we
Work
It
Like
This.
Let's go!
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Alright!
Hey! Hey!
You need to be a mighty Bulldog
[tempo gets faster] 'Cause we
Work
It
Like
This.
Let's go!
-Bowie State University (Bowie, Maryland)
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[This is my transcription of this cheer from the video whose link is given below.]
Bowie State U Cheerleaders 9 October 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83dMR9JyXIo
NexMillenia, Uploaded on Oct 12, 2010
Bowie State University Cheerleaders
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This concludes Part III of this three part series.
Additional examples may be added to this post.
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Latest revision of the preface to this compilation - July 5, 2017
This is Part III of a three part pancocojams series that documents some text examples (words) of stomp & shake cheerleading cheers.
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT STOMP & SHAKE CHEERLEADING
"Stomp & shake cheerleading" is a referent for a relatively new form of African American originated style of cheerleading for football games or for basketball games. The earliest date that I've found for stomp & shake cheerleading is the early to mid 1970s. (as cited in https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/overview-of-stomp-shake-cheerleading.html).
Stomp & shake cheerleading is particularly known among African Americans from middle school through university levels in Virginia and North Carolina. University squads perform these cheers on the sidelines of football or basketball games and during half-time of those games. High school and younger squads perform either standing on the sidelines during football games, or while seated or standing in the bleachers during basketball games. Stomp & shake cheers are performed by two squads who face off prior to the competitive games in a "cheer battle". In addition, stomp & shake cheer are performed during cheer competitions and at non-competitive performance events that aren't associated with any athletic games.
Stomp & shake cheerleading focuses on the group performance of choreographed percussive, rhythmic foot stomping, (individual) hand clapping, African American social dance moves and some signature moves such as "upstomps" and "jiggapop" that may have been created or adapted for stomp & shake cheerleading. These body movements are often but not always accompanied by the cheer squad's performance of self-bragging and/or competitor insulting/taunting (mostly) unison chanting. Like mainstream cheerleading, the purpose of the cheer squad is to increase the enthusiasm of event attendees. Fans of these styles of cheerleading get "hyped" by the squads' performance moves and by their often confrontational cheers. Almost all stomp & shake cheers are self-bragging and/or insult/taunting compositions with the squad itself rather than their athletic team being the subject of the brags and the opposing cheerleader squad rather than the opposing athletic team being the target of the insult/taunting. However, some stomp & shake cheers-particularly basketball stomp & shake cheers such as "Shoot For Two" -focus on the actual game itself and not the cheerleaders. One feature of stomp & shake cheerleading is that the cheerleaders deepen their voices to increase the probability that the cheers would be heard in the football stadium or basketball gym. However, it usually is difficult to understand the words for many stomp & shake cheerleading cheer routines that have been posted to YouTube.
Although most stomp & shake cheerleaders are female, YouTube videos document that a few males also are members of some university stomp & shake squads. This may particularly be the case for those university cheerleading squads that perform mainstream ("traditional") cheerleading moves as well as stomp & shake cheerleading. In any event, male stomp & shake cheerleaders don't do the characteristic "Jiggapops" (rhythmical, fast double shake of the hips) move that the female stomp & shake cheerleaders do, or at least it appears to me that they don't do that movement the same way as the females on that squad.
Stomp & Shake cheerleading has vehement supporters who love the creativity, innovation, skill, showmanship, "hardness" and "for realness" (according to Black cultural criteria) of this type of cheerleading. However, stomp & shake cheerleading also has vehement detractors who don't consider it to be "real cheerleading", but a form of fraternity/sorority stepping and/or cheer dancing. Stomp & cheer detractors also routinely negatively label stomp & shake cheerleading and its (almost exclusively) Black female squad members as being "ghetto" (behaving and dressing in ways that are highly inappropriate by middle class standards, particularly to behave and dress in sexually provocative ("slutty) ways, and behaving in loud and overly aggressive confrontational ways.
This post is part of pancocojams' ongoing series on Stomp & Shake cheerleading.
Click the stomp and shake cheerleading tag to find additional pancocojams posts about this type of cheerleading.
*"Upstomps" is a signature movement that is performed by female and male members of some stomp and shake squads where the cheerleaders stomp two times with their left foot and perform a knee lift (raise the right leg bent at the knee). In the videos I've watched of upstomping, the toes are usually pointed to the ground. Also, reflecting the style of some stomp and shake squads, when those equads perform "upstomps" the knee is bent at a slight angle toward the right.
Note: These movements names and descriptions were written on this internet discussion forum* and/or shared with me via online communications with former HBCU stomp & shake cheerleaders UpstompJunkie and Charlottefashionicon.
Click https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/07/21/race-and-the-changing-shape-of-cheerleading/ Race and the Changing Shape of Cheerleading by Guest Blogger Azizi Powell on July 21, 2011 for more comments about these terms.
*https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/07/21/race-and-the-changing-shape-of-cheerleading/ Race and the Changing Shape of Cheerleading by Guest Blogger Azizi Powell on July 21, 2011.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PANCOCOJAMS COMPILATION
Selected YouTube video of certain cheers or hyperlinks to YouTube videos of these cheers are included in this post. This post also includes some brief explanatory comments about vernacular terms that are used in these cheers.
In addition, this post includes my comments about the debate about cheerleading squads using stomp & shake cheers that are attributed to other cheerleading squads.
Please add to this compilation for folkloric purposes by sharing words to stomp & shake cheers and/or sharing links to stomp & shake YouTube videos videos in the comment section below. Thanks!
Additional cheer examples that are added after this initial publication are indicated by the publishing date in brackets after the cheer's title.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/06/examples-of-stomp-shake-cheerleading.html for Part I of this series.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/06/examples-of-stomp-shake-cheerleading_29.html for Part II of this series.
The content of this post is presented for folkloric, historical, cultural, and recreational purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who composed these cheers. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post, all those featured in these videos, and the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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DISCLAIMER:
This post documents a very small number of stomp & shake cheers and isn't meant to be a comprehensive compilation of those types of cheers.
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PERFORMING OTHER SQUADS' STOMP & SHAKE CHEERS
There's considerable disagreement about whether other cheerleading squads should perform stomp & shake cheers unless members of the cheerleading squad that originated those cheers teach them to those cheerleaders (in cheer camps or otherwise) or unless prior permission is given to those squads to perform those cheers. Opponents of the use of another squad's original stomp & shake cheers- and particularly using the same moves as the original composers of those cheers consider such use to be stealing and believe that such use is evidence those squads' lack of creativity.
However, it's a widespread custom-particularly among high school, middle school, and younger cheerleading squads- to perform cheerleader stomp and shake cheerleader cheers from unknown and from unknown sources -just as it's a universal custom for cheerleading squads on those levels to squads to perform any mainstream cheerleader cheer that they like.
Also, for whatever reasons, cheerleading squads that are known to have originated certain cheers (and who are often opposed to these cheers being performed without permission by other squads) did publish YouTube videos of their squads performing those cheers. Doing so certainly makes it easier for other people to "copy" those cheers.
I can see both sides of this debate, but, as a (self-described) community folklorist, I'm glad that these videos and lyrics are available for people in the present and the future to see, hear, read, and study for information and insights about the people who composed them, perform/ed them, and watch/ed them.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THESE EXAMPLES
All the cheer examples that are given in this post were retrieved from YouTube videos. The text (words) of these cheers were either retrieved from a comment in a video's discussion thread, or were transcribed by me from that video.
There many more stomp & shake cheers that I'd LOVE to add to this compilation, but unfortunately I can't find their words online and I can't understood what is chanted in their videos.
The titles used below for these cheers may not be the only titles that have been used in the past or are now used for these cheers. Also, the words for these cheers may not be the original words or what was considered the definitive words for that cheer or what is now considered the definitive words for that cheer.
When no title for a cheer is given, I�ve chosen a title for that cheer and placed an asterisk next to it to indicate the fact that this title is my guess.
Particularly with regards to high school and younger cheerleading squads, in most cases, readers shouldn't assume that the cheerleading squad who performed these cheers in these video is the original composer of that cheer or even the original choreographer of that cheer's movements.
I've selectively included a video for some of these cheers. In some cases, I've included a video for cheers that (I believe) are widely popular, based on YouTube comments and videos. In other cases, I've selected (usually high school cheerleading squad) cheer performances to document how stomp & shake cheers are performed.
If your squad uses these cheers, when applicable, substitute the names of opposing high school, and/or that school mascot, or substitute your school's name and/or mascot.
Additions and corrections to these cheer examples and the words to these cheers are welcome.
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EXAMPLES OF STOMP & SHAKE CHEERLEADER CHEERS
S, T
SAY IT IN OUR FACE
Eeeyep!
Fight fight the power,
Hey go head go head.
Hey fight fight he power.
Go head go head.
Hey fight the power.
We are the Rams
And we stay on your case.
If you have something to say
Say it to our face. Haw!
Hey fight the power
Hey fight the power,
Say what
Say what
We are the Rams
And we get on your case.
If you have something to say
Say it in our face.
Say it in our face.
Say it
in
our
face.
HAWHHHHH!
-Winston-Salem State University WSSU Cheer Phi Cheerleaders, 2007; as posted by SAC010 in that video's discussion thread by secalong, February 2011 (along with some transcription by Azizi Powell)
Featured video: WSSU Cheerleaders Getting� Crunk
ORIGINALCHEERPHI,Published on Feb 22, 2008
WSSU CHEERLEADERS SHOWING U HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE AT THE ULTIMATE CHEER & DANCE EXPERIENCE TRIAD HIGH SCHOOL CHEERLEADING COMPETITION 2007
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The title for this cheer might be "Fight The Power". It is the second cheer that is performed in that video.
"CheerPhi" used to be the name of Winton-Salem State University (WSSU)'s cheerleading squad. I believe that university now uses the names "Red team" and "White team" for its cheerleading squads. That university's mascot is the ram.
The word "original" denotes the video publisher's belief that WSSU was the originator of stomp & shake cheerleading. From my online research, I agree that WSSU was the originator of their style of stomp & shake cheerleading (movements), a style that many stomp & shake cheerleaders try to imitate, but a style that is somewhat different from Virginia State University's Woo woos, another Historically Black College & University (HBCU) cheerleading squad that my research suggests is also a stomp & shake cheerleading originator.
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SET IT OFF [WSSU Band Chant]
Pancocojams Editor's note: The verse below isn't a stomp & shake cheer, but is instead something that the band (and that university's fans) chant while the cheerleaders and majorette dancers perform. Nevertheless, I found two videos of Winston-Salem State University's (WSSU) cheerleaders performing to this instrumental composition, and decided to add that chant and also add a video and a video link as examples of how stomp & shake cheerleaders don't always cheer, but sometimes just move (dance, or tumble, or do stunts) to instrumental music.
Hannah Jones, 2015
"what is their chant that they say for this song"
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Reply?
jasmine harris, 2015
@hannah jones the words are "we're the red sea and we gonna punish you... You don't want it with this band when we're in front of you we set this thing off!" I learned it last month when I played with them!?
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"We" in this chant is Winston-Salem State University's band and not their cheerleaders.
Here's one video of WSSU's band, their majorette dancers, their fans, and their cheerleaders performing to "Set It Off" and at the end of their dancing, the cheerleaders doing their signature "eeeyup!" yelp:
2013 WSSU Set it off
Artistry Photography, Published on Nov 4, 2013
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Here's a link to another WSSU "Set It Off"video:
2014 WSSU Cheerleaders, Set It OFF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJE2QXaneB4
Artistry Photography, Published on Sep 21, 2014
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COMMENT ABOUT "SET IT OFF" [WSSU Basketball cheer] [text revised jULY 4, 2017]
Pancocojams Editor's note:
A comment in the discussion thread for St. Augustine University cheer "It's About To Go Down" indicates that that cheer is copied from a 1994 Winston- Salem State University cheer basketball cheer entitled "Set It Off:
Here's that comment:
CheerPhi93, 2013 [in the discussion thread for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Fszc4_seI Saint Augustine's University 2009 Bluechips Cheerleaders- "Its About to Go Down"
"Can you say that is nothing but WSSU "Set it up lets Go SU" basketball chant...Yes it is original for it was made up in 1994..I was there when it was made up! THE END! #dooces!"
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"It" in the comment is the cheer "Its About to Go Down"
Regretfully, I can't understand the words to St. Augustine's "It's About To Go Down" cheer, and I can't the words online. If you know the words to this cheer, please add it to this compilation for the folkloric record. Thanks!
I also haven't found any words to WSSU's basketball cheer "Set It Off"
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Here are two definitions of "set it off" from https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=set%20it%20off
Set it off
"to do something major, either something that can cause a huge disturbance or significance."
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"set it off
"To do something with intensity or hurricane like force."
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SHAKE IT UP
shake it up
really get tough
u cant get enough
of that
what
eagle stuff
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Performed by Sassy (Prince George County High School, Virginia), words posted by Dom H, 2009 (reformatted from sentence to line form for this post.)
SASSY (Shake It Up)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHdDoTcZF3U
woowooworkit Published on Aug 31, 2007
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SHOOT FOR TWO (version #1)
Shoot shoot!
Shoot shoot for 2,
shoot shoot!
Shoot shoot for 2.
Shoot 2 ! Take it to the hoop and shoot for two
- posted by Teya J, 2013 in the discussion thread for the video " WHS Cheerleaders...We got the Juice" which is given below.
I think that this is the version of the cheer that Teya J knows rather than the way that WHS performed this cheer.
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SHOOT FOR TWO (version #2)
Shoot 2 (aye) shoot shoot for 2
Shoot 2 (aye) shoot shoot for 2
Shoot 2 ( aye, aye)
Take it to the hoop and shoot for 2"
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performed by WHS cheerleaders (I think that this is Westover High School, Fayetteville, North Carolina), words posted by Tamera coleman, 2015 [This commenter wrote 2x after the first line. For this post I repeated that line instead of writing those instructions.]
Featured video - WHS Cheerleaders...We got the Juice
jalin94, Uploaded on Oct 23, 2011
This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
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The title of this basketball video is a folk processed version (a misunderstanding) of what the cheerleader were chanting.
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SHOOT FOR TWO (Example #3) [added July 3, 2017]
Shoot Shoot
Shoot Shoot For Two
Shoot Shoot
Shoot Shoot For Two
(shoot shoot)
*Aye 3x's*
Take It To The Hoop & Shoot For Two?
- posted by Alexis Hatch, 2012 in the video given below:
Featured video: West Charlotte Jv Squad pt. 2 2010-2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yiGjHrmBw0
Angelica McClure, Published on Feb 11, 2011
Our Last Basketball Game Against Vance ! =(
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There are other YouTube videos of this apparently rather widely known basketball cheer. The stomp & shake feature for this cheer is in the way that the cheerleaders perform this cheer, and not in the cheer's words.
Here's an interesting comment exchange from that video's discussion thread:
Kella Chavis, 2014
"I have never known cheerleaders to sit in bleachers"
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Reply
Firstclass82 A/D, 2015
"A first for me too"
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Reply
Keke B., 2016
"+ANTHONY EWING its only for basketball season we can't exactly stand on the court"
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SIT BACK DOWN
(One cheerleader):
Step to us
You betta
sit
back
down.
(Entire squad)
Some of ya'll think
that HU aint got no style
But when it comes to us,
you better sit back down.
So sit back, and relax,
cause we came to show you that [rival's name]
ain't got nothin on HU.
You shake like this,
You move like this.
But in the end
your squad aint SHHHHH"
-Howard University [Washington D.C.] Bison Cheerleaders' Battle Cheer
[The first line of this very widely used Stomp & Shake cheer may be given as "come to us" -as per a transcription in that video's discussion thread by Keana Mayberry, 2013 and exeria poole, 2013. However, Derein Rogers, 2014 writes that the first line is "step to us".]
Featured video: Howard University Battle Cheer "Sit Back Down"
CoachSpence, Published on Oct 19, 2006
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I believe that the African American Vernacular English (AAVE) pronunciation and spelling that is used in this (and many other) stomp & shake cheers is an example of code switching on purpose from standard American English to AAVE to evoke and reinforce toughness, self-confidence, and "for realness" -all of which nowadays might be called "street cred".
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THIS IS HOW WE GET DOWN* (added July 7, 2017)
we got the juice, AYE!,
so we could probably show it,
STAY ON YOUR SIDE SO WE DONT HAVE TO THROW IT!,
got the juice, AYE!,
number one on the team,
please go sit down
'cause this is how we get down.
THIS IS HOW WE GET DOWN,
THIS IS HOW WE GET DOWN,
SO YOU NEED TO SIT DOWN!?
-[last cheer in this video by the team wearing orange, posted by
Keep Ari Weird, 2016 in response to a request
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*This may not be the title of this cheer.
I reformatted this cheer's lyrics from sentence form to line form.
The vocalization given here as "AYE!" is quite common in a number of stomp & shake cheer discussion threads. It's usually spelled with multiple "e's" to indicate that the sound is extended.
Featured video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndziLS2diU4
SEHS vs Booker Cheer Battle part 2, Published on Oct 28, 2016
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U, V
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W, X
WE ARE THE BEARS [added July 1, 2017 6:00 PM)
We are the Bears - Morgan State Cheerleaders - Celebrating Victory
B. T. Gibson, Published on Sep 23, 2014
Morgan State's "We are the Bears" campaign originated in an attempt to solicit more school spirit by President David Wilson and others. Mr. Melvin Miles, MSU Marching Band Director, was instrumental in the video that was eventually posted on YouTube about two years ago. That video included several flavors of the Morgan Community showing how they love being a Bear. The choreography was created so almost anyone could join in�.and when this song is played�..they do�.each adding their own flavor! "Feel the Roar".
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Here's words to this song/cheer from a Morgan State University Facebook page:
We are the bears
WHAT
We don't take no mess
WHAT
We get mad in a minute
WHAT
We'll stomp you in your chest
WHAT DID YOU SAY
-https://www.facebook.com/151044298291247/photos/pb.151044298291247.-2207520000.1462789316./151234414938902/?type=3&theater Morgan State University 2014 SGA
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WE ARE THE TROJANS
We are the trojans and we are h-o-t- hot
we keep it goin and we just dont stop.
We are so fresh, So Smooth,
You can't catch these moves.
Cause were just to hot.
Cause were bad,
and watch us as we "ROCK"!
(rock, rock, rock, rock) "ROCK"!
Trojans Stay Hot. So Hot!"
- transcription by Charlottefashionicon; July 2011 from the video whose link is given below:
Featured video: Olympic High cheerleaders 09-10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSjZrMqrtDQ
Uploaded by batay1978 on Feb 17, 2010
Olympic high cheerleaders (Charlotte, North Carolina); 9-2010
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WE DON'T STOP (added July 3, 2017)
Cardinals
we take it to the top
we don't stop
we rock (we rock )
we rock (we rock )
you know we don't stop (repeat)
-posted in the video discussion thread by Shadaishu Yarbrough, 2017 (at 14:06) of the video whose link is given below.
Featured video: Cheer Battle!!! Harding University High School Cheerleaders Vs. Phillip O Berry Cheerleaders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVaGOwoc-dI
Kevin Crawford, Published on Dec 17, 2016
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These two high school cheerleading squads are from Charlotte, North Carolina.
Here are two comments from that video's discussion thread about that cheer battle::
Kenneth Anderson-Jasper, 2017
"If you're looking at crowd impact and effective diss cheers ... HU just slight edges out POB .... However most judges would be looking at uniformity, look, and precision which POB dominated on.... hard call on who the cheer battle winner would be.. but the cheer where the POB cheerleaders and alum when in together and the coach closed it out was EPIC!!!"
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"diss cheers" = confrontational insult cheers
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Uniquely Created, 2017
"I've seen this video multiple times and I can finally put into words my response. I don't think there is a clear winner of the battle. POB had great energy, great voices, great facials. But their Alumni took a majority of the show. They were HOT and was eager, if you couldn't tell, to battle HUHS. HUHS has been a favorite of mine for a while now, but as many of the comments have mentioned, they did lose their energy mid way through. They were getting a little sloppy and as a former cheerleader who use to battle I know it's simply because of momentum. They wanted to show out and there's nothing wrong with that. Obviously POB and HUHS are long time rivals and with POB being so cold, it could cause a loss in momentum. But both teams did their thing so I don't think I can determine a winner. But a great video."
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WHAT CAN WE SAY
What can we say?
Those Mighty Rams don't play.
We'll take down any team that comes our way.
-Winston-Salem State University cheerleaders, posted by OneVoice412, 2016
in the discussion thread for 2014 WSSU Cheerleaders, What time is it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E2ca-9XwM4
Artistry Photography, Published on Sep 8, 2014;
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WHAT TIME IS IT
What time is it? It's time!
What time is it? It's time!
Time to go, time to fight
Time to win this game tonight!?
-Winston-Salem State University cheerleaders, posted by OneVoice412, 2016
in the discussion thread for 2014 WSSU Cheerleaders, What time is it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E2ca-9XwM4
Artistry Photography, Published on Sep 8, 2014 [second cheer, begins at 1:06 in this video]
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WHAT TIME IS IT
What time is it? It's time!
What time is it? It's time!
Time to go, time to fight
Time to win this game tonight!?
-Winston-Salem State University cheerleaders, posted by OneVoice412, 2016
in the discussion thread for 2014 WSSU Cheerleaders, What time is it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E2ca-9XwM4
Artistry Photography, Published on Sep 8, 2014 [second cheer, begins at 1:06 in this video]
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WHAT YOU GONNA DO (added July 7, 2017)
Ohh Ahh, what you gone' do?
"Other team name" ain't nothing you can do
Ooohhhh, what's new?
It's a new season can you get some new moves??
-Huguenot High School (Richmond, Virginia), posed by HHSCheeringFalcons, 2016
Featured video: HHS Varsity Cheer - Battle Cheer
HHSCheeringFalcons Published on Jan 11, 2016
Huguenot Falcons vs. Thomas Jefferson Vikings
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Both of these high schools are in Richmond, Virginia.
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WHO SHAKES THE BEST [version #1]
Shake it to the east.
Shake it to the west.
It really doesn't matter who shakes the best.
Shake it to the east.
Shake it to the west.
It really doesn't matter who shakes the best.
Shake it to the east.
Shake it to the west.
Cause everybody knows that we shake the best
- Virginia State University Woo Woos (as performed in 2008)
Featured video: VSU Woo Woo's 2008 "Who Shakes The Best"
BlaWaiian2008, Published on Mar 17, 2013
VSU Cheerleaders (Virginia State University)
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Featured video of that same cheer version: SASSY (We Shake The Best)
FIERCED_2006 Uploaded on Feb 17, 2007
JV And Varsity SASSY cheerleaders cheer at the last game against bluestone
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WHO SHAKES DA BEST [version #2)
Shake it to the east.
Shake it to the west.
It really doesn't matter who shakes the best.
Shake it to the east.
Shake it to the west.
It really doesn't matter who shakes the best.
Ah hey!
'Cause we shake the best
Everybody knows that we shake the best
To the East.
To the West.
Shake it!
-from VSU Woo Woo (Who shakes Da Best video, Mar 31, 2011,
This is my transcription of that cheer from that video
Featured video: VSU Woo Woo (Who shakes Da Best video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIKS5JRSXhI
TrueVSU1882, Uploaded on Mar 31, 2011
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WORK IT
V-S-U let's work it
ayeee yee yee
work it
ayyeee yee yee
trojans you know how we do
get out ya seats and work big blue
ahhhhh work it
ayeeee yee yee
(repeat)
-Virginia State University Cheerleaders (Woo Woos)
*transcription by Azizi Powell from this video.
Featured video: Virgina State University Woo Woos - "Work It"
Uploaded by GoTrojans on Sep 11, 2008
VSU vs. NSU Labor Day Classic August 30, 2008
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Y, Z
YOU ARE DISMISSED
Baldenburg mustangs you've got to go,
you try to step to us,
we know you think we tuff,
jaguars now run the show
bladenburg mustangs you've got to go
you watch our cheers and all our moves
you know our steps what can we do,
we marked you off our check list,
bladenburg mustangs you are dismissed
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performed by the jaguars in the video which is given below, words posted by Earl Quirino, 2017 (reformatted from sentence form to line form)
Blade vs. Flowers Battle Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye8WmgyWuCI&feature=youtu.be
Dimples1luv Published on Sep 19, 2016
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YOU GETS NO RESPECT
You gets no respect in here.
Hey Hey Hey Hey
We see our moves in all your cheers.
We know you think you are the best.
S.U. will put you to the test.
Dont start no stuff wont be no stuff.
Dont start no stuff wont be no stuff.
When ya messin with Rams
Ya bound to get-
ahhhhh-"Say what"
Crushed!
-Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) Cheer Phi Cheerleaders; 2007 (Cheer #3)
transcribed by Azizi Powell
WSSU Cheerleaders Gettin Crunk [video given with the "Say It In Our Face" cheer entry in this post.]
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"Crunk" is an African American slang term which may have been derived from the two words "crazy and drunk". In some contexts, "getting crunk" may just mean to be very energetic, to be "pumped up", " to be hyped". However, I believe that in the context of this stomp & shake cheer, "get crunk" also means "to be 'hard"; "gangsta"; "street" - meaning to use African American stances, gestures, and words to emphasize the confrontational nature of that particular cheer routine.
"Don't start no stuff/ won't be no stuff" is a familiar saying among certain populations of African Americans. It serves as a warning that people shouldn't try to start trouble unless they are prepared to deal with the consequences of their words and actions.
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Added July 8, 2017
Here's a comment from this video's uploader in that video's discussion thread:
CheerPhi93, 2009
"I Coached in 2003 and remember when the cheer was made up...It has been revised..and never never ever ever...Did it say Cowboys...lol...it's When you are messing with the Rams you are bound to get Krushed...
Great Job Cheer Phi
WSSU ALUM
CHEER PHI 93 (POPPA-RA)?"
-snip-
I've seen other videos of this cheer battle in which the cheerleaders change the ending to "You bout to get....what, what, what, WHAT!" [That line is spoken in a taunting, aggressive manner with aggressive body motions as done in the WSSU video.]
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YOU NEED TO BE A MIGHTY BULLDOG
One cheerleader: Let's go! Hey!
Entire squad: Alright! Hey! Hey!
You need to be a mighty Bulldog
'Cause we
Work
It
Like
This.
Let's go!
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Alright!
Hey! Hey!
You need to be a mighty Bulldog
[tempo gets faster] 'Cause we
Work
It
Like
This.
Let's go!
-Bowie State University (Bowie, Maryland)
-snip-
[This is my transcription of this cheer from the video whose link is given below.]
Bowie State U Cheerleaders 9 October 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83dMR9JyXIo
NexMillenia, Uploaded on Oct 12, 2010
Bowie State University Cheerleaders
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This concludes Part III of this three part series.
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