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This is Part IV (K- O) of a five part series that provides an alphabetized list of text (word only) examples of foot stomping cheers. I'm referring to this collection as the pancocojams (Azizi Powell) compilation of foot stomping cheers.
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/foot-stomping-cheers-alphabetical-list_40.html for Part II (D - G).
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/foot-stomping-cheers-alphabetical-list_6.html for Part III (H-J).
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/foot-stomping-cheers-alphabetical-list_22.html for Part V: P-Z
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTES
"Foot stomping cheers" is the term that I coined in 2000 for a sub-set of children's cheerleader cheers that have distinctive textual structures and distinctive performance styles.
Read my Pancocojams Editor's Notes that are given in Part I of this series about the history of foot stomping cheers, their textual structure, and how they are (or were) performed.
NOTES ABOUT THESE EXAMPLES
"Foot stomping cheers" (as that term is used in this collection) are creative examples of African American culture that were composed by chilrens and teens.
Examples given with the citations "cocojams.com" were sent to my now no longer active cultural website cocojams.com which was online from January 2001-November 2014. That website had an easy to use online form for visitors to submit rhyme & cheer examples and comments. As a result, many of the examples came from children, preteens, and teens.
Alafia Children’s Ensemble was a cultural group for girls and boys ages 5-14 years old that my daughter Tazi Powell and I formed in the 1999 to 2004. in Braddock, Pennsylvania and for girls ages 8-9 years old in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2002-2004).
EXAMPLES: K-O
These examples are presented in alphabetical order based on the first number or the first letter of the first letter of the first word. The source (i.e. book, direct collection, or website) is given below the example along with demographic information and/or comments.
LET ME TELL YOU
GROUP: 5,6,7,8!!!! Well, Let me tell you!!!! About This Girl!!!! Her name Is {your name here} Taquina!!!! TAQUINA: Well, My name is Taquina and I'm da bomb!!!! GROUP: Ooh!!!! She think she bad!!!! TAQUINA: I know I'm rad!!!! GROUP: Ooh!!!! She think she cook!!!! TAQUINA: Watch me while I pop my collar!!!!
-courtney; 5/21/2007; cocojams [5]
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LET'S GET FIRED UP
All: Let’s get fired up!
(Clap, clap, clapclapclap) [Each girl claps her hands to this beat. This is not spoken.].
Shanice: Shanice gets fired up! [One squad member at a time says her name or her nickname].
All: Clap, clap, (clapclapclap)
Shayla: Shayla gets fired up!
All: (Clap, clap, clapclapclap)
Tara: Tara gets fired up!
All: (Clap, clap, clapclapclap)
Shan: Shan gets fired up!
All: (Clap, clap, clapclapclap)
Tamara: Tamara gets fired up!
All: (Clap, clap, clapclapclap)
LeAnn: LeAnn gets fired up!
All: (Clap, clap, clapclapclap)
Ebony: Ebony gets fired up!
All:(Clap, clap, clapclapclap)
Alitta: Alitta gets fired up!
All: (Clap, clap, clapclapclap)
All: WE ALL GET FIRED UP!
CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP!
- Gators” Little League Football Cheerleaders (African American girls 8-12; Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); October 2000
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LIKE THAT
One person from the group: Attention Attention 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3
Like that. Ready. Okay.
Soloist #1: My name is Tatayane
And I’m LIKE THAT.
Mess with me and you will get a __* KICK BACK.
All you haters talkin this and that.
I’ll pass it to my home girl Sydney
__ Like that.
Soloist #2 : My name is Sydney
And I’m LIKE THAT.
Mess with me and you will get a __ PUNCH BACK.
All you haters talkin this and that.
I’ll pass it to my home girl Jacquala
___Like that.
Soloist #3 : My name is Jacquala
And I’m LIKE THAT.
Mess with me and you will get a __ SLAP BACK.
All you haters talkin this and that.
I’ll pass it to my home girl Kristina
___ Like that.
-Muffin (African American female, age 10; Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
10/2007; Collected by Azizi Powell
-snip-
The space indicates that you pause one beat before saying the next word.
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L.O.V.E. (Version #1)
All: L-O-V-E. [clap]
L-O-V-E. [clap
L-O-V.
L-O-V.
L-O-V-E.[clap]
Soloist #1: Well, Kayla’s my name. [clap]
And love is my game.[clap]
I got this boy on my mind [clap].
And Lord knows he’s fine. [clap]
He calls me his girl. [clap]
His number 1 girl.[clap]
I don’t know his sign, [clap]
But Taurus is mine. [clap]
All: L-O-V-E. [clap]
L-O-V-E. [clap]
L-O-V.
L-O-V.
L-O-V-E. [clap]
Soloist #2: Tamika's my name. [clap]
And love is my game. [clap]
I got this boy on my mind. [clap]
And Lord knows he’s fine. [clap]
I got his name on my shirt. [clap]
And don't call it dirt.[clap]
Don’t you worry bout my lover. [clap]
Cause there is no other. [clap]
(Return to beginning and repeat with a new soloist. That soloist repeats the same verses or similar verses. This pattern continues until everyone in the group has had one turn as the soloist with this cheer.)
-T.M.P.(African American female; remembrance of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the mid 1980s; performed by African American girls ages around 8-12 years old; Collected by Azizi Powell, 2/1996 although I had observed it performed in the 1980s.
-snip-
Here's what my daughter shared with me about how she and her friends performed this cheer*.
The movement routine for "L.O.V.E" differs from the other foot stomping cheers that my daughter (given here as "T.M.P." and her friends showed me). My daughter wrote down these performance instructions for me on October 28, 2018:
1.Right leg stomp forward - for the letter "L"
2. Jump open with both legs - "O"
3. Jump close with both legs -"V"
4. Right leg stomp forward" - "E"
Then clap your hands one time.
Continue this pattern for the entire cheer.
****L-O-V-E (Version #2)
I am a 25 year old African American woman from Eastern North Carolina.
The section on the chant L-O-V-E caught my attention we used to do this
when I was younger. We would stand in a circle and we would clap our hands and stomp our feet sort of tapping out the words L- O-V-E.
Group: L-O-V-E, L-O-V-E, L-O-V, L-O-V, L-O-V-E
First Person: Erica's my name love is my game I got this boy on my mind
he's looking real fine he calls me his girl his number one pearl
Then you move on to the next person and they repeat the same thing
only with their name in place.
-name and posting date not known (I accidentally deleted this information when I retrieved this example from my no longer available cocojams website.]
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L. O.V.E (Version #3)
on da playground*-
L.O.V.E. L.O.V.E. L.O.V L.O.V. L.O.V.E
Well Terrie's my name
and Love is my game
I got da boys on my mind
Most of da time
Capricorn's My Sign
Say Wha?
Capricorn's My Sign
Say Wha?
Capricorn, Capricorn
Capricorn's My sign!
- Geechie Gurl; http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=118895016491
“When I be a gal in da Ya'd! Memba Dese..Just a few of em”’ August 26, 2009
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L.O.V.E. (fragement) (#4)
Love these!! Anybody remember one that goes "L-O-V-E love L-O-V-E love, ...is my name, ...is my game, something something! Lmao, I can't remember the rest man, it used to be some footwork with it though!
-KaLa Roberts,2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zEcsIfe6lU&t=387s&ab_channel=Geneas 90s Hand Games [comment]
MOVE GIRL
You betta move
girl you betta move.
[say both lines(3x)]
Now drop it low
Drop it low.
Drop it low
Drop it low
-Shaw High School, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0jNwYcqET0, Jan 9, 2011 "Shaw High School Cheerleaders Before the game hype"
-snip-
This is my transcription of this video with corrections. tknight51, lauren patton, and PrincessAmandaTVfor in that video's comment thread wrote that the girls were saying "drop it low".
-snip-
Notice that the soloist's name isn't called. And, unlike many other foot stomping cheers, the soloist doesn't speak, but does her own dance while the others chant. "Now drop it low" means to dance down [close] to the ground, and then comes back up.
I believe that this pattern of having consecutive members of the group perform a dance step or other movement is an evolution of children's "show me your motion" circle games.
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MY NAME IS ___ (Example #1)
my name is kara (use your name) (other cheerleaders) yeah (the person speaking) and im a wildcat (your team name) (other cheerleaders) yeah and i love to jump (use your own thing to do then you do it) [19]
-Kara M.; 6/5/2006, cocojams.com
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MY NAME IS ___ (Example #2)
I made this cheer up.
My name is Alayah.
(somebody else says) Yeah.
And when they see me.
It's like an earthquake!
-Alayah, age 6 years (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); collected by Azizi Powell, 9/7/2006
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MY NAME IS ___ (Example #3)
cheer cheer my name is Allie
what?
my name is Allie
and I'm from the valley
and we're gonna kick you butta.
-Allie; 9/17/2006, cocojams.com
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MY NAME IS __ (Example #4)
I remembered this cheer from when I was little. (Say this with attitude) You say:
"My name is _________ and I'm a star you mess with me I'll take you far." Others say: "Woo, she thinks she's bad." You say: "Correction baby, I know I'm bad." Others say: "Woo, she thinks she's bad." You say: "Child, please!" (As you say the last line, you put your hand up as if motioning "stop") You repeat this cheer until everyone on the squad has had a turn.
-kelly, 9/27/2006, cocojams.com
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MY NAME IS ___ (Version #5)
SOLO:My name is Naomi on the Phone with my Daisy Dukes on
if you see me on the street boy you better speak to me.
GROUP:Oo she think she bad
SOLO: At least i use a wash rag
GROUP: Oo she think she cool
SOLO: Soap and water will do
GROUP:Oo she think she fine
SOLO: Fine Fine #9 take yo man anytime, he took me out he brought me back he besta have my cadillac. he brought you 1 he brought me 2, married me and divorced you.
he taught me Karate and taught me Kung Fu. mess wit me
and i'll do it on you
GROUP:Bang Bang choo choo train
wind her up she'll do her thang
SOLO: I can't
GROUP:Why not
SOLO: I said I can't
GROUP:WHY NOT?
SOLO: I said my back is aching and my bra's too tight. my
booty's shakin from the left to the right
GROUP:Left Right Left Right yo mama is a ugly sight
-Naomi; 1/17/2007, cocojams.com
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MY NAME IS ___ (Example #6, Fragment)
My name is Shakeila and I’m number one
I step to the beat and I no it’s fun
all these haters go to hate like this so all
I got to do is left right left.
-Shakeila; age 11; Garfield neighborhood ,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/16/2007, [from a written survey that I gave out to students in after-school classes]
-snip-
Shakeila wrote "no" instead of "know".
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MY NAME IS ____ (Example #7)
I learned this from my girl sara My name is (enter your name)
and as u can see i the finest chick in Albany
im rough and though cant touch my stuff m
fly like a butterflie i sting like a bee thats why all the boys
tell me break it down shawty
-Samantha; 11/25/2008, cocojams.com
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MY NAME IS ___ (Example #8)
I have lived all my life in a predominantly white neighborhood in Dallas , Texas . I'm 17 now.
This was used in 2006 for my all-white 8th grade volleyball team in Dallas . We used this before every game to pump us up:
Team member: My name is _____ and you know what I got?
Team: What do you got?
T.M.: I got a team that’s hotter than hot!
T: How hot is hot?!
T.M: Great serves and spikes too...
T: Uh-uh uh-uh.
T.M. We're gonna beat the whoopsies outta you!
T: Alright, OK
(and then the cheer repeats until every team member has done it. The great serves and spikes part can be replaced by whatever.)
-Katie S.(White female, Dallas Texas); 10/6/2009, cocojams.com
-snip-
Notice that some of these "My Name Is ___" examples are chanted by (mainstream) cheerleading squads (as opposed to "stomp and shake" cheerleading squads). This shows how this type of cheerleading cheer (foot stomping cheers) are influencing mainstream cheerleading performances.
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MY NAME IS ___ (Example #9)
My name is Amya
And I cheer for Lincoln
And when the boys see me
They be like “Go!”
like “Ooh go girl!”
-Amya; African American female, age 10; Faison Primary School (Homewood area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); collected by Azizi Powell, October 30, 2009
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MY NAME IS (Added March 26, 2020)
I don't remember all of it but it went something like this:
My name is __________, my number is one,
my reputation is having fun,
those who see me step aside,
mighty (Zodiac sign) don't take no jive.
My name is ______, my number is two,
my reputation is loving you,
those who see me step aside,
mighty (Zodiac sign) don't take no jive
My name is _______, my number is three,
my reputation is being free,
those who see me step aside
mighty (Zodiac sign) don't take no jive.
Each person in the group would pick a number and it would go around until you get to the number 10. I don't remember all the rhymes, but I am sure creative people can think of stuff to say.;)
-sigmadiva, 03-25-2003; http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/archive/index.php/t-31403.html
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MY NAME IS ___ AND I KNOW WHAT I'VE GOT
This is for introducing the cheerleaders! My squad used this! {I go to Clemont Middle in Florida}
Main Person: My name is {ur name} An I know what I got! Other cheerleaderz: What do you got?! Main Person: I got a team that'z hotter than hot! Other Cheerleaderz: How hot is hot?! Main Person: Batman and Superman can't do that split/jump ** like {then introduce the next person} ** say which ever feels comfortable. They should be standing in a vertical line. When you are done singing the introducing thing then go to the end of the line. Then when everybody is done say GO {team's name} !!!!!!
-cheerleader/dancer4lyf3! (Florida); 6/16/2007, cocojams.com
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MY NAME IS ___ AND THERE IS NO DOUBT
Soloist My name is (name) And theres no doubt Group No Doubt Soloist Im the (adj) cheerleader in the south And I can really really really really really Turn it out Group Go (name) Go (name) Go (Name) This is said while soloist is doing his/her jumps
-Breanne; cocojams.com
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ON THE LIST
Group: On the List
On, on the list
I saida on the list
On, on the list
Soloist #1: Well, Linda is my name
and I’m first on the list
and I got a little story
that goes like this.
One or more persons in the group says: "Kick it!"
Group & Soloist: Put your hand up in the air
like ah Coca Cola and ah Root Beer!
Kick off your shoes
and relax your feet
and move your body
to Linda’s beat. (soloist #1 says “to MY beat”)
(The soloist and group perform beat pattern #2 (see below) and then the entire chant begins again with the next soloist)
-TMP, mid 1980s Pittsburgh, PA, transcribed from audio tape in 1996 by Azizi Powell
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This concludes Part IV of this series.
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