Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part II of a two pancocojams series that presents a small number of titles of cheers that have been attributed to a specific stomp & shake cheerleading team (squad) and/ or have been popularized by specific cheerleading teams or other entities*.
These cheers are from cheerleading teams on middle schools (or younger), high schools, or universities.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/05/stomp-shake-cheers-with-known.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. That post lists cheers whose titles begin with the letters
"A-P".
These posts don't include the words for these stomp & shake cheers.**
THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. Please add to these list and include any documentation that you are aware of. Thanks!
The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and recreational purposes.
Thanks to all the originators and the popularizers** of these cheers and thanks to ll of the past and present members of the cheerleading teams who are noted in this pancocojams post.
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*By "popularized" I mean a cheerleading team or some other entity such as a movie or another mass media entity that was the first or the most well known entity to popularize a stomp & shake cheer when the originator for that cheer isn't known, or even if the originator for that cheer is known (Example: "Shabooya Roll Call" was featured in Spike Lee's 1996 movie Get On The Bus and was popularized by the 2006 cheerleader movie Bring It All Or Nothing. However, there's anecdotal records that "Shabooya Roll Call" was performed by African American high school cheerleaders before either of those movies.)
**Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/06/examples-of-stomp-shake-cheerleading_29.html for Part II of a three part pancocojams series entitled "Words For Some Stomp & Shake Cheerleading Cheers." The links to the other posts in that series are given in each of those posts.
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
Most traditional, mainstream ("Go team go") cheers have no known composer. They are called "universal cheers" only because it's likely that no attempt was made to document their composers. But that doesn't have to be the fate of stomp & shake cheers. We can do the work that is needed to document which cheerleading squad was the first to perform a specific stomp & shake cheer.
Just as it is routine for collectors of songs and rhymes to attempt to gather as much demographic information as possible (such as who, where & when), it should be routine for people interested in stomp & shake cheers to document which stomp & shake cheerleader squad (and/or the member/s of that squad) composed specific cheers, when that was, and if the words for that cheer were modified by that squad, when that occurred.
These attributions include online links for sources, or other citations. In some cases, the term "YouTube videos" are used when I (and/or others) believe that those videos attribute that particular cheerleading squad as the original composer of that cheer.
Unfortunately, this project is complicated as there is disagreement among some stomp & shake cheerleading squads about which squad performed specific cheers first, and/or whether a particular cheer that is associated with one stomp & shake cheerleading squad is based on a cheer that is attributed to another stomp & shake squad. This list might include such entries, along with the notes that indicates this disagreement.
Unless former and present day stomp & shake cheerleaders and others people who have direct knowledge about the composition of stomp & shake cheers begin to document which cheers were originally composed by which cheerleading squads, any attempts to document those cheers will be in vain. Instead, just like traditional cheers, all or most stomp & shake cheers will be considered "universal cheers" with no squad given their proper respect for their compositions.
I hope this doesn't happen, but I'm concerned that it will.
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LISTS OF STOMP & SHAKE CHEER TITLES WITH ATTRIBUTIONS (Q-Z)
The entries on this list includes a link to a pancocojams post that features that cheer and/or a link to a YouTube video of that cheer.
When possible, these attributions are given with dates and with online documentation (as is the case with WSSU’s cheer "Rock" in Part III of this series.)
Note- Multiple cheers can have the same title or very similar titles, but different words.
Q, R
"ROCK"
Winston-Salem State University Cheerleaders ("WSSU", Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
Here's some information about who originated this cheer:
From http://ucdecheerphi.wixsite.com/ucde/cheer-phi-chronicles "WSSU’s
Original Cheer Phi" by Wannette Stevens -Fripp, September 2011
"During my junior year the location of the CIAA
cheerleading exhibition was not the only changes to our program. The coach that
had coached WSSU for 17 years Deborah Rivers had relocated due to her job.
DeMonte Cox the creator of the chant “Rock” became our coach and the legacy
lived on and I was so happy! DeMonte was an excellent coach. He was so
creative. He helped us make up dances, and cheers and chants. He brought
stunting ideas and kept us at the top of the cheer tier. Most importantly
DeMonte did not show favoritism and didn’t get involved with a lot of the petty
arguments"...
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Here's a comment that was posted in the discussion thread
for the video "Shaw University Cheerleaders BKA "Chi-Chis" 2011
pep rally part 1" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agGZmZj6-DM
"I will say this....the "Rock" cheer was made
up in 1994 by my Cheer-Phi Brother "Jamming-Ra" / roommate whom I
watched from start to finish with the words and moves as part of our
requirement to bring back 2 new chants before returning for Cheer Camp...Of
course, he showed the chant originality to the squad and they perfected it with
the infamous "shirt-shaking" and Rock was born.....AND THAT IS A
FACT!"...
-CheerPhi93, 2015
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"Jamming- Ra" is another name for Demonte Cox.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/06/examples-of-stomp-shake-cheerleading_29.html for examples of the words to this cheer.
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S, T
"SAY IT TO OUR FACE"
Winston Salem State University (WSSU) Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
This cheer is part of a series of cheers that WSSU cheerleaders performed in this YouTube video:
WSSU CHEERLEADERS GETTIN 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
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/06/examples-of-stomp-shake-cheerleading_73.html for that video, for words to that cheer, and more.
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"SET IT OFF"
Winston-Salem State University (WSSU), Winston-Salem, North Carolina
2014 WSSU Cheerleaders, Set It OFF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJE2QXaneB4
Artistry Photography, Published on Sep 21, 2014
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Here's a comment about WSSU's "Set It Off cheer" and a St. Augustine University cheer with a similar title. This comment is un 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:"
from 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"
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"SHABOOYA ROLL CALL"
No originator has been documented for this cheer.
(I collected an anecdotal remembrance of high school cheerleaders in Washington, D.C. chanting "Shaboya Roll Call" in the 1990s BEFORE the 1996 Spike Lee movie Get On The Bus (conversation that Azizi Powell had with a young African American woman in the DMV -Washington, D.C, Virginia, Maryland area in the early 2000s.
"Shabooya Roll Call" was chanted in Spike Lee's 1996 movie Get On The Bus" by Black American men who were seated on a bus traveling to participate in the national African American protest march called "The Million Men's March".
A version of that cheer was featured in a scene of the 2006 cheerleader movie Bring it On All Or Nothing
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/01/the-right-rhyming-pattern-for-shabooya.html for a 2012 pancocojams post entitled "The Right Rhyming Pattern For Shabooya Roll Call Verses". That post includes videos, words to versions of these cheers, and more information about these cheers.
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"SIT BACK DOWN"
Howard University Cheerleaders(Washington, D. C.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8ZIz-IkZSI "Howard University Bison Cheerleaders 2,published by CoachSpence, Oct 19, 2006
Here are two comments from that video's discussion thread (with numbers added for referencing purposes only:
1. @ChelseaSworldd, 2011
"WOW..... I'm a cheerleader. I do comp and I also cheer like
this! I love this style of cheering.... gets the crowd hyped and the team too."
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2.@MALLiEBOO531, 2012
"we do this cheer at our high school, we changed up the words
and the moves a little bit but we got it from ya'll THANKS!"
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/06/examples-of-stomp-shake-cheerleading_73.html for a video of and words for this cheer.
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U, V
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W, X
"WHO SHAKES THE BEST"
Virginia State University Cheerleaders (VSU, The Woo Woos) ; Virginia
The Probable Hip Hop Sources For The "Who Shakes The Best" Stomp & Shake Cheerleading Cheer
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/06/examples-of-stomp-shake-cheerleading_73.html for a video of and words for this cheer.
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"WORK IT"
Virginia State University (VSU Woo Woos)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blDqcHBu-Cs "VSU Woo Woos (Work It...)"
published by GoTrojans, Sep 11, 2008
VSU vs. NSU Labor Day Classic August 30, 2008
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Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/06/examples-of-stomp-shake-cheerleading_73.html for that video and for words to that cheer.
And click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/01/stomp-shake-cheerleading-who-cheers.html for the 2012 pancocojams post entitled "Stomp & Shake Cheerleading - Who Cheers The Best? (This Pancocojams Post Showcases Several Stomp & Shake Squads Without Ranking Which Squad Actually Cheered The Best)" for videos and comments about how some high schoolers in the DMV (Washington D.C, Maryland, Virginia region) learned this VSU cheer.
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Y, Z
"YOU GETS NO RESPECT IN HERE"
Winston Salem State University (WSSU) Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
This cheer is part of a series of cheers that WSSU cheerleaders performed in this YouTube video:
WSSU CHEERLEADERS GETTIN 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
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/06/examples-of-stomp-shake-cheerleading_73.html for that video, for words to that cheer, and more.
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"YOU MAKE US GO TO SLEEP"
Sparkman High School cheerleaders (Alabama)
A TikTok video and comments document that Sparkman High School cheerleaders performed this cheer in 2023 with its iconic ending of collapsing in pretend sleep on the bleacher seats or the gym floor.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/05/similarities-and-differences-between.html for the pancocojams post "The Stomp & Shake Cheers "You Make Us Go To Sleep" and "All Y' All Cheers Are Boring" (Videos)". That post includes YouTube videos of this cheer and words to versions of this cheerincludes .
This concludes Parr II of this two part pancocojams series.z
Visitor comments are welcome.
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