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  • What did you think of the producers ending every show with your "boom shakalaka" tag?

    Vh1 Blog Jessica Suarez 2010

  • I came up with "boom shakalaka" a while ago, probably when I was 10-years-old, wrestling in my backyard with friends of mine.

    Vh1 Blog Jessica Suarez 2010

  • Although, his reply that she could do some completely rando song, Dave Bowie or something, and make it original sent that shakalaka boomeranging back to ol 'Blunderbloomers up there on stage.

    Gawker: defamer Richard Lawson 2010

  • The Bobcats could have had a three point lead with two seconds left with Gerald Wallace flying through the air doing a hundred flips, prepared to boom shakalaka, and Ray Allen would have somehow shoved him midair, picked up the loose ball, and bombed it in from his own baseline.

    Boston.BarstoolSports.com 2009

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  • boom.

    this would be an awesome word adoption

    May 12, 2017

  • looked up 2400 times. The people demand a definition.


    quick search has Boom Shaka Laka in 1991
    "His reviews for mid-'70s issues of Black Echoes helped define the genre and inspired some of the better reggae writing that followed, such as that in the now-defunct Small Axe or the new Boom Shaka Laka. "  The Beat magazine, (google book search result)

    Also spotted in the 1984 Ultimate Broadway Fake Book "shakalaka baby"

    August 25, 2017