D’Lo Brown says this cult classic inspired his signature taunt.
D’Lo Brown rose to popularity during the Attitude Era as part of The Nation of Domination. It was also during that time that he debuted his signature headshake taunt, which became a defining part of his presentation.
Speaking to SoCal Val on The Velvet Ropes podcast, the former four-time WWE European Champion explained the origin of his iconic headshake, citing Ice Cube and Chris Tucker’s Friday as the inspiration.
“There is a great movie that I love very much called Friday… there’s a scene where Deebo… gets knocked down, and Chris Tucker flies over top of him, goes, ‘You just got knocked out,’ and he’s shaking his head,” D’Lo recalled.
“The next night, on RAW, Rocky is wrestling Ken Shamrock… I see the camera go up on Ken Shamrock. And I go, ‘Yes, I know the camera’s gonna be on him,’ and I just slid up to him, one ‘You just got knocked out!’ And that was the first time I did the head shake… Vince McMahon saw it. He took notice of it, told me to keep doing it, because if it peaked his curiosity, then it peaked a lot of people’s curiosity.”
D’Lo Brown recalls the night Snoop Dogg and The Godfather hotboxed a room at a WWE event
Elsewhere in the same interview, D’Lo Brown gave a detailed account of The Godfather and Snoop Dogg’s infamous smoke session at the Allstate Arena in 1999.
“That was RAW in Chicago,” D’Lo Brown began, “at the Allstate Arena, and it’s very small; the downstairs is very small. So, there’s a small hallway, and there’s like three or four rooms there, and on the left side is the boys’ locker room, and then the girls’ locker room, and on the right side was like, production and then Vince’s office.
“Well, since it was a house show, live event, there was no production. So, that was going to be the room where the celebrities would be, and that’s where Jesse Ventura was at, and then before Jesse got there, Snoop Dogg was there.
“So, Snoop comes rolling in, and, you know, he’s dapping and he’s hanging with the boys, and all of a sudden, him and Godfather go disappear into this room. And like clockwork, five minutes later, the entire bottom bowl of the arena smells of the funk of 40,000 years.”
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