10 Tiny Details About Wrestling Characters You Never Noticed

8. The Usos' 'Paranoia'

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Here's some lyrical examination.

Jim Johnston successor CFO$ has penned some mighty WWE themes in recent years. One of the best plays Jimmy and Jey Uso down to the ring, but it's easy to let the free-flowing beats and silky-smooth rap lyrics wash over you without really tuning in to what the session singer is saying.

In one line, he raps, "It's not paranoia, It's The Uso's". Pay attention to the cadence of "paranoia" in particular to hear a hidden message. The way it's said sounds like, “Pair of Anoa’i”, which is of course the root name of most wrestlers who comes from the island of Samoa. Jimmy and Jey, however, are different.

Their surname is Fatu, not Anoa’i, and it seems their music wants to make people aware of that. Though they're cousins with Roman Reigns (Leati Joseph Anoa’i), they have their own name. In WWE, it's Uso, which translates roughly as brother.

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