Quickly cutting to a club, the rhythm of the music entices Burton's cops onto the dance floor while the group escapes arrest.

The group escapes the police sting on motorcycles to the seedy underbelly where Blackmon quickly disses hip-hop culture ('All you sucker DJs who think you're fly…you're acting like fools'), and proclaims the need to dance.

The video opens with soon-to-be 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' star LeVar Burton playing a police detective ordering Cameo to 'come out with your hands up.' Clearly, Cameo is doing something, well, 'wrong.' Next thing we know, Blackmon, with his trademark bright red codpiece, is singing 'Yo pretty ladies around the world/Got a weird thing to show you.' Umm…uh-huh. Which may come as a little shock to Bible readers who thought the Word was God. So, Word Up is the code word, and judging by the video, we're guessing it's code for sex. Word up/Everybody say/When you hear the call, you've got to get it underway/Word up/It's the code word/No matter where you say it, you know that you'll be heard Then again, the song's message isn't especially linear either. In 1986 Larry Blackmon - the longtime leader of New York-bred Cameo, who came of R&B age during the disco boom but was obviously an astute trend-watcher - and partner Tomi Jenkins got out the keytars, appropriated some jailhouse/hip-hop slang, and created a smash R&B hit in 'Word Up!' Blackmon's nasal, half-sung, half-rapped vocals and a keyboard line that echoed part of Italian composer Ennio Morricone's famed theme to The Good, The Bad And The Ugly became radio staples that year, leading to Cameo's biggest hit of their career and a video that, like so many of its time, defies linear explanation. Yep, you'll remember when hair was really that big, when drums were that up front in the mix, when video was young(er) and so were you. We're not here to judge, we just want to take you on a little trip down memory lane. Whichever category you fall into, each week we'll feature a video that's possibly been collecting dust when what it really deserves is a fresh look. For some, these videos are forgotten, for others just filed away, and for others still, a totally brand-new discovery.

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