@@Huss_D Warning: May cause uncontrollable body movements, high levels of popularity, and scoring with that one hot chick you've had your eye on all night. If symptoms persist for less than 4 hours, please consult your nearest deejay for another dose.
Thank you for saying that~ I could not agree more!!! Whenever I get disgusted or overwhelmed by the other crap (socials, etc) I come back to YT for some fun and memories~ it gets me squared away and joyful in very short order!! 💜💜💜
I truly mis the 80s and I'm also 57 those we're the Year's Good music and super fun nothing like now day's. love these guy's and many more straight funk most definitely Legendary 🎶🎵🎼🎶❤️😘❤️
I'm 54 and man I had so much fun back then. We used to go to our skating rink, Skate King, and walk around listening to music and talking to girls. Everybody was having fun back then. A few fights but No shootings! I miss those days and I miss some of the people that have passed away.
@@davidleebls1874 Er, I'm Irish ancestry, no way am I fucking waving to the British Royal family. You realise their ancestor Queen Victoria caused the deaths of 1 million Irish people in the 1840's right? They had a famine and she decided to let them all starve to death, despite having plenty of money and food to send them. She's as evil as Adolf Hitler.
I used to take my kids to school and when they misbehaved, I'd blast the song in my car stereo as punishment in front of the school, it worked a few times but then ,when I'd wake ⏰ up to take them they were already gone..... lmao 😝
There's enough Funk energy in this video to power the planet for the next 2,000 years. And Cameo proves what Superman knew all along: a real badass wears red underpants outside blue tights.
True. It's sad that we don't possess the materials strong enough to harness all that funky power. Fortunately, this funk's power is so strong that it doesn't dissipate. One day. ONE DAY!!!
This was a magical time to be alive. There were no rules/expectations for music videos. Just artists working with a new medium. Some stuff worked, some didn't. The growing pains were obvious, but a true joy to witness.
The black, techno sound was the shit back when I was a young teen. I was 13 in '86 and I remember this dominating the airwaves. Times were so much simpler and even though I grew up in the hood, my childhood was pretty damn good.
WORD UP...I have never heard of Cameo or this song til today. I watched a doctor/comedian on Dry Bar who mentioned it being his ring tone. I was curious so I looked on TH-cam and found this video. I'm 71 years old and LOVE the song, the dance moves, everything. I couldn't help myself...I had to get and dance around the room. And to think I was listening to Country Music in the 80's. I have some catching up to do...80's music, here I come.😎
Oh, I was gonna say, where were you?, I'm 69 in couple months, maybe you in a way outback town with just enough reception for a local Country Radio station and no television lol
I was at Cameo concert with my bestie and we had a table right in front, we could almost touch anyone of them. It was a small venue of about 300 folks...OLD SCHOOL FUN..80s
In the 80s we didn't listen to the radio when we were at home. We watched MTV. When I "saw" this song for the first time, it blew me way. It still does almost 40 years later...
I had already become a Metalhead by 1984 and I have always loved this song. Still do. One of the best songs of all-time. It's impossible to not love it.
@@rustywastakenwastaken It's the best in regards to fashion and music. That's just me. Yeah, the AIDS epidemic and politics during the 80s, not so great.
My favorite thing ever just happened at church this past Saturday. The pastor was SUPER deep with messages and a guy from the very back yelled “WORDDDD UPP!!!!!!!” Hahhahahahahahaaaa
The tune does remind me of one or two late 60s favourites,such as Stevie Wonder's I Was Made to Love Her,somehow,and the whistling synth motif evokes Spaghetti Westerns to me thanks to the late Ennio Moricone,but it's still awesome.
@distortionpedal-How is that possible, it is in pop culture!!!! That would be like me saying I have never heard-Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi..... Still plays on radio today, on music channels/TV documentaries, shopping centres, family parties, I last heard it when a guy at traffic lights had it blaring out his car!!!!
For 1986 it was a bit ahead of its time but has also become a timeless classic. One of the funkiest songs of its time .Still gets me groovin 25 years later. A couple of years ago I played this for my grandson, who is not much of an 80s music fan. He didn't seem to impressed but 2 hours I heard him grooving and humming it to himself.
VeryBeiez Kind regards, as a 3 year old I endeavour to continually push the boundaries of my education, with particular emphasis on my grammar and vocabulary. Now I appreciate that I am very young, but would you be kind enough to explain why Cameo is wearing a red cup around his penile area?
Omg! Will never stop listening to Word Up My favorite. We used to take the album out with us and have the DJ play it. But at the end of the night a lady said it was hers! She looked tuff, so wasn't going to argue. Now, you bet your ass I'd tell her its MINE!!!!! Guess I'm getting brave in my old sexy age.
@@kats938 idk folks rocking SPs and MPCs are pretty talented, idk what was available when this song dropped, but that makes it even more impressive imo
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This song needs a warning label. "Warning: Contains dangerous levels of funk."
For real! It causes uncontrollable body movement.
@@Huss_D Warning: May cause uncontrollable body movements, high levels of popularity, and scoring with that one hot chick you've had your eye on all night. If symptoms persist for less than 4 hours, please consult your nearest deejay for another dose.
@@whiterabbit75 lol! 😂 so good dude!
LOL Brilliant 💃
This video contains dangerous levels of cocaine! 🤣
This is as 80´s as it gets. The moves, the haircuts, the dancing, everything. And the song is incredible - judged by any standards
The cod piece...... dont forget the cod piece
True Dat!!
80's...no, like '73 I recall
@@hynes64 I was gonna say the cod-piece!
And yet, you can feel the early 90s approaching...
This is what the web was put together for. So we could have this song decades later, on demand.
Yeeees, indeed.🎉
Thank you for saying that~ I could not agree more!!! Whenever I get disgusted or overwhelmed by the other crap (socials, etc) I come back to YT for some fun and memories~ it gets me squared away and joyful in very short order!! 💜💜💜
Thank you Tim Berners Lee!
Word up 😁
Ouw
I miss these days when our music was new. I'm 57 now and love the 80s!!!
19 years younger but i also miss the 80's, I remember a lot by music
I truly mis the 80s and I'm also 57 those we're the Year's Good music and super fun nothing like now day's. love these guy's and many more straight funk most definitely Legendary 🎶🎵🎼🎶❤️😘❤️
I'm 54 and man I had so much fun back then. We used to go to our skating rink, Skate King, and walk around listening to music and talking to girls. Everybody was having fun back then. A few fights but No shootings! I miss those days and I miss some of the people that have passed away.
80s was such an important era of music, through the early 90s.
I'm toi from MOROCCO 55
There are many places where it's still illegal to be this funky.
Are you allowed to say where? I know a couple of them.🤣🤣🤣🤣🥰🥰🥰🥰😘
Ironically those places often have quite a funky smell.
Nooo. Who would be so ignorant?
good
I live in one of those places 🤣
This got the highest 80’s density per second I ever seen
Abel Ramos lol
1986 man, the middle of the 80s
Word!
Abel Ramos hilarious and true. 80’s chicks looked so feminine though. More 80s please
Word up
I'm a teacher. I'm sick of grading papers. This song is a blast from my past and I play it when I need a lift. Thank you, Cameo, for this!
The instrumental was used to teach the Word Wall in my class. We loved it
Thank you for all your hard work! I have 3 kids in school and I know the teachers have a lot on their plate right now
Your mum gay
From all the parents , all around the world : THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICES. 😭💪👏🤝
Josi Thanks for teaching our kids. I retired being a Para Professional in 2020
Wish music was still like this in 2024
To this day, I still wave my hands in the air like I just don't care.
I wonder who came up with that expression
U
Care...
UR
Just waving to the Royal in
England
You cared a little tho
@@davidleebls1874 Er, I'm Irish ancestry, no way am I fucking waving to the British Royal family. You realise their ancestor Queen Victoria caused the deaths of 1 million Irish people in the 1840's right? They had a famine and she decided to let them all starve to death, despite having plenty of money and food to send them. She's as evil as Adolf Hitler.
@@bingonamo7520 same here.. Irish family.. All the way back.. We where slaves to the kingdom..
This song is so ahead of its time that Lt. Commander La Forge had to witness it in person.
He was pretty engaged too. 😅
Nah he read it in a book, on Reading Rainbow, sadly folks don’t read anymore.
😂 I love it! 🏆
@lelandgaunt9985 Yeah. Just saw his family tree featured on "Finding Your Roots." Phenomenal. 🎉
@MindRegulatorMusic Well he was Kunta Kinte.
Damn. This holds up really well 20 years later. Big ups to Cameo.
30 years. This came out in 86.
The old version but we have the new version that little mix sang :)
Angelo Tabudlong
That version made me want to rip the ears off the side of my head.
+JeredtheShy I prefer the Korn cover but the original holds up
Mike Youngblood Korn covered this??
The question is. Who has been listening to this AMAZING jam from CAMEO since the 80'S. 🎶 🎵 🎤 🎙❤and has NEVER EVER STOPPED 💃 🕺
Family reunion playlist
Me
I’ve been listening since 1976, when I bought their album by mistake. Little did I know what an amazing band this was.
i have, more times than anybody else. best song of all time.
I still have the cassette tape of this song and it is also on my playlist
All these years later, and this is still a ridiculously good song!
I used to take my kids to school and when they misbehaved, I'd blast the song in my car stereo as punishment in front of the school, it worked a few times but then ,when I'd wake ⏰ up to take them they were already gone..... lmao 😝
Great comment. I guess we're showing how old we all now, lol.
I agree!!❤
2022 and this is still fire!! 🔥🔥
Who has song this good.nowadays “KANYE” who Funks anymore…Bruno Mars…
This song never gets old… and Levar Burton made a “cameo” 🥰
Great comment, and I love LeVar too!
Haha "Cameo" lol
Still gives me chills and tingles instantly after thirty-five years.
Reading Rainbow 🌈 in da club 🤣😂💯👍🏿
I get it!
Omg I loved this when it first came out and I’m still loving it at 62 years old, in May 2024
ME TOO! 😂🔥😎
I just heard it on the movie
Long Shot! I ran to TH-cam!
Loving it @69!
I'm 60 years old and I love it too
59 today and still dancing😂
67 , funk is uplifting as ever !
There's enough Funk energy in this video to power the planet for the next 2,000 years.
And Cameo proves what Superman knew all along: a real badass wears red underpants outside blue tights.
Isnt that a red hockey cup??
True. It's sad that we don't possess the materials strong enough to harness all that funky power. Fortunately, this funk's power is so strong that it doesn't dissipate. One day. ONE DAY!!!
@@trevorparry2287 it’s called a red codpiece
Tight tights. Cameo was gettin strangled by the videographer obviously lol.
@trevorparry2287 it's a codpiece.
I lost my mum from covid today and I remember her loving this band when I was growing up. Rest in peace mum
Sad for you but happy shes not parking on this dance floor anymore..
@@philvigil6128 not sure what that means tbh
sus she was killed by the guys cared it
Sorry Shannon.
May your mother's soul rest in peace🙏🏾
2020 I mean, honestly it STILL doesn't get much better than this jam.
💃🏼
Hell yee my dude
Word!!
Is this negative? It feels like yoz don't like this song
Ikr
This was a magical time to be alive. There were no rules/expectations for music videos.
Just artists working with a new medium. Some stuff worked, some didn't.
The growing pains were obvious, but a true joy to witness.
Amen, Bro! 😎🤘
well said , wish we could go back !
minha vida meu amog aqui mano
meu coração é cigano mano
There were rules. There is a detailed list of things they weren't allowed to do
Literally one of the best songs ever composed
Literally one of the best cod pieces ever worn.
word up!
The only bad part of being a teenager in the 80s is that were old now.
😂😂😂😭😭😭😭
😂😂 i would hate to be yall now lol. Im trynna be young as long as possible
Old but alive and hip! x
@sunny skies facts 👏🏾💯
What i would give to go back even for just one day😭
The 80s had the best music. I really miss it. My son says he wishes he grew up in the 80s 😂
Me too😭😔
Don't blame him. Gen X baby! 💪🏼
Me to
Nah.
Tell your son..You are not alone ~ MJJ ❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊
The black, techno sound was the shit back when I was a young teen. I was 13 in '86 and I remember this dominating the airwaves.
Times were so much simpler and even though I grew up in the hood, my childhood was pretty damn good.
TempeSoldier123
Respect,,,,, & same here I thank growing up in the hood for blessing me to be the successful Man / Husband / Father I am today
TempeSoldier123 Back when the bigger your stereo the cooler you were? Jaja
Ha! And the Fat Boy shoestrings....
Damn, great times man.
TempeSoldier123 yes!
WORD UP...I have never heard of Cameo or this song til today. I watched a doctor/comedian on Dry Bar who mentioned it being his ring tone. I was curious so I looked on TH-cam and found this video. I'm 71 years old and LOVE the song, the dance moves, everything. I couldn't help myself...I had to get and dance around the room. And to think I was listening to Country Music in the 80's. I have some catching up to do...80's music, here I come.😎
Never heard of Cameo at that age shame on you 😮
You should hear the one by Korn!
Oh HECK YES!!!
WORD UP!!❤
Oh, I was gonna say, where were you?, I'm 69 in couple months, maybe you in a way outback town with just enough reception for a local Country Radio station and no television lol
Check out the remix country version by BOSS Hog…
Who here is old enough to remember jamming to this when it originally came out? 🙋🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️
At the local Roller Rink!
Yup!! Zapp n Roger too:)
I was at Cameo concert with my bestie and we had a table right in front, we could almost touch anyone of them. It was a small venue of about 300 folks...OLD SCHOOL FUN..80s
Was all over the radio when it new.
Donna Clayton yeah this unforgettable tune still huge 2020 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🌟💕
Legendary
Didn’t expect to see you here!
@Marius Ipad word up tell everyone
Marius Ipad no it was mark laraua
same agree
What are you doing here??😂
Cameo is more confident than any gangsta rapper with that cod piece on.
No romance, no romance, no romance for me
It's about time the cod piece enjoyed a mainstream fashion revival :)
And on top of that they made music worth listening to 👍
@@nickdavison9771 and spray on pants.
lmao true
In the 80s we didn't listen to the radio when we were at home. We watched MTV. When I "saw" this song for the first time, it blew me way. It still does almost 40 years later...
As a kid, seeing the Reading Rainbow guy show up in this video blew my mind!
I don't know about you but 80ies evening radio shaped my life.
With all that happened in 2020-2021 I feel it is now the time to bring back the codpiece as a fashion accessory.
Saluti da Milano
😂🤣🤣👏🏼 In red like his
Thank you Jim! Omg!
Got mine😂😂😂
YES!
My mom loved Cameo, this was one of her favorites…RIP MOM
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
May her soul rest in Peace and Power ❤ she's with my mom ❤
RIP MOM❤❤❤
Your Mom obviously had an ear for good music. RIP to your Mom
I hope she's hanging out with my mom, teaching her what's good. :)
We have to give CAMEO their flowers for closing off the FUNK era with these classics
Yeah very sad thank you wow lord help me
Absolutely 💯, and change %...
This song is one of the funkiest pieces of music ever conceived.
The bassline alone could impregnate an entire town. Cameo killed it on this track.
Nice finding you here lmao
First heard it in 1986, in 2024 still listening to this masterpiece.... :-)
(that's 38 years!)
Me too❤ i was 16 ! Word up, bro! ❤
What a kick ass bass line. After all these years i still feel the same way as if i had heard it for the very first time. Great song
a comment that doesnt have to do with infinity train? Awesome
@@josecarr6464
Ah and you ruined it.
@@Error0101 thanks
@@Error0101 rip iron man
I had already become a Metalhead by 1984 and I have always loved this song. Still do. One of the best songs of all-time. It's impossible to not love it.
Nu metal Korn dug this one enough to cover it, lol.
I was thinking that too @@dntskdnttll
STILL THE BOMB! I get up and dance every👏single👏time👏 we had some of the best dance songs in the 80s❤
Yes we did i know u remember slide😅😅😅
Ok you know this song is the jam. Even the cops are grooving to the beat.
☹️
If I’m ever about to get arrested, I’m playing this. An easy getaway after they’re all distracted
The cop in the white blouse is Levar Burton.
I'm seeing your comments on everything I'm watching tonight lol ❤️✌️
hey ur the penguinz0 guy
MAN!! I'm SPEECHLESS. Again my condolences, to those who didn't experince this era in good Music!! I'm missing the 70's and 80's.
Me too!
Atleast those who missed it can still appreciate it now.
As a boy who was born in 2001, i prefer this kind of song than the new one,don't know why haha
We've got internet now darling.
I’m gonna be 14 soon and thanks to the internet I have access to this gold. I’m lucky as well.
Who’s listening in 2024?
Reporting for duty 🫡
Me, I fn love this song
@@DarthShifu-pk8cv word up 2024
Why did u ask before 2024😂
Anyways I am
Still listening...
How do you NOT dance to Word Up? 40 years later and I still dont have the answer! 😂❤❤❤
Ikr? embarrasses the grandkids lol
LMAO. YUP!
Ya Feel IT All The Way Through Ya ❤🎉😂
The song isn't even 40 years old yet if it came out in 1986 making this song almost 38 years old.
Not 40 years yet though lol
The 80’s was the best decade ever.
Damond Barbee- You are right Man. The Best. Love me the 80s.
no
@ronnie doorzon not if you're gay
OMG yes !!! 🌺💕🌸
@@rustywastakenwastaken It's the best in regards to fashion and music. That's just me. Yeah, the AIDS epidemic and politics during the 80s, not so great.
This song never gets old. I remember dancing to it at the clubs.
Omg me too I thought my feet would bleed 😅🎶❤
@@meganrussell53 Cocaine Shuffle?
my mom went to their concert she raised me to this when she had me a few years later we had dance parties 😂❤
Lucky of you !
I told my mom I heard Candy for the first time asked her if she knew them, that song, and she said “yea they sing Word Up” like duh 🤣😂😂
my paycheck was $400 per week $1 happy hour beer and free food. 80s were awesome.
Still timeless even after 40 yrs later!
Will forever be timeless👊🏿
thanks for reminding me its 40 years later, i`m old🙂
that’s the definition of »timeless«
Dang 40 yrs. lol That is about right. I was a freshman in college.
My favorite thing ever just happened at church this past Saturday. The pastor was SUPER deep with messages and a guy from the very back yelled “WORDDDD UPP!!!!!!!” Hahhahahahahahaaaa
That's freaking awesome!
Sweet!!!!!
this is one of the greatest dance tracks of all time. absolute masterpiece. so experimental, original & fresh.
it was never known for a dance track,please
And yet it charted at #1 on Billboard’s Dance Club chart. So that qualifies it as a dance song
@@2CHACHOUU We dance this sht in 2022 still to this day stfu
Idk about original or experimental but it's definitely fresh
The tune does remind me of one or two late 60s favourites,such as Stevie Wonder's I Was Made to Love Her,somehow,and the whistling synth motif evokes Spaghetti Westerns to me thanks to the late Ennio Moricone,but it's still awesome.
What a timeless masterpiece.
🇰🇬😉👍💚💚
Absolutely without a doubt
Don't know why but love this song.
This song was heavy rotation. I'm glad it was the one that finally gave them their just do. I believe they won their first Grammy for this.
I think they lost to Milli Vanilla I remember screaming at the TV, saying no .@#$_ way!
This song for me is forever link to Tulip overcoming shame and embracing the love she holds for her parents.
So good
"It's the music of your heart, Miss Tulip!"
This was everyone’s song. I don’t care who you were, you pumped it UP.
As soon as you heard the drums and the first notes hit!
@@goldengreenhouse1yup, as soon as we heard it, we'd start waving our hands in the air like we didn't care!!!! 👌👍😎
I still turn it up!!
"Give us music, we can use it. We need to dance" I love that part!
I like what he said after that...... 🙃🍇
@@DaytimeNightmare me too 🙂❤ great lyrics
Still listening in August 2024
From Italy 🇮🇹
Captain Picard: Where the hell is Geordi? ...... Ryker: Getting down on the holo deck captain.
Lol. SCOTTIE BEAMED HIM UP AND THE FUNK WON'T LET HIM GO !!!!!
😂🤣😂 the funk is overloading the engines. She can’t take much more captain!
Filming this video in the holodeck.
🤣😂🤣
🤣🤣🤣
2021, doesn't get old. What a nice song to boost your moral after waking up
2021 facts I’m bumping now 8am in California
Waking up to realize the lives we were living are a scam?
Honestly, it may have taken place at a later year than 2021, or even 2022, for that matter.
2022🔥
3:36 That high note still gives me goosebumps!
Same here ❤
Yup! Best part of the song. I was just pullin in the garage. I had to sit there and wait for that part before I got out😊
Por qué el Harry y Eggsy golpean al agente whiskey para arreglarlo a una picadora de carne 🥩🍖🥩🔪🪓
Still listening in April 2024… just now!! From 🇧🇷 Brazil
and in Canada . Bless you Brother !
One of THE greatest tunes ever.
Who’s still listening to this during Coronavirus pandemic?
Actually just found out about it.
Yup!
I've got a fever.. and the only prescription is listening to cameo
I can't decide between this and Korn version. :D
@@mihusnooker
Try the Gun version.
Currently dying because I used to dance to this in the teen club as a kid and now I'm trying not to hurt myself dancing to it in the grocery store. 😂
😹🛒🩻💃👍🏿🕺🏿👩🏼🦽👯🎟🍌🎵
I love this comment soo much!! 😂 Now if I hear this song playing in a store I'll be thinking of you and laughing to myself! 😅
just keep your hands in the air where they can be seen...don't let kids under your skin, don't let those kids get mean
I think one of the true signs of being an adult is when you start to wonder when the music in the grocery store got so good.
I hear u lady ❣️🇦🇺💃🕺
I have never heard this song before … I’m 40 and it’s 2024 … wtf ??…. It’s dope .
👍🥂💯
Well it came about before you were born, so you are forgiven.
It came after u were born but u just missed out on it I guess lol
@@jackb348 That is such a very poor excuse 🙄🙄
@distortionpedal-How is that possible, it is in pop culture!!!!
That would be like me saying I have never heard-Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi.....
Still plays on radio today, on music channels/TV documentaries, shopping centres, family parties, I last heard it when a guy at traffic lights had it blaring out his car!!!!
This song will never get old, a timeless classic
I N F I N I T Y T R A I N
YESSSS
yes had to look this up
Yes :3
Noice
Infinity Train fans unite!
This is still so cool
word up 🖒
word up ..when the trumpets come up it's even more Word!
WORD UP
erm... yeah, yeah, of course (sarcasm)
amazing! !!! love that.
Loved those days, Hearing the begining meant dance time....
Good songs never die...
2RK yes I just blew at my screen thinking it was an eyelash lol
some things are just good forever...
Cameo was in a league of their own. A funky mix of pop and rock with a twist of R&B and dabble of soul.
cameo is funk and soul, nothing rock about it ...
It’s 2019 an this songs is still fire 🔥💯
You know this song was playing on the movie Juice.
Hi is good
Hi is a good singer
I feel ya dope ass song
Word !! So is Candy🔥🎼🎺🎵🎶🎹💯
40 Years later and still FUNKY!
THIS TRACK IS A STRAIGHT UP CLASSIC FOREVER
Catchy as hell no matter what generation you're from.
náisiúnach yasss
Makes me want to get up and dance
Who here in 2021? This jam Neva gets old
ME
Sis, wing yo hayndz in thuh aiyah
😲☺️
@Zazu Pitts
1:02😁
This song is like a cherry 57 Chevy running a 440 big block.
@Zazu Pitts
Jus my silly self be ackin up on da lyrics 😁
me&mah frenz do like dat all da time to songs & tunes
Timeless. Will be the jam eternally. You go to the farthest reaches of the universe. You'll STILL be heard. It's the code word
I love how this song sounds on Tulip's voice!
Pink fioyd
Who just started randomly listening to old songs
Weird right?. I'm all over the place from, Little Richard to Mobb Deep to Cameo.
Yup
I have spent a full 12 hour night shift reliving my youth and I loved it!!!
The only music worth listening to
Yeah I did, though I wonder if its random , more like escapism to good days in my mind with the shit state the world is in now
For 1986 it was a bit ahead of its time but has also become a timeless classic. One of the funkiest songs of its time .Still gets me groovin 25 years later. A couple of years ago I played this for my grandson, who is not much of an 80s music fan. He didn't seem to impressed but 2 hours I heard him grooving and humming it to himself.
Listen to Debbie Harry's The Jam Was Moving from 1981.
It is virtually impossible to hear this and not move your body in some way! Live this!!❤❤❤❤❤
I'm only 2 years old and fucking love this song!
*****
Okay, you got me, I'm actually 3 years old, but WORD UP!
Better english than everyone else here on yt...
VeryBeiez
Kind regards, as a 3 year old I endeavour to continually push the boundaries of my education, with particular emphasis on my grammar and vocabulary.
Now I appreciate that I am very young, but would you be kind enough to explain why Cameo is wearing a red cup around his penile area?
+Sadik Meah Same reason MJ wore a white sequin glove - so we would talk about it.
David Gooding
What??? Michael Jackson wore a glove on his penis??
It’s impossible not to dance when you hear this song!
Yes it is, it is possible
No it isn’t, it’s impossible
Korn version is much better
Prince_ OfDarkness23 actually check out little mix’s version
@@ShrimpyWimpy666 eh
Even after all these years, I still can't get enough of this song. 😘😘😘😘😘😘😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰
Me too 🥰🥰🥰 really
The Cop was like....I cant take it no more...I need to be free.....lol
Omg! Will never stop listening to Word Up
My favorite. We used to take the album out with us and have the DJ play it. But at the end of the night a lady said it was hers! She looked tuff, so wasn't going to argue. Now, you bet your ass I'd tell her its MINE!!!!! Guess I'm getting brave in my old sexy age.
"Captain! The ship can't handle this level of 80's per second. She's gonna blow! "
I luv it with humor.,,.
Listening to this made me grow a eighties style mullet.
You know Geordi is keeping the 80s alive and well in some kind of inverse ionic Containment Field.
at 4 minutes & three seconds in, when Geordie sees the curves of a Romulan "sputnik"...
Captain! We're about to have a breech of 80s funk! The engines can't take it!
If Freddie Mercury and Prince had their genes spliced into one human:
/////// That comment just made my day. So true.🤣🤣
Never thought about it. So true
Wrapped in one hell of a cod-piece!
I've seen this video a million times but just today I wondered if anyone else thought he looked like a black Freddie Mercury.
Yooooooo omg the accuracy of this comment made me LOL
This song is so goddamn funky, but add in the bizarreness of the video, and it just becomes timeless legendary.
whos here in 2024 listening to this banger?
I'm still here
@@jayroser9876 me too !
WHO ISN'T
Right here!🙋♀️ I've even done it at karaoke 🎤 😃
Me & I'm 70 😅
If this funkadelic jam doesn’t make you wanna move, you’re dead inside.
I like how he's calling out "sucker DJs" wearing a codpiece. That's my favorite part of all of this insanity.
What a power move
Well he's right about not puttin on airs I guess lmao
I think he was calling out hip hop artists that always diss each other which is ironic because hip hop artists love sampling his music.
@@kats938 idk folks rocking SPs and MPCs are pretty talented, idk what was available when this song dropped, but that makes it even more impressive imo
He had to do it to em so they can stop actin out of pocket.
LeVar Burton doing *THE MOST* with his facial expressions
😂👍🏾🥃
I guess it’s suitable he’s in this vide and all considering Reading Rainbow and his tryouts for Jeopardy and all 😂😂😂!!!
I wish I was LeVar Burton
I wish I was LeVar Burton
@@smileydog5941 WARP SPEED DON'T RAINBOW READ ME
Yes! LOVE HIM
In 1986 I was in basic training (USAF). The rec center had a video jukebox and this was on constantly.
I was 17 when this came out and still love it - that codpiece tho.........
Ah come on, you have got to love the codpiece as well!
Did you have one?
Codpiece makes the ensemble, dude.
15
😂 I know...And I was so there! This was THE CLUB JAM I never questioned that codpiece tho🤣
🎶❤🎶 Cameo
The simplicity of the bass drum combined with the bass line is devastating. Amazing song in every aspect. Wow
THIS FUNK MUSIC NEEDS TO COME BACK!!!
Start a petition to get Drake to make funk music 🤣🤣🤣
I have tons of Funk CDs from the 70's & 80's. This is one of my faves!
School year of 1986/87 brings me here when I was a High School Freshman
This song makes me want to wave my hands in the air like I just don't care.
Rase the roof....
Me too!
😭🥴😂🤣😂 #old that comment tho
Do yo dance!!!
LOLZ, me too
This song is so amazing!! So underrated in my opinion. ❤️
It is 🔥🔥🔥
If I had a Bluetooth speaker right now I’ll be playing this music so loud
An absolute classic of unmatched beat, funk and coolness. A signature song of the best decade ever (80s). I love this song to bits. Thank you, guys! 😎
This was so original in 86. My uncle jammed this at family reunions Tx 1989.
Great song! The '80s were certainly a decade like none other!
True
"LeVar Burton and the Funk Police"....should be a television show.
LeVar Burtan has an interesting resume...TNG, Reading Rainbow and a stint with the funk police...
@@MRtwoTricks Don't forget "Roots."
@@bigrobbyd.6805 yep
What a great name for a band!!
@@MRtwoTricks ..."funk police..." I love it!
"Glide by the people as they start to look and stare."
At your RED CODPIECE.
😂😂😂
Haha!!!
It is quite eye catching :)
As you flaunt it every where word up!
The red codpiece is an unequalled stroke of genius!
When camp was an option open to EVERYONE! 😂! Love it!