Cameo (band)
Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s. Cameo was initially a 13-member group known as the New York City Players; this name was later changed to Cameo to avoid a lawsuit from Ohio Players, another group from that era.
As of 2009, some of the original members continue to perform together, while two others were hired by the hip hop group Outkast. In 2015, Cameo announced a new residency show at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, opening March 2016.
History
In 1974, Cameo started out with 10 members created by Larry Blackmon and called the New York City Players. Signed by Casablanca Records to their Chocolate City imprint in 1976, the group soon changed its name to Cameo after concerns that New York City Players might cause confusion between them and the funk band Ohio Players. Prior to this, Blackmon, keyboardist Gregory Johnson, and the late Gwen Guthrie formed the band East Coast, together with James Wheeler (alto saxophone), Melvin Whay (bass), Michael Harris (percussion), and Haras Fyre (also known as Pat Grant) on trombone. They released one self-titled album in 1973 on the independent label Encounter.
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ALBUMS
- Cardiac Arrest & We All Know Who We Are released: 2010
- 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Cameo released: 2007
- The Hits Collection released: 2006
- Gold released: 2005
- The Universal Masters Collection: Classic Cameo released: 2003
- Anthology released: 2002
- Sexy Sweet Thing released: 2000
- The 12'' Collection & More released: 1999
- Greatest Hits released: 1998
- The Ballads Collection released: 1998
- Word Up released: 1998
- Best Of Cameo released: 1997
- Nasty released: 1996
- The Best Of Volume 2 released: 1996
- Cameosis released: 1993
- The Best of Cameo released: 1993
- Style released: 1992
- Emotional Violence released: 1992
- Feel Me released: 1992
- Real Men ... Wear Black released: 1990
- Machismo released: 1988
- Single Life released: 1985
- She's Strange released: 1984
- Alligator Woman released: 1982
- We All Know Who We Are released: 1978
- Ugly Ego released: 1978
- Cardiac Arrest released: 1977
- Secret Omen released:
- Knights of the Sound Table released:
- In the Face of Funk released:
- Shake Your Pants released:
- Word Up! released:
The 12'' Collection & More
Released 1999- I Just Want to Be (12" extended mix)
- Word Up! (12" club mix)
- Shake Your Pants (12" club mix)
- She's Strange (12" club mix)
- Candy (12" UK mix)
- Back & Forth (Larry Blackmon mix)
- Single Life (12" UK Larry Blackmon mix)
- Attack Me With Your Love (12" club mix)
- Rigor Mortis (12" mix)
- Room 123 (She's Strange) (12" rap mix)
Nasty
Released 1996- Intro (Live)
- Flirt (Live)
- She's Strange (Live)
- Back & Forth (Live)
- Skin I'm In (Live)
- Why Have I Lost You (Live)
- Sparkle (Live)
- Candy (Live)
- Shake Your Pants (Intro) (Live)
- Shake Your Pants (Live)
- I Just Want To Be (Live)
- Keep It Hot (Live)
- Word Up (Live)
- Come Fly With Me (Live)
- Nasty (Live)
- Mega Mix (Live)
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Style (Single)
by: CameoNon-commercial lyrics run like Hershel
Walkin' fast, 'cause I'm a smooth talker
Appeal the feel, but don't praise and kneel, just heal
And always look for the seal that's real
Top Dog, lookin' up to say what is this
Kid Rock serious and I mean business
Ascending up and up I keep boosting
Makin' hit records like Whitney Houston
With a mind of violence, right, I might
Blow the show teachers speakin' yo, I cut MP's
To release to each and be friends of
Every single individual
Everybody all over the world
It's time for understandin', come together
Jumbo, yo, that's how I'm movin'
I'm the new kid in, here's what I'm givin'
A jammed, slammin', command that take authority
'Cause too many MC's appear apart of me
Name and they claim me, yo, that they're winnin'
A lotta just came in, sound the same in
Thinkin' they swift and can get with these young men
But I keep the crowd swingin' like Tarzan
'Cause I'm a wise man here to teach and speak
And if you step out of line your up shits creek
So come with it, Kid Rock's gonna get it
His style ain't dope, its a throat and I slit it
I'm raw like cowhide, smooth like a plane ride
No half steppin', I always take a full stride
Who came played and they say I'm concrete made
I used to come correct in the projects
New Port, Oxford, deep in the basement
House and parties like real estate agent
So on, so strong and everyone got along
Knowledge is power and there's a point to this song
Everybody all over the world
It's time for understandin', come together
Everybody all over the world
It's time for understandin', come together
Now as I said my prayers through the years, I've shed a few tears
'Cause it's unjust when I see my peers get shot
And dropped and forgot, now that's hot
Too many can't score as victims of a drug war
Cocaines ran and weapons are shipped out
The press finds out then the public is tripped out
New tax the acts and half the drug industry
Uncle Sam is my man, are you kiddin' me
Put me in the Whitehouse, now that's fucked up
For one to get over, one must get stuck up
One will roll up, another will smoke up
Two more thrown in jail, who picks the toll up
Tell her to beware if she's gonna stand there
Eyes bugged out and hands in the air
'Cause there comes an onlooker, lookin' for a hooker
And act like the doors overlooked her and took her
For a place to hide and when he got his ride
He let the nice slide and the girl, she died
Her family cried over this homicide
And why they pondered, why she wandered
Left her own spot, her home, her mom and pop
All to smoke a little cooked up rock
So on and so strong, she couldn't get along
Knowledge is power and there's a point to this song
Everybody all over the world
It's time for understandin', come together
Everybody all over the world
It's time for understandin', come together
From the outskirts with a mind like Albert Einstein
Maybe I'm ahead of my time
Imaginate, create, spectate, elevate from the states
Surrounded by the Great Lakes
I was once out cold at fifteen years old
Rolled and sold, you, me, and Bo
Sittin' in Jackson infested with rats
With a silver gat tucked deep in my slacks
I was a young bad mother in my own eyes
But now I realize it wasn't too wise
So now I teach, I'll reach to each
And every single individual
Everybody all over the world
It's time for understandin', come together
Come together, come together
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