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Cameo is a funk-influenced R&B group that was 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 The Ohio Players, another group from that era. Since then, Cameo has recorded several hits records. As of 2009, some of the original members continue to perform together, while two others were hired by the hip hop group Outkast.

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Reuse of songs

Covers

Samples

  • "Candy" was sampled by Tupac Shakur on his song "All Bout U", Will Smith on his song "Candy", by Mariah Carey on her song "Loverboy", by Eightball and MJG on "Just like Candy", and by Black Eyed Peas on their songs "Like That" and "Ba Bump" from their album "Monkey Business".
  • "Single Life" was sampled by rappers Snoop Dogg and Bad Azz on their song "Wrong Idea".
  • "Two of Us" was sampled by Beyonce Knowles on "What's It Gonna Be", and by Tupac Shakur on his song "I Wonder If Heavens Got a Ghetto".
  • "Rigor Mortis" was sampled by DJ Quik on his song "Get At Me", Brand Nubian on their song "Brand Nubian".
  • "She's Strange" was sampled by Tupac Shakur on his song "Young Niggaz", Nate Dogg on his song "She's Strange", AMG on his song "She's Paid", and Suga Free on his song "So Fly" featuring Snoop Dogg and also the song "U Know My Name" with a sample of "Back and Forth". The production has also been interpolated on the Jermaine Dupri track titled 'Party Continues' featuring Usher and Da Brat on his album 'Life in 1472'.
  • "Back and Forth" was sampled by Wu-Tang Clan on their song "Gravel Pit".
  • The ballad "Hangin' Downtown" was sampled by Oran Juice Jones on his song "Make Love to Your Mind", by Shareefah on her song "Fevah (He don't know" and more famously by DJ Premier for Group Home's "Supa Star".
  • Speech sampled "I've Got Your Image" in one of his recent productions.
  • "Why Have I Lost You [Version 2]" was sampled by Juvenile on his song "Rodeo". The song was also sampled by Warren G on the track "Super Soul Sis" off the debut album Regulate...G Funk Era
  • "Attack Me With Your Love" was sampled by satirical Norwegian rapper Oral Bee on his song "Den Breiale Stilen".

Use in multimedia

In 2006 "Word Up" was used in the film "Severence" in a dancing sequence.

In October 2004 Candy appeared in popular video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on Funk radio station Bounce FM, also on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, was Brand Nubian's "Brand Nubian", which samples "Rigor Mortis".

In the movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Andy (Steve Carell) is shown performing "Word Up!" on a karaoke machine in his apartment. Jackpot, a film which follows a karaoke singer hoping to get his big break, features an androgynous man giving a scene-stealing performance of "Candy". Larry Blackmon and T-Man were also supposed to be featured as celebrity cameos (not as the band, Cameo) in the 2007 release of "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres". Although they did not appear in the film itself, they are featured in the extras on the DVD. This footage shows them doing motion capture/CGI in order to be animated, as well as studio recording of the song written for the film.

The song "Candy" is also played during the bachelor party and wedding reception scenes in the 1999 motion picture The Best Man.

The song "Word Up" is played in The Simpsons, season 20 episode 6 (titled "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words") when Lisa Simpson is performing in a crossword competition and also in Everybody Hates Chris when Chris says that his mom always wanted to be in a band and it goes to a cut scene of rochelle dancing and singing to the song.

"Attack Me With Your Love" was featured on "Everybody Hates Chris". It can be heard in the beginning of the "Everybody Hates the First Kiss" season 3 episode.




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