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80s Video Of The Day: Cameo-“Word Up”

Bobby Caughron October 17, 2023 1 min read
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80s Video Of The Day: Cameo-"Word Up"

Released in 1986 “Word Up” stormed the radio airwaves and MTV and landed at #6 on The Billboard Charts. The video features Levar Burton as a detective who apparently intends to stop the funk. So wave your hands in the air like you don’t care…What’s the word?

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Bobby Caughron

Bobby Caughron is a music journalist and Editor-In-Chief for XS ROCK. He began a life-long fan of hard rock and metal music after hearing KISS as a kid. He is still an avid fan of the 80s metal scene and continues to discover and write about new music in all rock genres today.

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