Candy (Cameo song)

"Candy"
Single by Cameo
from the album Word Up!
Released	1986
Genre	Funk
Length	5:39
Label	Casablanca Records
Writer(s)	Larry Blackmon Tomi Jenkins
Producer	Larry Blackmon
Cameo singles chronology
"Word Up!" (1986) "Candy" (1986) "Back and Forth" (1987)

"Candy" is a song by funk group Cameo, released as the second single from their 1986 album Word Up!. It reached number twenty-one on the Hot 100 and number one on the R&B charts in 1987. The song has recently been featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and can be heard on the Bounce FM radio station in the game.

The song has been sampled by various artists, including 2Pac ("All Bout U", featured on his album All Eyez on Me), Will Smith ("Candy", on his album Big Willie Style), and Mariah Carey ("Loverboy", on the soundtrack to the film Glitter); the latter song would reach #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2001. The Black Eyed Peas sampled it for the song "Ba Bump" from their album Monkey Business.

Cameo tried to capitalize on the song's success by re-using the melody on the song "Honey" from their next album, Machismo.

The song contains numerous cocaine references in its lyrics, such as: "you mind if I have a little bit more at a time", "wrapped up tight", referring to the way bags of cocaine come wrapped, and "toss and turn in my bed", "you're takin my appetite", "you're givin' me a heart attack", all references to cocaine's side effects.

External links

• "Candy" at Discogs

Preceded by "Stop to Love" by Luther Vandross

Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one single January 31–February 7, 1987

Succeeded by "Falling" by Melba Moore