If after hearing Cameo’s “Candy” you thought, “Oooh that’s the song from The Best Man,” you’re obviously too young to remember the time when the group was pumping out R&B hits on a regular.

By the time the fellas released the R&B chart topping song in 1986 , they had already charted fifteen Top 20 Billboard R&B hits—including the chart-topping “Word Up,” released the same year.

Written and produced by Larry Blackman, the “Candy” referred to in the song was allegedly cocaine.  “Wrapped up tight”—referring to the way bags of the drug come packaged. “Toss and turn in my bed,” “you’re takin’ my appetite,” and “you’re givin’ me a heart attack”—all three are references to the side effects of its use. Wow…Gotta Love the 80s.

That red-cup apparatus was something else, right?

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