45 REVELATIONS

On attitude alone, Cameo’s “Word Up” walks away with Single of the Month honors. Clearly the hippest sound in the room. Refining the warped, almost arrhythmic rap style they fashioned on “Attack Me With Your Love,” the trio concocts a psychological romance pairing a garage-style punk-funk bass line (much misused term—punk-funk, not bass line —but for once it fits here) with a host of dry on-the-one-liners.