Weekend Wildcard - Are You Ready for Freddy by Fat Boys (Guest host Kyle)

Happy Halloween! I'm filling in for Scott today, lucky you!

The 80's and 90's gave us a load of horror themed rap: Elvira's Monster Rap, MC Hammer's Addams' Groove, Tag Team's Addams Family Whoomp! (yes it was a thing), and more; but none make me more nostalgic for trick-r-treating than today's Weekend Wildcard.

This gem should be on every Halloween party playlist and features 1980's favorite sweater clad horror icon. Are you hoping for the classic "Nightmare on My Street" by Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff? Sorry, no official video was ever released since the movie studio wasn't a fan of this unofficial homage to Elm Street. In fact they ordered the footage to be destroyed and required disclaimer stickers be placed on the upcoming album disassociating the song with the franchise.

Today we're celebrating October with a New Line sanctioned track, the Nightmare on Elm Street 4 soundtrack hit featuring The Fat Boys and a rap performance by Robert Englund. Amazingly this isn't Freddy's only musical endeavor. In 1987 he released an entire album with The Elm Street Group and it's bonkers.

This video is a reminder that a brutal serial killer with knife hands was once so beloved and entrenched in pop culture that he invaded toy stores, MTV, and practically had his own Saturday morning cartoon.

"Don't fall asleep!"