Sometimes the best musical moments are the ones that never actually happened. The Muppets never performed Naughty By Nature's 1993 anthem "Hip Hop Hooray," but thanks to Mylo the Cat's YouTube account, now they have ... sort of. The parody video features old footage from The Muppet Show and various Jim Henson movies where the scenes are manipulated to make it look like Kermit the Frog is rapping like Treach. Fozzie Bear also joins in on the fun.
Beaker gives the introduction in the video below before Kermit and Fozzie start jamming in the car scene from 1979's The Muppet Movie. The video is a ton of laughs for those who grew up during the 1990s when Naughty By Nature was huge and the Muppets were entering their third decade of entertaining. Check it out below, via Billboard.
Mylo the Cat has parodied other songs with the Muppets like Daft Punk's "Get Lucky," Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" and Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball." See those and more here.
"Hip Hop Hooray" appeared on Naughty By Nature's third studio album, 19 Naughty III. It peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums Charts.
"Hip-hop lately ain't about nuthin' but the G thang. G as in gangsta. G as in homicidal Dr. Dre, cop-killer Ice-T, Bush-killa Paris. Even the once-Afro-centric Brand Nubian resurfaced with warning labels attached, its members looking and sounding more like disciples of the Black Panthers than of Molefi Asante," Rolling Stone wrote in 1993. "But in the tradition of the kid in school who was so tough he never had to fight, Naughty By Nature tries to redefine G to mean ghetto-centric with its second album, 19 Naughty III."
Naughty By Nature's last album, Anthem Inc., came out in 2011.
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