DEF: D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince “A Nightmare on My Street”

D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, a.k.a., Jeff Townes and Will Smith, hit the Top 20 with their first two songs to appear on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. On this date in 1988, the second of those two songs — “A Nightmare on My Street,” which was inspired by the film A Nightmare on Elm Street — climbed to a peak position of number 15. Today, “A Nightmare on My Street” by D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince is the Daily Eighties Flashback.