The Fat Boys were plenty known for having fun and being able to laugh at themselves by 1988. Since their arrival onto the nascent Hip-Hop scene in the early 80s; Kool Rock-Ski, Buff Love, and Prince Markie Dee had become pioneers in charting the blueprint for rap artists to release full length albums, market themselves to wider audiences, and even how to parlay that success into film roles like 1987’s Disorderlies.