'80s reunions are pretty much the new neon -- first there's the announcement of the re-emancipation of NKOTB. And now -- drop those bell-bottom Brady Bunch trousers and double-knit reversible slacks, because it's looking more likely that a long-awaited revival of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince may (finally) be a reality.

A DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince reunion has been rumored for years -- decades, even. But with MC-turned-megastar the Fresh Prince's movie, Hancock, nearing its July 2008 release date, might DJ Jazzy Jeff be dusting off his 1s and 2s to join Will for a "summertime" revival?

No tour dates have been announced, but we'll have our Adidas and Jams at the ready, just in case.

Watch the pioneering, classic, and endearingly low-budge video, "Parents Just Don't Understand." (And peep the sweet Porsche "car phone!") The single won them the first-ever Best Rap Performance Grammy in 1989, but Will Smith and Jeff didn't attend the Grammys that year. See why in a vintage Yo! MTV Raps clip.

In their seventh tour diary video, the Spill Canvas hits Salt Lake City and puts the voice distorter pedal to the metal for maximum robo talk. Watch the guys take a trip to the car wash, Ace's fast food order, Landon's cooperation versus his non-cooperation, Joe's mathlete showcase and his Ol' Dirty Bastard impression -- strictly unmissable!

This is TSC's final Buzzworthy tour diary video, but before you fling yourself off your bed in major despair, watch the rest right here, and, in remembrance, check out a classic ODB video and footage from Yo! MTV Raps.

If you:

+ Only heard "Rapper's Delight" for the first time when that old lady in The Wedding Singer dropped a few lines in that ridick scene

+ First heard of Dr. Dre when Eminem mentioned him

+ Don't remember when the Beastie Boys were actually boys

+ Didn't realize that the Fresh Prince and Will Smith were the same person, or that he left DJ Jazzy Jeff behind when he moved to Bel Air

+ Didn't realize Rev Run was, um, in a rap group

+ Didn't realize Ice-T had a whole separate career before he played Fin Tutuola on Law & Order: SVU

+ Didn't realize Jennifer Lopez and Diddy were once a couple

+ Don't know who the Fly Girls were

+ Thought Queen Latifah made her showbiz debut in BarberShop 2

And/or

+ Don't know who Kid or Play is...

Then you probably need a serious dose of Yo! MTV Raps, the seminal national hip-hop show that was the. shiz. on MTV back in the late '80s and early '90s. The show took hip-hop out of the New York boroughs and pockets of urban Cali, where it'd been brewing, and into the homes of anyone with MTV, beginning in 1988, and it's been a legend ever since.

Now, 20 years later, we've dusted off the turntables -- and the set -- and invited back host Fab 5 Freddy and an impressive roster of the original voices, leaders and pioneers of the hip-hop movement and resurrected Yo! MTV Raps.

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