In 1983, after years of lawsuits and wrangling with the NFL, Al Davis got his wish and moved his Raiders from Oakland to Los Angeles. With a Super Bowl victory in the team’s first season in the City Of Angels, the Raiders firmly entrenched itself in the hearts and minds of the residents of the entertainment capital of the world. They were the biggest and baddest boys in Hollywood. Whether it be guest parts on TV shows, cameos in movies, or being seen with rich and famous across town, opportunities were a plenty for Hollywood’s newest darlings.

That being said, the 1986 Los Angeles Raiders are a team that will live in infamy, but not for their mediocre play on the field. The team that inspired a legions of hip-hop artists (N.W.A., Snoop Dogg) with their tenacious style of play to go along with their intimidating silver and black uniforms, made a mockery of themselves and rap music in with their video “Silver and Black Attack”. Raider legends like Marcus Allen, Howie Long, Matt Millen, and Jim Plunkett look utterly foolish attempting to rap. In addition, their video featured styles that summed up the decade: porn star moustaches, mullets and jheri curls. It should be no surprise that the bad karma induced by this video led to a disappointing 8-8 campaign for the Silver and Black, which had Super Bowl aspirations.

With a lame boom-bat beat that samples “The Yellow and Black Attack” by Stryper (a warning sign in itself right there) combined with absurd lyrics such as Curt Marsh’s forgettable, “Marsh is the name and I’m six-five-tall; I open holes and protect QBs; I’m a smooth as a man on the flying trapeze,” it shouldn’t be surprising that the rest of the league wasn’t intimidated by the team. The team’s collective hip-hop flow, best exemplified by Howie Long’s monotone, is nothing less than awful, and this ode to Raiders history is better suited for the immortal JaMarcus Russell instead of the aforementioned Hall of Famers.

Though they may not have realized it at the time, the 1986 Raiders may have been scary, but only to the people who watched this video instead of on the gridiron.