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Remember the 'Stanky Legg?' Here's another danceable hip-hop single straight outta D-FW

Back in 2009, the GS Boyz dominated with the highly danceable track "Stanky Legg." But within a few years, the Arlington group dissolved and backpack rappers like A.Dd+ and -topic took over the local hip-hop scene.

Now it's 2016, and A.Dd+ has just called it quits and Oh Boy Prince -- one of the members of locally-based GS Boyz -- is back. Oh Boy Prince has signed with Atlantic Records, again on the strength of a single with a dance attached to it.

"Astronaut" was enough to put Oh Boy Prince on the same label as Trey Songz, Missy Elliott and Wiz Khalifa.

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Fans from all over the country have created their own videos dancing to the song, including a news team from Memphis.

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"I knew it was going to happen," says Oh Boy Prince, a.k.a. Matthew Griffith, from Fort Worth. However, he didn't expect to make it again with another dance track.

"Astronaut" has notched more than 500,000 views on YouTube and has inspired the dance challenge #AstronautChallenge, though it wasn't meant to be a dance song. The lyrics are really just about how he starts his days.

But his fans had other ideas. One of the first videos he saw was around Halloween, with dancing fans dressed up in costumes. From there, he created the hashtag and watched it light up on social media.

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"When you look up and see what everyone else is doing in the world, they are doing what originated in Dallas," says Oh Boy Prince. "Nobody here wanted to claim it. But I feel like that's why I'm still successful."

He also recognized that less profanity helps his cause. "Kids are going to be the ones who buy your records," he says. "But when you're around your mom she ain't about to let you play no F-word."

"I put out music for the grownups and for kids. But usually the ones for the kids work."

By Jeremy Hallock, special contributor