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Lōc-ed After Dark was the first album by a Black rap musician to top the chart. [5] It featured three singles: "Wild Thing", "Funky Cold Medina", and "I Got It Goin' On". [6] The album's cover is based on Donald Byrd's 1963 album A New Perspective [7] and also features the headlight of a Jaguar e-type sports car.
Tone Lōc's debut album, Lōc-ed After Dark, was released in January 1989. The video for the first single, "Wild Thing," became a staple on MTV in the US. The song rose to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the top twenty in Australia. The second single, "Funky Cold Medina," also became a hit. It reached the top 5 in the US, peaking at No. 3 ...
Tone Lōc's song peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1989, only behind Paula Abdul's breakthrough hit "Straight Up". [3] It inspired at least two parodies (the Gilligan's Island-themed "Isle Thing" by "Weird Al" Yankovic, which was Yankovic's first rap parody; and "Child King" by Christian band ApologetiX). It eventually ...
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It was the second single from Tone Lōc's debut album, Lōc-ed After Dark (1989). The single was released on March 18, 1989, and rose to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 the following month where it went platinum, selling over one million copies and becoming the second ever platinum-certified rap single (after " Wild Thing " from the same ...
"I Got It Goin' On" is the third and final single from Tone Loc's 1989 album Lōc-ed After Dark. While not as successful as the earlier singles "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina", it reached number 18 on the US Hot Rap Singles chart and number 59 on the Top R&B Singles chart in the summer of 1989. It eventually sold over 600,000 singles (Gold ...
CalPERS then transferred the property to a Los Angeles-based developer, CIM Group, and developed several plans for the site including a 33-story, $550 million tower that would have been the city ...
The show was themed as a benefit concert for good nutrition hosted by Fūd Wrapper, who was voiced by real-life rapper Tone Loc. [3] However, the show was continually interrupted by the Excess, a junk food heavy metal band that detests nutrition. [4] In the end, The Excess lost their power as Wrapper exclaimed, "No power? You guys have been ...