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Funky Cold Medina" is a hip hop song written by Young MC, Matt Dike and Michael Ross, [1] and first performed by American rapper, actor and producer Tone Lōc. It was the second single from Tone Lōc's debut album, Lōc-ed After Dark (1989).
The song uses an uncredited sample of Van Halen's "Jamie's Cryin'". Van Halen's management at the time asked for a flat fee (credited in some reports to be US$5,000) as payment to have the song sampled by Tone Lōc. Apparently, the sampling decision was made without consulting the band's original members (credited as co-authors of the song).
Lōc-ed After Dark is the debut studio album by American rapper Tone Lōc. [2] [3] It was released on January 23, 1989, via Delicious Vinyl. [4]The album was produced by Matt Dike, Michael Ross, and the Dust Brothers.
The song was sampled by Tone Lōc in his 1989 song "Funky Cold Medina". The song was covered by the Gin Blossoms on the 1994 Kiss tribute album Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved and by All on Hard to Believe: Kiss Covers Compilation. The song was also covered by punk/goth band The Nuns on their 2003 album New York Vampires.
Anthony Terrell Smith (born March 3, 1966), best known by his stage name Tone Lōc (/ t oʊ n l oʊ k /), is an American rapper. [1] He is known for his raspy voice, his hit songs "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina", for which he was nominated for a Grammy Award, and for being featured in "We're All in the Same Gang", a collaborative single by the West Coast Rap All-Stars.
Other artists who have sampled the song include: Public Enemy, in "Bring the Noise", from the 1987 album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Eazy-E, in "Eazy-Duz-It", from his 1988 album Eazy-Duz-It; Tone Lōc, in "Funky Cold Medina" (written by Young MC) from 1989 Lōc's debut album, Lōc-ed After Dark.
Billboard magazine compiled the top-performing dance singles in the United States on the Hot Dance Music Club Play chart and the Hot Dance Music 12-inch Singles Sales chart. . Premiered in 1976, the Club Play chart ranked the most-played singles on dance club based on reports from a national sample of club D
[27] [28] The song ranked number one on VH1's aforementioned list, number 40 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs list, [29] and number 322 on Rolling Stone's 2004 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". [30] "Funky Cold Medina", written by Young MC, Michael L. Ross and Matt Dike, first appeared on Tone Lōc's debut album Lōc-ed After Dark. [31] "