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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).
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.
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.
"Wild Thing" is a single by American rapper Tone Lōc from his 1989 album Lōc-ed After Dark. The title is a reference to the phrase "doin' the wild thing," a euphemism for sex.
On Above the Rim, she sings background on “Big Pimpin’,” a Daz-produced G-funk classic featuring Daz, Snoop, Nate, and the late Big Pimpin’ DeLemond, who graced many west coast tracks with ...
A Fuzzy Navel is sometimes called a "Cold Medina," a popular nickname started by the Beastie Boys. Flavor Flav, who worked for the same record label as them at the time, would use Cold Medina or Funky Cold Medina as an affirmation. [7]
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.
By 2011, Funky Town emerged in a new T-shirt message by entrepreneur James Zametz: “Keep Fort Worth Funky.” “It’s a take on ‘Keep Austin Weird,’ because most people know what that ...