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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.
The New York Times noted that the music "ranges from bare hard-core street rap to rock-rap fusion". [16] The Washington Post wrote that "Matt Dike and Michael Ross underpin Loc's minor-league raps with a stripped-down but eclectic sound that is consistently propulsive." [17] The Boston Globe called Lōc-ed After Dark a "party-till-you-drop ...
A music video directed by Tamra Davis was made for the song at a reported cost of $500, copying the style of Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love." Mini-skirted women play guitars next to Tone Lōc; the video was frequently shown on MTV. The leading lady in the video is played by actress Tracy Camilla Johns.
"Funky Cold Medina" Tone Loc: 66 "In Your Room" The Bangles: 67 "Miss You Like Crazy" Natalie Cole: 68 "Lovesong" The Cure: 69 "Secret Rendezvous" Karyn White: 70 "Angel Eyes" The Jeff Healey Band: 71 "Patience" Guns N' Roses: 72 "Walk on Water" Eddie Money: 73 "Cover Girl" New Kids on the Block: 74 "Welcome to the Jungle" Guns N' Roses: 75 ...
Matthew William Dike (December 2, 1961 – January 16, 2018) was an American music executive, record producer, and DJ. He co-founded the hip-hop record label Delicious Vinyl in 1987. In the 1980s, Dike was artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's studio assistant and he worked on the Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique (1989).
This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1989.. A total 124 songs reached the top ten in 1989, only 117 of them peaked in 1989 (the other seven peaked in either 1988 or 1990). 33 songs peaked at number one that year, tying the previous year, 1988 with the second-most number-one songs of the year, while 14 singles reached a peak of number two.
Tone Loc's follow-up single, "Funky Cold Medina," an ode to an aphrodisiac beverage, sampled Foreigner and Kiss, and cemented Dike's and Ross's method of inserting rock riffs into rap singles. Young MC recorded the million-selling hit single "Bust a Move."