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According to producer Mario Caldato Jr., who engineered and mixed the song, producer Michael Ross was inspired by an utterance of Fab 5 Freddy "Come on baby let's do the wild thing" in Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It, and asked Young MC to write the lyrics. [2] Tone Lōc's song peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1989 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Marvin Young, better known as Young MC, was like a secret weapon for Delicious Vinyl in the late 1980s/early ‘90s. In 1989, he co-wrote the Tone Lōc single “Wild Thing,” which went on to ...
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.
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[29] [30] Producer Matt Dike incorporated parts of the intro of "Jamie's Cryin'" as well as some guitar licks into "Wild Thing" in order to give it a "West Coast vibe." [ 29 ] Van Halen did not originally give permission to sample the song and sued over it, but eventually an out-of-court settlement was reached, apparently for $180,000.