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Funky Cold Medina Drink
Funky Cold Medina Drink

Funky Cold Medina Drink

Associated name Tone-Loc
Publisher Delicious Vinyl
Distributor Island Trading Company
Date1989
Mediumglass
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number2000.543.1
Text Entries

"Funky Cold Medina" is a song written by Tone Lōc. The song tells the story of Tone Lōc's experiences with "Funky Cold Medina", a potent aphrodisiac in a beverage format.This is a promotional grape juice bottle from Delicious Vinyl and Tone Loc made by the record label in 1989. The bottle was distributed by The Island Trading Co. and contains 100% grape juice.

Tone-Loc (Anthony Terrell Smith, b. 1966), is a rapper and actor from Los Angeles, California, wore Loc sunglasses in numerous photographs and video appearances throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1989 he released the second highest selling single in US history with “Wild Thing” and Loc-ed After Dark which became the first No. 1 album by an African American rapper. Following his 1991 album Cool Hand Loc, he focused on his acting career, appearing in the movies Poetic Justice, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Heat, and in such TV shows as Touched by an Angel and Roc.

 

Dark red bottle with burgundy top. Wrap around paper is white with Tone-Loc  Funky Cold Medina in black and white font, resembling chilled letters. A man in red ink is drinking a glass bottle on bottom.
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