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Tone-Loc Promotional Portrait
Tone-Loc Promotional Portrait

Tone-Loc Promotional Portrait

Visual image Tone-Loc
Publisher Delicious Vinyl
Publisher Decent Management
Datec. 1988
Mediumpaper (fiber product)
DimensionsOverall (HWD): 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.32 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number1998.827.483
Text Entries
Tone-Loc (Anthony Terrell Smith, b. 1966), is a rapper and actor from Los Angeles, California, who 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 TV shows such as Touched by an Angel and Roc.  
Black and white promotional landscape photo of Tone Loc.
CopyrightThis work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. For more information, go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Tone-Loc Promotional Portrait
Tone-Loc
Date: c. 1988
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1998.827.484
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Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 2000.542.3
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Tone-Loc
Date: 1985-1995
Medium: plastic
Object number: 2000.542.2
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Tone-Loc
Date: 1987
Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 1999.549.4
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Tone-Loc
Date: 1988
Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 1999.504.1
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Tone-Loc
Date: 1989
Medium: glass
Object number: 2000.543.1
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Date: c. 1980
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.229.78
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Tony Tone
Date: c. 1985
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.229.79
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Tony Tone
Date: c.1980
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.229.80
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Tony Tone
Date: c. 1985
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.229.81
DJ Tony Tone at the Disco Fever Photo Booth, Bronx, NY
Tony Tone
Date: 1980-1985
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.229.82
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Tony Tone
Date: 1980-1985
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.229.86
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