Tone-Loc Promotional Portrait
Visual image
Tone-Loc
Distributor
Island Trading Company
Record company
Delicious Vinyl
Photographer
Chris Carroll
Datec. 1988
Mediumpaper (fiber product)
DimensionsOverall (HWD): 8 × 10 in. (20.32 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number1998.827.484
Text EntriesTone-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 photo of Tone-Loc.
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Tone-Loc
Date: c. 1988
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1998.827.483
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Tone-Loc
Date: 1991
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 2000.542.3
Tone-Loc
Date: 1985-1995
Medium: plastic
Object number: 2000.542.2
Tone-Loc
Date: 1987
Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 1999.549.4
Tone-Loc
Date: 1988
Medium: polyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
Object number: 1999.504.1
Tony Tone
Date: c. 1980
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.229.78
Tony Tone
Date: c. 1985
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.229.79
Tony Tone
Date: c.1980
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.229.80
Tony Tone
Date: c. 1985
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.229.81
Tony Tone
Date: 1980-1985
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.229.82
Tony Tone
Date: 1980-1985
Medium: paper (fiber product)
Object number: 1999.229.86
