Loc-Ed After Dark [Explicit Lyrics]

Tone-Loc | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 20, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1989
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Delicious Vinyl
• ASIN: B0000589TL
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,707 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #37 in Music > Rap & Hip-Hop > West Coast

Track Listings

1. On Fire [Remix]

2. Wild Thing

3. Loc'ed After Dark

4. I Got It Goin' On

5. Cutting Rhythms

6. Funky Cold Medina

7. Next Episode

8. Cheeba Cheeba

9. Don't Get Close

10. Loc'in on the Shaw

11. The Homies

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Rap, Hip-Hop
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 20-FEB-2001

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tone-Loc had it goin' on in the late 80s, June 16, 2003

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Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Loc-Ed After Dark (Audio CD)

In 1988, Tone-Loc took the pop music world by storm with his immensely popular track Wild Thing and its even spicier follow-up Funky Cold Medina. While this is not gangsta rap or what many listeners might even call serious rap, it did help introduce rap and hip hop to young people such as myself mired in the sputtering realms of generic Top 40 and classic rock music during the late 1980s. I'm not sure that Tone-Loc's throat is the perfect vehicle for rapping, as he sounds like he has a permanent frog in his throat, yet his laid-back style actually works well with his unique sound. Tone-Loc rapped about things almost all young people have in common, thereby making his music much more accessible than the hardcore rap that has never appealed to me. He did lay down a few lines about how talented and cool he was, but he never carried this to excess, nor did he spend any time tearing down other people in the music industry. There is enough profanity on here to merit the Explicit Lyrics tagline, but the language is really pretty tame over all. In one song, he actually uses the words "One, two, buckle my shoe." Any rapper than can say that and still be both tough and successful is a rare talent indeed.

This album is actually filled with good tracks, achieving success outside of its two main hits. On Fire, Loc'ed After Dark, I Got It Goin' On, and Next Episode all share a similar sound, but each of them is a track you wouldn't want to skip over. Cheeba-Cheeba is a lot of fun to listen to, and the fact that it can be seen as glorifying the smoking of a certain type of plant is not important as long as you don't take the song too seriously. Loc'in on the Shaw is a track I could do without, but the album closes strongly, in my opinion, with Homies. While it is a strange track quite unlike anything preceding it on the album, you can't help but laugh and enjoy it.

Basically, Loc'ed After Dark qualifies as mainstream rap music, and the immense popularity Tone-Loc enjoyed in 1988 and 1989 did have a profound effect on the rap and pop music industry, preparing the way for more serious rappers to reach a wider audience in the years following this album's release. If you were a youth during the 1980s, you almost surely have fond memories of Wild Thing and Funky Cold Medina; for me the album qualifies as yet another memory-laden memento of the late, great 1980s.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my all-time favorite rap albums..., March 28, 2004

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This review is from: Loc-Ed After Dark (Audio CD)

I grew up on the beginnings of rap. Ice-T, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, UTFO... these groups laid the foundations for what was to come. Approximately 10 years later Ton-Loc comes on the scene when rap was at an all-time low (in my opinion) and dance-music ruled the airwaves. Ton-Loc was different and that's what made him unique amongst all other rap artists. I first heard Ton-Loc's Wild Thing and Funky Cold Medina in '89, my senior year in high school. It wasn't until after I graduated that I heard his whole album. A friend of mine had the tape and I practically wore it out when he left it in my car. A lot of reviewers say they dislike Track 10. Me and a friend of mine were building bass systems in our cars before the car audio market started to take hold. Track 10 was and still is THE song we use to test our systems. It's the benchmark we use to this day. Track 10 was perfect for showing up at a friend's house and "announcing" yourself. In later years I ran it through a bass boost filter and made it even more powerful. Move forward 15 years and I'm still listening to this album. I like most every song except for Cheeba and Homies. You just can't find rap like this anymore because it's all been reduced to cussing and demoralization of others. This whole album is so fleshed out, something you don't find in a lot of debut albums. It's timeless in my opinion. I give this one 5 stars because I never get tired of the songs. The music is clean and crisp and sounds great on a decent system. I'm not a big rap fan anymore since most of the music on the radio nowadays is saturated with different incarnations of it, but albums like this take me back to a simpler time when rap was worth listening to.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FINE EXAMPLE OF OLD SCHOOL RAP., November 13, 2003

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Edgar Sanchez (los angeles, california United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Loc-Ed After Dark (Audio CD)

This is a very good album period.Great beats to all the songs and tone loc has a very original and good voice.The lyrics are pretty good to and it just makes you relax.I wish modern hip hop would be more like this.I would recommend this to anyone with an interest in quality rap.