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- <text id=89TT0865>
- <title>
- Mar. 27, 1989: Rap, Rap, Who's There?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 27, 1989 Is Anything Safe?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 86
- Rap, Rap, Who's There?
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- <p>By Howard G. Chua-Eoan
- </p>
- <p> The biggest-selling pop single since We Are the World
- belongs to . . . Tone-Loc, the rap singer whose Wild Thing has
- sold 5 million copies. Tone-Loc (short for Tony Loco, which is
- a souped-up nickname for Tony Smith) says the percolating
- wordplay of rap comes easily. "Some days you get out of bed and
- things go through your mind. Most people don't write these down,
- but I do." Does he have a follow-up? "My new song is Funky Cold
- Medina," he says. "It's a drink that gets you in the mood for
- the Wild Thing."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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