Tone Loc

For the phreaking software utility, see ToneLoc.

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Tone Loc (born Anthony Terrell Smith on March 3 1966) is an American hip hop artist turned actor, most well-known for his 1989 hit singles "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina". He is also known for his deep, gravelly, almost hoarse voice.

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Tone Loc was born in Los Angeles, California. "Tone Loc" comes from a nickname his friends gave him, "Antonio Loco". The name is often written with a macron, as: Tone Lōc. He was one of the first West Coast rappers.

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As an actor he has appeared in movies such as Heat, and Titan A.E., as well as in the television series NewsRadio and the reality television series Superstar USA.

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Phreaking: Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a subculture of people who study, experiment with, or exploit telephones, the telephone company, and systems connected to or composing the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) for the purposes of hobby or utility. The term "phreak" is...

ToneLoc: ToneLoc was a popular demon dialing computer program for MS-DOS written in the early to mid-1990s by two programmers known by the pseudonyms Minor Threat and Mucho Maas. The name ToneLoc was short for "Tone Locator", and was a play on the name of the rap artist known as Tone Loc. The utility was c...

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