“This jam I created will leave you devastated
And when I’m finished rockin you will appreciate it”
It’s summer! The sun is blazing hawt, the deck is calling your name and…your glass is empty? One of these things just doesn’t belong. One of these things needs to be filled with some “Funky Cold Medina”. Those not familiar with this bodacious bevy probably weren’t listening to the radio back in 1989 when L.A. rapper Tone Lōc was filling our ears with the stuff and showing us all how to do the “Wild Thing”. (err…even if some of us where too young to really know what the hell he was talking about)
So I took her to my crib, and everything went well as planned
But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man
So I threw him out, I don’t fool around with no Oscar Meyer wiener
It’s this kind of playfulness, a more watered down hip-hop cut wrapped around some funky sample, that attracted a wider array of listeners; some, like me, had never snagged a rap album off the shelf before. Outside of the volume level I’d play this thing at, my mother had no problem with me filling the basement with “Cheeba Cheeba”…though if she’d listening long enough to the lyrics she might have.
Twist up a big baba of this serious dope
Smoke it down to the nib, use my roach clip
So much damn resin, it’s startin to drip
It ain’t harmful like heroin; it’s also cheaper
That’s a good point you have there, Mr. Lōc, though I doubt I’d have advanced my weed smoking cause passed Judge Mom with this evidence. Good points, nevertheless.
Couldn’t get her off my jock she was like static cling
Craft Recordings vinyl re-release of this double platinum gem from my youth was cut at Elysian Masters under the supervision of Dave Cooley. While the wave of nostalgia that washed over me after the first few tracks had me wondering where my old cassette tape of this went, by the time I flipped it over all I was remembering were the good times this music provided the soundtrack too and those good times never sounded better than they do here!
