Anthony Terrell Smith – aka Tone Loc – has been doing the “Wild Thing” since the late 1980s when his Delicious Vinyl Records debut LP,
Loc-ed After Dark, made him a household name. While he only released one other record after that (1991’s
Cool Hand Loc), the Los Angeles-based rapper has been able to parlay the success of songs like “Funky Cold Medina” into a career that finds him performing at the March installment of Jannus Live’s First Friday concert series alongside Miami-based DJ Erik Velez and DJ Sandman, arguably Tampa’s hardest working DJ and hip hop ambassador.
— Ray Roa