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    Cool Hand Loc


    Rappers know that success is not the same thing as security. In a genre in which sounding like old news is fatal, even the top guns feel pressure to change. Still, it's quite a shock hearing Hammer and Tone Loc, the proud possessors of rap's biggest-selling album and single, respectively, making...

    1991 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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A two-hit wonder from a glorious era for hip-hop radio, L.A. rapper Tone-Loc arrived in late 1988 with "Wild Thing," which reigned for a while as the best-selling single of all time. It was a low-down but friendly sex growl ("I tipped the chauffeur when it was over") with Dust Brothers production, a sample from Van Halen's "Jamie's Crying," lyrics written by Delicious Vinyl labelmate Young M.C.,...

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