Funky Cold Medina#Charts

{{Infobox song

| name = Funky Cold Medina

| cover = Funky Cold Medina.jpg

| alt =

| caption =

| type = single

| artist = Tone Lōc

| album = Lōc-ed After Dark

| released = March 18, 1989

| recorded = 1988

| studio =

| genre = {{hlist|Hip hop|rap rock}}

| length = 4:08

| label = Delicious Vinyl

| writer = Marvin Young, Matt Dike, Michael Ross

| producer = Matt Dike, Michael Ross

| prev_title = Wild Thing

| prev_year = 1989

| next_title = I Got It Goin' On

| next_year = 1990

}}

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"Funky Cold Medina" is a hip hop song written by Young MC, Matt Dike and Michael Ross,[http://www.ascap.com/ace/ ASCAP Ace System]. and first performed by American rapper, actor and producer Tone Lōc. It was the second single from Tone Lōc's debut album, Lōc-ed After Dark (1989). The single was released on March 18, 1989, and rose to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 the following month where it went platinum, selling over one million copies and becoming the second ever platinum-certified rap single (after "Wild Thing" from the same album being the first). It peaked on the UK Singles Chart at number 13 in May of that year.

Flavor Flav used the phrase "cold medina" a year earlier on It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, and it was adopted by his labelmates Beastie Boys as a nickname for the cocktail known as a "fuzzy navel"; Flav later suggested to Tone Loc that he should use the phrase in a song.{{Cite web|last=Ardell|first=Jena|date=2011-06-02|title=Flavor Flav on Addiction, Coining the Title of a Tone Loc Song, and How a Crackhead Started His Clock Trend|url=https://www.laweekly.com/flavor-flav-on-addiction-coining-the-title-of-a-tone-loc-song-and-how-a-crackhead-started-his-clock-trend/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-28|website=LA Weekly|language=en-US}}

The song contains several samples. The drum break is from "Get Off Your Ass and Jam" by Funkadelic, and the main guitar riff is from "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner. Other samples are taken from "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones (when this song is mentioned in the lyrics), "Christine Sixteen" by Kiss, "All Right Now" by Free and "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" by Bachman–Turner Overdrive. The cowbell sample is from "Honky Tonk Women" by the Rolling Stones.{{cite web|title=SongFacts - Funky Cold Medina by Tone-Lōc|url=https://www.songfacts.com/facts/tone-loc/funky-cold-medina|language=en|website=songfacts.com|access-date=2020-10-07}}

After the song became popular, several different cocktails were introduced bearing the name "Funky Cold Medina".Esther Iverem, "We Think It's Legal: Would You Like a Funky Cold Medina?", Newsday, July 8, 1989, part 2, p. 15.