Many of you are likely too young to remember Tone Loc. He was super-popular in the 1980s, when his two big hits – “Wild Thing” and “Funky Cold Medina” – played constantly on the radio. If you come across an ‘80s film about the youths, you’ve probably heard one of those songs before. I don’t know much about his life past those two hits, but Wikipedia tells me that he’s been voice-acting and performing on nostalgia tours. Here’s something else I didn’t know: Tone Loc will step to a teenager wearing a Confederate flag hat.
Tone Loc, the rapper responsible for ’80s hits “Funky Cold Medina” and “Wild Thing,” was detained at a Texas airport over the weekend following an altercation with a couple whose son was wearing a Confederate-flag hat. The emcee, whose real name is Anthony Terrell Smith, was temporarily handcuffed by police at the Midland International Air & Space Port after a heated exchange with an unnamed white man and woman on Saturday, reports KOSA-TV.
Witnesses told another station, KMID, that the incident started after the 53-year-old confronted a teenager wearing a Confederate-flag hat at baggage claim, asking “How are you going to wear that in front of a black man?”
At that point, his parents stepped in and told Tone Loc he was talking to a minor and had no business telling their son what he could wear. The rapper apologized, but said he still felt the boy should not be wearing the hat. The argument continued outside of the airport, with all three parties yelling at one another. In video of part of the altercation, Tone Loc can be heard shouting “F—k all that Confederate s—t” before being handcuffed by police at the airport.
KOSA report that shortly after the video stopped, the rapper was released and both he and the family decided to go their separate ways without any charges being filed. A request for comment was not immediately returned by Tone Loc’s reps.
[From Page Six]
I mean… it’s Texas, of course. There were three people yelling, one of them black and two of them white, so Texas decided to Texas and handcuff the black guy. Here’s the thing… like, I understand the whole “you don’t get in a minor’s face about his hat” argument. But I also understand why Tone Loc was like “Why you so racist, child?” White people gotta know that the Confederate flag sh-t has got to stop. Someone has to tell the trash youths that their hats are racist AF. And if Tone Loc is that person, so be it. Garbage child, take off your hat of oppression and racism.
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