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Tone Loc · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: This is on with Mario Lopez. Up, Mario Lopez joining
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  Speaker 1: me right now, Grammy nominate a rapper and actor.
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  Speaker 2: My man, tone, look what's going on? Tone?
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  Speaker 3: Ooh oh man, I'm just hanging like wet clothes.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great expression, bro, the great expression. You were
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  Speaker 1: just revealed as the handyman on the mass single. Is
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  Speaker 1: it true your kids dared you to to do the show?
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  Speaker 2: That's way you did it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Man, pretty much. I mean they didn't think I
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  Speaker 3: would do it. I mean all the things that I've done,
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  Speaker 3: the people that I hang around, and it's the lifestyle
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  Speaker 3: that I lived and grown up with. They're like, nah, Dad,
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  Speaker 3: there's no way you're gonna do it. You're gonna dress
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  Speaker 3: up in a costume. I wasn't that familiar with the show. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's why they really got I was, you know, a
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  Speaker 3: little familiar with it, but they were more familiar with
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  Speaker 3: it than I was, So they were like, there's no
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  Speaker 3: way you're gonna go on that show do anything.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you got one.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You got such a recognizable voice. Man, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I would have guessed you right away. Did you think
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  Speaker 1: you'd get guests quickly?
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  Speaker 3: Personally? Man? I didn't know, man, I didn't. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: think I had that much. It's a killed a man.
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  Speaker 2: It's never mind, man, my housekeepers here. So it's all right.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't really know, you know, how.
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  Speaker 3: To instinctive that my voice was. I mean, I knew
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, but I didn't know it was gonna
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  Speaker 3: be like recognizable of the first know what I say?
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  Speaker 2: What'd you sing? By the way? What'd you sing?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? Shaky groove thing the first episode? And then the
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  Speaker 3: try call quest the second show?
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  Speaker 2: What did you What did you sing? By tribe?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? I forgot the song?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 3: All right? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Well I did see you were playing a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: the I love nineties to our days with Vanilla Ice,
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  Speaker 1: rob Bass, color me bad?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Man, that takes me back. That's a cool y'all
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  Speaker 2: want to check out? Man?
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  Speaker 3: That's cool.
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  Speaker 2: Man. What can fans expect if they go there?
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  Speaker 3: Seven years?
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  Speaker 2: Is that right? What can I expect? What can fans
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  Speaker 2: expect if they go to the show?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Man, it's an old school nineties thing, man, eighties
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  Speaker 3: and nineties man, pretty much, so you can definitely expect
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  Speaker 3: to hear some old school cuts. You know, it's going
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  Speaker 3: to bring back a lot of memories. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: all about you know, the fanny pack and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: We're going way back, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good experience, man. A lot of old school
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  Speaker 3: entertainers that you're you haven't seen in a while. You know,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of songs that you have not probably heard
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  Speaker 3: in a while. So it's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, man, because I keep my playlist
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  Speaker 1: has stayed the same for the last thirty forty years.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure I've been hearing them a lot. I do
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  Speaker 1: pretty much exactly well in a few years. I can't
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  Speaker 1: believe it's going to be forty years since your debut
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  Speaker 1: album Loaked After Dark Hit Shells, I remember it, of course. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: Dame Funky call Medina got it going on. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what you remember about that time period?
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  Speaker 2: Ah?
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  Speaker 3: Man, Well, but right before, I mean I remember a
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  Speaker 3: lot just you know, doing and so when it was
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  Speaker 3: when the song game out, man, I was extremely shocked,
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  Speaker 3: you know that it did so well because I was
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  Speaker 3: not expecting, you know, to go into the music business
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  Speaker 3: or anything like that. So when they got as big
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  Speaker 3: as they did, I was shocked because I wasn't plan
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  Speaker 3: going on tours or anything like that. I didn't inquire
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  Speaker 3: about being in the show. In the show business. That
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  Speaker 3: wasn't my thing, you know. Yeah, and I was totally
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  Speaker 3: shocked it ended up working out well.
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  Speaker 2: It did work out well.
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  Speaker 1: Man, here you are forty years later and I love
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  Speaker 1: to see it. Brother, It was nice.
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  Speaker 2: Catching up with you. Congrats on everything.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll see in person at this show and listen everyone,
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  Speaker 1: be sure to check out The Mass Singer Wednesday nights
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  Speaker 1: on Fox. And you can check out tour dates for
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  Speaker 1: Tone Lok right now at I Love the Nineties Tour
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  Speaker 1: dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Tone Thanks for checking.
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  Speaker 3: In each out man, respect you Mario.
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  Speaker 2: You too, brother, Thank you, appreciate you trawing it out
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  Speaker 2: with Mario Lopez