Funky Cold Medina

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"Funky Cold Medina" is a hip hop song written by Young MC and performed by Tone Lōc, and was the second single from his album Loc'ed After Dark (1989). The single was released on March 18, 1989 and rose to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1989. It peaked on the UK Singles Chart at #13 the next month.

The song is about the adventures of Tone Loc after he receives a love potion called Funky Cold Medina from a friend. In the song, he first tests the potion on his dog, who immediately latches onto his leg and attempts sex with him. Tone's encounters with people were also not what he intended; first he attracts a transvestite, then a woman intent on marriage from the very first date.

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This song contains samples from four songs, "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner (whose guitar riff dominates the song), "Christine Sixteen" by KISS, "All Right Now" by Free, and "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
A Funky Cold Medina is a peach and cranberry vodka cocktail.
The song was parodied on the Canadian comedy show Buzz as Funky Cold Spadina, after Spadina Avenue in Toronto, and also by Nescafe coffee in the UK for a commercial "Hairy Old Cortina".
Was played in the film You, Me, and Dupree.
Funky Cold Medina is mentioned in the "Weird Al" Yankovic song Isle Thing, a parody of another Tone Lōc song, Wild Thing.
In the Cheers episode "For Real Men Only," (season 8, airdate November 16, 1989), Rebecca Howe laments her bad luck in coordinating a party, and considers stripping naked and gyrating to "Funky Cold Medina" just to liven things up.
Was in the episode "My Mirror Image" of the NBC show, Scrubs.