March 20, 2023
Tone Loc Covers Newsweek’s Rap Rage Issue – Today in Hip-Hop
[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment:March 19, 1990: Tone Loc covered Newsweek for its "Rap Rage" issue, which arrived on newsstands on this day. The cover tagline read: "Yo! Street rhyme has gone big time. But are those sounds out of bounds?"The choice was a confusing one, given how fun-loving the rapper was on wax. The editors apparently had to choose between LL Cool J and Tone Loc. The fact they opted for the latter says a lot about the magazine, which was hugely popular at the time. Their proclamation of rap being angry meant nothing to people who, by 1990, were well aware of that by then. That...