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With his double-platinum debut album, 1989's Lōc-ed After Dark, Tone-Lōc became one of the first hip-hop artists to climb to Number 1 on the American pop charts. He was born as Anthony Terrell Smith on March 3, 1966, and raised in Los Angeles, California. Armed with a raspy voice and humorous lyrics, he released Lōc-ed After Dark in January 1989 and quickly became one of the year's biggest stars. The album became a Top 20 hit in Australia, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. In America, it followed Beastie Boys' Licensed To Ill as the second hip-hop album to ever t...