Probably the most mis-understood lyric of “Ice Ice Baby.”

First off, you had to be there in 1990. I’ll save the retrospectives for someone else, but for our age group this will forever be a main playlist jam. Sing along. You know the words.

For the uninitiated: Cerwin-Vega has manufactured speakers and amplifiers since the 1950’s. It declared bankruptcy in 2003, with the brand name acquired and traded a few times since then.

Anyone who was anyone fiddling with car stereos in this era wanted Vega’s in the trunk.