FIRST TIME HEARING Vanilla Ice Ice Ice Baby Official Video REACTION
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30 years later and he’s finally getting props. 🤣
I know right???!!!! Hopefully he is aware.
Totally!!! It's a guilty pleasure, but I'm not telling any of my friends that!!!
As someone who was a kid when Vanilla Ice first dropped Ice Ice Baby, it is really quite amazing to see younger Black people embrace him when he was getting a lot of shit back in the day (not just from Black people). I always thought he seemed like a cool person in real life, and I love how he embraces who he is.
@@franksbtka1624 it took him years to accept who he was. He tried to do a come-back with a metal version
@@spike6036 Why not?
Ppl don't understand how big this was when it dropped. I was a sophomore in HS, literally the biggest hit in America for an entire year. You couldn't go anywhere without hearing this song & we all had that dance routine down to the tee. I believe this is the #1 selling single of all time still to this day
Still gets pumped out in clubs now days in australia
Yes it is 🎉
Ice is getting more love now than he ever did, the grief he got when he released this was unbelievable.
Well what he did was copyrighted
@@ella6634 nobody cared about that except for the artists, the grief was from him being white and rapping. Yes his style is cheesy by today's standards, but at the time he helped to mainstream rap music, not the biggest influence, but he helped.
@@ella6634 people sampled other music all the time back then
@@blckgrd Yea he was ruined mainly because he was a white rapper at the right place but at the wrong time. The rap industry was not ready for him. Yea we had the beastie boys before and eminem came along after but...at that specific moment in time he was hated on bigly.
He was maybe a bit cocky and was obviously blowing up and the back rap industry just wasn't having it. The beasties got a pass because they kind of clowned their way in and were super innovative and beyond talented and not purely rappers but the industry hated vanilla and wouldn't allow a white superstar in those days. In fact the beasties were breaking copyright all over but somehow they came early enough they didn't get the hate that VI did.
@@blckgrd I remember that. Even now people are like "he's white!" lol nothing like that double standard.
He has serious haters, hell with them. That song and video ruled.
Great song. David Bowie is really talented.
@@crashburn3292 your one of them haters. the police is really talented puff daddy
🤔 think about it, if he would have came up with his own music he probably wouldn’t have gotten haters.
The guy came up with his own lyrics. Just took some sound. He's made out to be the amy schumer of hip hop lol
That was unnecessary and very wrong. Not even close to Bowie. Shame on you
"Is he about to rap?" - everyone in 1989
No RAP was super NEW in 1989. Everyone was doing it.
Our home boy here is now a high-end house flipper for a living . It’s called the Vanilla Ice Project . He rehabs broken down old mansions , and restores them to their former glory . He’s very good at it .
"Wait, is he about to rap?"
Yes and pretty well. 😄
I remember when this came out. Early 90s. Everyone loved it. Then they found out he was white. Everyone hated it. Can't believe how quick people jump ship just to be attached to another ones hip. No haters allowed. One love.
Haters of this song and star wars prequels eat their own shit and their boogers. F***in haters ruin everything.
- They're also posers who hate something coz it's trendy to hate on it. If eating dick or eating ass became trendy , then they'd totally do it.
wanna have your mind BLOWN! ..react to Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch: Good Vibrations...wait till you see who Marky Mark is lmao 😆😆😆
Yes!!
Now that would be hilarious. Lol
HELL YES
Well yes! Marky Mark. I feel so old...
Dirk Diggler?
When this came out just about everyone loved it. Always wanted to hear more from him. I'm not ashamed to say that I still think it's great.
I love how everyone these days is scared to admit they like this song
Right just like how hard down dudes back in the day sand please don't go girl by new kids hell it was a jam
You should check out Vanilla Ice Ice Ice Baby the rap metal version that Vanilla Ice did
I'll stand and admit it.
th-cam.com/video/_q9KBpJ5e0g/w-d-xo.html “If you’re a mammal you liked Ice Ice Baby”
i always loved this song, back then and now! not ashamed
I feel so old when someone is listening for the 1st time to music I've listened to when it 1st came out.....😂😂😂
Same here.. As a kid i would imitate him in my living room 😁 Happy childhood😁
He got more hate than he deserved.
Tell us how you really feel ShariSez1
One hit wonder who stole the main hook from Queen and Bowie for that one hit.
alphatrion100 Just about every rap hit has stolen their beat from rock music.
@ShariSez1 damn son you sound salty as shit
@ShariSez1 doesn't matter,its still a floor filler at any wedding or party,that's what matters in the end and not music snobs opinions
I was in HS when this came out and let me tell you, anyone who claims they weren't rockin it are LYING! The sample is Under Pressure by Queen/D Bowie and there was some litigation surrounding the sampling of it... these things happen to this day, but he got way more heat than deserved and it shouldn't take away from the song itself. He was basically a one-hit wonder, but make no mistake, this was a huge hit. It was everywhere, 24-7.
I wasnt. Never could stand him
He took so much heat because he tried to say he didn't sample Under Pressure, he tried to say it was different. No one could resist roasting him for that.
many people wish they were a 'one hit wonder'.... props to Vanilla Ice..
I was a metalhead and not a fan at all, but on this song he was ahead of the times.
He was not accepted in the rap industry - in interviews etc it was like he was putting on an act and was resented because mainstream media was willing to put a white rapper on but rap by black artists was not given the same love. He was seen as another white artist exploiting a black genre and a corny joke - take this parody of him on In Living Color for example: th-cam.com/video/Mx7kzarSwGE/w-d-xo.html
He has a show called the Vanilla Ice Project where he renovates high end homes.
He was renovating homes in his 20’s...it paid the bills so he could work on rapping...it still pays the bills and I like the show...
He still rhymes his words when he talks. It's a great show.
Love that show!!
I'm 44, & when I was in High School, Vanilla Ice was BUMPING everywhere. His music was Hit after Hit... not just one. He was in the original Ninja Turtles also, & even did the song for The Nightmare Before Christmas animated move some years back. :) Everyone was able to go see him perform back in the day... little kids, right up to old folks. Family friendly. Those days are long gone.
In 1989 everyone love him -- a year later everyone hated him for being "inauthentic" with manufactured street cred and stealing the main riff from Queen's "Under Pressure". (You should do a video on that song.) No one got dumped on and disavowed more than Ice, but it's nice to see young people rediscover him 30 years later. Still a damned catchy song.
This is by far the best reaction I've seen for this song ever. Good job brother.
This song was actually released in 1989 and following on his heels was MC Hammer with ("Cant Touch This")
Came out in the early 80's
Not to be too technical, this one came out in Summer 1990. And so did MC Hammer's "Can't Touch This" (which came out a few months prior in late Winter/Early Spring of 1990). It's scary how I remember these things...lol
It was written in 1981. I first heard it in the barracks on Camp LeJeune, NC. 1985 or 1986. I EAS'd in July of 86. So it was before then.
@@jesseroberson4678 - Dude, you're referring to the Queen song "Under Pressure". However, Vanilla Ice's song "Ice Ice Baby" was released in 1990, but it heavily uses the instrumental-sample from the Queen song ("Under Pressure"). Vanilla Ice's record company was actually sued by Queen for using the sample without proper prior authorization.
@@fidel2xl don't forget he also was hung over a balcony by sug knight for his royalties for the song
Whether they want to or not, people from my generation know every word to this song.
He also is known for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Rap (Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go). His album, Too Extreme was big when it came in in 90 or 91. Ice was big until they bounced him saying he didn't really have street cred. I loved it then, love it now. Rosta Man, Having A Roni, Play That Funky Music, and Boom (jam he did with Bloodhound Gang) are all worth a listen. The video may have been posted in 2009, but song was released in 1990 or 1991.
This song was released in 1990. He wrote this song when he was just 16 years old. It was the first rap song to hit #1 on the Billboard Top 100, and it became the fastest selling rap album of all time.
When this came out it exploded. Everyone went insane..classic..this dude had other gd songs on that album. He was so legit he toured with nwa and public enemy. Interesting fact this dude is still a multi millionaire.
Okay, I wasn't above clowning on him when this first came out because I was GUITARS OR GTFO. 31 years later, I'm like damn, dude had flow (and moves). This song is catchy as hell.
Yes in high schools all the girls went crazy of these new "rappers" (Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, The Beastie Boys), and all our boyfriends would be like...get that shit of my stereo!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 If they wanted us girls to stay at the party we usually got our way!!
Yes he kind of was a one-hit wonder and this came out in 91 you couldn't turn on a radio station without this playing
He would have more hits but suge knight had some dudes hold him off a balcony and sign the rights to all his music over to death row records. So he stopped making music.
He did Teenage mutant ninja turtles them. Go Ninja
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@@willowb1527 Oh wow I had totally forgotten that song I must of heard that even more often than ice ice baby since my son was a toddler at the time that achy breaky heart, and bad boys what ya gonna do was my baby's jam's Ima have to go listen to those now! XD
No, it came out in 89' I was in 7th or 8th grade and the kids kept playing this song over and over.
Actually released in ‘90
That song was BEAST when it came out, and STILL IS!!!!
This song was THE hit back in the day- all races of teens were loving him! He was slick...
Vanilla Ice wrote this song when he was 16 and first performed it at 19. It went worldwide viral in 1990. He still makes money of Ice Ice Baby today. He was not treated as he should've been. Google it he had several hits but ice ice baby was the biggest hip hop single. Still holds that title today. He paved the way for Snoop Dogg, TuPac, Eminem and so on back when the Hip Hop movement hit the scene. He was a trailblazer, a forerunner very instrumental in bringing in more versatile hip hoppers, etc ... He just never was recognized for it bc people wanted to hate on him but everyone knew this song back in the day and danced to it. I was 23 when this song really went viral. I am 4 years older than Vanilla Ice and I'm 60 now so he's 56 now and very successful. He was born in TEXAS DALLAS TEXAS and then moved to Miami Florida. Straight from the hood in Big D❤ He's an icon
This came out in 1989 and was a HUGE HIT but then he got sued by the band Queen because that hook is their song UNDER PRESSURE which is an awesome song you should check out. And then stories came out that he made up a bunch of stuff about his pass and he started doing real cheesy stuff. but this is the best you will get from him. Also I agree with Aubrey in the comments...Check out KID ROCK... COWBOY, ONLY GOD KNOWS WHY (first song I EVER heard auto tune on), BAWITDABA are a few i suggest
This was HUGE when it came out!!!
Check out Informer by Snow. That'll put you on the floor.
Lol I used to listen to that shit but it's funny that it was made by Canadians pretending to be Jamaican
Didn't Snow grow up in a neighbourhood with a good number of Jamaican immigrants (including some of his friends)? I thought that was how he got into the hip-hop scene. I'm not sure he was trying to pretend to be Jamaican or was simply a white kid who hung out with a lot of friends who were Jamaican immigrants and imitated his friends (as teens tend to do). Snow himself has like Irish roots or something like that.
Rap's not my thing personally but as a Canadian, yeah, I'm used to most black folks around here having Caribbean or (more recently) African ethnic roots rather than African-American roots (although some do from the Underground Railroad and American Revolution).
@@paranoidrodent they may have that was way before Google. Lol. I just remember them being white and Canadian
Oh god damn it... Now I have it stuck my head! Thanks 😡🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was reading about Informer a while back and it seems using using a rare Jamaican dialect and most Jamaicans can't even understand him.
1990-1991 the song was SOO big that it got over played and people got so sick of it that it disappeared from play lists. Now all these years later people hear it and are reminded why they love it soo much.
"Is he about to rap?" I fell out of my chair.
I’m cracking up at your reaction!! I honestly didn’t know there was anyone on earth who had not heard this song so this is so entertaining l!!!
He recently had, or still has, a home improvement / rehab show on DIY cable channel. Has several seasons rehabing homes in Florida.
He was also on dancing with the stars and did pretty well, it was kinda a redemption story for him!
I worked at Home Depot for a long time in west palm beach and he was and still is a regular there. Super cool guy. Had many conversations with him over the years.
He’s still getting props! This song came out in 1990.
Man early 90's flashback... Really never heard this? This is going to be stuck in my brain for days now. 🤣🤣🤣
Taking me back to middle school!
@@christinegreen3974 yeah... I was in 8th or 9th grade when it came out.
Queen`s "Under Pressure" Came out in 1981 and the video was on MTV 10 times a day. Ice Ice Baby, 1989
This song was soooo hot back in the day(still today, hearing it).....they used to play it during basketball games in college as a star player looked like him(Jon Fedor), and the crowd would get really excited!!!
DUDE, HAS A REALITY TV SHOW WITH HIS 2 DAUGHTERS! THE CLUBS WAS ROCKING WITH VANILLA ICE ALSO SNOW LATER! M.C. HAMMER!👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Ok I'm gonna go sit in my bathroom and cry. This song is (holy shit!) 30 years old. No fighting it I'm old,lol!
You don't seem old seeing your picture. 😍😘
Thanks for this great reaction video. I still love this song, 30yrs later. ❤
CAN'T TOUCH THIS by MC HAMMER.
Another vote for listening to "Can't Touch This" by M C Hammer
I've known every word to this song for 30+ yrs. This was THE song back in the day. Everyone knew this song. He was a 1 or 2 hit wonder. But this song lives forever!
No he had several hits just none as big as ice ice baby🎉
Must be living under a rock my friend. This song is played in a lot of movies lol.
Lol... my kids would listen to this song OVER AND OVER PLUS OVER again!!! They are in their 40's now :)
In an interview he said every time this song plays Suge Night gets 60% and Queen gets 60%. So it cost him $ everytime it plays, 😆
don't know about the %s, but I think the hook was actually from David Bowie's Under Pressure, but yeah, this hit the courts for sure
Kel Pradovich Under Pressure is a duet by Queen and David Bowie. I was a teenager when this song came out. Queen sued the hell out of him because they own the rights. He didn’t ask permission and said he added an extra “dun” to the beat... of course he lost because he CLEARLY ripped it off. Word to his motha..,😂😂😂
He has said in an interview that he bought the rights to Under Pressure since it was cheaper than going through a court battle.
@@leebassa1545 I did not know that it was a collab! Not a surprise, but had not heard that part...Danke!
Kel Pradovich bitte! Yes, it was an amazing collaboration!
The beat for this song is Queen’s “Under Pressure”
Another famous song that has that is MC Hammer “U Can’t touch this” and Rick James “Super Freak”
I enjoyed the whole album. Then again, I also enjoyed the TMNT movie soundtrack back around then.
Yeah. I was about to mention "Ninja Rap".
This is one of those songs that was everywhere when it came out and ppl got sick of it. But today, when it comes on... ppl crank it up and sing along with no apologies.
Should totally listen to the Jim Carrey parody he did on "In Living Color"
Absolutely!!!
Maybe he’ll bring it back on SNL (he just joined the cast to portray Joe Biden).
"Told the whole world I got stabbed in the butt. But all it really was was a toilet paper cut." 🤣 man I miss In living color. Back in Jim Carrey went as James. Lol
Lol...especially the shoe flying off
That is a hoot! Now I must watch.
1989 was the year. The guitar riff was Queen’s” Under Pressure.” He was sued and had to pay bunches of money.
1. The bass was not sampled and it is slightly different.
2. Van Winkle sampled the 2 piano notes in that intro...thats why he lost in court.
3. Van Winkle bought the publishing rights for Ice baby, not Under Pressure.
4. Queen& Bowie still get royalties out of "Ice baby" as they are co-writers.
I’ve always loved this song it makes me wanna dance
Vanilla Ice did this song on a nationally televised awards show LIVE... and nailed it. he was teased because he was white and rapping/dancing, and the whole thing about him saying his hook was not the Queen hook... everyone at my high school loved this song...
Thats how we rolled back in the day.We loved one anotherWe danced together
Dude is still out there doing good. He lives in FL still and does tons of charity and helps out his own neighborhood too.
This song came out in the late 80s. I was in high school and owned the casette tape with this song. This was really his only hit. He was so popular and then he became something of a joke. Also there was controversy of copyright issues bc he stole the background music from the song Under Pressure. Its nice to hear this song circulating again. Its very nostalgic but I also remember the joke it had become. Gen X teens could be really brutal back then. 😁
Came out in 1990
Vanilla Ice wrote this song when he was 16! People can say whatever they want but he was a dancer, rapper and a great performer! He’s been doing house renovations in Florida for high end houses he’s very, very good at it!
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I grew up with this jam, in the day it was big but eventually became a joke. For years "Ice Ice Baby" was a punchline for musicians from rappers to rockers. I'm so glad that this song was finally recognized for the jam it really is. Vanilla Ice is finally getting his proper recognition.
I loved Vanilla Ice first album when I was a teenager but I listened it to it for the first time in probably 29 years and it didn't age well in my opinion lol! But Ice Ice Baby is still the jam after all these years
He is now on TV as a contractor in Miami refurbishing mansions. One hit wonder. But shocked the world back in the 80’s! He has a long list of haters who hated him for all the wrong reasons. No street cred... But everyone got down with that song! Queen assist...
He sampled the instrumental from Under Pressure-Queen ft. David Bowie.
Still enjoy this song. It was a hit back in the day. 90s bro and was fire
He stole that riff in the background from Queen
ever heard of the word "sample"?
Then shug hung him upside down off a balcony and stole the "sample"
Yes he did steal it. Queen took him to court for using the riff without their permission.
Everyone was sampling in the 80s/90s. It was part of the Hip Hop culture. But once you started selling a lot the lawyers would come after you. If I remember correctly Vanilla Ice ended up just buying the rights to the song and giving the original writers writing credit rather than settle.
Bob M Well, you remember incorrectly. They settled out of court, but he did have to pay in addition to giving them writing credit. He didn’t “sample” the riff, he tried to say he wrote it by adding one note to the end. 🙄
This song is the first rap song to ever hit #1 on the billboard charts.
He played himself off as an OG but he was a middle class white dude. Arsenio Hall had him on his show and trashed him. I've seen video of him in black clubs before he hit it big and the crowds we loving it. But he's not OG so out he went.
There are no OG's on the mean streets of Carrollton / Farmers Branch TX. Robbie VanWinkle graduated from R.L. Turner high school less than a mile from me. My wife with to high school with him.
Vanilla ice is a legend and a one hit wonder. This song was played on every radio station around the world in 1990-1991.
You like him look at cowboy by kid rock
Love the video with Kid Rock and Hank Williams Jr.
If you check out Kid Rock (and he really should) you have to start with Bawtidabba (probably spelled that wrong)
He deserved the scrutiny for theft of the Queen riff but not the continued haters, Queen won that in court and awarded their deserved royalties. For me and many Queen fans, we loved this song from day one and how he cleverly used the riff and were able to love this song AND love making sure Queen got the credit and that happened and I was happy with that and still love both. Did I say that right?
He was out before eminem he had this one hit, after a while he became a joke, most everyone liked it at the time but it became very cringy after a while . Now calling a white rapper vanilla ice is an insult.
I remember seeing a documentary about this guy. I think it was a "Behind the Music" episode. I felt kind of bad for the guy when it was over. In the same doc they interviewed MC Hammer who kind of discovered him and had nothing but praise for his ability as a rapper and performer before he was widely known. There wasn't a whole lot that was bigger than Hammer at that time.
@@ContrarianCorner Yea, he definitely could rap. People just would not accept posing for the street cred. Don't le about that in the 80's. If you don't have it just rap about what you do know.
The biggest problem Rob had was he lost that lawsuit... and thus all his cash.
What about Ninja Rap???
@@jeremiahandmaggiegutierrez3261 Ninja Rap was never a big hit, though it is the song he's sung the most. He's spent years touring with the Turtles Live show singing that song just to get out of debt.
This is the best rap song ever written. That boy is smooth as silk! ❤
He is funny in the movie That's My Boy with Adam Sandler!!
He's my favorite in that movie. 🤣 when he said "word to your mother, brother fucker." I died.🤣
Man rob is the man took rap mainstage that man paved the way for the world to love a culture of music he still sales millions of this album
He stole this beat from Queen’s “Under Pressure”... I still get heated about it.
Go listen to “Under Pressure” Live At Wembley ‘86... a FAR better and more iconic performance than...this.
He is worth 8 million though so...And now days everyone samples everyone
Tracy Restore Hippie Chick “sampling” is when permission is asked from, and proper credit is given to, the originator(s). Vanilla Ice “stole”- he had not gained permission nor did he give proper credit until he faced a lawsuit over it.
Tracy Restore Hippie Chick The members of Queen are worth a hella lot more 😂 He *lied* about the riff being original & eventually had to pay Queen & David Bowie.
He owns the rights to the queen song. He bought it and gets paid when it get played. Lol
Background
"Ice Ice Baby" is a hip hop song written by American rapper Vanilla Ice and DJ Earthquake based on the song "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie, who did not initially receive songwriting credit or royalties until after it had become a hit. Originally released on Vanilla Ice's 1989 debut album Hooked and later on his 1990 national debut To the Extreme, it is his most well known song. It has appeared in remixed form on Platinum Underground and Vanilla Ice Is Back! A live version appears on the album Extremely Live, while a rap rock version appears on the album Hard to Swallow, under the title "Too Cold"
Under Pressure" is a 1981 song by the British rock band Queen which was written and recorded with the singer David Bowie. It was included on Queen's 1982 album Hot Space. The song reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the group's second number-one hit in their home country (after 1975's "Bohemian Rhapsody", which topped the chart for nine weeks), and Bowie's third UK number-one.
Held
The case was settled privately out of court as it was clear that Vanilla Ice had stolen the sample without permission. Ice settled out of court with Queen and David Bowie for an undisclosed but very likely very high amount. “Ice Ice Baby” has been released in many different versions with all of the legal procedures followed. Bowie and members of Queen all received songwriting credits on the track.
LOve this song. How can you have never heard this song before? Have you been in a coma for the last 30 years?
He was sued and lost for stealing Queens bass Rif...
If it's anybody else, they call it "sampling." If it's Vanilla Ice, they call it "stealing."
@@porflepopnecker4376 nah it's stealing when you don't get permission from the original artist. doesn't matter who it is.
I remember when this came out I was 26 and now I'm 60. It was very popular and my co coworker and she came to work and she was singing the lyrics and I knew the song was special
This album has sold over 160 million copies and has gone platinum every year since 1990. That's THIRTY years PLATINUM. It still sells 2-4 million copies a year. The biggest seller of all time and if it weren't for that DJ accidently playing the B-side of the record, this song would have never been known!
It was 1990- also had songs Wrath, play that funky 🎶 music white boy and Cool as Ice,etc.😊
This song was HUGE! Later, everyone tried to make fun of it, but when it 1st came out, I guarantee they all bumped it. Lol
1990-91. To THIS DAY, Ice still sellin round 3 million copies a year! Top selling hip hop record, ever
It's funny watching reaction videos that have no cultural bias impact on them & they've all loved this song as did the population when it first dropped
This song is a classic!
I don’t care, I have ALWAYS loved this song! Catchy AF.
*(Ice Ice Baby)* dropped in *1989* & blew up going mainstream in *1990*
*Out this Spring in a theater near you "The Only Person in America That Has Never Heard Of Ice Ice Baby." Featuring....... LMBO* ❤️
New love for Ice. Yes! Well deserved!
The short story- the reason he dropped off the world is - he sampled the bass from Under PRESSURE, from Queen- with David Bowie , and did not get permission! A lot of rapper's did that- but it became a hit, which caused problems! He was a upper middle class white from Dallas , Texas- who created a fake background that he was poor, and from the HOOD! He lost street cred - very quickly, and that basically destroyed his rap career. I'm not into Hip-hop, but he had some talent, as you can see!!
"If a rhyme was a drug, I'd sell it by the gram". Classic line. Lol
He was a monster on the radio for a few years. He was so popular he ended up in the site's of Sug Knight and had a pretty violent "contract negotiation" with Sug on a balcony. Google the story. Vanilla Ice also became known for wearing very sprarkely suits during performances.
If you want a good laugh watch Jim Carey Parody of Vanilla Ice. Its an absolute riot.
If he had simply ASKED Queen, he might still be making music.
The Melody is from Queen& David Bowie under pressure !
Old school rap. I love it. Vanilla was the man.
Vanilla Ice had 2 hit songs. Extremely popular in the very early 90's. The bass line from this song was from a Queen song and he got sued for that. He was a young guy and didn't realize it would cause him grief.
The second issue that caused him grief was some people did some digging into his background and found out he grew up in an upper-middle-class suburb and is Jewish. This ended his Rap and Hip-Hop career for good. His talent became secondary to the HATE he got for the crime of his background. White Jew from the Burbs.
But, he didn't let all that destroy him. He changed careers and used the cash from his two hits to launch a very very successful Luxury Home Renovation business in the Fort Lauderdale area, and has his own TV show on the HGTV Network showcasing his work.
First hip hop artist to sell a million copies. 89-90 release. Now he's a builder of custom homes in Palm Beach.
I love seeing people who aren't "jaded" by all of the Vanilla Ice hate and just listen to it and vibe to it. Someone else suggested listening to "Snow - Informer" and I concur.
This song stilled out sale all the hip hop songs right now! These day’s Vanilla is a rich man with the Real estate business and this song stilled bring in his extra incomes. He is super smart and he stilled help out new hip hop artist to succeed
It's nice to see Vanilla get a little love.
I remember back in the days you would have been dissed into oblivion for daring to say Vanilla Ice is good... the unilateral opinion on him was "he's a sellout" and there was absolutely no room for disagreement. Especially the other white guys in the business were dunking on him hard. 3rd Bass even produced a diss track against him called "pop goes the weasel"... :-D
vanilla ice is a legend with ONE SONG.....everyone who sees him for the first time ususally are blown away.....the original JUSTIN BIEBER