Artist: Vanilla Ice
Best Album: To The Extreme
Best Song: Ice Ice Baby
This Letter Could Have Been About: Would I have written about Vanilla Ice if I had other options?
Why I’m Writing About This Artist: The music business kinda lost its mind for a while in 1990. The hivemind decided it was time for rap music to become more broadly known and accepted, especially by white people. It was time for rap to have some chart-topping hits.
And who received that honor? Who was the sure-to-be-immortal musician to write and perform rap’s first chart-topping hit?
Vanilla fucking Ice, whose debut To the Extreme somehow spent sixteen damn weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts. And closely following him? MC Hammer, who wasn’t a whole damn lot better.
Sigh.
The thing is? The Vanilla Ice Project, his current reality TV series where he renovates a mansion, is actually kind of entertaining. But, Jesus, this guy being this popular is one of those things from the nineties that everyone wants to admit never happened.
A few other thematic videos following the obligatory Ice Ice Baby video here. Note that I genuinely love at least one of these songs; feel free to guess which one in comments.
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Hi there – I actually remember them best because of “Ice Ice Baby”. My niece chose that song for her wedding march years ago. Quite unique! BTW, I’m dropping in from a shout out to your blog from Rosie Amber’s blog https://rosieamber.wordpress.com/.
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OMG Informer! I had the single… Never quite managed to make up what he was saying though…
I’m not even going to hazard a guess…
3 of those songs feature regularly on MTV Classic is all I’ll say.
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It was years before I knew Vanilla Ice had sampled Freddie Mercury and David Bowie’s ” Under Pressure”. I think I might have found out within the last 15 years or so, after I met my wife, who is a huge David Bowie fan and an even bigger Freddie Mercury fan. Vanilla Ice’s explanation of how he supposedly changed the melody by one bar or note or whatever so it’s not a sample is BS.
My guess is House of Pain’s “Jump Around”.
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