Vanilla Ice Explains Sampling (Ice Ice Baby - Queen/David Bowie)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Vanilla Ice explains why Ice Ice Baby was hounded for its sampling of "Under Pressure" while other hip hop songs escaped scrutiny back in 1990 when the song first went big.
Interview from 1990.
It sounds like he was Under Pressure.
Frankfurt Ice baby
Frankfurt underrated commet
IAmTheSky what about mine? Don't let Frankfurt steal my thunder
L P sowy
Frankfurt yeah but he revolves it good with a little bit of help of his dj almost the same like resolved it with a little bit of help of his lawyer.
I lost it when they zoom out and show his outfit lol
His tiny head!
Polite Q LMAOOO HIS TINY HEADDDD
it was crappy like his songs
Quit the zero and get with the hero !!
I was about to stop watching the video because of how dumb he sounded until I read this! All I have to say is THANK YOU
His face is extremely slappable
Edit: Never thought I would be the second most liked comment on a video
Major Tom *sampleable
@@GirlyJane100 yes 😂
*slaps face* yep 👍
@Major Tom
I can do the slapping for you
r/punchablefaces
"I mean he's a white rapper from Florida with a funny haircut" - Roger Taylor🤘
Lol I remember that Lmao
@@k4rys1mps0n
Isn't he from Texas?
with white guy problems !
He's from Dallas and Florida. In his teens he went back and forth from Dallas to Miami.
Ohhh I just watched that lol
damn I was expecting a much dumber answer.
Right? Me too
It was dumb enough to fully meet my expectations.
if you think he sounded stupid in the video you're just a hater he gave a good argument in this video
Take it back vanilla ice my G
Yeah same
Bowie and Mercury are legends, you're not.
says the guy, while talking about what some dude did almost 30 years ago.
blue says a person commenting on a comment that was made 1 year ago
Hi
He really is a legend
The Senate no
He don't respect Queen :/
I don't think he really listened to Queen or Bowie.
David Gullberg
Or David Bowie
He’s a joke. Queen will and has gone down in history
fatcat fuck you bitch
*doesn't
He's never heard of the word permission
Fuck permission.
Of course not --- he looks like a white boy Jabroni
Bill Belzek I legit haven’t heard or used the word Jabroni, in over 20 years. I’m rolling at your comment. Lol!!! 😂😂
haha wouldnt he had to have that written down or proof there of so that they couldnt go after him years later.
Vanilla ice Doesn’t know the word permission.Butt Johannes does, Johannes does indeed.
I just realized: John Deacon made this guys whole career
LMAO
Correction, most decent artists in America get the rights to the songs they sample.
yeah but when the samples are going to cost more than record is going to make in the long it's not worth it. I think the companies lending or leasing the samples should take this into consideration cause if anything it would be exposure for the artist of the sample being used but because of greed from the record companies, this will never happen and this is why samples will always be stolen.
chuck Core There have been ways to get around the cost of samples, and it's mainly convincing the artist to allow the sample to be used. The problem with that solution, in today's music industry it's already hard enough to make money so when it comes to giving stuff away that's hard unless they get some sort of guarantee to something.
key word "most"
He owns the song
Nwa didn't ask any permission when they sampled and there entire album was sames same with eazy duz it, and biggie used samples and never asked, Epmd did too Sooo......yea
Wait a minute I thought sampling was taking a tiny part and using it not stealing John Deacons entire bass line
Correct, sampling is taking a small seconds-long section of a song, possibly changing the speed, looping it, and making it your own. That’s exactly what Vanilla Ice did.
Derek Keenan it’s the exact same thing
Derek Keenan but that was also the entire bassline of under pressure
Grilled Potato it wasn’t the entire baseline, it was just a few seconds of the “hook” from Under Pressure, which was then looped and repeated to form the beat of Ice Ice Baby
According to copyright laws, you're only allowed a few notes. Not the whole song
Can't tell if his haircut is behind the game by 40 years or ahead of the game by 400 years...
he was living in 3090
I think that hairstyle has passed and will never be on the table again.
WAHAHAHAHAAAAA
Were you around in the late eighties/early nineties? Or were you "behind the game"?
I’m 4 years behind but I came from the future to comment on this comment 😂😂😂
"it's still my song, I wrote it and produced it"
*Yeah that's great honey but it ain't your bass riff*
BEEBIN I FOUND YOU
basically he is a moron
BURNNNN
Otamabread vanilla ice only changed the bass riff in the middle of the lawsuit so naturally none of us like him
@@user-xw6uh3yp7g ea sports
nah fella, it is stealing if you don't have their permission to use their work.
+Jeremy Chambers not if its layed and cover up enough to the point that people cant recognize it :D
+Rhyme Oddysey so let's say that you own a shop where you sell good stuff. these are all your wares that you have personally hand made. if I were to come in there and take one of your items, take it home, and put some extra marks on it, then I could say that it's mine and retain all the profits from it when I sell it?
I have a better idea than what you could even dream about. When you are ready to have a conversation with me about this without the juvenile name calling and cursing, I am more than willing to talk. You are being immature. Creativity NEVER trumps respect.
Jeremy Chambers
says the guy who basically called out a whole culture, fuck off you elitist fuck.
+Rhyme Oddysey I never called anybody out. I just said the practice itself should be illegal unless you have the permission of the original authors. you apparently don't have a clue as to how to talk to people without insulting them, So this is the end of the conversation between me and you
It's more like a thing called PLAGIARISM, period.
Problem Child u get expelled in our school for that so he should be expelled from music
@Isaac Mendoza 😂
Koca Kola what’s funny?
@@retardsvotefortrump 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Isaac Mendoza but most people nowadays ask the original artists and if it’s a yes you give them credit and have to pay them for the sample.
I feel sorry for John deacon, the bass player of queen. The riff was his original idea and not enough people are giving him credit for creating that bass line the vanilla stole.
Update: it has been several years since this post. I have since changed my mind. I understand artists sample and that he is not a thief. I actually like that artist cover other people’s songs or use pieces of it because I get more than one version of a song I like. That’s what art is. I wasn’t thinking this way at the time of this post four years ago.
Ive sampled hundreds of basslines... guess why nobody ever sued me? I didnt go 5x platinum!!!
And John is criminally underrated
What reality do you live in? You were born 2 years ago???
He didn’t steal. He sampled.
@@MegaFinalRound yeah I know. I’ve changed my mind since then. I will say Vanilla ice should have asked first, but I don’t think he was intending to steal like I thought before.
*nO biG dEAL*
*QUEEN + BOWIE: EXCUSE ME WHAT*
I hate this guy he did steal from queen and he didnt even ask them about it QUEEN IS AWESOME!!!!!
+Syntax thanks dude
+Syntax Sampling is still a thing in hip hop, it is nothing new. Sampling is when you get a part of someone else's song and modify it so that you can dodge copyright issues. You don't need permission for sampling. As much as I like Queen too, I also love Hip Hop, and this really isn't anything to get mad over lol.
***** Vanilla Ice did the most uncreative way of sampling, which is just lowering a semitone on the bassline. There are much more creative ways of sampling in Hip Hop, and not all of them are "stealing".
+Isaac Morales yeah but think of the time when the sample was made, beat machines were pretty shitty. so they were limited on what they could do. MPC'S weren't really a thing then.
William Scharer
Queen AND David Bowie
Son: mom, can we get Elvis Presley?
Mom: no, we have Elvis Presley at home
Elvis Presley at home:
vl Sparrow lv LMAO I can’t-
I’ve always thought he looked like Johnny Bravo tho
NOT ELVIS JDJFJDNDJ
ItS fUnNy CoS wHiTe MaN bAd.
They don't differ all that muck though
At least ice ain't no pedo!
Queen and David Bowie will live on in the halls of Valhalla, forever celebrated for their talent and music. You are wasted space, unwanted and forgotten
Actually shockingly enough a lot of kids now a days know who Vanilla Ice is but not Queen. Go to his Vevo youtube and you will find out real fast that most people don't know that the beat was taken without permission. Probably more of the minority community since Queen is rock and people are brainwashed to believe Rock is bad if you're minority. Don't ask me why because I think Rock is better sounding especially for workouts in the gym.
@@JesusChrist-em1iz "kids this days knows Vanilla Ice but now Queen" Are you sure about that, sis? Queen is still relevant this days. Go to their official youtube account and you'll see.
I know it’s a year later but just fuck off please because almost every popular artist has sampled someone else’s music and it honestly does no harm
@@frank-xq9gv what do you mean "it doesnt do harm". Imagine making a piece of art and putting all your hard work into it...and then a guy just stole THAT art you made and said that that's his idea?
potato 1D he never said it’s his idea. Did you watch this video? And I’d be flattered if anyone wanted to use my ideas
And now this guys working with "matty b raps" or whatever, lame
Karol Bała ... Vanilla Ice (Mr. Van Winkle) is actually doing well for himself today, I believe. Buying and refurbishing homes.
To Karol Bata I totally aggre
And Bowie and Mercury are both six feet under.
fatcat at least they both died as legends. i don’t think anyone is going to remember that dude.
@@fatcat1 six feet under pressure.
Vanilla Ice's song just became a hit because of the catchy bass he stole from Queen and Bowie.
I mean, yeah, so what? that's like saying Eminem's "My name is..." became a hit because of Labi Siffre's "I got the...", with the used part starting at 2:09 (although technically that wasn't a sample but a rerecording/recreation done with studio musicians).
@@xxxaragon don't even try to explain, the people in the comment section are trying so hard to drag him even though Ice Ice Baby was a great song
this couldn't be more wrong
5 platinum from stealing
hi, ever heared any track from puff daddy, dr. dre and numerous other rappers?
yeah true. He knows that that catchy bass would make his song sound good.
He paid after judge in court push him to paid or jail
If court did not push him to pay he continued to claim he was the creator eventhough he stolen it from the legend
@@ArchKnight28 Wouldn't you prefer to be asked if they could use a hook from one of your songs though?
It is big deal, he become famous because he stole someone work.
....pathetic
Sampled, not stolen. Legally there’s a difference.
@@Derek_Keenan is that why he got sued by Queen... Because he got their permission.... 🤷🏼♀️
Magdalena Hedman Alfredsson who said he got permission?
@@Derek_Keenan for it to be sampled you usually get permission first otherwise it's just stealing
pat adam 🧂
Sampling a riff from a legendary band, haha...
Now you look like Under Pressure but anyway you paid your dues and they championed it😂😂😂
That wasn't "sampling", that's stealing the music. I see lots of sampling, but he literally took the song.
He literally used a 10 second bass line from another song which literally every rap song does. I'm not going to list 500 other rap songs which sample from James Brown and Stevie Wonder.
@@theblakex permission. arguement over.
@@gruesomewolfgaming4735 Permission is rarely asked for when sampling music. No argument.
@@theblakex permission is what makes it legal. that's common sense. taking without permission is stealing, in any situation, and always has been, and always will be.
Gruesome Wolf Gaming Led Zeppelin must be in some serious trouble then
I fact-checked him. He's lying. It went platinum 4 times (not 5); it was settled out of court, and Queen got royalties for the sample. Most artists don't sue rappers because rappers give credit to the the artists that they sample from. He acts like rappers steal from other artists. They don't. They ask permission to use it or buy it from them.
Back in the day, in the 90's and before, rappers didn't credit much for their samples. As rap grew in popularity, they began to credit their samples more and more, because as Vanilla Ice explains, if you make a lot of money and you don't credit/pay for your samples, you're going to get sued. In the early days of rap, rap artists didn't really make enough to justify suing them.
Yeah get it straight dummy
A lot of rappers did steal what you talking about
@@doghat1619exactly
lol I remember watching and interview and they said that when the song first came on freddie thought he was listing to under pressure.. poor thing. ❤️
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.
1:28 "I haven't talked to Queen-"
Thank goodness you haven't, you're not worthy of their time
stop hating on the 90's BOOMER!
@@sirquacksalot6463 what?
@@krishivkaran5337 those damn baby boomers hating us radical 90s dudes
@@sirquacksalot6463 I hope you're being sarcastic
Pretty sure when you sample music you get permission to use them first.
Its not sampling its stealing come at me rap fanboys
it's not stealing, especially if it's a snippet. they don't own the rights to the sound the instrument makes. that's exactly what the this whole spiel is about. that's what a sample is. they own the rights to a full song, not a sound from the song. if I use a bass sound from a U2 song how is that stealing ? it's a bass sound , I can play the bass too, doesn't mean I own the rights to the sound it makes. if I took this argument to court, I would win.
+chuck Core it's about being professional
Anymore it doesn't matter, seeing as he actually owns the rights to "under pressure" now.
+chuck Core so what you are trying to say is that queen and david bowie own the WHOLE song but not the bassline which is clearly a part of the whole song which the own... your arguement is invalid
Vanilla Ice vs Queen & Bowie
Vanilla Ice became a household word for a while, not because of his talent, but because of the copyright infringement that occured in 1990 when it came to light that he had sampled Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” without consent or license. Ice Ice Baby hit number one on the charts in the United States and Vanilla Ice became the one ‘under pressure’. Vanilla Ice altered the rhythm of the baseline thinking he would thereby avoid any question of credit, royalties, license or even permission. This case never went to court as it was clear that Vanilla Ice had stolen the sample without permission. He 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, since then, with all of the legal procedures followed.
he copied (sampled, according to him) the looks of johnny bravo, copied (sampled, according to him), I have never seen such a fake vanilla ice cream in my life
"Vanilla Ice explains why Ice Ice Baby was hounded for its sampling of "Under Pressure" while other hip hop songs escaped scrutiny back in 1990 when the song first went big."
Should say Vanilla Ice tries to escape criticism for blatantly stealing a beat for the entirety of his song because he can't write music for shit.
Izicial And tries to give a word a new definition because he doesn’t understand there’s a difference between stealing a beat and sampling.
Hi, first of all, it's only in the fucking hook, second, you clearly dont know what the fuck you are talking about. Thirdly, a rapper doesn't need to write music. Just as a pure lyricist in any other type of music does not need to write music.
Vanilla Ice had other version of this song called Too Cold and it's even more dope, so i don't think beat is the case here.
Judge C2 clearly you don’t know the difference either, because what he did was 100% sampling.
@@AgentLemmon Vanilla ice a lyricist? Eminem, Nas, kendrick, tupac are lyricist. Vanilla ice is definitely not lol
Sold 5 platinum records
Nothing compared to queen and David Bowie. You really won’t be remembered
Arch Knight Arch Knight I never said, that he said he was better dumbass💀 go play monster legends💀😂
The riff is incredibly simple but incredibly effective on two big songs. Crazy.
Wow. The reason the song went platinum in the first place is because of the sample. Ice's rapping skills bit.
..and it's still one of the most talked about, and played, songs today.. 2017 ..
too bad no one really reads this comment. but, yes that's a good point.
Tev and also the fact that at that time the Beastie boys kinda stopped being cool for rapping and there wasn't alot of white rappers out Sooo white kids the majority fans were like "he's white I'm white I'll be able to relate and like it" and then it goes platinum ya feel me.
I wonder if Queen gets royalties for We Will Rock You. Every sports team uses it as a HYPE tool
Yep that's how they got a lot of their royalties
It’s not sampling it’s plagiarism because he didn’t credit the artist and his song got twice the views
But he really steal it XD
It isn’t the fact he won platinum it’s the fact the David Bowie and Freddie Mercury are legends and he just couldn’t be bothered making his own sound
*Meh - Vanilla Ice is better than David Bowie, and better-looking, too.*
*Bowie was always overrated - but Ice was a music prodigy and we never got to see the full scale of his potential.*
Lesson: If you want to use other people's work, you must ask permission first. I was a fan of vanilla ice when I'm 11. But when the time came I heard the song Under Pressure and I searched that he never first asked for permission to use the sample, I'm dissapointed. I think Vanilla Ice's parents didn't teach him the good values.
@@bidenistechnicallyadictato738 Bowie sucks lol, and Queen isn't very good imo. They have a few good songs but they aren't worthy of Legendary status that they get.
@@bidenistechnicallyadictato738 Dam right
@@df-mt4eo you dont have to ask permission if you want to cover a song you fucking idiot
"He's a white rapper from Florida, great, with a funny haircut"
The real question is: what illegal substance did he sample during this interview
Dear god if there is ever a youtube rewind for comments you should be there
Cocaine.
i can see Freddie absolutely crying with laughter :)
Summer Parry AND JOHN DEACON!
Nah, freddy stopped laughing after he got aids then he just died.
His justification for STEALING from Queen/Bowie was laughable
Okay Karen
He didn't lie on any of this. Sampling was a term, because it was rampant in the 80's, particularly in rap. Only when Vanilla Ice did it was it now a "massive crime". And its like like ten seconds of intro before he starts rapping. Big deal. I mean Queen got both paid from his song, and then it cemented Under Pressure in rock history, because I am old enough to tell you that going into 1990, no one cared about "under pressure" until he used it. That song had came and went years ago.
Here's a great example. Run DMC only knew the beginning of "Walk This Way", before they did the song with Aerosmith, because that is all any rap artist played in the clubs. It was super common to use "Walk This Way" on peoples underground raps, but only the intro. But Ice is right. If you didn't sell millions of albums, not one cared.
Admit it, Vanilla. This song is theft. If you had never heard ' Under Pressure ', you would never have written ' Ice Ice Baby '.
It was only because Queen and Bowie threatened to sue you into the next century that you settled with them.
Kind of like people stealing other's works for their channel icon...
TheTruthMatters1971 - At first reading, your point seems to be extremely valid and correct. But there are differences:
1) I make no money off my use of the logo. I am actually giving the logo
and movies free publicity. Vanilla Ice made millions from his song.
2) I took this logo from a website which claimed anyone could use it. Therefore, they are possibly the one's at fault, not me.
3) This logo is available free everywhere. If a trademark is not actively restricted, in time it passes into generic use. This happened to Aspirin and Kleenex. Coca Cola takes great pains, though, to protect their brand name.
4) I see no lawsuits or cease and desist orders on the Internet from Colombia Pictures directly restricting the use of the GhostBuster's logo. Colombia Pictures appears to be making no effort to restrict the generic, non-money making use of this logo.
5) I also see no info to suggest that the GhostBuster's logo is not currently trademarked. If you plan to make money off GhostBusters material, get permission first.
Ghostbusters copyright © 1984 Columbia Pictures Industries Inc. All rights reserved.
Btw, rolling stones, the doors, and numerous so called real musicians stole whole songs including lyrics.
Patrick cellar door - Everybody would agree with you there. Led Zeppelin were and are one of the worse for stealing songs, and not admitting it. Fortunately, they've been sued a number of times, and lost.
Really it was the idea of his DJ to use "Under Pressure". I don't think he really listen to Queen of Bowie.
*Reaches over*
*Messes up hair*
*Slaps face*
Yes, you can sample if you ask for permission. BUT he didn’t ask, therefore it’s considered stealing
btw not necessarily. for example the Beatles are a band that at least for the longest time was notorious (because you wouldn't get the sample cleared).
(also, while you can get the majority of songs cleared, it's often still a question of cost. I remember that DJ Shadown, an artist who is know for creating multilayered songs consisting out of lots of samples once said that for an album of about 20 tracks, he produces about 30 - because there are 10 that will probably be impossible to get clearance for)
this is a normal answer you give when you have no clue about writing actual music/notes.
You took the entire base line and you called it as "sampling"?
English is my 3rd language but I know what plagiarism is...
You speak good English for your 3rd language
guys! it's "chill" it's just David Bowie/Queens record ya know, no big deal or anything. He's just sampling it I mean,,,
It's not like they're icons or whatever.
oh thank goodness your joking
I took it serious, and there is nothing wrong with sampling a song, at least not morally.. It has been done through the ages. Even Mozart plagarised songs. The doors, rolling stones, the beatles, name em and they stole shit. You just can't handle that it is a rapper that stole it.
No. What gets me is he tried to pass it off as something original. As for sampling, yes there is a problem if the rules aren't followed. in another comment, you point out that it's not the entire song. however, the baseline was a major part of the song. before VI, if you heard the baseline, you would automatically think of Under Pressure. Because it was a major part, it was required that he either wait until it was in public domain or get permission. You also point out that that's not the role of the artist. however, that doesn't matter. that just means that whoever he had to do that job didn't do it for whatever reason, whether he didn't tell him to get the permissions or they didn't listen. he shouldn't have used the sample until he was sure he had a legal high ground. And that's not just from a moral standpoint, that's from the standpoint of good business.
Fair points, although the bassline is only used in the hook and interlude. I take issue with people either claiming that this is no music, or that the entire song was stolen. My claim isn't that he doesn't need to ask permission, it is that especially in that time frame numerous artists where sampling in the hiphop (hiphop spawned from a DJ looping classic soul and funk tracks with an MC rapping over it) genre and most of these artsist didn't even know it was illegal. Another problem is that for example a highly classic hiphop album like Public enemy's it takes a nation of millions to hold us back could have never been made in this era, because it would probably cost too much to get all samples cleared. There are sometimes samples from 12 different songs and films in one track. To me it is an art form. Now, i wouldn't call ice ice baby classic material or art per definition, but sampling is, and it's a shame that people seem to think otherwise mostly because they are uninformed about what sampling is or are bias towards rap music to begin with. Almost every musician i know, ranging from Rock & Metal, to jazz players and classical players all respect this music genre. Plus i bet the average replyer here is bitching about theft , but probably hasn't bought an album in years. Btw, excuse the grammar, English is not my native language, i'm Dutch.
I haven't noticed any glaring grammar issues (but then, I'm not an English major) so don't worry. As I told you elsewhere, I just don't listen to rap all that often because the few examples i'v witnessed have been shallow, self-centered, or profane. the genre has sort of been blocked from me by what everyone else around me listens to. however, I have mad respect for the poetry surrounding it. That's why I view VI as a separate case, because even after he was called out, he tried to deny and sidestep, even claiming it was a separate baseline at one point, which then makes the hiphop genre look bad. I can understand people not understanding the rules surrounding sampling, but at least own up to it once you do. That's my biggest issue here.
First of all when he said it’s his “song” ... nah. All it is is the amazing beat of under pressure + your terrible rapping skills... you didn’t even ASK for permission! People don’t understand “ rap”. Do you understand what a band is and queen and Bowie are? You messed with the wrong group, darling. As Freddie said In bohemian rhapsody, “You gone really rotten. Fruit flies. Dirty little fruit flies to come and feast of what is left. But there isn’t much left to feast on anymore, so fly off!
Arch Knight sweet cheeks, yes I am a fan of queen. No, ice ice baby is not better because he stole the creativity of a man who was dying. That is wrong. Also, how dare you assume that I am a boy. You are the most gender assuming person I have ever met and that’s freaking rude and disrespectful. Dont ever do that again mate. Cheers!
@@ArchKnight28 He took one of the most iconic Queen basslines that John Deacon thought up all on his own and stole it to use as the song's entire backing track. The beat of the song is the song, darling. In the infinity of alternate universes, is none where an epic David Bowie and Queen collab isn't a million times better than a shitty rap track by Vanilla Ice.
Arch Knight listen, “WOMAN” I don’t wanna friken fight over this. I know what I believe and you know what you believe. Wouldn’t it be okay if you just once let someone have their own option without hating on them? So please just let me be. And mate isn’t saying your a boy, I use it for everyone because that’s what queen did “ma’am”
Arch Knight ya, I’m sorry too. This whole queen situation gets me in a lot of disagreements because I don’t want to change my love for queen. But all you were doing was telling your opinion, and im sorry for that. Hope we can be friends in the future.
@@Potatopot724 Have you not like...actually listened to Ice Ice Baby? Or do you think the hook alone is "the song's entire backing track" despite not being present in most of the song? It's well within the definition of sampling. The issue back when it came out wasn't exactly the sample nor an issue of permission but the fact that Vanilla Ice didn't provide credit in any form and when pressed on it initially by a journalist who didn't understand sampling, Vanilla Ice lied and claimed it as his own riff rather than explaining to the journalist what a sample was. Even the threatened lawsuit wasn't about 'stealing' nor monetary compensation for the usage of the riff, but rather the failure to provide credit. It was about principles that have been widely recognized in the music industry, an industry where sampling was common across genres. It wasn't about theft.
This is the only song from him I've ever heard, even that was too much
If I’m being fair this guy was ahead of his time. If he did this today he’d be just as big of a hit
exactly.
He did not even give credit to Queen and Bowie till they sued him
Hey, Robber Van Winkle,
Did you EVER give Queen/David Bowie credit? Even samplings are given credit.
roger taylor sure wasn't lying when he said this guy had a funny haircut
‘Sampling’
Ok so I get that people do sample in the rap industry. First of all you NEVER sample queen, they are iconic. Second of all that wasn’t a sample, that was a copy
What's wrong with sampling queen
0:06 I mean he's not wrong. That's why I don't know how anyone can be into that genre. They don't have originality. When you hear the music your basically just listening to rock music in the background but with fast pace singing. It's why rappers come out with an album every 6 months to a year. All they have to do is write. The music is already ready for them. They don't have there own sound
Every comment is like a triggered Queen fan 😂😂
The sampling wasn’t the problem. Fighting it and trying to deny it was the problem. All he had to do was get their permission before hand or before it blew up, instead of trying to fight it afterwards.
You know, maybe he would seem less of a douchebag if he asked them for their permission first and gave them proper credit.
tbh i'd rather listen to under pressure
Sampling is just another word for stealing😂
I see why other rappers didn't like him.
“Platinum is hard for rap” go speak with queen an ask them how they got 2+ golds back when platinum wasn’t even a thing and gold was very very very hard
He mainly stole from Bowie, Bowie wrote most of the lyrics
John Deacon (the bassist, and hands down best member of the band, sorry Freddie) wrote the baseline though.
bowie wrote most of the lyrics while mercury came up with the melody , the rythme and the beat .under pressure is equally credited in the 4 queen members and bowie
hi there, did he use any lyrics from Bowie in the song?
Alexander Beck no he stole from John Deacon (from queen) because what Vanilla Ice stole was the bass line.
No, John Deacon wrote the bassline. They're all credited with the song but it's confirmed by all the others involved that John was the one who came up with the bassline. In shows, Freddie would usually start the song by throwing straight to John for the hook in.
It’s still blatant stealing
Then 99% of rap songs are blatant stealing
@@theblakex Yup
@@cassandracaldera2692 Or it could just be sampling a beat, which is the best compliment you could give to another song.
@@theblakex No, it's the best way of showing your stealing ideas.
Freddie Mercury. That's how rap music has worked for 40 years. I'd say get over it.
Its sampling when you honor the previous artist by ASKING for permission to use it....its STEALING when you take it without asking and without giving credit, soooooo you not only disrespectful to Queen but you bragging bout how much money you just made off it...gtfoh
That's just dumb. Rap wouldn't exist if it weren't for numerous creative producers who sampeled without paying royalites. You know how much it would cost to have all samples cleared? That is the reason why rap songs nowadays are mostly 808 beat computers with shitty keyboards, only artists like Kanye can pay for those samples
First off, i didn't call you dumb, i called asking for permission dumb, especially back in the days! But hey, if you can't seem to read then guess what?.. Second, he sampled a loop wich consists of a few seconds. Btw, would you call Dr. Dre the same?, because you know, every song of his from the 90s where stolen, in your logic that is.
Patrick cellar door gtfoh!!!! Like I said...his ass stole that shit and tried to deny it but had to pay for it...GUILTY!!!! All that other shit you talking is just that, SHIT! Queen is one of the greatest bands ever, you dont just "sample" their shit without permission!!! Idgaf how many songs Dre sampled or if he got permission, who knows, but this subject of Vanilla Ice is a no brainer!!!!!!! Have a nice fucking life....
Jesus, you’re ridiculous. And I am saying it. You are dumb, foul-mouthed, and hot tempered. 10/10 wouldn’t wife up
Dude still created one of the most iconic songs from the 90s so who cares at this point.
So do I get this right? Not only did he not ask them, but he also didnt give them any credit afterwards?
Vanilla Ice: It's my song, I wrote it and produced it.
Freddie: Sorry darling, you are chatting bullshit.
But he did... I mean, all he used was a 3 note bassline sample. And mainly in the chorus. The fact that vassline is mostly what under pressure is known for is besides the point. Also, Mercury didn't have jacksh1t to do with it.
@@sideskroll shut up kid. Go watch some cartoons
@@zecon990 You must be a PRETTY OLD FART if youre calling ME a "kid"... AND I do mean old as in "grandpa old". Just saying😁
@@sideskroll well I am 40+ that I can assure you
@@zecon990 Cool! Me too. Perhaps we should BOTH watch cartoons then? You certainly act your age my man. Respect!
Vanilla Ice: can I have a sample
John Deacon: take as many as you want
Vanilla Ice: perfect😈
It's amazing how much he gets blasted for a single song, yet The Beastie Boy's album Paul's Botique is heralded as one of the greatest albums of all time despite it having hundreds of samples used without a shred of credit and or permission given.
True, public enemy has songs with 21 samples in it, wich is genius
Shane Bales because he ain’t the beastie boys
Because they didn't take an entire fucking Bassline. Especially not one as famous as the one from under pressure.
tbf Beastie Boy's has much more creativity in its use of sampling
@@BigTiddyTheRapper Agreed but that's not really the point.
Why does his neck look broken?
"SaMpLiNg"
*_NO_* IT'S THE BACKING TRACK OF YOUR ENTIRE SONG THAT IS STRAIGHT UP PLAGIARISM
Have you not like...actually listened to Ice Ice Baby? Or do you think the hook is the "entire song"? It's only the beat in the hook, it is well within the definition of sampling. The issue wasn't the sample nor an issue of permission but the fact that Vanilla Ice didn't provide credit in any form and when pressed on it initially by a journalist who didn't understand sampling, Vanilla Ice lied and claimed it as his own riff rather than explaining to the journalist what a sample was. Even the threatened lawsuit wasn't about 'stealing' nor that no monetary compensation was provided for the usage of the riff, but rather the failure to provide credit. It was about principles, not theft.
infant jones I was making a joke, and this comment was a year ago lol
@@myrin265 how is that a joke asshat?
How dare he rip off Deacy's lines
Rap music can sample... but only with PERMISSION.
Pressure pushing down on me, pushing down on you-
Stfu 90% of rap hit are sampled song that never been clean
How can someone be that unlikeable
This is a joke... right?
Vanilla Ice trying to throw everyone under the bus because he’s the only rapper who sampled Queen and his song absolutely sucked. Disrespectful af and I love rap music and Queen.
Rap sucks, it is still stealing, David Bowie and Freddy Mercury were geniuses, and when people take other people's songs they pay royalties.
Binary Hint rock sucks you fat fuck
It's two tones on a four-beat bar, over and over again. Vanilla Ice added more instrumental context to the song than Bowie and Mercury did.
Ahem, John Deacon was the genius who wrote that bassline, thankyou. (Of course, Freddie was a genius too - Queen was four absolute geniuses. But John doesn't get enough credit.)
@@hitman_s1 lol what the fuck imagine being so ignorant you think a dumbass cretin like Vanilla Ice added more "instrumental context" to a song than QUEEN did.
He went from 5 platinum
To building houses he’s that desperate
“He’s a white rapper from Florida with a funny haircut great” - Roger Taylor
I will NEVER forgive!!!!
He didn't just use the main bass line, he also used the piano, hand claps & finger clicks. When I say used I mean stole. Should have just asked permission and given credit not deny he stole it and then attempting to pass it off as his own work.
Jokes on him, Mercury and Bowie are remembered as legends who single handily revolutionized not only the rock and roll genre of music, but the entire landscape of music itself, and Vanilla Ice is remembered as that one guy who made one of the worst and most forgettable songs ever while also plagiarizing people who earned their place in the music world and somehow went platinum despite many other people in the 90s deserving more of that achievement than him.
Who is mercury and Bowie? You mean the planet Mercury and the Bowie knife?
He is one of those artists that are/will no longer be relevant. He hasnt really done anything importany, he is completely useless.
Yeah QUEEN will be around FOREVER and u vanilla ice will NOT
I thought this video was an urban myth.
But no.
This is the funniest, yet dumbest shit ever.
He always kinda reminded me of Max Headroom.
HenrysHouse max headroom seemed infinitely smarter really
Sammpled? It played through out the whole song. What do you mean.
"It's not stealing it, it's sampling the song" Just because you give something a new name, doesn't mean the definition is any different...
Zac Tf you mean? Sampling and stealing have different definitions.
He’s not wrong. His explanation was ahead of his time. He’s crazy in other ways, but he was right on this. Didn’t Kanye West sample Daft Punk and other songs to the point that fans thought Kanye’s were the originals?
Correction, the reason why we don't come for other groups sampling is bc
1. They just don't. They don't.
2. Its not a literally copy. Analogy: I can take notes from a nonfunctional book for a report, but I credit that book and I ALSO MODIFY IT TO MY OWN WORDS. he just took the whole backtrack and rapped to the song. Its plagerism if I take the karaoke version of, for example, we are the champions and just rapped random lyrics!!!
Vanilla Ice - "I am lazy and I can't create anything original on my own, that's why I stole Queen's work."
Mercury and Bowie are famous and legends... no one even knows your name mate and if they do it’s not got high standards.
Yes yes I know a lot about rap and I know sampling sampling is taking things people just dont understand rap its no big deal yes yes i talked to ky lawyers and they gave me the song *wait no I wrote the song!* yes yes I know a lot about rap. whose queen? Never heard of em.
This appears to be the up-dated, out of court settled song writing credits, etc., for Vanilla Ice's adaption / cover / sampling of ' Ice Ice Baby ' :
Performer:
Vanilla Ice
Producer:
Vanilla Ice
Mash-ups:
Another One Bites the Booty by H.O.S.H., Funk Funk Baby (Daft Punk vs. Vanilla Ice vs. David Bowie & Queen) by DJ Tripp, Ice Ice Baby (Vanilla Ice vs. Gwen Stefani) by PopChop, Ice Ice Baby vs. Straight Up by Vanilla Ice vs. Paula Abdul, Ice Ice Baby vs. U Can’t Touch This by Vanilla Ice vs. MC Hammer, Pumped Up Baby by G3RSt and Under Ice by Stark Effect
Sampled by:
Ice Ice Bacon by Trotters and Pushin' Ice by Malice
Samples:
Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie
Recording of:
Ice Ice Baby
Composer:
David Bowie (English singer, songwriter & actor), John Deacon, Floyd Brown (Floyd Brown), Mario Johnson, Brian May (Queen guitarist), Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor (Queen drummer) and Vanilla Ice
Lyricist:
Floyd Brown (Floyd Brown), Mario Johnson and Vanilla Ice
Publisher:
Aftershock Music, EMI Blackwood Music Inc., Fernhill Publishing, Ice Baby Music, Knightlife Productions, QPM Music Inc., Queen Music Ltd. and Sony/ATV Songs LLC
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Later parody versions:
Nice Iced Pavement
referred to in medleys:
Polka Your Eyes Out
Is based on:
Under Pressure